Play Jaguar Gems for Free

Five colourful and sparkling gems will create the majority of the winning combinations, with players getting a prize each time 3, 4 or 5 of the same type stop across a payline on connected reels running from the left side. The red and orange gems are both worth 5x, 20x or 100x the line stake when landing across a line, while the blue, purple and white ones each pay out 20x, 50x or 300x.

The only other standard symbol is the game logo, which is made up of the title and a dramatic image of a leaping cat, which wouldn’t look out of place on the hood of a car. The best awards of the game come when this lands on a payline, as it pays 40x, 200x or 1000x the amount staked on the line.

A close-up view of the jaguar is a wild symbol, which only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, so doesn’t have any value of its own, but will act as any other to help complete combinations of symbols. Once any wins have been paid out, the wild expands across the whole of the reel and all other reels re-spin once more for free.

If players trigger this bonus feature twice, without the re-spins resulting in a win, the next time it happens, they will be able to choose an extra reel to become filled with the expanding wild symbol, giving them a much better chance of completing a win-line.

During these bonus spins, instead of symbols needing to be across fixed paylines, they will only need to be on adjacent reels, so for example, landing a particular gemstone anywhere on reels 1, 2 and 3 will count as a winning combination and pay out coins accordingly.

The eyes of the jaguar, and the background to the reels, can change colour at any time. If the cat has yellow eyes and the reels are in green, a different mix of symbols will lead to more frequent win-lines being created, but if the eyes and reels are in shades of red, standard winnings will occur less often, but the bonus features will be triggered more frequently.

It’s a great way to add another level of interest to the game and is a real innovation from Inspired Gaming who use this feature across a number of their slot machines.

While jungle cats and gemstones may not seem natural choices to mix together in an online slot machine, in the case of the Jaguar Gems video slot it works quite well, and the different themes are not really an issue.

The potentially rewarding bonus features are a real highlight, especially those reel re-spins where expanded wilds and symbols only needing to be on adjacent reels can create an easy win, but we also like the way that different game modes can be played.

It’s fully mobile-optimised and licenced for fair play and reliability, so no matter where or how punters choose to spin these reels, they will be getting a good return on their wagers.