Diamond Tales™: The Little Mermaid Buy Bonus

The aim of the base game is simple – collect Pearl Hearts in the Special Reel to either take with you into the Snap Drop or Diamond Tales™ Features or progress the story and reach the Ocean Feature. To collect Pearl Hearts, all the player has to do is land them on the reels. When one lands, it collects it in the Special Reel above and stays there until one of the features is triggered or the player lands a spin with no Pearl Hearts appearing on the main reels. If this happens, all Pearl Hearts in the Special Reel are removed and added to the Heart Collection Counter. The exact amount of Pearl Hearts from the Special Reel is added to the counter. For each chapter of the game there are different amounts of Pearl Hearts the player has to collect to complete the counter and story until the very final chapter with the Ocean Feature.

Snap Drop Feature

The Snap Drop Feature can be triggered at any point in the base game. All the player has to do is land the Snap Drop symbol on the fifth reel and have Pearl Hearts in the Special Reel. If the player lands the Snap Drop symbol with no Pearl Hearts in the Special Reel, this counts as a near miss and does not trigger the feature.

The Snap Drop Feature awards the player with one free re-spin where only Pearl Hearts with multipliers on them appear on the reels. The multiplier on the Pearl Heart is defined by the number on the Hearts in the Special Reel above. If there is no Pearl Hearts in the Special Reel above, the reel will not re-spin when the Snap Drop is triggered. Therefore, one to five reels can spin on each Snap Drop trigger and each reel can have between zero and four Hearts landing.

After the re-spin, all multipliers on Pearl Hearts on the main reels are summed up and this sum then multiplies the player’s total bet.

Diamond Tales™ Feature

The Diamond Tales™ Feature is triggered by 3 Book Bonus Symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5.

The player enters the feature with one extra Heart added to every space in the Special Reel. Therefore, the player enters the feature with at least one Heart on every reel of the Special Reel. The player is then awarded 3 Free Spins, which re-trigger to 3 every time a new Pearl or Gold Diamond Heart lands on the main reels. If the player has 3 spins with no new Heart landing, the feature is over.

Pearl Hearts land with the same multiplier on them as the number on the Heart above in the Special Reel.

Pearl Hearts

If a Pearl Heart lands on a reel, its value will be added to any Pearl Hearts that previously landed on the same reel.

Gold Diamond Hearts

Gold Diamond Hearts work the same as Pearl Hearts. However, instead of being summed up, the Gold Diamond Heart’s value is multiplied by any new Pearl Hearts that land in its reel. This happens every time a new Pear Heart lands, which means a Gold Diamond Heart can be multiplied maximum of three times. In each consecutive Chapter of the game one additional Gold Diamond Heart is added to the Diamond Tales™ Feature. Therefore, in the Cove Feature only 1 Gold Diamond Heart is available but in the Ocean Feature, up to 5 can land. Only one Golden Diamond Heart can land per reel. If the player only has 1 on a Heart in the Special Reel, a Gold Diamond Heart cannot land on that reel.

Buy Bonus Feature

The player can buy the Diamond Tales™ Feature for 100x the total bet at any time in the base game by clicking the Buy Bonus button. Clicking the Buy Bonus button gives the player a Free Spin on a Wheel of Features, which randomly decides which Diamond Tales™ Feature will be awarded. Once the feature is decided, a random amount of Diamond Hearts (between 10 and 60) is randomly distributed on the Special Reel. The player is awarded 3 Free Spins and the Diamond Tales™ Feature can then start.

Volatility Mode

The player has the option to change the volatility of their game by pressing the Volatility Mode button.

There are the following Volatility options:

Chapter 1- Low

Chapter 2: Low-Medium

Chapter 3: Medium

Chapter 4: Medium-High

Chapter 5: High

Changing the Volatility Mode affects the hit rate of the Diamond Tales Feature and the number of possible Golden Hearts that can be in the Diamond Tales Feature.

Players can only choose a volatility when they have unlocked it in by getting that volatility’s Chapter in game.