Frozen Gems Slot – Free Demo

Ice above the reels, 8,748 ways below

Here, gamblers will be confronted with anything but a plain-vanilla slot; instead, they will be confronted with Cascading Wins as well as the Frozen bonus symbols in this medium-high volatility game. The base grid is 3 rows high, which gives 243 ways to win before any reel is split.

Frozen Gems is a Play'n GO developed slot with 5 reels. Play'n GO is also the studio behind Gemix 100 and Reactoonz. These award from the leftmost reel, its Splitting Scatters can divide the symbols on a reel, granting it a ceiling of 8,748 ways to win, and gamblers can wager from 0.20 to 100 per spin. A win needs 3 or more matching symbols on adjacent reels, and the Wild substitutes for other symbols to complete one.

The reels come loaded with low-paying symbols such as the 10 as well as the J, while the Wild, being the most rewarding, is valued 2.5 times the stake for 5 of a kind. The best of the regular symbols is the Yellow Gem at 1x the stake for five, ahead of the Red, Purple and Green Gems.

Additionally, there is the Bonus Wild symbol, which, when unfrozen above a reel, converts all symbols on that reel into Wilds. The other bonus symbols are x2 and x3 Splitting Scatters, which split every symbol on their reel into 2 or 3 once unfrozen, and a bonus symbol unfreezes when three matching winning symbols or Scatters land on its reel.

Any win triggers a cascade. The winning symbols are removed and new ones drop from above to fill the gaps. The cycle recurs while wins land, with the multiplier climbing by 1 each time. In the base game the multiplier goes back to x1 at the start of every new spin.

Nine spins for three Scatters

Should you hit 3 Scatters, the Free Spins round is activated. Only one trigger arrived in the session, with the balance at 23,128 when it did. They award 5 times the stake and 9 Free Spins, by the way. A fourth Scatter landed during that round for 10 Free Spins in all, and the balance finished at 25,008, the session's peak.

Not only does the multiplier mechanic apply here as well, but it also never resets during Free Spins, and the Free Spins round can be extended. The multiplier has no upper limit, so it keeps building for as long as the round lasts. Each additional Scatter awards 1 spin. Each of those extra Scatters also pays 5x the stake. It concludes when you're out of spins, after which you're brought back to the base game.

The Minty Breakdown: The 500 spins at 20 credits returned 72.8%, and the 95x round on spin 137 accounted for 1,900 of the 7,278 won. With Frozen Gems, Play'n GO has found a fresh use for the cascading mechanics.