Diamond King Jackpots Slot Review
A golden-maned lion sits guard beside a huge cut diamond mounted on a glass trophy stand, overlooking a sunlit African waterhole. He’s not the real attraction here. In Diamond King Jackpots the animals are almost decorative, because SpinPlay Games have built every last feature around a single symbol: the diamond wild, which multiplies, collects and chases jackpots all at once.
It runs on a 5×4 grid with 1024 ways to win, a 96.44% RTP and medium-high volatility, with bets from 0.10 to 25.00 per spin. The studio’s back catalogue is full of diamond-chasing cousins, including Diamond King Gold, Amazing Link Riches and Action Ways Buffalo. This one is the plainer relative of that family, and its four-tier jackpot ladder carries the ambition.
Base Game & Features
Wins pay left to right across adjacent reels, and only the highest combination for each symbol counts, with the total payout being the sum of all way wins on a spin. Each spin costs a total bet, built from an initial bet multiplied by the cost of the ways played, and payouts are based on that initial bet. The premium animals do the heavy lifting, and their values are multiples of the total bet:
- Lion – 1x for two, 2x for three, 4x for four, 10x for five
- Elephant / Rhino – 0.5x for two, 1x for three, 2x for four, 5x for five
- Zebra / Meerkats – 0.2x for two, 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 2.5x for five
Two of the three tiers pay from just two symbols, which is unusual; most ways-based games start counting at three. It’s what keeps the 36.68% hit frequency honest, since the zebra and meerkats only need a pair on the first two reels to return something.
The diamond symbol is wild, appearing on reels two, three and four only, and it substitutes for everything except the Bonus symbol. That restriction matters more than it sounds, because the wild isn’t just a substitute here. It’s the engine of both base game features.
Power Range™
The Power Range™ is a marked zone in the middle of the reel set. In the base game it covers the two centre positions on reels two, three and four, and any wild landing inside it picks up a 2x multiplier that applies to all way wins it helps form. Multipliers multiply each other, so two boosted wilds in the same win combine rather than stack flat.
The zone is always visible on the reels, so every wild that drops inside it registers immediately. In free spins it grows to swallow the three middle reels whole, which is where the mechanic gets interesting.
Diamond Meter and the Jackpot Feature
Wilds do double duty in the base game. As well as substituting, each one that lands adds a step to the Diamond Meter, and a wild inside the Power Range™ adds two. The meter only builds in the base game, and once it’s full the Jackpot Feature triggers, presenting a grid of icons where matching three identical ones awards the corresponding prize:
- MEGA – 5,000x the bet
- MAJOR – 200x the bet
- MINOR – 50x the bet
- MINI – 20x the bet
Meter progress scales with your bet, so there’s no penalty for moving stakes, and changing bet doesn’t affect the RTP. If a single spin collects enough wilds to fill the meter more than once, the jackpot prizes are multiplied accordingly and the feature plays out a single time. The MEGA at 5,000x is the game’s top prize, and as a fixed jackpot it’s the same size every time you reach it rather than a progressive pot that creeps upwards between players.
There’s an auto-pick button for the icon matching if you’d rather not click through it, and it doesn’t influence the outcome. If the Jackpot Feature and free spins trigger on the same spin, the jackpot plays out first, with any wins from it added to base game wins.
Diamond King Jackpots Free Spins & Bonus Rounds
Free Spins
Three, four or five Bonus symbols anywhere on the reels award 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively. The Bonus symbol, an African landscape icon, only appears in the base game, and the round can’t be retriggered, so what you win at the start is all you get.
Bets and ways stay the same as the triggering spin, and the spins play out automatically with no input needed. The whole appeal is the widened Power Range™: the zone takes in the full width of reels two, three and four, and wilds landing there carry richer multipliers than the base game’s flat 2x. It’s where the multipliers compound.
Each boosted wild is randomly assigned a 2x, 3x or 5x multiplier, and because those multiply together, a win strung through two or three boosted wilds grows quickly. Wins from the round are added to base game wins. The Diamond Meter doesn’t operate during the feature, so every wild in free spins is purely a multiplier play rather than meter fuel.
Buy Feature
There’s a Buy Feature that skips the scatter waiting game:
- Buy Feature – 50x total bet, instantly triggers 10 free spins at the current stake, running at 96.44% RTP
The buy may not be available above a certain bet threshold, and it may not be available in this game at all depending on where you play. UK players won’t see it, as standard.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this is a patient safari: long stretches of watching the meter creep up, punctuated by the occasional roar of a multiplier win through the middle reels. The reason to pick it is that fixed ladder. Every jackpot is a known quantity you can actually aim at, and the meter gives even a losing session a sense of progress towards something.
Free spins are where it’s best, three full reels of boosted wilds stacking into each other, and no retrigger needed when the multipliers land right. The ceiling is the honest complaint: 5,000x tops the ladder, and unlike a progressive there’s no dream of more.
It’s a good fit for players who’d rather chase a reachable prize than a progressive pot that never lands, and it’s not for anyone after the giant headline wins of high-volatility games. For a steady build with a clear destination, the lion and his diamond still hold their patch of the plain.
Diamond King Jackpots FAQs
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What is the RTP of Diamond King Jackpots?
The RTP is 96.44%, which counts as the game’s total return including the jackpot contribution. The Buy Feature runs at the same 96.44%. -
Is Diamond King Jackpots high volatility?
It’s a medium-high volatility slot, so expect a mix of regular smaller wins and longer gaps between the bigger feature hits. -
What is the hit frequency of Diamond King Jackpots?
The hit frequency is 36.68%, meaning roughly one spin in three lands a winning combination. -
How do you trigger the Jackpot Feature in Diamond King Jackpots?
Land wilds in the base game and the Diamond Meter builds, with wilds inside the Power Range counting double. A full meter launches a pick game where matching three identical icons pays the matching jackpot, and if the meter would fill more than once on a single spin the prizes are multiplied accordingly. -
Can free spins be retriggered in Diamond King Jackpots?
No, free spins can’t be retriggered. Three, four or five Bonus symbols award 10, 15 or 20 spins respectively, and that’s the full allocation for the round. -
What does the Power Range do in Diamond King Jackpots?
It’s a marked zone on the middle reels. Wilds landing inside it pick up a 2x multiplier in the base game, and in free spins the zone covers reels two, three and four fully with multipliers of 2x, 3x or 5x that multiply together. -
How many ways to win does Diamond King Jackpots have?
It’s a 5×4 grid with 1024 ways to win, paying left to right across adjacent reels. -
Who makes Diamond King Jackpots?
SpinPlay Games, the studio behind the Amazing Link and Action Boost families. Diamond King Jackpots’ release date is 3 December 2020.
