Blue Diamond Slots
If you thought diamonds were rare, just wait till you’ve clapped eyes on a blue diamond. Or rather, wait till you haven’t. That’s the thing about blue diamonds: they are as rare as rocking horse droppings; as a month of Sundays; as pigs flying over the moon.
Natural blue diamonds are considered to be one of the scarcest colors in the diamond family. If you’re wondering what effect this scarcity has on their price, you don’t have to be an Antwerp diamond merchant to do the math. Blue diamonds are precious as hell.
In dedicating a slot to the pursuit of blue diamonds, Red Tiger Gaming clearly know their gemstones. Thankfully, capturing blue diamonds in the company’s old-school slot proves a lot easier than capturing the coruscating precious stones in the wild.
If you want to clap eyes on a blue diamond, your best bet is to mosey on over to a Red Tiger Gaming-affiliated online casino and get fired into Blue Diamond.
Slots That Sparkle
Red Tiger Gaming are among a glut of iGaming companies to have sprung up in recent years due to the boom in online casinos, all demanding new games to keep their punters happy. In Blue Diamond, the Isle of Man-registered software house have come up with a title that’s worthy of your time, though the precise amount of time you dedicate to it depends how enamoured you are with 3-reel slots.
Red Tiger Gaming may be a modern, forward-thinking company, but in Blue Diamond they appear more interested in looking to the past. Depending on your age and tolerance for nostalgia, this is either a welcome touch or a slice of retro gaming you could do without.
Bars upon Bars
Back in the day, virtually all fruit machines (as they were then known in British parlance) featured BAR symbols. These symbols consisted of just that: a solid rectangular brick with the word BAR printed on it in capitals. Presumably, these were intended to mimic bars of gold bullion, though why they became so pervasive within the industry is a mystery.
Whatever the case, expect to be seeing a lot of BARs in Blue Diamond, but that ain’t a bad thing – BARs are traditionally among the highest ranked slots symbols, and so it proves to be in Blue Diamond.
The game’s highest value BAR symbols, gold, apply a 38x multiplier of your stake for 3 in a row, an amount that’s only exceeded by red 7s and of course those coveted blue diamonds.
The starting point for recording a win of any kind is a single cherry, which applies a lowly 1x multiplier: in other words you simply win back your stake. This is followed by 2 cherries with 3x and 3 which score 5x. Then it’s on to the BAR symbols, with brown, blue and green BARs scoring 8x, 18x and 28x respectively. Finally, it’s gold BARs with their 38x multiplier, followed by an 88x multiplier for 3 red 7s and a massive and symbolic 888x multiplier for 3 blue diamonds.
All That Glitters Ain’t Gold
If you’ve just finished playing a 5-reel HD slot with multiple bonus games, cool effects and an epic soundtrack, switching to Blue Diamond can seem more than a little underwhelming. Where’s the graphics? The gameplay? Is this it?
Yes, this is it, but don’t be disappointed. Like swapping No Man’s Sky on XBox for playing Lemmings on an Amiga 500, the bare bones simplicity can provide a culture shock, but once you adjust to it, the game proves to be no less fun.
There might be less to look at with Blue Diamond, but this distraction and kitchen-sink-free game gives you all you need to thrive. Set your bet level, hit the double arrow start button and watch as a series of BARs, cherries and 7s dance across the single payline.
Feeling Blue
The game’s blue diamond symbol also serves as Wild Respin, making the diamonds extra precious, as if they weren’t desirable enough. Each diamond will grant you one free respin and will lock for the free spin. Score a second Wild Respin on the payline and it will lock again, scoring another free respin, with 3 Wild Respins paying 888x your stake. Score 888x $0.1, the minimum stake, and you’ll be smiling. Score 888x the maximum $500 stake and you’ll be jumping for joy.
And that’s the great thing about Blue Diamond: it might be the world’s simplest 3-reel slot, but it’s also one that’s surprisingly easy to get into as the small wins start totting up and the prospect of a huge payout looms ever closer. Overlook it at your peril.
