3 Glittery Diamonds Slot Review
Two enormous pale-blue vault doors drift in from the edges of a dark space backdrop, one wrapped in glowing crystal chain, while three cartoon gems – pink, icy white and yellow – perch on crusted ice above the reels. 3 Glittery Diamonds dresses like a sweet shop and pays like a heist, and the tension between those two faces is the whole game.
It’s a PearFiction Studios release running at 96.00% RTP, rising to 96.10% in some bonus buy modes, with very high volatility, a 5×3 grid plus a horizontal top row that starts at 243 ways and grows to 7,776, and stakes from 0.20 to 50.00. Sister titles include 3 Cherry Frenzy and Dungeons and Diamonds.
Base Game & Features
The base game runs on 243 ways, paying left to right across adjacent reels from the leftmost one. Only the highest winning combination counts per symbol, and payouts are based on the initial bet rather than the total.
That last detail matters more than it sounds. The total bet multiplies the initial bet by a fixed way cost of 20, so a 5x pay on the initial bet is worth considerably less than 5x your stake.
Wilds land on reels 2, 3, 4 or 5 and substitute for everything except the Pot, Collect, Split, Cash Value and Bonus symbols. They’re standard filler, nothing more.
The symbol set is pure heist: safes, purses, cash stacks, chips and coins at the top, with A, K, Q, J and 10 filling the lower rungs. The pays are modest at the bottom and top out at 5x the initial bet.
- Purple Safe – 1.4x for three, 3x for four, 5x for five
- Red Purse – 1.2x, 2.4x, 4x
- Green Cash – 1x, 2x, 3x
- Blue Chips – 1x, 1.6x, 2.4x
- Coins – 1x, 1.4x, 2x
- A, K – 0.2x, 0.6x, 1x
- Q, J, 10 – 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.6x
Split Symbols
Split symbols land on the top row and add one, two or three extra symbols to the reel they sit above, pushing the grid from 5×3 towards 5×6 and the ways from 243 up to the 7,776 maximum.
Any extra reel size earned in the base game carries over into the LockNWin feature, so a fat Split symbol just before a bonus is a genuinely useful thing to catch.
Pot Symbols and the Multiplier
Red, blue and yellow Pot symbols land in the base game only and collect into the matching-coloured pot above the reels. They don’t pay anything themselves, and the visual filling of each pot doesn’t influence when a feature fires.
A LockNWin can trigger whenever one or more Pot symbols appear, with the collected combination deciding which features you get. Red Pots have a second job: each one that lands raises a persistent multiplier, which climbs as high as 10x and is stored per bet level.
The multiplier applies to collected Cash Values, never to way wins, and resets to 1x once it’s been used.
Cash Value and Collect Symbols
Cash Value symbols land on reels 1 to 4 and carry values between 0.2x and 100x the total bet. When a Collect symbol lands on reel 5, every Cash Value on screen is added up, multiplied by the current multiplier, and paid out on the spot.
In the base game the multiplier for this collect tops out at 9x. The Collect feature and the LockNWin can’t trigger on the same spin.
The Bonus Symbol
Bonus symbols land on the top row, one per reel, and can be gathered across several spins with more than one landing at a time. Collect one on every reel and all three LockNWin features trigger together, with the multiplier you’ve built carried in.
It’s the game’s jackpot-of-jackpots route, and it’s the reason those pink diamonds on the top row are worth watching.
3 Glittery Diamonds Bonus Features
Every LockNWin round shares the same skeleton. Three respins are awarded, all symbols clear except Cash Values, which lock in place, and the respin count resets to three whenever a new Cash Value or Jackpot coin lands.
The round ends when the count runs out or the reels fill completely. What changes between the three is what each colour adds on top.
Multiply LockNWin
Triggered by collecting a red Pot symbol. The multiplier you’ve built in the base game comes with you, and when the feature finishes it’s applied to every Cash Value locked on the reels before the total is paid.
One strong run of respins with a 10x multiplier behind it is where this game’s biggest arithmetic lives.
Jackpot LockNWin
Triggered by a blue Pot symbol. Jackpot coins fill spaces on five ladders, and completing every space on a ladder pays that jackpot at the end of the feature. The ladders step down in size: six spaces for the Mega, five for Major, four for Minor, three for Mini and two for Micro.
More than one jackpot can be won in a single round. Jackpots aren’t multiplied and can’t be collected by the blue or yellow Cash Value symbols.
Supreme LockNWin
Triggered by a yellow Pot symbol, and it’s the loudest of the three. A blue Cash Value symbol landing here collects every red Cash Value on the reels, and a yellow Cash Value collects both red and blue.
Reels that pay out this way free up space, which keeps the respin counter alive and gives the round room to snowball.
Buy Feature
A green BUY button sits top-right of the base game, and it sells direct entry into any single feature or any combination of them. It isn’t available above a certain bet threshold, and the bet level for the purchase is chosen in the buy menu.
The RTP edges up slightly on most purchases, from the default 96.00% to as much as 96.10% on the Jackpot + Supreme combo.
- Multiply LockNWin – 35.10x bet (96.03% RTP)
- Jackpot LockNWin – 37.70x bet (96.07% RTP)
- Supreme LockNWin – 26.16x bet (96.00% RTP)
- Multiply + Jackpot – 54.70x bet (96.01% RTP)
- Jackpot + Supreme – 57.00x bet (96.10% RTP)
- Multiply + Supreme – 63.25x bet (96.06% RTP)
- All three – 81.70x bet (96.08% RTP)
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
This is a slow burn wearing a party dress. Long stretches of the base game are Pot symbols drifting past with nothing attached, and the one reason you’re here is the moment the vault actually opens – all three LockNWins firing at once off a completed Bonus collection, multiplier riding shotgun. That’s a genuinely exciting build, and it belongs to this game alone.
The Supreme round is the best thing here. Collecting symbols that clear their own reel space give a respin chain room to snowball in a way most lock-and-respin games quietly prevent. The weakness is the wait: with wins landing on roughly one spin in four and the top symbol paying against the initial bet rather than the total, the floor between features is low and the game knows it.
It’s for players who enjoy the build as much as the payout, and it isn’t for anyone who wants steady action between bonuses. Get the pots filling, though, and the glitter turns out to be load-bearing.
3 Glittery Diamonds FAQs
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What is the RTP of 3 Glittery Diamonds?
The RTP is 96.00%. Bonus buy modes run slightly higher, between 96.00% and 96.10% depending on which feature you purchase. -
Is 3 Glittery Diamonds high volatility?
Yes, it’s rated very high volatility, with a hit frequency of 27.43%, so wins land on roughly one spin in four. -
How many paylines does 3 Glittery Diamonds have?
It has 243 ways to win in the base game, expandable up to 7,776 ways when Split symbols on the top row add extra rows to the reels. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on 3 Glittery Diamonds?
Stakes start at 0.20 and go up to 50.00 per spin. -
Can you buy the bonus on 3 Glittery Diamonds?
Yes. A buy menu lets you purchase any single LockNWin feature or any combination of them, costing from 26.16x bet for the Supreme up to 81.70x bet for all three together. It isn’t available above a certain bet threshold. -
How do you trigger the LockNWin features in 3 Glittery Diamonds?
Red, blue and yellow Pot symbols collect into the matching pot above the reels, and whenever one or more Pot symbols appear there’s a chance a LockNWin triggers, with the combination of collected pots deciding which features are awarded. Collecting a Bonus symbol on every reel triggers all three LockNWin features at once. -
What do Split symbols do in 3 Glittery Diamonds?
They grow the reels. A Split symbol adds one, two or three extra symbols to the reel beneath it, taking the ways from 243 to a maximum of 7,776, and the extra reel size carries over into the LockNWin feature. -
Who makes 3 Glittery Diamonds?
It’s made by PearFiction Studios.
