Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win Slot Review

Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win Slot Information

Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win drops you into a shopping fantasy land packed with high-ticket status symbols and glittering stones. The 5x3 layout with 25 paylines sits in front of a rotating blue light that lets the luxury icons take centre stage. It looks glitzy in a zirconium type way, while the soundtrack shuffles along like hotel lobby hits, keeping things surprisingly low key for such a wealth-obsessed slot.

Under the shiny surface sits a fairly standard math model. Stakes run from 0.25 to 25 per spin, with medium volatility around 5 out of 10 and a hit frequency of 26.2 percent. The default RTP is 96.00 percent, nudging up to 96.9 percent when you buy the feature. On a good day the game can reach wins of up to 5440 times your bet.

Symbols in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win

The paytable in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win sticks to the luxury script. Low pays are the J to A royal values, worth 2 to 4 times your stake for five of a kind. Premiums are champagne on ice, a slick watch, a flash car and a private jet, paying 6 to 16 times your bet for a full line, giving the better hits a suitably expensive flavour.

Wild symbols land stacked on any reel and can even cover the entire grid, substituting for all regular icons to help form winning lines. A line of wilds pays the same as the private jet. The white diamond scatter starts the Hold & Win Respins, while platinum diamonds show cash amounts. Gold diamonds add a win multiplier on the triggering spin, and the Minor, Major and Grand stones in green, red and blue hold higher preset awards.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	5	x16
	4	x8
	3	x1.6
	5	x12
	4	x6
	3	x1
	5	x8
	4	x4
	3	x0.8
	5	x6
	4	x2
	3	x0.6
	5	x4
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.4
	5	x4
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.4
	5	x2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	5	x2
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	Special
	Special
	Scatter
	Wild

Stacked Wilds in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win

Stacked wilds are the main extra in the base game of Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win, and they do much of the heavy lifting between respin rounds. They always arrive as full stacks, so even a single reel covered in wilds can throw out tidy line wins, especially when matched with the high-end symbols. When several reels go wild at once the screen fills with rich combinations, though the game rarely cuts truly loose here.

Diamond Modifier in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win

Diamond Modifier triggers at random during standard spins in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win, marked by diamonds raining down over the reels. When this happens you either collect an instant Big Win of over 20 times your stake or you are thrown straight into the Hold & Win Respins feature. As part of this splashy entrance, regular platinum diamonds on the grid can switch into gold multiplier diamonds for a stronger starting position.

This little jolt breaks up what can otherwise feel like a pretty ho-hum base game. It gives you occasional surprise hits and fast tracks you into the feature without grinding through endless teases. It still follows the familiar money-themed pattern, though, so even with the fancy animation the modifier never quite shakes off the sense of being a serviceable, rather than thrilling, extra.

Hold & Win Respins in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win

The Hold & Win Respins round kicks in when five or more diamond scatters land, or when Diamond Modifier decides to help. You start with three respins, and all triggering diamonds lock in place. Only diamond or blank symbols appear during the feature, so every new stone that hits feels meaningful. Each time at least one fresh diamond lands, it sticks to the grid and the respin counter resets to three again.

Diamond symbols carry values from a preset table linked to your stake, ranging from small top-ups to chunky hits. Gold diamonds only appear on the triggering spin and crank up a win multiplier, starting from x1 and climbing by one for each gold stone in view. That multiplier then applies to the total haul from the respin round, so catching several at once can make a big difference.

As the feature plays, you also hope to see special Minor, Major and Grand diamonds drop in. These green, red and blue stones award 20, 200 or 1000 times your bet respectively, before any gold multiplier steps in. The bonus hits on roughly one in 116 spins, which feels fair for a medium volatility slot, though many rounds fizzle out with middling totals if you miss the larger awards.

Special Awards and Bonus Buy in Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win

Special Awards and Bonus Buy tie the Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win package together. The Minor, Major and Grand diamonds act almost like fixed jackpots within the respins, giving clear stepping stones at 20x, 200x and 1000x your stake, again increased by any starting multiplier. If patience is not your thing, a Bonus Buy option lets you purchase direct entry to the Hold & Win action for 50 times your bet, nudging RTP up to around 96.9 percent.

Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win Slot Verdict

Brilliant Diamonds: Hold & Win feels like a money slot built to tick boxes rather than turn heads. The luxury theme has been hammered into shape so many times over the years that this version ends up looking a bit like a throwback, glitzy yet somehow flat. The blue backdrop and gentle muzak give it a slightly dated lounge vibe instead of the sharp, aspirational edge the symbols seem to promise.

On the gameplay side, the stacked wilds, Diamond Modifier and Hold & Win Respins all work as expected without offering much that feels fresh. The streak respins can produce solid cash collections, especially with a Grand diamond and a decent multiplier, but many sessions limp along on modest totals. If you are obsessed with hold and win streaks it offers a decent flutter; everyone else might not miss it.

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