Stone Blocks, Cluster Pays and Cascades
Cluster Tumble is not quite like other cluster pays slots. When the game starts you’ll notice that only 10 to 15 positions on the grid have pay symbols on them. The rest are taken up by stone blocks. These stone blocks are removed when symbols in clusters appear in positions next to them.
Winning symbols explode off the gridAnd, when clusters form, a cascade is triggered, which means symbols in the cluster explode off the grid and ones above drop down to fill the spaces. New symbols also drop in from above to fill the remaining empty spaces. If more clusters are formed, the process repeats, and any stone blocks appearing next to new clusters are removed as well.
Gradually, with each successive cascade, more of the grid opens up. The aim of the game is to remove ALL stone blocks from the grid. When you do, then the free spins round is triggered.
As well as those cascades, you also have some nifty modifiers to help you. These appear in the stone blocks and only activate when those blocks are removed. They are as follows:
Lightning Win
Stone blocks with a lightning symbol can transform into paying symbols when activated by a cluster. Now, after the next cascade, all instances of this symbol are removed from the grid whether they are in a cluster or not.
Fire Transform
Stone blocks with fire symbols can transform into a random paying symbol, with 1-2 other blocks becoming the same symbol in the next cascade to increase your chances of creating clusters.
Wilds
Stone blocks with wild symbols in them will transform into Wilds to help create clusters.
Free Spins
Clearing the grid of stone blocks triggers the free spins round. You can also trigger it by landing 3 scatters – the gold emblem. You get 5 free spins and if you can clear the board again, you’ll get another 3, plus a 3x multiplier. Do it again, and you get 3 more spins and a 6x multiplier. And so on …
Finally, if you land a scatter at any point during free spins then you will earn an extra free spin.