Aztec Gems Deluxe

Pragmatic Play strips the fourth reel out of the original Aztec Gems for this deluxe follow-up, leaving Aztec Gems Deluxe running on a compact 3x3 grid across 9 fixed paylines. Only three-of-a-kind combinations pay, built from five gemstone symbols ranging from a yellow triangle worth 0.89x the stake up to a red diamond worth 9.78x for a line of three. A wild substitutes for any of those gems except the dedicated Money Symbol and carries its own payout of 27.78x when three land together.

The blue Money Symbol is where the feature side of the game lives. Landing it can hand out an instant cash prize or one of the Mini or Minor jackpots outright, and landing four or more triggers a Money Respin round. Regular pay symbols clear from the board, any Money Symbols already showing lock in place, and the reels run three further spins during which only Money Symbols can land. Each new one locks and resets the spin count back to three; once the spins run out, every locked prize is added up and paid. Filling the entire grid with Money Symbols instead pays everything collected and hands out one random bonus on top - either a flat multiplier of 2x, 5x, 8x or 10x applied to the whole respin total, or a spin on the Wheel of Fortune.

The wheel carries multiplier segments between 18x and 388x the total bet, and can also hand out one of four fixed jackpots - 100x for the Mini, 250x for the Minor, 500x for the Major, and 1,000x the stake for the Grand.

Pragmatic Play rates the volatility medium/high on its own scale. The default RTP is 96.5%, though 95.5% and 94.5% configurations also circulate, and the hit frequency works out to roughly one win in every 8.26 spins. Stakes range from 0.09 to 90 per spin, and the maximum win reaches 22,519 times the stake through the Wheel of Fortune and stacked Money Respin prizes.