Would you like to try win some cash?

Diamonds are supposed to be a girl’s best friend. It’s usually blokes who have to buy them though so perhaps not their best mate. In the ‘Dazzling Diamond’ slot game from Novomatic, hopefully you’ll get some good winning combinations and then you’ll love diamonds whatever your gender.

This is a five-reel game that has three rows of symbols and contains just the ten paylines. You don’t have to be playing all of those paylines on each and every spin of the reels. You can play a couple one spin and then increase or decrease it for the next spin if you want, all up to the player. The same goes for the stake you make on each of those paylines. Playing this slot costs between a minimum of £0.02 and a maximum of £100.

Symbols in the game are all diamond related and for a change there’s no playing card symbols. We do get emeralds, diamonds, rubies, rings and gold watches plus a stack of cash we’d all love to get our hands on. If you can get five of the blue diamond symbols on an active payline that wins you 5000x your line bet.

Unusually there’s no wild symbol in this game which means no substituting of other symbols to get you a winning combination. That’s a bit of a blow but at least we do get a scatter symbol. That’s the watch and this can earn you a 500x multiplier if five of them appear anywhere on the reels.

Wins are achieved by getting matching symbols that are adjacent to each other from left to right so that does make up a bit for the lack of a wild symbol. Also look out for the stacked reels that can really help get you some winning combinations.

Before you start playing the game and pumping your hard earned cash into it, do your best to get to really know how the game works. To do that you have to access the paytable. This will tell you all you need to know about how to get winning combinations and what they are worth. Then take the opportunity to play some free games. Something for nothing is always handy and those free games will show you just how the game runs.

Well it’s time for a bit of bad news I’m afraid. If the blow wasn’t big enough that there is no wild symbol in this game, there’s no free spins or pick ‘em bonus round. A bit of a disappointment but there are still some good wins here so it’s still worth playing.

There is a gamble feature though so that can be used to boost your winnings. When you get a winning combination there’s the option to gamble the win that you have just had. In no way do you have to take up this offer however tempting it may be to you. If you do take up the option, then it’s just the old routine of trying to guess the colour of the next card. Get it right and you double the win you’ve just had. Get it wrong and that win is lost. You’re allowed up to five successful guesses but just try to do that with a pack of playing cards and you’ll soon discover how perilous this can be. With there being no other bonus game in ‘Dazzling Diamonds’ you may well be tempted a bit more than you normally are to give this a go. It’s all down to luck though so just be careful and don’t overplay this, you’ll lose out in the long run.

Not the best of games from Novomatic to be honest. It’s worth playing but there are a lot more that offer better game play. It’s a fairly basic game that can pay out some good wins thanks to the adjacent paying feature so it has that going for it. The lack of a wild is a disappointment as is the absence of any bonus games apart from the gamble feature. Just make sure you don’t overdo that gamble feature, try to win money not give it back.