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The wolf blew down three beach houses while wearing mirrored sunglasses.
Behind the first one was €3.60.
The second contained €6.
The third had a coin marked +7.
Across the reels, the pigs continued wearing sunglasses, carrying surfboards and holding cold drinks as though losing three buildings to a large grey predator was covered by the resort package.
The wolf inhaled.
Everything disappeared into him.
Seven free spins appeared.
That was roughly five minutes into Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach.
The beach had looked harmless before that.
Blue water.
Palm trees.
Striped umbrellas.
Little wooden huts.
A barbecue sitting off to one side with the confidence of an object that had not noticed every major character nearby was either a pig or a wolf.
The pigs had adapted well.
One carried a surfboard.
Another wore enormous red sunglasses and held a drink.
The wolf had gone with a flower necklace and blue shades.
Apparently everybody had agreed to suspend the original fairy tale for summer.
I set the stake to €1.20.
The agreement lasted about six spins.
A Wolf Cash Collect landed on reel five.
Three House symbols were scattered across the middle.
The wolf huffed.
The houses shook.
He puffed.
A Straw House disappeared first.
Cash Coin.
€1.80.
Then a Wood House.
€3.60.
The Brick House survived that particular visit.
The wolf collected both coins and vanished.
A few spins later he arrived on reel one with no useful Houses and one Cash Coin worth €1.20.
He collected it anyway.
The sunglasses remained on.
There was no minimum catch for dignity.
Then came the spin that produced the +7 coin.
Wolf on reel five.
Straw House.
Wood House.
Another House.
The beach briefly became a demolition site with better weather.
€3.60.
€6.
+7.
The Wolf gathered the cash, and the seven extra games opened.
The first Free Game brought no Wolf.
A few pig symbols lined up and paid €3.
Second spin.
Wolf.
Reel three.
That was new.
He landed in the middle of the beach and a little counter appeared on him.
Three spins.
He stayed.
The next Free Game dropped two Cash Coins.
€1.80.
€6.
The wolf collected both.
They disappeared.
He remained.
Counter down.
The following spin brought another Wolf on reel five.
Now there were two of them.
One in the middle.
One on the edge.
Both wearing the same expression of complete confidence.
A €3.60 Cash Coin landed.
The first wolf collected it.
€3.60.
Then the second wolf collected it as well.
Another €3.60.
One coin.
Two wolves.
Bacon Beach had somehow created duplication through appetite.
The next spin added a €6 Coin and a €1.80 Coin.
Again, both wolves took their turn.
The same €7.80 crossed the beach twice.
The pigs remained in holiday clothes.
At this point, leaving cash unattended near the cabanas had become an extraordinary act of optimism.
Then a Link Coin landed.
Both wolves were still locked.
The reels froze.
The beach changed.
Collect & Link took over before the Free Games had finished.
The two wolves remained in place.
So did the Link Coin, which turned into a cash value.
Three respins appeared.
The wolves’ little counters stopped moving.
They had apparently paused their beach holiday inside another beach holiday.
First respin.
A new Cash Coin landed.
€3.60.
Locked.
The counter returned to three.
Second respin.
Nothing.
Third.
Another Coin.
€6.
Three respins again.
The reels were gradually filling with coins while both wolves sat among them, frozen in place and looking as though someone had taken a photograph during an extremely specific robbery.
Another Coin arrived.
€2.40.
Reset.
Then nothing.
Nothing.
One respin.
A €1.20 Coin landed at the last possible moment.
Back to three.
The feature had become very good at surviving and less committed to becoming rich.
Three more empty respins finally ended it.
All the visible coin values were collected.
A decent chunk.
Not the kind of amount that justified the amount of tropical infrastructure the wolf had already destroyed.
Then the Free Games came back.
Both wolves returned with them.
Their counters resumed exactly where they had stopped.
The first returning spin dropped one Cash Coin worth €6.
Both wolves collected it.
€12 in total.
Then the middle Wolf expired and disappeared.
The one on reel five still had another spin.
A Free Games Coin landed.
+3.
The remaining Wolf collected it.
Three more spins joined the counter.
The feature had now survived a feature inside itself and then extended itself afterward.
The pigs were still on the beach.
Nobody had evacuated.
One of them was still holding a drink.
I respected the commitment to leisure.
The extra spins did not become enormous.
A Wolf landed on reel two and locked.
One €3.60 Coin appeared while it was active.
Collected.
Then a Prize Coin came down.
The Wolf grabbed that too.
MINI.
€24.
That helped.
A later spin brought two Cash Coins together, €6 and €12, with the Wolf still present.
Both disappeared into him.
€18.
Then the counter ran out.
The final Free Game produced a Wolf on reel four and absolutely no Coins.
He locked himself onto the reel for three spins.
There were no three spins left.
The feature ended with him standing there in sunglasses, newly committed to a job that had just ceased to exist.
Back on the ordinary beach, the session was still down.
Not catastrophically.
Enough that another useful Wolf visit could make the difference.
That was a dangerous amount of possibility.
I stayed at €1.20.
A Wood House landed.
No Wolf.
Next spin, two Houses.
Still no Wolf.
Then the fifth reel slowed with the Wolf visible near the top.
He passed.
The reel stopped underneath him.
Instead of the usual symbol, a piece of ham appeared.
The reels shook.
The ham bounced.
The Wolf was pulled back into view.
He landed on reel five.
A Brick House was sitting in the middle.
The wolf inhaled.
The Brick House shook.
For something built specifically because straw and wood had failed historically, it did not enjoy the next few seconds.
The wall came down.
Prize Coin.
Another House opened beside it.
Cash Coin.
€6.
The Wolf collected both.
The Prize Coin became MINI.
€24.
Then the €6 followed.
€30 from a piece of ham dragging a wolf backward onto a beach.
The damage shrank considerably.
The next few spins had enough little line wins to keep the beach moving.
€4.20.
€3.
A Wolf collected €1.80 from one lonely Coin.
Then came three Houses without a Wolf.
Two more Houses.
Nothing.
The fifth reel began teasing him again.
Grey ears passed through.
Sunglasses.
Gone.
No Nudge.
A few spins later the same thing happened on reel one.
Wolf visible.
Missed.
No ham.
The beach had returned to its less charitable version.
One final Brick House landed beside two Wood Houses.
The arrangement looked perfect for another demolition.
Reel five slowed.
The Wolf appeared.
Passed.
Ham.
The reels shook.
For a second the beach seemed ready to repeat the trick.
The ham bounced once.
The Houses waited.
Nothing moved back into view.
No Wolf.
Three intact pig houses remained across the reels.
The piece of ham stayed on reel five.
For once, the wolf stayed away from the bacon.
Queenie responds to confidence with cold silence.