Play Jewel Strike for Free

The jewel theme is growing ever popular among modern day online video slots, perhaps triggered by the popularity of minimalistic arcade computer games such as Bejeweled. As such, players can expect to find a series of sparkling and colourful gem symbols within the 5-reels of this slot machine game. There are four jewels in total to find – a green emerald, a blue sapphire, a red ruby and a yellow sapphire. Other icons included in the game are represented by standard playing card values such as 10, J, Q, K and A, although these are all designed to match the sparkling jewel theme.

Overall, the design of Jewel Strike is suitably pristine and clear to create a visual spectacle of grand proportions. Plus, the reels themselves are set with an ornate frame over a surreal and sublime otherworldly landscape which presents an opalescent colour scheme of blue, red, white and purple. Even the slot machine's sound effects have a dreamy sheen to them to take players far away from their everyday lives to a place of hypnotic relaxation.

With only 10 fixed paylines in play, spinners will be able to do plenty of relaxing before they can celebrate any big wins. Although, this game does afford a few more winning opportunities than most 10-payline games since rows of three or four matching icons don't need to start from the first reel but can also be formed from the second and third reels.

There aren't any scatter icons or wild symbols involved in Jewel Strike so all winning combinations will pay a total bet multiplier, the size of which depends on how many of which symbol align. You can see the full pay schedule in the table below:

Players can choose from the following total stakes options: 0.20, 0.50, 1.00, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 10.00, 20.00 and 25.00. That means that punters can win a 12,500 credit prize when they find five yellow gems with a maximum bet. However, that's not the biggest jackpot that this slot has to offer, because should a full house of 15 yellow gems appear, then players will trigger all 10 paylines to win 125,000 credits.

Jewel Strike may not have any wild symbols or scatter icons, but it does offer one randomly triggered special symbol – a “Colossal Reel” icon. These huge jewel icons symbols will appear across 3 adjacent reels to guarantee a three-in-a-row win on every line, not to mention a chance to trigger even more wins should normal matching icons appear alongside.

That “Colossal Reel” feature is activated completely at random, but spinners can take matters into their own hands to improve their winning chances by selecting the “Epic Spins” gameplay mode. In this feature, players can eliminate lower valued icons in exchange for higher wagers and better winning opportunities. All of the payouts remain the same, but this essentially this means that there is more potential to line up combinations of more lucrative symbols. There are three different “Epic Spin” permutations, like so:

This effort by Blueprint Gaming is quite a minimalistic example of what a 5-reel video slot can do. The game doesn't have any free spins, there are no wild symbols and no special bonus triggering scatters to draw out the theme. Even the theme itself is quite simple without any special narrative elements. However, this game has plenty of spectacular visual effects on show, not to mention some intriguingly unique features such as its random “Colossal Reel”. Plus, players are given something else to think about with an “Epic Spin” mode that offers more high paying icons for the price of bigger bets.