Ruby Box Slot
Open up a box of gems with this sparkling slot machine from iSoftBet. Ruby Box has 5 reels and 25 paylines, upon which spinners have the chance to line up icons for a 1,000x line bet jackpot. The game might look a bit retro from its simple appearance, but this video slot has the potential for some exciting bonus gameplay including free spins and a unique wheel of fortune bonus side game.
A Gem of a Slot
Ruby Box takes some of the best elements from classic slot machines and puts them onto the 5-reel video slot stage. This means that players will come across some instantly recognisable game symbols as they spin the reels, such as watermelons and golden bells. It's as if they have been taken straight from an old-school one armed bandit!
Other icons on the reels include some simple playing card values. You know, the usual 10, J, Q, K and A which represent the highest values in a deck of cards. This is perhaps what gives the game its basic and generic feel and we do wonder if the game would have benefited from some more classic fruit machine icons or even extra gems in honour of the game's title.
There is, of course, one gem symbol on the reels – a luscious red ruby. This symbol lives up to its precious worth by acting as the game's bonus triggering icons, awarding free spins and a chance to win some instant bonus prizes.
Spin without Paying a Penny
As you spin the reels, you will notice that the red ruby logo appears quite frequently all over the game screen. This is just as well because players will need to find five or more of these icons scattered over the reels to be in with a chance to win some bonus bounty, as you can see here:
- 5x red ruby icon = 5 free spins and 1 bonus wheel spin.
- 6x red ruby icon = 6 free spins and 2 bonus wheel spin.
- 7x red ruby icon = 7 free spins and 3 bonus wheel spin.
- 8x red ruby icon = 8 free spins and 4 bonus wheel spin.
- 9x red ruby icon = 9 free spins and 6 bonus wheel spin.
With every free spin that a player is awarded with, they simply have a chance to line up some normal winning combinations on the reels without having to part with a single penny from their betting balance. The bonus wheel, on the other hand, is placed above the wheels and it will offer the chance to win instant prizes at random from 5 to 5,000 coins.
Prizes that Sparkle
Playing this slot machine is relatively straightforward. All that punters need to do before they go ahead to spin the reels is decide how much they want to place as a bet. This is determined by three factors – how many paylines are active, how many coins are in place and how big the value is of the coins in question. Spinners can choose to play with 1 to 25 paylines and 1 to 10 coins of the following values: 0.01, 0.02, 0.10, 0.25 and 0.50. Admittedly, this isn't going to attract the highest of rollers who are looking to place some seriously big bets.
Nevertheless, there is a chance for all spinners to multiply their line bets by 1,000x on any spin. This can be achieved by finding five “Ruby Box” logo symbols in a row on an active payline.
Double it with a Wild
This game features one more symbol, and it could help players in more ways that one. This is a 2x wild icon that will not only act as a link between other symbols to create winning combinations, but which will also double the win for extra gains. The 2x wild will not substitute for the “Ruby Box” bonus symbol.
Losing its Sparkle?
Ruby Box is a fairly generic and uninteresting game as far as the theme and design goes. However, this iSoftBet slot machine does have its merits in the gameplay department, thanks to a sparkling bonus symbol that awards free spins as well as a special bonus wheel feature.
