Diamond Match Deluxe Slot by Playtech

The gimmick here is the second grid. Above the main five-reel board sits a top prize grid, and it's loaded with things worth grabbing: cash values, Free Games coins, and Diamond Prize discs. Land a Diamond Match symbol on a bottom reel and it reaches straight up, collecting whatever sits directly above it in the same column. Column alignment is everything, so where the prizes fall on the top grid matters as much as where your Diamond Match symbols land.

A single collect can pull a cash amount, anywhere from half your bet up to 15x, or a Free Games award, or one of the four Diamond Prizes. Those are fixed jackpots, not progressives: Mini at 10x, Minor at 25x, Major at 100x, and the Grand at 500x. The lower tiers can arrive carrying a multiplier as high as x5, and the collect mechanic can push that x5 onto cash pickups too.

Match one or more Free Games coins and you drop into Free Games with Moving. A Diamond Match symbol locks in place, then shifts one reel to the left every spin until it slides off the board, so a single collector keeps working for several spins in a row. A Red Arrow can land on the top grid and shove every Diamond Match on its reel across to reel five. And on any spin, the Mega Match fires at random and floods the entire top grid with prizes, which turns every Diamond Match on the board into a guaranteed collect.

The Wild fills in for everything except the Diamond Match itself, so it won't fake a collect for you. The look is pure Vegas: flaming purple, green and blue 7s, stacked gold BARs, a golden bell, a silver horseshoe, a star and a sparkling diamond, all glowing against a deep-red background streaked with gold light beams. Strip away the two-grid collect system and it's a plain classic-symbol slot underneath, and since this is the Deluxe pass, it's a coat of polish on a game that already existed rather than a fresh idea. The jackpot discs and that stacking Free Games behaviour are what give it more to chew on than the fruit-machine icons suggest.