Gem Elevator

Theme and Design

There are plenty of mining themed slots out there, which makes perfect sense - hitting that max win must feel the same as striking a rock lined with gold. This one has a bearded miner alongside the reels, and glinting gems in the cave background.

The reels are full of sparkling gemstones and hewn from rough rock. It ticks all of the boxes for a mining slot, but doesn’t necessarily bring anything particularly unique to the table.

RTP and Variance

Gem Elevator has a default RTP of 96.53%, but also has two other RTPs that operators can choose to use, 95.51% and 94.54%. The default RTP is plenty generous, but make sure you’re not playing with the other two as these are a little mean.

The sound RTP is combined with high volatility, meaning you’ll need a decent bankroll to handle the swings. 

Maximum Win

This slot has a top payout of 10,000x your stake, which isn’t half bad! However, there are an absolute ton of mining slots out there, so if you’re looking for a higher max win then you don’t have to look far. For example, Space Miners Dream Drop takes a considerable hit to RTP (94%) but does offer a progressive jackpot and a non-progressive max win of 50,000x your stake.

Symbols and Paytable

Gem Elevator is played on 6 reels and 5 rows, utilizing a cluster pays mechanic where winning combinations require at least 5 identical symbols connected horizontally or vertically.

The game features 8 pay symbols plus a wild and a scatter. The lower value symbols include small blue, purple, green, and orange gems, which pay between 10x and 25x the bet for clusters of 13 or more. The premium symbols are large green, blue, purple, and red gems, rewarding between 40x and 500x the bet for clusters of 13 or more. 

The golden nugget Wild symbol appears on all reels, substituting for all regular symbols and carrying multiplier values from 1x to 10x.

Features and Gameplay

Gem Elevator has some fun features that help to keep gameplay genuinely exciting. Let’s take a look at how they all work.

Tumble Wins

The tumble feature is activated every time you make a win. The winning symbols are removed from the reels and new symbols tumble into their space. If these make a winning combination too, then the remove and tumble happens again and again until no new wins are created.

Wild Symbol

The wild symbol is a golden nugget and can appear on any of the reels. It can substitute for any normal symbols to help form clusters. During the Elevator Nudge feature it can appear with multipliers attached which are applied to wins that it’s part of. 

Elevator Nudge Feature

At any point after wins have finished, any number of reels can nudge upwards or downwards up to 5 spaces. If this forms a winning combination during the nudging then these are awarded and the nudging carries on. Nudges can introduce wilds with multipliers of 1x to 10x onto the screen. If these wilds nudge without making a win then their multiplier doubles each time.

Free Spins With Nudges

If you land 4, 5, or 6 scatters then the bonus game begins with 10, 15, or 20 free spins respectively. On each free spin, one or more reels are chosen to nudge up or down. You can nab more free spins by landing 4, 5, or 6 scatters (5, 8, or 10 more free spins).