Persian Jewels: Slot Overview
Certain destinations ooze exoticism, and for some, Persia could well be one of them. Reactions will vary, of course, but during the review, the word Persia conjured up images of empire, history, culture, architecture, and, now perhaps, jewellery. The reason why is that Games Global partner Gold Coin Studios has gone and made an online slot titled Persian Jewels. While it won't actually eject jewels all over lucky players, Persian Jewels offers sizable potential, winnable through features like Expanding Reels, Link&Win, and free spins.
The view greeting players who venture forth into Persian Jewels is pretty exotic, we'd have to say. Towering stone structures rise into the sky, reaching for the clouds, while other dome-topped buildings lie scattered about the place. With a vaguely Sim City feel to the view, Persian Jewels does a pretty decent job of whisking players to a Persian wonderland for a spot of online gambling, displaying its main wares in the form of four prize values found on the left-hand side of the screen.
f the jackpots manage to whet your appetite, then the next thing to do is pick a stake where the options are 20 p/c to £/€25 per spin to get the ball rolling. Gold Coin Studios has marked the game's volatility as very high and designed four RTP models for operators to use - the highest value is 96.06%. With a hit rate on this model of 19.73%, the active gaming area consists of 5 reels holding 3 rows each, though the grid can expand when the Trigger symbol begin to land.
In the default grid size, Persian Jewels supplies 20 paylines for hitting winning combinations of regular paying symbols along. These symbols are 10 to A playing cards as the low pays and a bird, horse, lion, and bull as the four premium symbols. Hitting a 5 OAK win triggers a payout of 1 to 1.5 times the bet for the lows or 2.5 to 10 times the bet for 5 high pays. The sole human character symbol is Persian Jewels' wild. The wild may land on reels 2 to 5 and is able to substitute for all regular pay symbols.
Persian Jewels: Slot Features
Potentially getting your hands on some jewels and letting them drip between your fingers like a conquering hero may be possible via Persian Jewels' features. These are Expanded Reels, the Link&Win feature and the free spins round.
Expanded Reels
The Trigger symbol, not quite sure what it is, but when 2 of them land on reels 1 and 2, reels 3 to 5 expand to 5 rows high. Up to 14 Link&Win symbols are awarded, and any that land on award their values.
Link & Win Feature
Landing 6 or more Link&Win symbols triggers the Link&Win feature. The feature starts with 3 spins, and all Link&Win symbols are held on the reels. When new Link&Win symbols hit, they are held, and the spin count is set back to 3. When no more spins remain, or all positions are filled, the feature ends. Link&Win symbols award their values which can include the Mini, Minor, or Major prize, worth 10x, 50x, or 1,000x the bet, respectively. Filling all 15 positions awards the 10,000x the bet Mega Prize.
Single Stack Link&Win Feature
Alternatively, landing 3 Link&Win symbols on reel 3 during free spins triggers the Single Stack Link&Win feature. When this happens, the Link&Win symbols are duplicated onto reels 2 and 4, and the Link&Win feature is played on reels 1 and 5.
Free Spins
Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols awards 2x, 10x, or 100x the bet, respectively, plus 10 free spins. During free spins, free spins scatters, wilds, and Link&Win symbols appear on reel 3. Each landed free spins scatter awards +3 free spins, and landing 3 Link&Win symbols on reel 3 triggers the Single Stack Link&Win feature. Before free spins start, however, players can pay to activate upgrade options from the Upsizer feature. This can add more Mini, Minor, Major Link&Win values to the Single Stack Link&Win Reel.
Persian Jewels: Slot Verdict
Persian Jewels is a classic example of a slot that pools together a bunch of Games Global-related features into one place and bundles them up with a new outer cover. Indeed, after a bit of backtracking, Persians Jewels is kind of like a follow-up to an earlier slot from Gold Coin Studio called Cairo Link&Win. Too bad the first one didn't exactly wow us, and neither, by extension, did Persian Jewels. It's a game that looks and feels okay but muddles about the middle ground in terms of innovation or exciting ideas. Basically, the goal is to land Link&Win symbols and collect. Hopefully, you've got one of the better, named prizes in there when it happens.
One upside for players partial to these sorts of basic hold & win features is the upper prizes aren't too bad. Good, actually, for anyone lucky enough to fill all 15 positions and walk away with the 10,000x Grand Prize. Winning the Major prize, too, would be better than walking barefoot on a piece of Lego, yet outside these two, there is a major drop off in values and thrills. Fair dues, Gold Coin Studios has come up with the Single Stack Link&Win feature to up the originality stakes, but it's nothing amazing, more a sideshow in what is a pretty so-so streak respin game.
Still, for a pretend trip to Persia to sample its delights in a functioning, if in some ways unexciting hold & win game sounds neat, then Persian Jewels could be alright. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, but its uncommon theme and the tweaks it does have could be enough to get a smile out of players into this sort of thing, for a while at least. For something held in this part of the world with a bit more kick, though, Push Gaming's Wheel of Wonders might make a good alternative.
