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Following are descriptions and reviews of ten bonus slots for you to explore on your next casino adventure.
1) Deep Pockets: Kangaroos, boomerangs and other Aussie icons are reel symbols for this Australian Outback themed game. The main ‘Deep Pockets Bonus’ feature is triggered when three target symbols scattered anywhere display a bonus amount. The player can take the bonus or try for another. The ‘Outback Bonus’ is initiated when a combination of five kangaroos and/or ‘Deep Pockets’ symbols land on a payline. The screen displays a triangle of cubes that hide bonus amounts in the top four rows and multipliers in the bottom row. The player selects a path up the triangle for the final bonus bucks. This game is worth the trip down under to OZland.
2) Desperado: Calling all cowboys and cowgirls: this is your game. Three bonus coins on a lit payline lands you in old west town with 5 targets at various points. Player then chooses one to shoot. 4 hold bonus amounts and one hides the word ‘bank’ taking you to a third screen--the bank’s interior. Choose one of 5 dynamite sticks for winnings up to 2500 coins. Go git ‘em pardner.
3) Diamond Blazing 7’s: As with other Blazing 7’s, there is a multitude of 7 combos activated by the second coin. With 3 coin versions, you get higher top jackpots, but try the 2 coin to stretch your bankroll. There are six possible jackpot combos paying 100 coins+. Three Blazing 7’s=top jackpot. Although there are no wild symbols, there are lots of ‘fired up’ 7’s in win combinations.
4) Diamond Cinema Slots: Bring on movieland’s sights and sounds and make me feel like a star with payoffs to match my lifestyle starting at $1.5 million. You must remember this; a kiss is just a kiss. Bogie and Bergman speak, reels tell their story and romantic music streams in the background. Two bonus events await: Line up three, four or five Bogart-Bergman icons and you are whisked away to a classic movie house. The romantic pair guides the player through several selections that will add $$ to your credit meter, however glittering green is the treasure you seek for it is then that the Gem bonus round begins. If your expedition finds five Diamond Cinema Jackpot symbols on the 15th payline on a max. bet, you are truly the ‘brightest star’ with the top jackpot. The much loved movie song is involved in the second bonus round. Three piano icons on the middle reels of any line is an audio feast with strains of As Time Goes By with mounting credits. We’ll always have Paris, but now we have B-B back for the memories. The one and only screen siren -Marilyn Monroe- and that, oh so, sultry voice have returned. The familiar movie scenes and music are also making a comeback coupled with two bonus rounds. The Magazine Bonus segment displays 12 cover pictures of Ms Monroe that reveal bonus credits upon your selection. Your search is focused on a Gift Box Bonus find that triggers the final round. MegaBucks await the player who lines up five Diamond Cinema Jackpot Symbols during the Gift Box Bonus, on a max. play on the 15th payline. As Marilyn sang, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, but, in this case, five jewels rules!
5) Diamonds & Devil: Mini demons are surrounded by lots of sparkling diamonds beckoning players to try for free games with a top award of 15,000 coins. The Diamond Line feature offers players the top award when four triple flaming 7’s appear arranged in a diamond shape within the pay window. The bonus game feature occurs whenever three Diamond or Devil symbols appear anywhere in the pay window and ten free games are awarded. This devilish game ‘sparkles’.
6) Dick Clark’s Censored Bloopers: The sounds and gags of Dick Clark’s long running TV show along with his voice-over are the basics here. One bonus event is triggered by landing three or more cigar symbols on the payline. Five cartoon characters, cigars in mouth appear and the player is prompted to select one of them to light its cigar. Of course, the cigar explodes leaving the character’s blackened face and a bonus amount won by the player. The main bonus called Censored Bloopers has Clark near a large game board where the player turns over squares revealing various colors and bonus amounts. Can’t you just hear the ‘chi-ching, chi-ching’ in the Clark mansion as another of his named slots hit the casino floors?
7) Dolphin Treasures: Take a trip to the bottom of the sea where treasures are waiting. Players can win 15 free games when 3, 4 or 5 scattered Treasure Chests appear and all wins during these free games are tripled. You can also win more free games during free game spins. Nothing fishy about that. This 9-line game nets 60,000 coins, while the 20-line version’s ‘whopping catch’ is a top award of 150,000 coins.
8) Double Diamond 2000: Bring on the old with a new twist. Wild symbols that multiply into more money, more paylines and symbols of diamonds, jewelry, bundles of cash, and shiny baubles. Double Diamond wild doubles the jackpot, two for quad and three for eight times. Five dancing jewel boxes prompt a bonus round for a player’s choice of 15 jewel boxes. Locate the double diamond in one of five picks and you are in for a sixth pick and all amounts double. The scatter-pay feature is a jeweler and there is an award high of 4500 coins. You will find this latest updated, classic IGT version in most casinos.
9) Double Diamond Run: This game features a video screen, five reels and nine paylines. The video shows exactly what is happening on the five reels. Double Diamonds are wild when they appear on the three middle reels and three scattered bonus symbols on the center reels trigger the second-screen bonus game. Five reels appear on the screen and display different symbols than those on the physical reels. The player gets three bonus spins with a chance to win from a new paytable. If one or more diamonds appear while the player is in this bonus round he is rewarded another three bonus spins. Take a ‘run’ at this one with its high hit frequency and a decent payback.
10) Double Five Times Pay: newer release that includes an extra wild symbol. As before one wild = 5x while two for 25x, but the twist is a 2x wild symbol that doubles the jackpot on two for a quad jackpot. Throw in another sequence of 1-5x pay and 1-2x and you just won a jackpot at 10x the rate, my friend. A secondary top jackpot has also been added. My, my, the credits do add up to some tidy profits. Search out this version for hefty paybacks, especially the dollar denominations.
Until we meet again in the Slots Playground…
Gayle Mitchell is author of Casino Gambling Made Easier books, EBooks, booklets & Slots Trilogy. WEB:
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