10 Shining Diamond Pick and Win 5x3

10 Shining Diamond Pick and Win 5x3 belongs to EGT Digital’s Shining family of fruit machines and gives the formula a prize-picking twist. It is played on five reels and three rows with ten fixed paylines, set against a green felt-style backdrop where a large diamond logo sparkles above the grid. The listed return is 96.5%, volatility is medium, and the best fixed prize is 1,000 times the stake.

The Expanding Diamond

The diamond is the wild, and it can only land on the second, third and fourth reels. When it does, it covers the whole reel with a blue shaft of light and substitutes for every symbol on that reel except the scatters. The screenshots show it clearly, with a column of crystal standing in the middle of the grid while the winning lines are drawn across the fruit around it.

That arrangement means a single diamond is enough to link the first reel to the others. A win of 153.80 appears in one shot, with plums burning on the first two reels and the diamond completing the line, and other shots show bells, lemons and cherries linked through the expanded wild. Winning symbols are wrapped in a flame effect and a coloured frame, and a label at the bottom of the grid names the line, the symbol count and the amount.

Fruit, Stars and Dollar Signs

Around the wild is a standard fruit-machine set of cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, grapes, watermelons and bells, with the red seven as the top regular symbol. Two scatters add a little spice. One of them can appear on every reel, while the other is limited to the first, third and fifth reels, and the gold dollar sign and the purple star in the screenshots are the pair. Scatter wins are multiplied by the total bet and added to the payline wins, and only the highest line or scatter win is paid for each combination.

Wins are paid from left to right on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost one, and the payout for an expanded wild is calculated after the expansion has taken place, so the full column counts.

The Bonus Prize Feature

The Pick and Win in the title is the Bonus Prize feature. It can start at random when one or more diamond wilds appear on the middle three reels of the base game. The screen then fills entirely with face-down symbols, and the player picks them one at a time. Each pick reveals either the name of a prize level or a special symbol.

Collecting three matching prize names wins that level and ends the round. The four prizes are fixed multiples of the bet rather than progressive jackpots. At the top stake of 20.00 in the demo they read 20,000.00 for the Grand prize, 2,000.00 for Major, 1,000.00 for Minor and 600.00 for Mini, which is 1,000, 100, 50 and 30 times the bet. If three of the special symbols are revealed before a prize is complete the round carries on, and if both a matching trio and three special symbols are collected, the player wins that level and the next one up. When the Grand prize is combined with three special symbols, the Grand prize is paid together with the base value of the level.

The Four-Tier Progressive Jackpot

A second, separate prize strip runs across the top of the screen with Grand, Major, Minor and Mini progressive amounts, shown in the screenshots with five and six figures for the larger tiers. It is triggered at random at the end of a spin and is played as a chest-picking game with fifteen chests. Twelve of the chests contain pearls in the colour of a jackpot level and three contain level-up clovers, and the first level to collect three pearls is the one paid, with a clover able to lift it to the next tier.

The game is therefore a double-layered prize hunter, with a fixed-prize pick game triggered by the wild and a progressive jackpot above the reels, and both can be hit without any special combination on the reels.

Controls and Stakes

The demo offers stake buttons from 2.00 to 20.00, with the highest preselected. A speed button sits under the large spin icon, a bet options button below the speed toggle, and a small button on the right edge opens the double-up screen after a win. In that option a win of up to 700 can be risked on a red or black choice for up to five attempts, and it is switched off after a progressive jackpot win.

Autoplay, turbo, quick spin, multi-denomination play, a battery saver mode and a left-hand layout are available in the settings, as with the rest of the studio’s catalogue.

Who Might Like It

This is a straightforward machine with medium volatility, short rounds and two chances at a prize that do not depend on the reels lining up. The fixed prize ladder is easy to read, the expanding wild keeps the base game lively, and the combination of a fruit look with a picking round is a good fit for anyone who enjoys a classic game with one extra layer on top.

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