Diamond Duke Slot Overview
Diamond Duke from Quickspin is a 3x3 fruit slot with 5 paylines, built around a proper 1950s diner and jukebox look. I found it charming straight away, but it is not a cosy little low-risk spin. It has high volatility, a 96.23% RTP, and a max win of 8,000x.
What makes it stand out is the pair of wheels sitting above the reels. One can throw out multipliers, the other can lead into a pick bonus, so it feels more lively than a standard old-school 3-reeler. Fair enough, the base game is simple, but the extra features give it a bit more bite.
What symbols are there?
3 matching symbols on a payline is how wins land here, and the paytable is very much classic fruit machine stuff. The blue diamond is miles ahead as the top symbol, paying 160x for 3. After that you get red or orange 7s for 12x, bells for 6x, watermelons for 2x, then grapes and cherries at 1x.
Wheel Scatter symbols are the ones you really watch for, mate. Land 2 anywhere and you get a 4x scatter win plus 1 spin on the wheel. Hit 3 anywhere and that jumps to an 8x scatter win, then you get the bigger two-wheel setup that gives the slot its best shot at a huge payout.
Symbol Payouts
| 3 | x160 |
| 3 | x12 |
| 3 | x8 |
| 2 | x4 |
| 3 | x6 |
| 3 | x2 |
| 3 | x1 |
| 3 | x1 |
What are the bonus features?
2 Wheel Scatters anywhere trigger the main bonus action. You get a 4x scatter win, then one spin on the wheel above the reels. That wheel can award a 2x, 3x, 5x, 7x, or 10x multiplier, or it can send you into the Pick & Click Bonus. If it lands on a multiplier, it boosts your total win for that spin.
3 Wheel Scatters is where the proper top-end potential kicks in. You still get the wheel spin, but then you get another spin on a pure multiplier wheel with values from 2x to 10x. Those two multipliers can combine, and that is how the game reaches the 8,000x max win rather than the 800x limit in the regular game.
Pick & Click is simple, but decent fun for a relaxed session. It has 3 levels, and the coin values go up as you move higher. Level 1 pays from x2 to x7, Level 2 from x3 to x15, and Level 3 from x5 to x100. You keep picking until you hit a cross and collect, or land an upgrade arrow and move on.
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How to play
Betting runs from 0.05 to 100, so it suits both low-stake messing about and bigger punts. I like that it is easy to get into, because it is just 3 reels and 5 lines, but I would still go in knowing it can be a bit savage. High volatility on a tiny layout means dead spins can stack up fast.
Autoplay is there, with 10 to 1,000 spins, plus limits you can tweak. There is also a quickspin option if you want to speed things up. One small let-down, the lever on the side is only for show. Not a massive issue, but it would have been a nice touch in a slot built around old fruit machine nostalgia.
