Tiger Gems

Tiger Gems Overview

Tiger Gems is a Hold and Win slot from 3 Oaks Gaming (formerly Booongo), released on 22 May 2023. It runs on 5 reels and 4 rows with 25 fixed paylines, an RTP of 95.57%, medium volatility and a maximum win of 1,560x the stake.

The setting is an Indian palace at night, with the Taj Mahal glowing behind the reels and palm leaves in the corners. The four jackpot plaques are stacked on the left of the grid, and in the bonus they move to a row above the board, where the Grand, Major, Minor and Mini values stay visible throughout the respins. A “25 Lines” label in the top corner confirms the fixed line count.

Symbols and Wilds

The low symbols are the card ranks A, K, Q and J. The premium symbols are a peacock feather, a pink lotus, a princess and a turbaned king. The white tiger is the Wild: it substitutes for the regular symbols and can land stacked – one of our screenshots shows four tigers filling the whole second reel.

Two base-game wins from our session at a bet of 20:

• 36.00 (1.8x) – kings on the first reels, completed by two tiger wilds.
• 16.00 (0.8x) – a line of Ks joined by stacked tigers.

The Gem Symbols

The green gems are the cash symbols: each shows a value, such as 40.00 or 80.00 at a bet of 20. The Mystery gems hide their value until they reveal. According to the game’s published description, cash values range from 1x to 15x the bet, and a Mystery gem can turn into a high cash value or one of the jackpots.

Four Fixed Jackpots

The jackpots are fixed multiples of the bet, and our screenshots at two stakes confirm it:

• Grand – 20,000 at a bet of 20, and 4,000 at a bet of 4 (1,000x).
• Major – 2,000 and 400 (100x).
• Minor – 1,000 and 200 (50x).
• Mini – 400 and 80 (20x).

Triggering Hold and Win

Six or more gems in one spin start the bonus. Our trigger spin showed exactly six: four Mystery gems plus the 40.00 and 80.00 cash gems. The reels then change to a dark red board where only gems can land, and the counter on the right starts at 3 respins. Every new gem sticks and resets the counter to 3.

The Fortune Slide

A column on the left of the bonus board, the Fortune Slide, shows a queue of upcoming prizes – cash values, a Mini and a Minor in our screenshots. When a Mystery gem lands, it takes the value at the front of the queue. That makes the bonus easier to follow than a plain random reveal: you can see which prize the next Mystery will turn into.

Our Bonus Round

Our round started with the six trigger gems on the board and the slide offering 200.00 next. After the respins ran out, the collected gems were added up to 780.00 – 39x the bet of 20.

The Boost Symbol

According to the published description, a Boost symbol can land on reel 3. When it appears together with gems, it collects all their values at once and pays them in addition to the line wins, both in the base game and during the respins.

Mystery Gems in the Base Game

The Mystery gems also appear during normal spins. On our trigger spin, four of them landed on reels 3, 4 and 5 next to the 40.00 and 80.00 cash gems – the green rings stand out clearly against the palace backdrop. In the base game they count towards the six symbols needed for the bonus; their real value is only revealed on the bonus board.

Jackpots and the Maximum Win

The Grand jackpot alone is worth 1,000x, which is almost two thirds of the published 1,560x maximum. In practice the top result therefore needs the Grand plus a board full of high cash values. The smaller jackpots are more realistic targets: a Mini adds 20x and a Minor 50x to the board total, and both appeared in the Fortune Slide queue during our round.

Who It Is For

Tiger Gems suits players who like the Hold and Win format with a bit more visibility: the Fortune Slide shows what is coming, and the fixed jackpots are easy to read at any stake. The 1,560x ceiling is modest, which matches the medium volatility.

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