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The snow globe exploded.
The gingerbread man beside it disappeared.
Three pieces of candy disappeared.
A blue sweet disappeared.
The floor got better.
Christmas had reached the point where detonating seasonal decorations improved the property underneath the confectionery.
One cell that had already been x8 jumped again.
x16.
Another nearby cell improved with it.
The Snowglobe Bomb itself vanished and left a Wild sitting where the glass ornament had detonated.
There were three Free Spins left.
I was no longer watching the gingerbread men.
I was watching one square of floor.
Candy Treasures Xmas had somehow made flooring the most interesting thing in a room containing exploding cupcakes.
That particular cell had started innocently enough.
No multiplier.
Just one of forty-nine positions on the 7×7 grid.
Then a cluster exploded on it.
Highlighted.
Another winning cluster used the same position later.
x2.
Then x4.
Then x8.
Now the snow globe had interfered.
x16.
And because the multipliers stayed in place throughout the Free Spins, that square was not going anywhere.
Fresh candy would keep falling onto it.
All I needed was five matching pieces to cooperate while one of them stood there.
They immediately refused.
That story had started around fifteen minutes earlier with €100.00 and €0.60 spins.
The screen looked like somebody had poured the contents of a Christmas sweet shop into a seven-by-seven tray and then removed all adult supervision.
Peppermint swirls.
Green spirals.
Blue sweets.
Yellow hearts.
Cupcakes.
Hot chocolate.
Gingerbread men with the expression of people who had not yet been informed that winning symbols explode.
Five matching symbols touching horizontally or vertically were enough to form a cluster.
That part became clear quickly.
A little group of green sweets connected.
They paid.
Then exploded.
New symbols fell from above.
Another cluster formed.
More explosions.
The entire round kept going until the candy finally reached a state of peaceful incompatibility.
The first few wins were small.
€1.20.
€1.80.
One cascade reached €3.60 after two separate clusters.
The interesting part was happening underneath them.
Every time winning candy exploded, the cells beneath it lit.
Hit the same cell again and a multiplier appeared.
Hit it again and the multiplier doubled.
The candy was temporary.
The floor was learning.
During the base game, all that progress lasted only for the current cascade sequence.
Once the round ended, the highlighted cells cleared.
That felt wasteful.
One particularly good base spin developed an x4 cell near the centre.
A red swirl landed on it.
Four matching red swirls sat around the board.
Four.
Minimum cluster was five.
The x4 survived for another drop because a different win cascaded elsewhere.
Fresh symbols came down.
Still only four red swirls connected.
The round ended.
The whole floor cleared.
The x4 disappeared.
A gingerbread man landed there on the next spin with no knowledge of what had been underneath him.
That was unacceptable enough to become interesting.
Then the first Snowglobe Bomb appeared.
A tiny Christmas tree inside glass.
It landed among the sweets.
The snow globe exploded.
Cells around it upgraded in one of its patterns.
The bomb turned into a Wild.
A cluster used the Wild.
The cluster exploded.
A larger cluster formed after the drop.
Seven matching sweets.
They paid, disappeared, and a new Wild appeared inside the area where the cluster had just been destroyed.
There was a lot happening for something decorated like a Christmas card.
The round eventually finished at €7.20.
All the activated cells reset.
Again.
The floor forgot everything.
My balance was €89.80 when I stopped pressing ordinary spins.
The Bonus Buy cost 80x the stake.
At €0.60, that meant €48.00.
I pressed it.
The balance dropped to €41.80.
That was a substantial amount of Christmas shopping to spend on the possibility that the floor might finally remember being electrocuted by candy.
The bought trigger spin produced the required Scatters.
Twelve Free Spins.
Good.
The important difference arrived immediately.
Cell progress would now stay for the whole feature.
The floor had memory.
First Free Spin.
Green cluster.
Five.
Exploded.
Several cells highlighted.
A second cluster formed after the drop.
Blue sweets.
Six.
More cells activated.
€2.40 total.
Second spin.
Nothing useful near the existing highlighted patch.
A yellow-heart cluster formed on the opposite side.
Exploded.
More floor lit up.
Third spin.
Seven red swirls connected.
That mattered twice.
The cluster paid.
The seven symbols disappeared.
A Wild appeared inside the destroyed area.
Fresh candy fell around it.
The Wild helped a new cluster form.
One of the cells underneath had now been hit enough times to show x2.
There.
A permanent number.
Ten Free Spins remained.
I chose that cell.
Not officially.
The game did not ask.
But from that point onward, that square was mine.
Fourth spin.
Candy landed on it.
Wrong colour.
A different cluster exploded nearby.
The x2 remained untouched.
Fifth spin.
Blue sweets formed a large cluster across the centre.
One of them sat on my x2.
Explosion.
The cell doubled.
x4.
The cluster had eight symbols, so another Wild appeared inside the blast site.
Now there were two things I cared about in roughly the same neighbourhood.
A multiplier cell.
A Wild generated by destroyed candy.
Christmas was assembling itself out of debris.
The cascade continued.
Hot chocolate cups dropped around the Wild.
Five connected.
They exploded.
One of the cups had been sitting on the x4 cell.
x8.
The floor was improving much faster than the balance.
The spin paid €6.60 altogether.
I still needed the bought feature to return €48 before any of this qualified as financially useful.
Sixth Free Spin.
Snowglobe Bomb.
It landed close to the x8.
That was the opening incident.
The globe detonated.
Festive shrapnel without shrapnel.
A pattern of cells upgraded.
My x8 became x16.
Another multiplier nearby improved too.
The bomb became a Wild.
Candy dropped around the area.
Four blue sweets connected near the x16.
Four.
Not five.
No cluster.
There was a Wild one position away.
Still wrong shape.
The x16 sat underneath a blue sweet with three friends and an enormous sense of wasted potential.
Three Free Spins? No, six remained after this? Let’s keep exact: Started 12. After spin six, 6 remained.
Six left.
Seventh spin.
Green sweets.
Five clustered well away from the x16.
They exploded.
A cascade brought red swirls near my multiplier patch.
Four again.
One of them sat directly on x16.
No fifth.
The floor was now more valuable than the candy standing on it, and the candy appeared determined never to form a group large enough to claim it.
Eighth spin.
Cupcakes.
A cluster of seven formed through the lower middle.
They exploded.
A Wild appeared.
One activated cell underneath doubled to x4.
The feature now had several multiplier islands.
I ignored most of them.
The x16 was still the old neighbourhood.
Ninth spin.
Snowglobe Bomb again.
Different area.
It exploded in a cross-like pattern and pushed several cells upward.
One existing x4 became x8.
Another highlighted position gained more value.
The bomb turned Wild.
A blue cluster formed around it after the cascade.
Paid €5.40.
Useful.
Still not enough.
The feature total had crawled into the low €20s.
Three spins remained.
Tenth Free Spin.
This was when the x16 finally resumed its education.
A yellow-heart cluster formed over it.
Six symbols.
One sat exactly on the multiplier.
They exploded.
x32.
Fresh sweets fell.
Another cluster formed partly across the same patch.
Peppermint.
Five.
One peppermint occupied the x32 cell.
Explosion.
x64.
There it was.
One square of Christmas floor now carried sixty-four times.
The cascade stopped.
No more win.
Two spins left.
I had an x64 cell.
Several x8 and x4 cells nearby.
A few Wilds had been born from larger clusters.
The board had spent ten Free Spins becoming progressively more dangerous.
All it needed now was candy.
Eleventh spin.
Red swirl on x64.
Red swirl beside it.
Another above.
One to the left.
Four.
Again.
Four red sweets had assembled around a sixty-four-times floor tile and collectively decided they were not a cluster.
Elsewhere, five green sweets connected for €1.80.
They exploded.
New candy dropped.
A fifth red swirl appeared.
Wrong position.
Not connected.
The x64 survived.
One spin left.
By then I had stopped caring what the feature total was.
The number on the floor had become the whole Christmas.
Final Free Spin.
Initial drop.
Blue sweet on x64.
Two matching blue sweets adjacent.
Only three.
A cupcake cluster formed on the left.
Five.
Exploded.
Fresh symbols fell.
The blue group gained one.
Four.
Still not enough.
Another cluster formed lower down.
Yellow hearts.
Seven.
They exploded and left a Wild behind.
Cascade.
New symbols fell.
A blue sweet landed beside the four.
Five.
Connected.
Finally.
The cluster crossed the x64 cell.
It also touched an x8 cell and a x4 cell in the same winning group.
The multipliers joined the same cluster.
The win jumped.
The five blue sweets disappeared.
The x64 cell doubled again after the explosion.
x128.
The x8 became x16.
Fresh candy dropped.
I now had an x128 square with no Free Spins left after the cascade finished.
Of course.
But the cascade had not finished.
The new symbols formed six green sweets around the Wild left by the yellow cluster.
One green sweet sat on the x128.
They connected.
The number applied.
The win climbed again.
They exploded.
Another drop.
No cluster.
Finished.
The last Free Spin paid €29.40.
The entire feature settled at €63.60.
My balance reached €105.40.
The screen held for a moment with all those multiplier cells still visible.
x128.
x16.
Several smaller ones.
Twelve Free Spins of candy destruction had turned the floor into the most expensive part of Christmas.
Then the feature ended.
Everything cleared.
No x128.
No highlighted cells.
No persistent blast history.
The next base spin would begin with forty-nine ordinary squares again.
I did not press it.
The gingerbread men could have the clean floor.
I had spent €48.00 to make one square worth x128, watched two separate groups of candy fail to organize themselves on top of it, and finally got paid when the sweets discovered horizontal adjacency on the last spin.
€105.40 was enough.
The last thing left on screen before the reset was not the cupcake.
Not the gingerbread man.
Not even the Snowglobe Bomb.
It was the x128 cell.
Christmas had blown up so much candy that the floor won.
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