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I wanted the blue pot.
That was the plan.
Buffalo Blitz III had three enormous barrels sitting above the reels.
Green.
Blue.
Red.
All three were full of gold.
All three had buffalo heads stamped on the front.
Buffalo did not traditionally require colour-coded barrels, but the mountains behind them were pink, orange and purple, so ordinary wildlife expectations had already been abandoned.
Green said BUFFALO GOLD.
Blue said BIG GRID.
Red said BUFFALO CASH.
I picked blue.
Not physically. There was nothing to pick.
I simply decided that if one of those barrels was going to do something unreasonable, I wanted the one promising to make the reels bigger.
Six reels already seemed sufficient for most species.
I wanted to see the buffalo disagree.
I started with €220 and €1.20 per spin.
Extra Bet remained off.
A question-mark Lucky Box sat to the left offering to sell me whatever it had hidden inside.
It remained a question.
The first few spins were mostly ordinary mountain activity.
Eagle.
Cougar.
Wolf.
Buffalo.
A few As and Ks that had apparently wandered into the valley because every animal reserve eventually developed an alphabet problem.
€3.60 came from one combination.
Then €6.
Then nothing useful for several spins.
A blue Coin landed.
The blue barrel above the reels stirred.
Good.
I had chosen correctly.
Two spins later, a green Coin appeared.
The green barrel reacted.
That was irrelevant.
I had no arrangement with green.
Then red arrived.
Three pots now had opinions.
The buffalo symbols themselves kept appearing in small groups without producing anything especially dramatic. One spin put four huge golden buffalo heads across the middle of the reels and paid €8.40.
Four buffalo.
€8.40.
At roughly €2.10 per head, the mountain had found an unexpectedly accessible source of large mammals.
I continued.
Blue Coin.
Nothing.
Red Coin.
Small win.
Green and blue together.
Both barrels filled a little more.
The amounts of gold sitting above the reels grew visually, although none of the buffalo seemed interested in removing any.
They simply kept adding to three different piles.
By €180, I had stopped expecting the blue pot to operate independently.
Green was getting involved too often.
Red had appeared enough times to qualify as a recurring problem.
Still, blue remained the objective.
A bigger grid.
More reel positions.
More opportunities for a buffalo to stand somewhere it had not been invited.
At €168.40, I pressed spin again.
€167.20 remained.
The first reel stopped.
Green Coin.
Third reel.
Blue Coin.
Sixth reel.
Red Coin.
All three sat on the screen together.
The three barrels above the reels lit up at once.
This was not what I had ordered.
This was substantially better.
The mountains flashed.
The reels changed shape.
The ordinary rectangle expanded into a 4-5-6-6-5-4 arrangement, rising through the middle like somebody had built a pyramid exclusively from places where buffalo might appear.
Eight Free Games started.
Green was active.
Blue was active.
Red was active.
My attempt to choose one barrel had somehow resulted in the entire buffalo storage system opening simultaneously.
First spin.
Two Buffalo Gold symbols landed.
A small ways win added €12.
Second spin.
Three more Gold buffalo arrived.
Five collected.
The green side erupted.
One level transformed into Buffalo for the remaining spins and two extra Free Games appeared.
I had played two spins.
The game counter had already begun arguing with the original number eight.
Third spin.
A diamond Wild landed with x2.
Another appeared farther across with x3.
Buffalo connected through both.
The screen showed x5 over the win.
€46.80.
The blue barrel had expanded the reels specifically so two diamonds could perform addition in the middle of a buffalo migration.
Fourth spin.
Two FREE GAMES Scatters landed.
Four more spins were added.
The feature had now discovered another method of refusing to finish.
The fifth produced Buffalo Cash symbols.
One showed 10x.
Another showed 5x.
Both joined a winning buffalo combination.
Their cash values landed on top of the ways win.
€29.20 in total.
Red had finally demonstrated its contribution.
Green made buffalo.
Blue made more countryside.
Red attached prices to the buffalo.
This was apparently a complete ecosystem.
One spin gave me nothing.
The widened reels filled with eagles, wolves, letters and a single cougar observing events from the far right.
Then more Buffalo Gold arrived.
Five eventually completed another level.
Another symbol tier became Buffalo for the remaining games.
Two more Free Games were added.
The screen was now converting its own inhabitants into buffalo while continually extending the amount of time available for further conversion.
The original wildlife was losing this argument badly.
A few smaller wins followed.
€7.20.
€15.60.
Nothing.
Then the feature produced the spin it had apparently been widening the mountains for.
Buffalo across the left.
Buffalo through the middle.
A Wild with x5.
Another buffalo on the far side.
The expanded reels filled with golden heads.
Ways counted.
The multiplier hit.
€96.
The win occupied most of the screen while three barrels of gold sat above it looking as though this had been the obvious outcome all along.
There were still spins left.
A later Buffalo Cash combination added €37.20.
Another paid €11.40.
The final few spins gave me €4.20 and then stopped extending themselves.
Sixteen Free Games had eventually emerged from the original eight.
The total feature win settled at €310.40.
My balance climbed from €167.20 to €477.60.
Then the ordinary six-reel valley returned.
The three pots reset.
Green became modest again.
Red became modest again.
Blue became modest again.
I looked at the blue barrel.
At the beginning, that had been the only one I wanted.
Now it sat between green and red with a small pile of gold and an innocent buffalo stamped on the front.
It no longer looked like my favourite.
It looked like the one that had brought two friends.
The bonus round in Age of the Gods Cash Collect should come with a warning label.