Brilliant Heart Slot by Fazi

The red brilliant-cut heart is the entire reason to spin this one. It only ever lands on reels 2, 3 and 4, never the outer two, and when it shows up it stretches to fill the whole reel and turns every cell on it into a wild. With 40 lines threading through the middle of a four-row set, one fully wild reel cuts across nearly all of them at once, so a single heart often pays on a stack of lines in the same drop. It stands in for everything except the two star scatters. There are no free spins, no respins, no bonus screen, no buy or ante option of any kind. The heart is the win.

Every icon is cut from gem glass rather than painted, which is the whole look. The faceted red 7 tops the regular symbols and pays from just two of a kind, climbing to 125x for five. Below it sit jewelled watermelons and purple grape clusters as the premiums, then a golden bell, then the low fruit, plum, orange, lemon and cherries rendered as glittering crystals. All of it sits on a deep red faceted backdrop with a jewellery-box shine, three jackpot meters glowing across the top.

The two scatters work differently from each other, which is easy to miss. The blue star is the high one and pays from any position on the screen, up to 100x for five. The red star only counts when it lands on reels 1, 3 and 5, paying 20x for three. Neither sends you anywhere, they just pay as pay-anywhere symbols stacked on top of your line wins. Above them run three mystery progressives, Gold, Diamond and Platinum, that drop at a random hidden point fed by a slice of every base bet, so a bigger stake shortens the odds. Any win can go to a red-or-black gamble that doubles until you miss or hit the 50,000 ceiling.

It shares its grid, paytable and expanding wild with the sibling Brilliant Heart Booster, the difference being that the Booster bolts a stake-raising Wild Booster toggle on top. This is the stripped version, just the reels and the heart.