Diamond Dez Slot by AvatarUX

Most of the bonus rounds you'll play end before anything happens. Ten spins, a few small cascades, back to base game. Diamond Dez adds a second phase that changes the math entirely. The Progression Bar tracks every winning cascade step during free spins, and after 10 wins accumulate, Time to Shine kicks in - three extra spins, higher frequency of Expanding Wilds and Multiplier Vaults, and one critical rule change that flips the volatility.

That rule change: Multiplier Vaults become sticky. In regular free spins, Vaults land carrying values from 2x up to 100x but disappear after each spin. Once Time to Shine activates, they stay on the grid between spins until a win clears them. So you're stacking 15x, 40x, 100x Vaults across multiple spins, waiting for a cascade chain to land. The Vaults don't touch individual symbol wins during cascades - they multiply the total accumulated win after the final cascade in a sequence. A long chain followed by a stacked Vault collection is how 10,000x happens.

Wins trigger when 8 or more matching symbols appear anywhere on the grid - no paylines, no adjacency. The count matters though: 8-9 symbols pay base tier, 10-11 step up, and 12+ hits the cap. Filling 30 positions with one symbol pays identical to landing 12 of it. Each cascade step counts separately toward the Progression Bar, so one spin producing a five-step chain fills half the bar by itself. At 60x for 10 spins or 120x for 12, the buy options skip the base game grind. The 120x option actually carries a slightly higher return than either the cheaper or the 400x premium tier, which is an unusual inversion.

Expanding Wilds drop as 2 or 3-symbol stacks with individual multipliers ranging from 2x to 10x. They substitute for everything except Bonus symbols and Vaults, and those multiplier values apply to any win the Wild participates in. A noir character named Dez anchors the crime theme, a deliberate pivot from the PopWins expanding-reel format that built most of AvatarUX's catalog.