Double Da Vinci Diamonds Slot – Free Demo

The sequel that kept the machinery

In 2011, American studio High 5 Games returned to the game that had made its name. It constructed it a sequel. Da Vinci Diamonds had already accomplished the difficult part, and rather than swapping it, the successor retained the mechanism. The series begins with Da Vinci Diamonds itself, if you happen to be a fan of the tumbling grid. That first one is IGT's. It runs the same reels without the split symbols.

The game is played using a configuration of 5 reels and 40 fixed paylines that pay left to right.

How a single position pays twice

Double Da Vinci Diamonds is the outcome, and where the original ran its tumbling reels over a smaller board, this one doubles up: some of the high-value symbols arrive as a double symbol in a single position. High 5 Games calls that one Split Symbols. One payline can contain as many as ten identical symbols at once. Ten of a kind needs every position along the line to be a split one.

There are two features contained in Double Da Vinci Diamonds, and the first one is Tumbling Reels, which comes into play on every winning spin. The symbols that created the win vanish, new ones fall into the openings, and the spin can pay again; the split symbols feed directly into this, since a single position can supply two of a kind to the line. There is also a wild. It appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only and substitutes for everything except the Bonus. With reels 1 and 5 out of it, no wild ever stands at the start of a line.

Matters heat up when you land 3 Bonus symbols on reels 1, 2 and 3 together. Reels 4 and 5 have no part in the trigger. That opens the free spins feature, which begins with 6 spins. All three of mine stopped at those six. Additional Bonus symbols during the round can retrigger it.

What 450 spins at 800 gave back

Double Da Vinci Diamonds is the neater of the two Da Vinci games. High 5 Games has other titles of its own, Twin Win among them. That isn't really much of an accomplishment I might add, and as usually is the case with these slots, the tumbles are just a filler to liven things up a bit. I wagered 360,000.00 across the run and got 238,080.00 of it back. In truth, it's all about the free spins game. The first two triggers paid 1.6 and 7.4 times the stake. Over 450 spins at 800.00 a spin I triggered it three times - on spins 25, 88 and 284 - for a combined 20,000.00. That is 8% of everything I won. The other 218,080.00 came out of the base game. The best of them, 16 times the stake, came on spin 284 after a delay of 196 spins. The feature paid 12,800.00 there, on top of the 240.00 the base spin managed on its own.

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That session yielded 66.1%, with 180 paying spins out of 450 and 118 of those paying less than the stake.

Minty’s Final Note: Three triggers in 450 spins, six free spins apiece, and 8% of everything I won came out of them. The other 218,080.00 arrived a line at a time in the base game, tumble by tumble, while the Bonus symbols took their 196-spin break.