Betsoft has enriched the world of online gambling quite a lot in 2017 with titles such as Fire and Steel, Magic Shoppe and The Angler and now it is preparing to deliver yet another gift for their overwhelmingly satisfied fans. The name of their new work is Giovanni’s Gems and it revolutionizes the usual slot game formula in more than one way.
Looks and Rules of Giovanni’s Forest
As one might expect, the visual design of this new slot is absolutely flawless. It adopts a fantasy theme and the setting is a magical, mystical forest of tall trees, lush emerald vegetation, sparkling fireflies and purple mushrooms. A happy, awe-inspired redhead, blue-eyed dwarf, wearing a hood and a cape lights up the entire environment with the light from a torch and the jolly fellow is smoothly animated as he inhales and exhales barely holding it together at the sight of the reels and the gorgeous glade. Perfect animation and colors aside, what gamblers will be most amazed by will be the number of the reels and the objects on them- 7 reels, 7 rows and 49 beautiful symbols all at once. It shouldn’t be a surprise if a passionate gambler like yourself happens to make the exact same facial expression of sheer wonder as that of the adventurous dwarf. Coin sizes range between 2 cents and 1 dollar. The maximum number of credits for a single spin is 5. That makes for a maximum possible bet of 150 dollars. An additional and very fitting decoration to this amazing main screen is the uplifting, adventurous tune that is always playing.
Giovanni’s Mine of Symbols
Every symbol you see on the gigantic network of reels and rows, displayed on the main screen of Giovanni’s Gems is connected with the theme of precious stones and the activity of mining them. There are 4 types of symbols in the game: Low Value Symbols, Mid Value Symbols, High Value Symbols and the so-called Giovanni’s Diamonds. The paytable for those symbols is obviously much bigger than any other you’ve ever seen simply because of the many more possibilities available. The Low, Mid and High Value symbols all give payouts for combinations for 12 cases of matching symbols: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 – 17, 18 – 24 and 25 or more.
The Low Value Symbols are the black Coal, the golden Citrine, the purple Amethyst and the blue Saphire. The Coal’s payout values range between 15 coins and 500 coins. The Citrine’s payments can be as low as 20 coins and as big as 750 coins. The Amethyst’s smallest possible payout is 25 coins and the biggest one – 1000 coins. The Sapphire’s combinations can result in earnings that can be between 40 coins and 1250 coins. The same winning combination cases count for the Mid Value (The red Ruby, the green Emerald and the Pick Axe) and the High Value (Sack full of precious stones and the Torch) symbols. The Ruby’s payouts start at 100 coins and reach 2500 coins. The Emerald can grant players from125 to 3000 coins. The Pickaxe pays between 150 and 3750 coins. The Torch can bring between 200 coins and 5000 coins and the game’s highest paying symbol-the filled with jewelry Sack offers a minimum amount of 250 coins and the game’s top prize of 7500 coins.
The Diamonds can be acquired with the help of the lowest paying symbol – the coal. Whenever a Coal symbol appears next to a winning combination they will be transformed into Diamonds. During the free spins round of the game, the Diamonds will appear directly on the reels, without the assistance of the Coal symbols. The Diamonds have a paytable that follows the model of the ones of the Low, Mid and High Value symbols; the only difference is that there are 4 more payout cases – from 1 to 4 matching symbols, making the lowest possible Diamond payout 12 coins and the highest possible – 3000 coins.
Giovanni’s Features
The long list with features in Giovanni’s Gems starts with the so-called Cluster Wins feature. All the wins in the game can be created from symbols that form clusters of 5 or more. After every winning combination is formed, the participating symbols in it will explode and new symbols will take their place and the process will continue until no more winning combinations can be formed. The free spins of Giovanni’s Gems can be activated with the help of the scatter Giovanni symbol. A certain number of Giovanni symbols deliver a certain amount of free spins in addition to cash prizes. Free spins awarding combinations start at 5 scatters delivering 7 free spins and go as high as more than 25 scatters providing gamblers with 50 free spins. As far as the cash prizes of the scatter are concerned, they start at 3 coins for 3 symbols and go as far as 300 coins being granted for more than 25 symbols. The final feature is the Double Up one and it allows the player to gamble 50 percent of the acquired earnings of a spin or all of them and double them. The next choice that will have to be made is between “Black” or “Red” and a card will be spun. If the guess is correct, the gambled amount will be doubled.
Giovanni’s Gems, like most of Betsoft’s products astonishes in every way-from its terrific looks to its rich, sometimes groundbreaking gameplay and most importantly-the terrific opportunities for giant earnings.
