IGT introduced land-based casino customers to Davinci
Diamonds in 2007. The game used a then innovative style,
tumbling reels, that has been widely adopted by many slot game
designers today. By 2012 Davinci Diamonds was IGT’s most popular
slot game and their online casino subsidiary brought the game to
online slots player.
Da Vinci Diamonds Slot. Da Vinci Diamonds Slots project is one of the most productive of IGT slots. The company made its name due to development of games with exciting themes and unique features. But the popularity of this slot went beyond all expectations to due one-of-a-kind style that leaves no one indifferent. The original Da Vinci Diamonds slot is a mainstay of casinos around the world and will rank as one of IGT’s greatest success stories. Da Vinci Diamonds Dual Play takes the original theme and uses the same symbols but makes it into one of the largest slots ever created.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) is recognized around the world
as one of the leading thinkers of his time. He is remembered for
his inventions more than for his artwork, both of which had
profound influence upon other Renaissance leaders and the
inventors and artists of the following (Barroque) period, which
lasted from about 1600 to 1800.
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Da Vinci’s connection to diamonds is buried in his notes,
although the famous Da Vinci diamond cut was developed by
Israeli diamond cutter Shlomo Cohen in 2006. Cohen, who invented
the “Princess cut” in 1982, based his 57-facet Da Vinci cut on
the Golden Ratio and Da Vinci’s drawings of polyhedrons,
especially pentagrams.
Leonardo Da Vinci himself wanted to use diamonds to make a
better clock for his day. The more accurate pendulum-based
clocks were still 200 years in the future, but Da Vinci found a
way to use springs instead of weights run his clock, which was
to use diamond parts as well. The Da Vinci clock is considered
to be more accurate at keeping time than other Renaissance era
clocks.
The diamonds in the slot game come in several shapes and
colors, just like diamonds (and other gemstones) in real life.
Mixed in with the diamonds are three portrait paintings by
Leonardo: Cecilia Gallerani, a woman holding an ermine; the Mona
Lisa; and Portrait of a Musician (who may have been Da Vinci
himself or Franchino Gaffurio, one of Da Vinci’s friends and a
Renaissance music theorist).
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The DaVinci Diamonds slot and it's succesor, Davinci Diamonds Dualplaybreaks the mould and uses a novel cascading reels motion. IGT call this concept 'Tumbling Reels'and have actually started to introduce it into other slot games. How this works isthat when you get a winning spin, the winning symbols explode and the reels drop to potentially reveal furtherwins - a feature since adopted by Microgaming on theirTomb Raider 2 slot. There is a free spins bonus on theDaVinci Diamonds slot, triggered by getting the 3 bonus symbols on Reels 1, 2 and 3 on a payline but you onlyget 6 free spins (or 'tumbles' would be more accurate I guess!). And like many IGT slots, Da Vinci Diamondsis a fairly high variance (high risk) so expect some mean streaks! That said, if you can budget properlyand ride out the lean periods, the online version of the Davinci Diamonds slot has an expected return of94.93% at the casinos listed in the grid above.
IGT's 'Davinci Diamonds Dual Play' slot, which arrived online at the end of September 2011, is an interesting takeon this original version having two seperate Davinci screens combining to provide extra paylinesin the free spin bonus.
If you like the 'tumbling reels' type of slot game then there are two more slots that I would draw yourattention two. The first one, which unfortunately I don't have here at Casinos Vegas, iscalled 'Dungeons & Dragons Crystal Caverns' which, like Davinci Diamonds, is an IGT slot with a similar themeto Dungeons & Dragons Fortress of Fortune. The second slotisn't actually a tumbling reels slot in regular play, but it does have a free spins bonus which uses thesame concept. This is the excellent Thunderstruck II slot which youcan play here at OCV. Those are the only online slots at OCV with the tumbling reels concept though.