McLuck, Pulsz, and the Internet’s most popular sweepstakes casinos have made room for the latest development in slot technology – introducing Tiger Gems, the brand-new machine from 3 Oaks Gaming that’s making waves in the slots influencer community.
Our team heard news of its release and decided to give this game a whirl for ourselves.
Tiger Gems is available to play in Gold Coin (GC) Mode or Sweeps Coin (SC) Mode. If you don’t feel like purchasing anything, you’ll be happy to know that GC are 100% free.
If you toggle “Sweeps Mode,” you’ll have a unique opportunity to win gift cards to major retailers. Whether you’re using GC or SC to play, you’re guaranteed the same exciting experience. There’s also a sweet progressive jackpot up for grabs in GC or SC Mode.
For transparency’s sake, we chose to document our experience with Tiger Gems at McLuck.
How Does The Tiger Gems Slot Work?
3 Oaks Gaming isn’t new on the scene – checking their website, our team saw that they’ve been hard at work producing the latest and greatest online slots to hit the market. To be exact, they’ve designed and released 93 high-tech games. Still, Tiger Gems might be their true magnum opus.
This developer captures the perfect balance of engaging sound effects, immersive graphics, and realistic spin mechanics to deliver the ultimate experience time and time again. After playing this slot game on repeat for a while, our team began to feel like we were standing inside the casino.
Basic Layout & Volatility
Upon launching the game, we were greeted with a 4-row, 5-column grid. At first glance, some of the more notable symbols here include the Taj Mahal, an enlightened monk, and his lady friend.
That’s not to mention the snake-charmer-esque soundtrack that made this slot feel all the more realistic. The background gives way to a majestic palace, and we noticed a chest filled with gold and riches on the right side of the screen.
If you win the progressive jackpot at McLuck, you’ll get 284,620 SC or 4.6 billion GC depending on the “mode” you’re playing in. Just be sure to click the “opt in” button near the jackpot amount. This medium-volatility slot features a base game RTP of 95.57% excluding any bonus features.
Because Tiger Gems is neutral on the volatility scale, it pays pretty evenly across the board.
Slot Features & Bonuses
When you see two emeralds appear on the screen or land five matching symbols in a single row or column, you win. There’s also a convenient “turbo spin” feature if you don’t feel like exercising your index finger. Just press and hold the circular spin button to enjoy rapid-fire spins and wins.
As you might expect from the name, the tiger is the most important (and profitable) wild symbol. When you match four tigers in a column, you hit more paylines and boost your winning prizes.
To be clear, you can win up to 10x your stake per line and 33,000x your stake in the base game.
Multipliers begin from 0.2x and go up to 5x if you’re not already in the bonus round. The palace is the scatter symbol, so you’ll need to match three of those to get free games and unlock huge multipliers. Although we did it the old-fashioned way, you can buy your way into a bonus round.
Collecting five emeralds is the best possible outcome here, as it unlocks a potential 1,000x win multiplier.
Rijan Archer Music Group Took A Shot At The 100k GC Grand
We haven’t seen many popular slot influencers give Tiger Gems a try, but we were able to find a willing participant on YouTube. It’s rather unclear which sweepstakes casino he’s playing at, but he tried his luck for ten minutes and documented the final outcome.
The first few minutes of this video aren’t spelling out a future victory, but he stays the course to unlock a well-deserved bonus round six minutes deep. After collecting three scatter symbols, he gets eight free spins and utilizes the autoplay feature to win 2,500 GC.
Not long afterwards, Rijan collects five emeralds to unlock the bonus game our team wished for. He’s brought to a screen with a red velvet background at the 7:37 mark of this video, and he has to collect twenty emeralds in order to bring home the Grand Jackpot.
He doesn’t get quite as lucky as he hoped for, but he manages to score thirteen emeralds for an impressive 4,800 GC win. Finally, he brings it home with an even luckier spin: landing nine tiger symbols on top of a “Mystery” emerald results in a total win of 8,240 GC. Not bad for a first run!