Gems Gone Wild Power Reels Slot

Gems gone wild is one my favourite slot by Red tiger gaming. The slot is usually not allowed on bonus play and so I only get to play this slot with raw money and I don’t mind. Gems gone wild power reels is an 8x6 grid slot with 30 pay lines. The slot follows the same them of its predecessor in terms of design but wild lock feature and the extra rows and column does add the power reels feature to it.

The slot has gem symbols that pay from low to high. It has 3 low paying symbols in pink gem, purple gem and red gem that pay between 22x, 31x and 54x for eight of a kind symbol. 3 mid-range symbols a hade gem that pays 66x, a blue gem that pays 75x and a green gem that pays 135x. Th highest paying symbols are Glowing purple gem that pays 156 x, Amber glowing gem that pays 225x and the wild symbol that pays 300x.

The minimum bet on the slot is 10cent and you can bet as high as $200. A winning combination is achieved when you get three symbols of same kind anywhere on the grid but on an active play line. The gems gone wild feature can occur on any spin and you can get a locked wild symbol that could cover a single spot or a giant 3x3 symbol that could cover 9 spots. These wild are locked and with every new spin you have a chance to add more wilds to your screen. As soon as wilds stop being added on the spin the grid is reset. Remember that this is not a free spin feature and even though the wilds are locked the bet amount is deducted on every spin.

The feature is not a regular feature and sometimes you might get 3 to 4 features in under 10 spins and sometimes you might not get one in 100. The locked wild feature may also end after one spin or your entire screen may fill up with wilds giving you the max win of 3000x
Gems wild gone is a great slot and even though it may not look like a promising slot but from my personal experience I can tell you that you can get big wins, The slot sometimes may be frustrating to play but that’s slots for you.

One more thing I would like to add is while playing this slot keep the sound on because the slot has an awesome EDM track playing in the background.

Gems Gone Wild Power Reels is the first game ever that I have come across playing with 8 reels 6 rows and only 30 paylines! It may look like a Megaways game, or having several thousands of paylines at least, so I was rather dumbfounded when I saw the game’s paytable. The win values may look acceptable at first glance, but after seeing how lowly any 5-symbols win would pay, I was really disappointed. Decent wins can only be achieved by getting 7 or 8 winning symbols. All other wins would greatly disappoint!

Luckily though, the game can be played with a minimum starting bet of just $0.10, otherwise, I would have simply walked away from it. The Wild symbol is the main symbol in the game, paying 3000 coins for an 8-of-a-kind win if you can ever get that, or lucky enough to get it. It can appear as a regular sized symbol, or as 2x2 or 3x3 big symbols. Any 3 or more adjacent symbols on the reels would make a win, but without lots of the Wild symbols on the reels to boost things up, expect nothing more than smallish and insignificant wins.

When a win with one or more Wild symbols is encountered, the Wilds become sticky and a Respin is awarded. If no new Wild symbol appears, no new win would be paid, even though if those sticky Wilds are actually in winning combinations with other symbols. Like it or not, but this sucks! Any new wins encountered in that respin round should be paid, regardless of whether new Wild symbols appeared or not. If new Wilds do appear, then the respins would continue, until no new Wild symbols appear.

To highlight this rather ‘unkind’ aspect of the game, in one of the spins that I was playing, I did manage to get 25 Wild symbols on the reels after a few respins, and I was excitedly expecting to get at least one 8-of-a-kind Wild symbol win, but one damned gem symbol got so conveniently located on the reels to break all the possible big winning combinations. No doubt it still paid a decent win of 139x, but it was so disappointing to me when it happened, that I decided enough was enough, and immediately quit playing the game!

Let’s face it. Gems Gone Wild Power Reels only have that Wild's Respin feature, with nothing more to offer. A free spins feature game would be nice to have, but none is available, so there is literally nothing else of interest to make me carry on playing, not now, not in the future either.