Jewels are often a popular theme for online slots, perhaps because they represent the potential wealth you could acquire of you hit a lucky streak. Jewel Strike is another game to add to the list, it’s developed by Blueprint Gaming and it includes the Colossal Reels and an interesting Epic Spins option if you want increase your bet. It’s all explained in more detail below.

Jewel Strike is a five reel slot with three rows and ten fixed paylines; it’s all very big and colourful and takes place against a backdrop of a swirling blue and purple landscape.

Unsurprisingly the high value symbols are all jewels of different colours – red, gold, blue and green – with the lower values made up of 10, J, Q, K and A. The gold jewel can appear stacked on the reels and is worth 5000x your line stake if you can fill all reels in this manner.

There are no wild, bonus or scatter symbols in this game.

Bonus Features

Colossal Reels

This can be triggered randomly on any spin and a giant 3×3 symbol sill appears somewhere on the reels; the remaining two reels will then stop spinning in a manner that guarantees a win (and sometimes a big one).

Epic Reels

You can’t fail to notice the big button labelled ‘Epic Reels’ just below the reels. This offers players the option to increase the stake in return for eliminating some of the lower value symbols as follows:

• Bet 5x – remove 10, J, Q from the reels
• Bet 10x – remove 10, J, Q, K from the reels
• Bet 20x – remove 10, J, Q, K, A from the reels

Jewel Strike Online Slot Playing Tips

There’s no reason to believe that using Epic Reels will increase your chances of winning but it should make things more exciting and that’s got to be a good thing.

Verdict

Jewel Strike is good fun and well worth a pop – it might lack wilds and scatters but it makes up for that with the Colossal and Epic Reels. It has an RTP of 96.10% so check it out.

 

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