Beetle Jewels Introduction
With its fairy tale forest setting and sparkling fireflies, the whole game looks like it has been sprinkled with a handful of fairy dust. Even the lower paying card symbols are designed in a lovely font. The beetle symbols are beautifully rendered, with gorgeous animations when you hit a win.
The most rewarding of them all is the red beetle, which pays 5,000 coins when you land five across a payline. With 10 paylines and staking options between 0.01 and 2.0 coins, there is something here for every style of gameplay, whether you like your pokies casual or with a big element of risk.
Beetle juice
In standard gameplay, there is one little critter buzzing around the reels that you will be looking to land. This is the purple beetle, which carries a 2,000-coin bonus for five on a payline and acts as both wild and scatter, making it the busiest bug in the game. When wild, the purple beetle will substitute for any other symbol to create winning combinations across the reels. When he goes into scatter mode, this pokie gets even more interesting.
Free bee
Land three, four or five purple beetle scatters across the reels and you will unlock a 10-free spin bonus game. Now watch the circle at the top of the reel very closely, as it is here that your random extended symbol will appear. This could be any of the nine play table symbols, from the low-paying card symbols to the shimmering beetles.
What makes this different from any other free spin bonus with wilds is the way the extended symbol behaves. This special symbol expands to award winnings on all paylines, even if the symbols are not adjacent, giving you the opportunity for some huge rewards - especially if you retrigger the free games bonus.
Buzzing around
This is the first venture into HTML5 gaming from this developer, which means not only will iSoftbet's Beetle Jewels play in a browser on your desktop but also it will look just as good when loaded on your mobile devices such as your smartphone and tablet, whether you run Android or iOS.
Beetle mania
Is Beetle Jewels worth playing? If you love a pokie that is easy on the eye and the ear, then the answer is an unqualified ‘yes’. The soundtrack of chirping crickets, buzzing bees and soft strings is completely relaxing, while the beautifully-detailed beetles and their animations are very well done.
The base gameplay does not offer anything new, but the free games bonus and the innovative extended symbol gives the opportunity to land some huge rewards. Add the fact that Beetle Jewels plays on mobile and tablet just as well as it plays on your desktop and this is definitely a pokie to add to your collection.
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