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The genie offered me three wishes.
One would remove the cheap card symbols and leave twelve spins full of the expensive stuff.
One would give me five spins with a multiplier already at x5 and then shove it upward by another five every spin.
The middle wish made Wild genies walk left.
I chose the walking.
There was no serious argument.
If a purple supernatural giant capable of granting wishes was going to be restricted to moving exactly one reel left at a time, I needed to see how this humiliation developed.
Eight Free Spins.
Travelling Wilds.
Wish accepted.
It had taken less than ten €1.00 spins to get there.
That alone felt suspicious.
Genie’s 3 Wishes had opened under a huge purple night sky with a magic lamp glowing in the desert and a genie emerging above it with shoulders wide enough to require separate weather.
He had enormous jeweled cuffs.
A beard with its own structural integrity.
Enough purple muscle to lift the reels out of the screen if he became impatient.
The actual reels underneath him were a modest five by three.
Two hundred forty-three ways.
Golden objects.
Jewelled things.
Curved weapons.
Goblets.
Card ranks.
Scatters carrying the lamp.
And a Wild version of the same genie, because apparently the best substitute for anything in a magic-lamp slot was more genie.
The first few paid spins had been quiet.
€1.20.
A Wild helped another route for €3.60.
That one involved the genie and arrived doubled, which seemed fair.
If a supernatural being was going to substitute for a goblet, there should be compensation.
Then the reels had flashed during another paid spin.
The genie intervened.
Two stacked Wilds appeared.
No request from me.
No rubbing of lamp.
No discussion of wish allocation.
Two vertical portions of purple genie simply entered the reels while they were spinning.
They helped produce €11.80.
Then everything returned to normal.
That was the point where I realized the “three wishes” arrangement was already looking contractual only from my side.
The genie could apparently make unsolicited wishes whenever he felt like it.
I was the one being rationed.
A few paid spins later, three Scatters landed.
Feature.
Then came the three choices.
And now I had selected magical pedestrian movement.
The first Free Spin began.
A Wild genie landed on reel five.
Far right.
Excellent.
He helped a small win.
€4.80.
The reels stopped.
The genie remained.
Next Free Spin, he moved to reel four.
No smoke.
No teleportation across dimensions.
No magnificent sweep of cosmic power.
One reel.
Left.
The great wish-granter had obeyed public foot traffic.
Another Wild landed on reel five behind him.
Now there were two.
The first had moved to reel four.
The new one had taken his former position.
They helped a better combination for €9.20.
I immediately understood the problem.
This was not going to be eight Free Spins.
This was going to become a queue.
The third spin moved the first Wild to reel three.
The second shifted into reel four.
Purple genie traffic was now flowing steadily from right to left.
A +1 symbol landed among them.
Another Free Spin added.
Eight had become nine.
The two travelling Wilds found enough useful symbols around them for €16.40.
The genie had already granted one wish and was now extending the amount of time required to fulfil it.
This was either generosity or poor project planning.
I preferred not to decide.
Free Spin four.
The original Wild moved to reel two.
The second moved to reel three.
Another fresh Wild appeared farther right.
Three genies.
Same purple face.
Same enormous arms.
Different stages of the commute.
The first was nearly at the left edge.
The newest had just entered from the right.
Somewhere above them, the giant genie on the artwork continued floating out of the lamp as though there was only one of him.
The reels had better information.
€22.80.
That spin connected across enough of the Wilds to make the whole centre of the desert look staffed entirely by one supernatural employee replicated across multiple locations.
Nobody had asked for three genies.
My wish had been “travelling Wilds.”
The lamp was interpreting quantity creatively.
Fifth Free Spin.
The oldest traveller reached reel one.
Destination.
He had crossed the entire five-reel world one spin at a time.
Reel five.
Then four.
Three.
Two.
Now one.
An omnipotent genie had needed four Free Spins to travel approximately twelve centimetres across my monitor.
He stayed there.
The others continued advancing behind him.
A line of purple supernatural congestion now stretched through the reels.
The oldest genie had reached the western edge of the known universe.
Another was on reel two.
Another occupied reel four after its latest shift.
Fresh premium symbols filled the gaps.
The resulting win climbed to €31.20.
That was the moment the wish started paying properly.
Reel one now had a resident genie.
The remaining Wilds were approaching.
The desert had become less a magical kingdom and more a relocation programme for extremely muscular purple men.
The sixth Free Spin began.
Everybody moved left where possible.
Another +1 symbol landed.
Ten Free Spins now.
The original eight had quietly acquired two additional shifts.
No win.
Nothing useful connected.
For the first time, all that accumulated supernatural labour stood across the reels and achieved absolutely nothing.
One genie on reel one.
Another farther right.
Another still travelling.
Goblets.
Jewels.
Letters.
Silence.
The giant genie above the lamp looked amused.
Of course he did.
He was not the one commuting.
Seventh Free Spin.
Another Wild appeared on reel five.
The migration had gained a new participant.
The older ones shifted.
The left half of the reels now contained enough genie to make the ordinary symbols look temporary.
A high-paying combination threaded through several Wild positions.
€42.00.
That was the feature’s biggest hit.
The reel display had become a before-and-after diagram of one genie walking across the desert while meeting younger versions of himself travelling along the same route.
Reel one held the veteran.
The middle reels held the current workforce.
Reel five had the new recruit.
The lamp had created a supernatural conveyor belt.
And because Wild-assisted wins were doing what Wild-assisted wins do, the money finally caught up with the visual nonsense.
€42.00.
I was properly ahead now.
The eighth original Free Spin would technically have been the last without those +1 symbols.
It was not.
A couple of Wilds were already crowded toward the left.
Another connection formed.
€18.40.
One of the newer Wilds moved closer to the centre.
The old traveller on reel one had nowhere else to go.
He simply remained at the destination.
I began thinking of reel one as a retirement village.
Every travelling genie eventually reached it.
None ever explained what happened after that.
There was no reel zero.
No further west.
No magical portal.
Just the edge of the game.
You had crossed the desert.
Congratulations.
Please stand beside a card symbol until the feature ends.
The first added Free Spin arrived.
Number nine overall.
The Wild procession shifted again.
A fresh Wild appeared on reel four.
There were now purple faces across enough of the layout that the original genie in the artwork seemed underrepresented.
A combination of premium symbols found them.
€27.60.
The left side did most of the work.
The older Wilds had spent several spins travelling there and now finally behaved as if the journey had been worthwhile.
The final added Free Spin remained.
Ten total.
Two more than I had selected.
The genies shifted.
Some were already at reel one.
Others moved closer.
One remained in the centre.
The reels filled around them.
Nothing.
No final huge win.
No third +1.
No last-second eruption.
The great migration ended with a collection of purple wish-granters occupying several parts of the desert and nobody finding anything worth granting.
Feature total:
€172.40.
Eight Free Spins had become ten.
The first Wild had travelled all the way from reel five to reel one.
Others had followed behind it.
The feature had slowly turned a normal five-reel slot into a westbound genie procession.
And I had made a strong profit at €1.00 without ever touching the five-spin multiplier wish that could climb toward x100.
I had chosen the stupid-looking wish.
The stupid-looking wish had paid.
The feature ended.
Every travelling Wild disappeared.
The desert returned to ordinary proportions.
Five reels.
Three rows.
One giant genie above the lamp.
No purple queue waiting on the left.
For a moment, the screen looked almost empty.
I gave the base game another spin.
Nothing.
Then another.
The reels started turning.
The lamp flashed.
Wild Wishes.
Three stacked Wild genies dropped into the paid spin.
Three.
No feature selection.
No Scatter trigger.
No choice.
No asking whether I still had wishes available.
Purple genie simply appeared across the reels in bulk and the symbols around them connected for €18.60.
The win landed.
The reels returned to normal.
I looked at the giant genie above the lamp.
I had been offered three wishes.
Apparently that was the menu.
Not the limit.
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