Jewels of the Orient is a 9-payline video slot running on the Microgaming software platform. The Jewels of the Orient Logo is the wild symbol and the Temple icon is the scatter. Players are welcome to try this colourful slot on this page for free or visit any of the featured Microgaming casinos to play the game for real money.
Before the game takes players to various Asian countries, they should choose a bet. The coin size, which ranges from 0.01 to 0.25, can be selected by clicking on the red -/+ buttons. “Lines” alters the number of active paylines and pressing “Coins” chooses the number of coins to bet. “Spin” will start turning the reels, as will “Bet Max”, except at the highest wager. To play the game automatically without interruption, players should click “Expert” and then “Auto Play”.
3 or more Temple symbols trigger the Palace Free Spin game, wherein players can be awarded up to 45 Free Spins and a x5 multiplier. They can choose objects to win Free Spins, a random multiplier value and an arbitrary win amount.
There are 3 stages in the Free Spin round, each stage with 3 boxes. In the 1st stage, players choose a box to reveal the number of awarded Free Spins. The box in the 2nd stage reveals the multiplier value and the 3rd stage box contains the random bonus win amount.
3 scatters award 10 to 15 Free Spins with a x1 to x5 multiplier and a prize up to 25 times one's total bet. 4 Temple symbols grant players 15-20 Free Spins with x1-x5 multiplier and a prize up to 100 times their wager. Lastly, 5 scatter symbols reveal 20 to 40 Free Spins with the same multiplier range and the maximum win of up to 120 times one's total bet. The bonus game cannot be re-triggered during the Free Spins round.
Game Play
Red -/+: Regulate the coin size.
Lines: Adjust the number of active paylines.
Coins: Choose the number of coins wagered.
Bet Max: Play the game at the highest bet.
Spin: Spin the reels at the chosen wager.
Auto Play: Play the game multiple times without interruption.
Okay, so here we go with yet another Asian-themed game from Microgaming, but this time, the focus is on the Asian women from the different countries, from China to Korea, Japan, Thailand, India and Pakistan. Well, there are many more Asian countries not in the list, but to include all would be impossible I guess. So only the most easily recognisable ones are chosen to be the symbols in this game. The overall impression of the game looks nice enough but not up to astonishing levels. To me, the quality of the graphics is only secondary. What's more important is how the game plays and pays.
The logo itself is the Wild symbol, 5 of which pays 2500x the line bet, which is much lower than the usual. It doesn't doubles any wins with it, it doesn't come stacked, nor does it expand on the reels. Yep, they are true blue dumb Wilds, typical of many Microgaming games. The Temple is the Scatter symbol, but doesn't pay for itself in this instance, and getting 3 or more of them triggers the Palace Bonus game, which is actually the Free Spins game, but with an added cash bonus award, probably as replacement for the omitted Scatters wins. There are 3 kinds of Free Spins games available - from 10 - 15 free spins game , from 15 - 20 free spins game and from 20 - 40 free spins, triggered by 3, 4 or 5 Scatters respectively. The multipliers are from 1x to 5x, and the cash bonus from 5x up to 120x the total bet amount. All prizes are randomly awarded.
The Free Spins game cannot be retriggered, and the Palace Bonus feature cannot be triggered within the Free Spins game. The ladies symbols pay from 800x the line bet to 150x the line bet, and the rest at a flat 100x the line bet. Well, nothing interesting in this low paytable.
I always find it very hard to like Microgaming games because I always tend to get them in the cold mode most of the time. This Jewels of the Orient game, for example, only gave the first Free Spins game after almost 200 spins, but paid a decent 44x my bet amount. The second Free Spins game came after about 150 spins, the third after over 500 spins, the next after 380 spins, and so on. They are certainly blardy hard to come by, doesn't pay that much, no win has exceeded 70x my bet amount so far, and the Free Spins game mostly award 12 free spins with a 2x multiplier, and with mostly a 900 coins bonus award. Hardly interesting at all. In fact, I found the base game rather boring and made me sleepy!
Even if this game has astonishing graphics and has really beautiful Asian girls for its icons, I wouldn't want to come back and play it again. I don't want to fall asleep every time I play it. Nosirree!