Dream Diamonds: Hold 'N' Link

Dream Diamonds: Hold ’N’ Link is a neon-city fruit machine from NetGame, released on 8 October 2025. It plays on a 3x3 grid with 5 paylines, returns 96.08% at high volatility and tops out at 10,000x the bet. Nine positions, four jackpots, and a paytable with exactly one column.

A City At Night

The reels stand against a purple skyline – towers picked out in pink and blue neon, a tall spire on the left, fireworks going off behind the buildings. The DREAM DIAMONDS logo sits on a bed of ice crystals at the top with HOLD ’N’ LINK stamped beneath it, and the four jackpot plaques flank it in two pairs.

The symbols are pure fruit-machine stock: cherries, a plum, a lemon, an orange, grapes, a watermelon, a BAR BAR plate, golden bells and a red 777 carrying the WILD label.

Three Of A Kind, And Nothing Else

With three reels of three, no combination can run longer than three, and the paytable has a single column to match. At the €40.00 bet our session ran at:

777 (wild) – 2,000.00, or 50x
Bells – 1,200.00, or 30x
BAR BAR – 800.00, or 20x
Watermelon, Grapes – 640.00, or 16x
Orange, Lemon, Plum – 160.00, or 4x
Cherries – 40.00, or 1x

The wild is the top-paying symbol as well as the substitute – a common arrangement in three-reel games and a sensible one, since there is no room for a separate premium.

The step from the fruit pair at 16x to the three cheap fruits at 4x is a factor of four, and the cherries at the bottom return exactly the stake. Nine symbols, five ranks, nothing hidden.

The Minor Jackpot Equals Three Sevens

The four plaques, at our €40 bet:

GRAND – 40,000.00, or 1,000x
MAJOR – 6,000.00, or 150x
MINOR – 2,000.00, or 50x
MINI – 1,000.00, or 25x

Notice that the Minor is worth exactly what three wild sevens pay – 2,000.00 in both cases. That is a useful reference point: two of the four plaques, the Mini and the Minor, are worth less than or equal to the best combination the reels can already produce.

The real prize is the Grand at 1,000x, and even that is only a tenth of the game’s published 10,000x ceiling. Getting to the maximum needs the top plaque alongside a well-filled coin board, not the jackpot alone.

Inside The Hold ’N’ Link Round

When the round triggers, the fruit disappears and the nine positions become a plain purple board with faint diamond outlines. What lands on them is a mixture of three things.

Treasure chests carrying cash amounts – ours showed 120.00 and 640.00.
Blue diamonds also carrying amounts – 40.00 and 400.00.
And a purple diamond stamped MYSTERY, which reveals its value afterwards.

Against the €40 stake those coins run from 1x to 16x apiece. It is worth noticing that the top coin, 640.00, is exactly the watermelon’s three-of-a-kind value – NetGame has drawn the coin values from the same scale as the paytable rather than inventing a new one.

A respin counter sits under the board as three small numbered boxes, 1 2 3. Land a new symbol and they reset; miss three times and the round ends.

Nine Positions Cuts Both Ways

A 3x3 board is small enough that filling it completely is genuinely achievable, unlike the 5x4 grids where a full board is effectively fiction. But nine coins is also the ceiling of any single round, so it cannot run away with itself.

That is why the plaques matter here. With coins mostly in the 1x-to-16x range, nine of them will not approach 1,000x – the Grand has to be awarded rather than collected. The coins fill the round; the plaques decide it.

What The Reels Paid

Two base-game results, both at €40.00. Three grapes down the left with a chest sitting on the middle reel returned 80.00 – twice the stake. A board of cherries across the top and bottom rows paid 80.00 as well, from two separate lines of the cheapest symbol in the game.

Our balance moved a long way over the session – 2,314 at the high point, 34 at the low, with 594 and 1,114 in between. On a five-line game with a 1x cherry at the bottom of the table, that is what high volatility looks like: the base game does not hold you up for long.

96.08% At High Volatility

The return is around average and the high rating is honest. Five paylines across nine positions is very little board to work with, the best combination is 50x, and everything beyond that sits behind the Hold ’N’ Link trigger.

NetGame builds most of its catalogue this way, and the flat, short paytable is the direct consequence – the money has been moved out of the reels and into the round. What you get in exchange is a game that resolves fast: nine squares either fill or they do not, and you know within seconds.

Five Lines On Nine Squares

Five paylines across a three-by-three board means the three rows and the two diagonals – five of the eight straight paths available, with the three vertical columns left out.

That matters more than it sounds. A symbol landing in the centre square sits on four of the five lines at once, while a corner sits on two and the middle of an edge on just one. On a board this small the position of the wild is doing real work, and a 777 in the middle is worth considerably more than the same symbol on an edge.

What The Bet Changes

Everything scales with the stake, jackpots included. Our screenshots were taken at €40.00, where the Grand is €40,000 and three cherries pay €40. At a tenth of that stake every figure falls by a tenth; the multiples – 1,000x on the Grand, 50x on the sevens, 1x on the cherries – never move.

More From NetGame

Hold ’N’ Link is NetGame’s house mechanic and it appears under a great many skins. Genie’s Chest: Hold ’N’ Link runs it on a 243-way grid with the same three-plaque idea, and Three Civilizations: Bonus Combo takes the coin board onto a larger layout.

Who It Is For

Dream Diamonds: Hold ’N’ Link is for players who want a coin game stripped to its frame. Nine positions, one paytable column, five lines and four plaques – there is nothing to learn and nothing hidden behind a menu, and the neon city artwork is a cut above what this format usually gets. The coin values are drawn from the same scale as the paytable, which is a tidy piece of design, and the mystery diamond gives the round its only real suspense. The caveats are the size of the base game – fifty times the stake is the most the reels can do – and the fact that two of the four jackpots are worth no more than a line of sevens. All six casinos we checked carry it.

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