The official Pragmatic Play page lists Diamond Strike at 97.02%, the lowest version an operator can license runs at 94.16%, and the demo’s own rules give 96.48%, 0.54 under the top figure and 2.32 above the bottom. A spread of 2.86 points on one game is the number to hold onto, because it decides where Diamond Strike sits among the studio’s fruit slots. The game itself is a 15-line, 5×3 fruit board from 2017 with a 4-tier jackpot pick and an 8-spin free spins round. Four boxes above the reels read $15, $45, $150 and $1,500 at the $1.50 default stake, which is 10x, 30x, 100x and 1,000x the bet, and the 1,000x Mega is the largest figure the game can pay.
The bonus symbol is a golden 7 with diamonds at its base, and it pays as a red 7 on the paylines. Landing 3 anywhere opens the Jackpot Bonus Game, a pick screen with 12 diamonds arranged in a 4-by-3 grid. Each pick reveals one of 4 jackpot symbols, and matching 3 awards that tier: Mini at 10x the bet, Minor at 30x, Major at 100x and Mega at 1,000x. The jackpot values above the reels scale with the stake, ranging from $15 to $1,500 at a $1.50 bet.
The Mega jackpot is the game’s top prize at 1,000x, with no separate maximum-win figure stated in the rules. Outside the feature, a single golden 7 can appear on reel 3 or 5. Singles land often, but 3 must appear together to trigger the bonus.
Three Free Spins scatters, one each on reels 1, 3 and 5, start 8 free spins. The scatter pays nothing on its own, so one on reel 1 with the other two reels blank is a near miss and no more.
The round runs on its own set of reels, with extra diamond wilds added to every reel before the first spin. Another 3 scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 add 8 more spins, with no limit on how many times the round can retrigger. The golden 7 stays live throughout, so the jackpot pick can open from a free spin.
There is no buy button and no ante bet on any screen. Landing the scatters is the only way in, and that still puts Diamond Strike a feature ahead of the 5-line Hot to Burn, which has no feature to reach.
The diamond wild is also the top line symbol. Five on a line return 20x the stake against 13.3x for five red sevens, which makes the wild the top line pay in the game. It stands in for anything except the Free Spins scatter and the golden 7.
In standard play the diamond arrives as a single symbol on any reel. Even 3 stacked on reel 2 pay little when the fruit around them returns 0.33x for 3, so melon, diamond, melon on line 9 comes to a third of the stake. A stack on reel 2 can never pay on its own either, since every line starts from reel 1 and the wild only fills what a reel 1 symbol has begun.
Cherries, lemon, plum and melon share one ladder, 0.33x, 0.67x and 2.7x the stake for 3, 4 and 5, the lowest returns on the board. That is why the 1,000x top prize, behind a 3-symbol trigger and a 3-of-12 pick, is a longer shot than the small line pays suggest, and why the site rates this September 2017 release as Medium volatility.
Diamond Strike’s 15 lines are fixed, and the $1.50 default is 15 lines at $0.10 a line, so every figure on the paytable is a coin value at that line bet and the jackpot boxes are multiples of the $1.50 total. Change the coin value in the bet menu and the boxes redraw. The line map shows 15 colour-coded grids, with line 1 across the middle row, 2 across the top and 3 across the bottom, and the other 12 running V shapes and zigzags over the 3 rows. Wins need 3 matching symbols from reel 1 on adjacent reels, and the game multiplies each win by the line bet, adds the line wins together, and adds any free spins win to the total.
The info screen covers the paytable with the diamond’s pays and rules, the golden 7 and the Jackpot Bonus Game with its four multiples, the free spins, the 15-line map and the 96.48% RTP, then the main interface and spin speeds, the settings and the bet menu with its coins per line and coin value fields, and autoplay, including the skip screens toggle that jumps past the feature intro and end screens.
No minimum or maximum bet is stated, so the range is a research figure: $0.15 to $75, which is 15 lines at $0.01 to $5.00 a line. Because the four tiers are fixed multiples, the Mega box would read $150 at the $0.15 floor and $75,000 at the $75 top. The RTP is 96.48%. The rules label the volatility Low, but this review rates it Medium.
The paytable lists coin values at the $1.50 default, and the last column gives the 5-of-a-kind pay as a multiple of that total bet. The multiples are not round because 15 lines at $0.10 make an odd stake, and a 5-symbol line of any low fruit returns 2.7x.
| Symbol | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 as x total bet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond (wild) | $2.00 | $6.00 | $30.00 | 20x |
| Red 7 or golden 7 | $1.00 | $2.00 | $20.00 | 13.3x |
| Bell | $1.00 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 6.7x |
| Cherries | $0.50 | $1.00 | $4.00 | 2.7x |
| Melon | $0.50 | $1.00 | $4.00 | 2.7x |
| Plum | $0.50 | $1.00 | $4.00 | 2.7x |
| Lemon | $0.50 | $1.00 | $4.00 | 2.7x |
The Free Spins scatter carries no pay of its own. The jackpots are fixed at 10x to 1,000x the stake and pay from the pick, never from a line.
| Jackpot | Multiple | At $1.50 |
|---|---|---|
| Mini | 10x | $15.00 |
| Minor | 30x | $45.00 |
| Major | 100x | $150.00 |
| Mega | 1,000x | $1,500.00 |
Set the two tables side by side and the shape of the game is clear. The best line on the board, 5 diamonds, pays 20x, and the Mega jackpot pays 50 times that. Most of the classic fruit machine demos on the site keep their top prize on a line; this one keeps it behind a pick.
Diamond Strike is a 15-line fruit slot with a 4-tier jackpot pick and 8 free spins with extra wilds. The 1,000x Mega is the top figure, 50 times the best line pay, and it sits behind 3 golden sevens and a 3-of-12 pick.
A lone diamond on reel 3 among bells and fruit, or a single golden 7 with no partner, is the usual sight between features, and even 3 diamonds stacked on reel 2 come to a fraction of the stake when the fruit around them pays 0.33x for 3. Special symbols arrive one at a time, and the lines they sit on pay small.
The screen is a 5×3 grid on an electric blue background with lightning behind the logo and 4 jackpot meters across the top. The symbol set is the standard fruit machine six, cherries, lemon, plum, melon, bell and seven, plus the diamond and the golden 7.
The two things to weigh are the lines and the pick. The lines pay small, with the 4 fruit symbols returning 0.33x for 3, so even a diamond stack tends to come to a fraction of the stake. The pick describes the top end, and it is the part of the game the screen is built to advertise. The four meters sit above the reels on every spin and redraw with the stake, so a $1.50 bet reads a $1,500 Mega all session, and the golden 7 lands as a single often enough to keep the idea alive. That is what the meters are for. Getting there takes 3 golden sevens at once and then 3 matching Mega symbols from 12 diamonds that also hide Mini, Minor and Major, and the game does not show how the 12 are weighted.
The 1,000x sits in the right place for a game rated Medium. The Mega jackpot is 50 times the best line pay and reaching it takes 3 golden sevens anywhere and then 3 matching Mega symbols from a pick of 12. Besides Hot to Burn, whose 1,000x is 5 red sevens on a single line with no wild to help, Diamond Strike puts the same top figure behind a 3-symbol trigger and a pick, a lower bar to open and a longer road to the top tier. The 8-spin round with extra diamonds on every reel is where the realistic returns live, since 5 diamonds pay 20x and the round seeds them.
Diamond Strike earns 3 out of 5. The pick and the round give a fruit board two things to reach, and 96.48% is a fair return for a 2017 fruit slot, but the top prize is a jackpot pick rather than a line, and there is no buy or ante to shorten the wait for either feature. For free play, the round is the thing to see, and the $1.50 default keeps every jackpot box readable as a multiple.
