Shimmering Woods
Shimmering Woods
Shimmering Woods slot from Play’n GO takes you on a trip to an enchanted forest on a hunt for diamonds. These excellent gems not only shimmer, but are able to split themselves into halves to bring more wins as it allows the game to go from a standard 243 pay-lines to a huge maximum of 7,776 ways to win. That’s up there with some of our our higher volatility games like the El Paso Gunfire slot with its X-Nudges.
Pop on your wellies and let’s explore. As Marilyn Monroe once sang’ Diamonds are a chimp’s best friend!”
The Graphics
A rather cheerful coppice makes up the background to this slot while there is an abundance of fairy dust, mushrooms and crystals, too. The soundtrack is an ethereal number that fits in with the whole tree elf theme and the animated leaves falling and fluttering from the trees is a nice touch. It’s a far cry from the House of Doom 2 slot, another Play’n GO title, that is for sure!
The design here is spot on as it to be expected from Play’n GO.
Shimmering Woods Slot Game Play
Shimmering Woods slot has 5 reels, 3 rows and up to 7,776 ways to win. Not as many as their Perfect Gems slot machine but half decent all the same, wouldn’t you say?
The minimum bet is 0.20 fairy coins while the maximum is 100.00 per spin.
Now to the Pay-table! Your reel icons are made up of Royals are among these symbols, and others include different coloured gemstones (red, blue, and diamonds). Wilds and scatters also make part of the line-up.
The game is a medium-high variance slot. So, if you like to chase the absolutely enormous wins, you won’t be disappointed. As the max possible pay-out is 25000x your bet.
Cascading Reels
Expect to see avalanche reels in Shimmering Woods slot. Every time you form a win, the winning symbols will be removed and are replaced by a brand new batch that contribute to more wins. These cascades continue until no more wins can be made.
Win Multiplier
The cascades will also boost the UNLIMITED win multiplier on each successive winning combo! It starts at x1 and increases by x1 per successive cascade.
The Bonuses
Split Symbols
At the start of each game, a symbol will be picked as the Splitting Symbol. Throughout that round, whenever that symbol hits the reels, it will spilt into creating more win ways for you – going up to 7,776.
Shimmer Feature and Free Spins
Land any of the scatter symbols on the reels, and they will split into 2 on the grid – producing extra icons. This will give you the chance to trigger off the Free Spins. Plus, the more you have, the better the modifiers that you’ll receive in that bonus:
3x Scatters = 10x free spins and +1 Split symbol
4x Scatters= 13 free spins and +2 Split symbols
5x Scatters = 16 free spins and +3 Split symbols
6x Scatters = 19 free spins and +4 Split symbols
The Shimmer Feature is also active during the round which can massively increase your ways to win. And best of all the bonus can be re-triggered with no upper limit. Hurrah!
Conclusion
Shimmering Woods slot is a nice little game and surprisingly uncomplicated for Play’n GO. With a wide bet range and that splitting feature, it’s a release for all players – not forgetting about that rather hefty max win.