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Three golden eggs landed on a 7×7 garden.
The fourth was apparently still inside a chicken.
Forty-six other positions managed red chicks, green chicks, blue chicks, yellow chicks, roses, sunflowers and pink flowers.
No fourth egg.
One green bird stared straight ahead with the expression of somebody who knew exactly where it was and had chosen silence.
That was my second €0.20 spin.
I had started with €18.90.
The wooden BUY FREE SPINS sign wanted €20.
So that conversation had ended before it began.
Egg Rush would have to produce its own eggs.
The first spin had already established the other problem.
Five or more matching symbols needed to touch horizontally or vertically.
The garden contained birds everywhere.
They simply preferred personal space.
Four red chicks could occupy neighbouring parts of the grid and still leave one blue bird planted between them.
Yellow chicks appeared in little groups that stopped at four.
Green chicks seemed especially talented at standing diagonally from each other, which did absolutely nothing.
They had wings.
They had forty-nine positions.
They could not cross one square to meet a cousin.
The three eggs on spin two vanished without opening anything.
I pressed again.
A block of pink flowers finally connected.
They disappeared.
Symbols above dropped.
Roses filled some of the gaps.
Enough roses met.
Another win.
The winning positions were leaving marks underneath themselves.
That was more interesting than the payout.
A marked square could become important if another winning symbol disappeared from exactly the same place.
The problem was that Egg Rush gave every square the lifespan of a sandcastle unless the tumbles kept going.
Once the chain ended, the base-game marks disappeared.
So a patch of grass could begin a glorious career and retire before the next €0.20 even left.
A few spins later, the garden demonstrated it properly.
Blue chicks connected near the lower-right side.
Gone.
Fresh symbols fell.
A sunflower group used one of the same positions.
Gone.
The repeated square lit x2.
Now we had something.
More symbols dropped.
Several green chicks landed close enough to pay, and part of their block passed through that x2 patch.
The little multiplier finally got used.
Another tumble followed.
Then nothing.
The sequence ended.
The x2 disappeared.
All that gardening.
One useful patch.
Gone before the next spin.
I continued at €0.20.
There was no reason to rush.
The eggs certainly weren’t.
Another three-Scatter landing appeared several spins later.
Three golden eggs.
Again.
One near the top.
One low in the middle.
One on the far side.
The fourth was presumably being sat on somewhere off-screen.
No feature.
The chicks resumed their work.
Red birds connected.
Flowers exploded.
A blue group almost formed after the tumble and stopped one bird short.
The garden was full of creatures that looked delighted to be there.
That became suspicious.
Every chick had enormous eyes and a tiny smile.
Even when there were seven of them and eight would have produced the next useful payment, they looked perfectly content with the headcount.
Twenty-four paid spins eventually passed.
€4.80 spent.
The little blocks and tumble chains had returned €2.60.
Balance:
€16.70.
I had lost €2.20 while watching cartoon birds repeatedly discover that five was a surprisingly difficult number.
Spin twenty-five.
€0.20 out.
First golden egg.
Second.
Third.
I waited for the usual empty space where the fourth one should have been.
Golden egg.
Four.
Finally.
The garden had completed breakfast.
The four Scatters paid €0.60 as well.
Balance:
€17.10.
Twelve Free Spins.
Now the marked positions mattered for longer.
That changed the entire garden.
Instead of forgetting its useful patches at the end of every tumble sequence, the grid could keep them through the feature.
I only needed the birds to repeatedly explode in the same place.
A sentence that sounded simple until I remembered the birds.
First Free Spin.
Blue chicks connected left of centre.
They disappeared.
The tumble chain brought a tiny second win elsewhere.
€0.20 total.
More important was the mark underneath one of those blue chicks.
A single marked patch.
I picked it immediately.
That square.
Come back there.
Free Spin two ignored it.
Red chicks formed badly.
Roses scattered themselves around the edges.
No win.
Third Free Spin.
Pink flowers connected.
One of them occupied my marked square.
Good.
They exploded.
That was the second winning symbol removed from the same position.
x2 appeared.
There.
The garden now had one patch worth double if another winning combination passed through it.
The spin itself only added another €0.20.
I no longer cared about the rest of the flowerbed.
There were forty-eight other positions available.
They could grow weeds.
Free Spin four produced nothing.
Several blue chicks landed.
None on the x2.
The birds had noticed the sign.
Free Spin five.
Green chicks.
Enough of them.
One landed directly on the x2 square.
The block connected.
€0.20 worth of ordinary win passed through the multiplier.
x2.
€0.40.
The chicks disappeared.
The repeated explosion upgraded the patch.
x4.
Now we were gardening properly.
One square had progressed from ordinary soil to x2 to x4.
The green chick responsible was gone.
I needed another volunteer.
Free Spin six produced ten green chicks elsewhere and a plain €0.60 win.
Fine.
Very nice.
Wrong patch.
The x4 sat there unused while an entire gathering of green birds held their reunion two columns away.
Free Spin seven:
nothing.
A blue chick landed directly above the x4.
A yellow one landed directly below it.
The actual square received a flower that did not belong to any winning group.
The garden had begun protecting the multiplier.
Free Spin eight finally broke through.
Red chicks connected across the middle.
One of them occupied the x4 position.
Win.
The block vanished.
The multiplier did its job.
€0.20 became €0.80.
Then the square upgraded again.
x8.
Excellent.
An ordinary patch of grass now had eight times more authority than any bird standing around it.
The next tumble dropped a sunflower onto it.
No matching group.
The sunflower stayed.
The chain ended.
Free Spin nine gave me two golden eggs.
Not enough for five extra spins.
They sat among flowers and chicks, both smiling inanimate egg smiles and then disappeared.
The x8 remained.
Free Spin ten.
Yellow chicks.
A lot of them.
One landed on the x8.
They connected.
Finally.
The block vanished.
€0.20 through x8.
€1.60.
That was the largest useful event of the feature.
And after the yellow chick disappeared, the patch doubled again.
x16.
There it was.
One square.
Sixteen times.
A tiny piece of the 7×7 garden had become more valuable than everything around it.
Two Free Spins remained.
I had constructed the perfect patch.
All the birds had to do was stand on it.
Free Spin eleven.
Blue chicks.
Roses.
Pink flowers.
A few yellow birds.
The x16 position received one green chick.
No useful green group anywhere near it.
The chick sat directly on sixteen times money and accomplished nothing.
Several symbols away, pink flowers formed a block and paid a small ordinary amount.
The green chick remained where it was, apparently enjoying the expensive patch.
No explosion.
No multiplier.
Last Free Spin.
The grid filled.
Red chicks.
Blue chicks.
Sunflowers.
Roses.
Green birds.
Yellow birds.
The x16 square received a pink blossom.
There were other pink blossoms.
Naturally, none of them connected to this one.
Two stood diagonally away.
One appeared higher up.
Another sat across the grid.
The most valuable patch in Egg Rush had become a flowerpot.
No win touched it.
No tumble disturbed it.
The feature ended.
€3.80 total.
Balance:
€20.90.
I had started with €18.90.
Somehow the flock had put me €2 ahead while simultaneously spending its final two Free Spins avoiding a square worth x16.
The garden returned to normal.
All persistent marks vanished.
That x16 patch went back to being ordinary blue background.
I stayed at €0.20.
Eight more spins.
The first gave nothing.
Second produced five blue chicks for a small €0.20 result.
Third brought three golden eggs.
Three.
Again.
The fourth egg had apparently finished one shift and gone home.
A tumble later in the stretch returned another €0.20.
Everything else was birds and flowers politely refusing to assemble.
Eight spins cost €1.60.
€0.40 came back.
Final balance:
€19.70.
Started:
€18.90.
Profit:
€0.80.
I stopped.
The final grid was packed with chicks.
Red.
Blue.
Green.
Yellow.
Flowers between them.
No eggs.
No multiplier spots.
Nothing exploding.
Somewhere underneath that perfectly ordinary garden was the square that had reached x16 and then spent its final moments hosting a lonely green chick and one pink flower.
The birds remembered every colour in the rainbow.
They just forgot where the good patch was.
Legend of Perseus delivers heartbreak in 60fps.