Lock It Link Diamonds Slot Machine
They say that diamonds are forever, and that’s almost true: diamond is one of the hardest materials around, making them an ideal material for many industrial applications. It’s also very difficult to contaminate the rock, while at the same time, even very tiny imperfections can give each stone a distinctive color. Oh, and they’re also quite beautiful, making them one of the most sought after gems for jewelry (including, of course, for engagement rings).
This combination of factors have made diamond a very valuable substance, and they are universally recognized as a symbol of wealth and success. That makes them the perfect subject for Lock It Link Diamonds by WMS, a new online slot machine that prominently features these precious gems. Part of the Lock It Link series that was first made famous in live casinos, this game features a fun bonus round where your prizes can keep growing as long as you connect hearts on the screen.
A Girl’s Best Friend
The Lock It Link Diamonds video slot was originally designed for real money play in live casinos. However, WMS and Scientific Games have recently ported it over to the online casino world, making it available in a play for free version at Play4Fun social casino sites. The original version, which was available in a variety of low limit and high limit versions in live venues, used a luxurious theme that featured a mansion setting and a blue/purple color palette that lends a feel of cool elegance to the machine.
The base game uses a 3x5 layout, but you won’t have to worry about paylines. Instead, this is a 243 ways to win machine, with every left to right combination scoring prizes for players. Small awards are given for matching three or more of each of the card game suits – clubs, spades, and so on – across the reels. Larger prizes are attached to martini glasses, rings, watches, and dice, with a lovely woman offering the highest payouts of all. Meanwhile, a set of gold bars serve as wild symbols. These are stacked, and if any part of a stack should take part in any winning combination, the symbol will shift to cover the entire reel.
Don’t Break the Chain
There are two types of special icons gamblers will want to look out for when you play Lock It Link Diamonds. The first, naturally enough, are diamonds, which serve as scatter symbols. Hit any three on the screen, and you’ll trigger a free spins game. But the real bonus round comes when you can hit three or more hearts on the same row on any given spin. These hearts come in two different types: red ones that feature credit prizes worth up to 100x your bet, and golden hearts, which feature one of four special prizes, including two small bonuses and two larger progressive jackpots. The jackpots can only appear on the third reel, while the rest of the reels will only trigger the Minor and Mini Bonus gold hearts.
Once you’ve successfully triggered the feature, the hearts on the triggering row will move together if they aren’t yet adjacent. These symbols are now “linked.” You’ll now get free spins in which only hearts can potentially appear on the reels. Every time a heart appears in a position that is adjacent to your linked group, a few things will happen. First, that new icon (and any others that were previously unconnected, but which can now be linked) will now show a prize amount on it. In addition, all existing hearts will have their prize levels increased.
Finally, each new link will reset your spin counter, allowing the mini game to last even longer. This feature continues until either the entire screen is covered in heart symbols, or if you run out of spins without linking any new symbols. In either case, at this point, you will collect all of the coins that appear on screen, along with any of the bonus prizes or jackpots that you revealed along the way.
Locked On Target
The free Lock it Link Diamonds slot machine that you’ll find on the Play4Fun Network may not be able to earn you the real cash you’d find in the live version, but it’s still a lot of fun. The unique bonus round is one of the top jackpot features we’ve played in a long time, as the potential to keep the feature going and the prizes increasing adds a lot of tension and anticipation to each bonus spin. While the theme is pretty generic and there aren’t many other features, that mini game and the 243 ways to win action is enough to make this a fun game that is well worth playing in real or play money modes.
