Provider:
Light & Wonder
Three Diamonds on reels 2, 3 and 4 open a choice between six free spins with a Wild-count multiplier and a Heart-locking round that holds a 5,000x Grand. Across 480 spins at a 1.00 stake the features paid 44% of everything I won, and the Grand never showed up.
Lock It Link Diamonds is a slot. It comes from Light & Wonder, and Lock It Link Night Life is another Lock It Link title from the same studio.
It's a basic slot, featuring a layout of 5 reels, 3 rows and 50 paylines, and a betsize that span from 0.50 up to 45 per spin. I played 480 spins at a 1.00 stake.
There are standard symbols depicted by Watches, Dice and Ladies. Rings, Cocktails and the four card suits make up the rest of the line symbols, and wins pay left to right from the leftmost reel. The most lucrative of these is the Lady, paying you 100 times the line bet for a complete line, but these symbols alone are clearly not that exciting and that's where the Gold Bars come to use. The line bet is the total bet divided by 50, so five Ladies on a line return 2x the total stake.
The Gold Bar symbol is a wild. It lands only on reels 2, 3 and 4, and when part of one helps form a win it nudges to fill the whole reel. It substitutes for all symbols except the Bonus, Heart and Gold Heart, and if you would chance to hit a base game win together with a Gold Bar symbol, the win will be multiplied by 2x. That doubling is a base game rule only, since Wilds do not double wins during free spins.
Hitting three Diamond Bonus symbols will bring you to the Feature Selection, where you will choose Free Spins Bonus or Lock It Feature, and in the Lock It Feature there are a number of jackpot wins. The Free Spins Bonus awards 6 free spins plus 5x the total bet, and every free spin win is multiplied by x3 with no Wilds on screen, rising by one for each Wild up to x8. The highest award is the 5,000x Grand. Red Hearts carry credit prizes of 1x to 100x the total bet, while the Grand is a Gold Heart jackpot that lands on reel 3 only. The win you receive on the Gold Hearts will then be multiplied by your bet size. I reached the Feature Selection three times: Free Spins on spin 227 retriggered to 12 spins and paid 43x, Free Spins on spin 345 paid 67x without a retrigger, and the Lock It Feature on spin 368 landed only red Hearts and paid 40x.
Basic games like this may not attract everyone, particularly those who like volatile games. Over my session the balance went from 1,000.00 to 860.90, a 71.0% return.
Minty’s Expert Conclusion: The base game becomes a touch repetitive after a stretch. Only 111 of my 480 spins paid anything, 56 of those paid less than the 1.00 stake, and the longest dry run lasted 15 spins. In truth, near to half of the payouts appear to be assigned to the features, and even though the Feature Selection is far from unattainable to trigger, it is done before you can blink.