A Girl’s Best Friend Slot
As Marylin Monroe once sang, ‘Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend’ although these days, Prosecco, expensive shoes and reality TV shows featuring the Kardashian clan are probably all runners up. But it’s all about shiny jewels in A Girl’s Best Friend, which is sparkling video slot from Taiwanese outfit KA Gaming. Fifty paylines run across the five reels, and no less than 13 different gems and jewels can appear, awarding prizes whenever they land across a line from the left side. As well as this, special jewels can complete extra winning combinations or open a jewellery box filled with coins.
KA Gaming have designed this slot machine with some clever details. The symbols spin against a dark grey backdrop that looks as if the jewels are in a display case, while each has been given a realistic design that brings the bling to desktop PC’s, along with Windows, Android powered devices, iPhones, or iPads. You will notice a Bonus Reel to the right side of the main game, which is filled with gold, silver and bronze ingots. This reel can quickly become your best friend as it triggers unique features in each winning spin, such as multiplier payouts, expanding wild symbols and free spins. It’s a fantastic concept from an innovative developer.
KA Gaming brings over 30 years of experience to their slot machines. Each game is fair, reliable and certified by Gaming Labs International to guarantee random results that deliver high returns. There’s around 75 slots in their portfolio, but this number is growing rapidly, with the company looking to add more than one game per week to the range. It’s an ambitious target and we hope that they keep releasing slot games to the same high standard as A Girl’s Best Friend. Because it’s a shining example of a game with true innovation.
BFF’s Forever
Rather than the more usual three rows of symbols, there’s four to a reel in this game, but with 50 paylines, you will still see plenty of winning combinations when matching symbols stop across a line from the left side. Prizes range from just five times, 15x and 50x the per line bet when a purple jewel is seen on three, four, or five reels, to 15x, 60x and 175x when the red gem appears. The top half of the paytable sees five attractive items of jewellery returning wins of up to 500x the amount wagered on each line.
A white diamond pays out 50x, 200x, or 500x when seen on three, four, or five reels. This is also the wild symbol for the game, able to replace all but the scatter symbol. When it bridges any gaps in a line of matching symbols, it will count as the missing piece and you still get paid, plus it’s able to turn winning lines of three or four symbols into more valuable lines of four or five of a kind.
The image of a large red diamond is the scatter symbol. It’s a very valuable thing to see, as you win 100x, 500x, or 2,500x your line bet when it stops in any three, four, or five spots at once. Once this has been paid, eight free spins will begin, with the bonus games playing out at the triggering bet amount.
Bonus Bars
The Bonus Reel is what makes A Girl’s Best Friend video slot stand out. It spins along with the five main reels, but the bar of precious metal that stops in the middle of the reel triggers additional features whenever you get a winning spin. In the case of the bronze bar, you don’t even need to win anything to be awarded entry to a special Jewellery Box feature.
Each bar has an inscription on it that outlines the extra features. You could land a silver bar that triples the base value of a win, or one that multiplies the payout by six times. There’s another silver bar that turns the game into a win both ways slot for that spin, so winning combinations can start from both the left and right sides. Another bar will cause any wild symbols to expand to fill the reels that they are on, with any new combinations then paid out. There’s also a yellow bar that doubles your win and then triggers eight free spins.
The bronze bar isn’t the most attractive to look at, in fact it looks like a block of chocolate, but when this stops in the middle of the Bonus Reel a few things can happen. In the base games it pays a prize equal to the total stake and if it’s seen during any free spins round, the prize is four times the bet. You then get taken to the Jewellery Box feature. In this round, all you need to do is pick from the jewellery boxes to reveal coin prizes within them, although the potential wins rise at higher bet levels.
Gambling on Gems
The standard command bar that KA Gaming use across most of their slots is featured here. It works well and gives you the option of playing free A Girl’s Best Friend video slots in practice mode or making real cash wagers from just 0.50 per spin. Max Bet is set at 200.00, so whatever your budget, there’s going to be a level that matches it.
Other options include accessing the game in desktop or mobile versions, as it’s available for players on the iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows powered devices. You can also choose whether to listen to the soundtrack or not. Although the accompanying music has little, if anything to do with the topic, it’s cheerful enough.
Other Slots Which Sparkle
Glittering jewels and exciting features are also found in the Gems, Gems, Gems slot from WMS. While the symbols are very similar to those seen in A Girl’s Best Friend, the reel layout is very different, with a main set and three smaller sets to the right side. Players wager on the main set of reels but when you land the game logo wild symbol, or a diamond, they will move across to the equivalent positions on the other reels. They can combine with wilds and diamonds on each set to complete extra winning lines or trigger a free spins round. It’s a clever concept that takes a little getting used to but can lead to some great rewards.
If you want a change in pace, the Jewel Twist video slot from Blueprint Gaming is an altogether simpler affair. It’s still packed from reel to reel with shiny gemstones that land across the 10 paylines but there’s no wild symbols or free spins. However, a unique Twist gem can transform into any other and with a little luck, it will be in the right place and turn into the right symbol to complete a new winning line.
Shine Bright Like a Diamond
The KA Gaming range of online casino slots has many bright points, but A Girl’s Best Friend is arguably among their best. Although the gems and jewellery that make up the symbols might not appeal to everyone, there’s some real innovation in this game, with the unique Bonus Reel triggering side games or modifying any winning combinations in your favour.
