40 Shining Jewels Slots
Silver is fine, gold is great! But to signify wealth, nothing is more befitting than a heavy and shining jewel – the kind that has the power to hypnotize lookers, topple kingdoms, wage battles and adorn royal crowns!
We may not be too fortunate to see such jewels in real life – outside of museums, at any rate – but we can proudly say that we have played 40 Shining Jewels – a truly regal slot by Casino Technology that can help you taste the life of a royalty for a few fleeting moments at least.
Foraying Into Royal Treasury
Casino Technology is a developer that we all know for developing budget-friendly slots. Most of their slots cater to beginners and penny-players who do not wish to invest too much, but still want to feel the rush of gambling by putting at stake some nominal sums.
40 Shining Jewels fits that bill quite snugly. It is a penny style slot that’s intended to give players a feel of what slot spinning is all about. So, we would like to make it abundantly clear at this point in our review that it would lead only to disappointment if you turn to this slot in hopes of winning some huge cash rewards. It’s better to be in the know – all the time!
Shining Gameplay? Uh Huh!
The gameplay deployed by Casino Technology in this slot is quite unimaginative. What you will be coming across here in the name of gameplay can be found in thousands of slots across the web.
Five reels and 40 active paylines will be available for you to make the most of. So, as you spin the reel, symbols (mostly various sizes and colours of jewels – as one can guess!) will shuffle, stutter and finally stop to reveal what your spin is going to reward you with or set you back by!
Talking about setbacks, there’s not much to worry here. Why, you ask? Let’s find out…
Wager Schemes in 40 Shining Jewels
Being a penny slot is one thing. Being a stingy penny slot is totally another. 40 Shining Jewels, for all its grandiose name and fame, just about lands in the latter category.
The wager scheme used is very normal and formulaic here. You will be able to wager no more than or no fewer than one game coin per line for any given spin. If that got you a little annoyed, hold your horses, because there’s more. The coin denominations are forcefully bracketed quite sternly between 1 cent and 10 cents!
So, in plain old English, what this means is that you can wager nothing more than $4 per spin. If we are pushed to find the silver lining here, we would say that even the most futile and unkind of spins will set one back only by $4 – the price of a cup of coffee.
Let’s Talk About Winning, For A Change!
Sparing a thought or two for the wagering structure, let’s move back on to winning ways. Given the limits of wagers, it would have been clear to most readers by now that what you stand to win here is not going to make you leap out of your bed and go running wild in the streets. The classic 7 of slots is the highest paying regular symbol here. It pays out a decent 1,000 coins ($100 or less) for five-of-a-kind combination on any reel. Similar combinations of other jewels can help you net a good deal of coins.
Some Jewels Shine Brighter!
If it is any consolation to slotters, they’d be happy to know that 40 Shining Jewels features a wild as well as a scatter. A Royal Crown studded with the most precious gems and jewels plays the solo wild here, enabling players to adjust uncompleted combinations freely. The wild is known to carry a 2x multipliers (according to the developer, anyway), but we didn’t really get to witness that.
The scatter symbol – the best thing that could have ever happened to this slot – is a Treasure Chest overflowing with jewels. 3, 4 and 5 of this symbol anywhere on the screen will help you win 50, 800 and 20,000 coins respectively. Add these all up, and finally we have some semblance of a bounty befitting all this talk of jewels!
Our Word
40 Shining Jewels is a free slot that should only be played for kicks and fun, because almost certainly, it won’t pay out that well. The house edge is about 6.5%, further making things skewed against the players. But then again, low margins usually appeal to safe players, and we would certainly not hesitate in recommending this one to them!
