Hope Diamond

Hope Diamond Slot Review

A rope ladder hangs down into a cavern of blue and violet crystal, the seam crowding right up against the reels as if the mine is closing in around them. That’s Hope Diamond’s whole pitch: a game where the most interesting part isn’t the reels at all, but a trail quietly filling beside them while you wait. Blueprint Gaming has built the slot the wrong way round, and it works better than it sounds.

It runs on a 5×4 grid with 20 paylines, at 96.51% RTP, with a maximum win of 250,000x the total bet. The collecting theme runs right through the game’s family, so if you’ve played Diamond Mine 2 Megaways or Rolling In Gold, you’ll know roughly what Blueprint are reaching for here. The difference is how long the build takes before it pays.

How Hope Diamond Pays

Wins land on 20 fixed paylines, shown as numbered patterns across the five reels and four rows. Line wins pay left to right, and only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a traditional setup, and the game doesn’t dress it up.

Symbol values are multiples of the total bet:

• Hope Diamond (the text symbol): 10x for two, 200x for three, 500x for four, 2,500x for five
• Horse & Woman: 100x for three, 400x for four, 1,250x for five
• Mine Cart, Lantern & Pickaxe: 50x for three, 300x for four, 1,000x for five
• K / A: 25x for three, 100x for four, 500x for five
• J / Q: 10x for three, 50x for four, 250x for five

Two things stand out in that list. The top symbol pays from just two in view, which is rare, and the drop from the premium tier to the second symbol is steep. The royals are thin: a five-of-a-kind on the bottom tier returns a fraction of the equivalent four-of-a-kind premium hit.

The wild is a crossed pickaxes symbol that substitutes for everything except the Diamonds Forever heart. It’s a paying symbol in its own right, and it shares the top tier with the Hope Diamond itself, which makes it the joint-richest symbol on the grid. The full award ladder for it:

• Wild (crossed pickaxes): 10x for two, 200x for three, 500x for four, 2,500x for five

Because the wild pays from two in view, it does double duty: it substitutes for other symbols while paying as a symbol in its own right. Only the highest combination on each line counts.

Diamonds Forever

Diamonds Forever is the game’s headline collect round, and it’s built around one symbol and one counter. Land six or more of the heart symbols anywhere in view, in a single spin, and the round begins. There’s no line requirement; hearts count from anywhere on the grid.

The round then runs on a simple loop:

1. Every heart in view carries its own cash value, collected as a prize when the round ends
2. The spin counter starts at three spins
3. Each new heart that lands pays its value and resets the remaining spins back to three
4. If three spins pass with no new heart, the round ends and all collected values pay out

The hearts pay their own displayed values as cash prizes rather than line wins, so the round sits outside the paytable entirely. The reset is the whole engine: one symbol is never enough to save a failing round on its own, and a single spin can land several at once. Long rounds feed themselves, because the more hearts that land, the more chances the next reset has to arrive.

The Diamond Trail and Super Spins

The Diamond Trail

Running down the left of the reels is the Diamond Trail, and it’s the game’s long game. Every Bonus symbol that appears adds a segment to the trail, one at a time. Fill it completely and Super Spins trigger.

The trail is the reason the game’s three special symbols exist alongside each other, and each has its own job:

• Heart symbol – six or more in view triggers Diamonds Forever; carries collectible cash values during the round
• Bonus symbol – every appearance adds one segment to the Diamond Trail on the left
• Wild – substitutes for all symbols except the heart, and pays as a top-tier symbol

Progress on the trail isn’t a single-round promise. It’s a persistent accumulator that fills across play, which is what gives the game its slow-burn shape: every bonus round edges the trail closer, and the round at the end of it is the reward for sticking with the build.

Super Spins

Super Spins is the payoff round, and it works differently from Diamonds Forever. A special symbol is active on every reel, and each one in view pays on every spin. So a screen full of special symbols keeps paying spin after spin without needing to land again, which is where the game’s ceiling really opens up.

It’s a compounding structure rather than a collect-and-wait one. Every special symbol that lands adds a recurring payment for the rest of the round, so the value of an early heavy spin keeps repeating. Against the 250,000x cap, that repetition is the only route to anything approaching it.

The structure gives Hope Diamond two distinct tempos. Diamonds Forever is the short, sharp collect round; the trail is a slow accumulation towards something bigger. The RTP sits at 96.51% across both, and nothing about the game’s rules changes with bet size.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

A session on Hope Diamond is a lot of ordinary spinning in a very pretty cavern, and the reason to pick it is the ladder you can see yourself climbing: the trail sits beside the reels the whole time, so every Bonus symbol lands as progress rather than noise. That visible accumulation is rare, and it changes how a long session feels.

Its best asset is that the two rounds genuinely differ. Diamonds Forever pays in sharp, tense bursts and Super Spins in repeating ones, so neither comes off as a re-skin of the other. The weakness is everything in between: the base game is plain payline spinning with thin royals, and long stretches pass where the reels are just something to watch while the trail fills.

So it divides the room. The patient type who likes a game that’s going somewhere over an evening will enjoy the descent; anyone after quick, frequent features will find the pacing a grind. For the first group, this is a rewarding seam to work. The second won’t make it past the ladder.

Hope Diamond FAQs

• What is the RTP of Hope Diamond?

  Hope Diamond runs at an RTP of 96.51%, which sits just above the typical industry average.
• How do you trigger Diamonds Forever in Hope Diamond?

  The round starts when at least six heart symbols appear anywhere on the grid at once. During the round, hearts that land refresh the spin counter back to three.
• How do Super Spins work in Hope Diamond?

  You reach Super Spins by completely filling the Diamond Trail, which grows one segment each time a Bonus symbol lands. In the round itself, a special symbol is present on all five reels and pays out repeatedly on each spin it remains in view.
• What is the maximum win on Hope Diamond?

  The maximum win from a single game is 250,000x the total bet.
• Can the Diamonds Forever round be extended?

  Yes. Every new heart symbol that lands during the round resets the remaining spins back to three, so a run of hearts keeps the round alive indefinitely.
• What does the wild substitute for in Hope Diamond?

  The crossed pickaxes wild substitutes for all symbols except the Diamonds Forever heart symbol. It also pays as a symbol in its own right, matching the top pay tier.
• How many paylines does Hope Diamond have?

  Hope Diamond has 20 fixed paylines, displayed as numbered patterns across the reels.
• What is the grid size of Hope Diamond?

  Hope Diamond plays on a 5×4 grid, five reels across and four rows deep.
• When is Hope Diamond released?

  Hope Diamond’s release date is 27 August 2020.
• Who makes Hope Diamond?

  Hope Diamond is made by Blueprint Gaming.