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The Pumpking ate five pumpkins and became 13x greedier.
This appeared to be legal.
Five orange vegetables sat across the moonlit grid.
The crowned one above them opened his mouth.
Vines came down.
One pumpkin disappeared.
Then another.
Then all five.
The crown flashed.
The Greed Multiplier jumped from 8x to 13x.
Five Wild Pumpkins appeared where the meal had been.
The tumble underneath them paid €15.60.
One extra Free Spin was added.
The scarecrow stayed in the corner.
It had one job.
Protect the crop.
The crop had just been eaten by its own king.
This was Free Spin five.
I had started the session at €260 with a €1.20 stake.
To explain why the ruler of the patch was halfway through consuming the population, I had to go back about twenty minutes.
The first screen had been almost respectable.
Moon overhead.
Twisted trees.
Dark soil.
Orange lanterns.
Crows.
Candy corn.
Scarecrows.
Pumpkins.
The Greedy Pumpking himself sat above the 5×5 field wearing a crooked crown and showing more teeth than any vegetable should have access to.
The vines around the logo looked unhealthy.
Not dead.
Worse.
Employed.
I left the stake at €1.20.
The first tumble paid from a cluster of dead leaves.
They disappeared.
Candy corn dropped into the spaces.
Nothing followed.
Another spin put pumpkins across the bottom.
Only two.
The King looked down.
No reaction.
Apparently two pumpkins did not constitute a meal.
Several spins later, three landed after a small winning tumble.
That was enough.
The Pumpking opened his mouth.
Three vines shot into the grid.
Each wrapped around a pumpkin.
Up they went.
Gone.
The Greed Multiplier climbed.
Their former positions came back as Wild Pumpkins.
A line of lanterns re-formed through two of them.
Another tumble followed.
€4.80 for the entire sequence.
Then the multiplier reset with the next paid spin.
That was the base-game arrangement.
The King could become greedier.
He simply forgot by the next spin.
An excellent survival mechanism for the patch.
The first twelve paid spins cost €14.40.
Only €5.40 came back.
Balance:
€251.
Most of the field remained ordinary autumn misery.
A crow sat on a fence.
The scarecrow continued pretending it had authority.
Candy corn landed in enough quantities to suggest somebody had emptied Halloween directly onto agricultural land.
The Pumpking watched from above.
Whenever fewer than three pumpkins appeared, he did nothing.
Three was the threshold between citizen and dinner.
The next nine spins were quieter.
A leaf cluster paid €1.20.
Lanterns added €2.40.
That was it.
€10.80 spent.
€3.60 returned.
Balance:
€243.80.
Then came three crowns.
One Scatter on the left.
One in the centre.
One on the far side.
They stopped together.
The field darkened.
The Pumpking’s crown lit.
Ten Royal Harvest Free Spins appeared.
The paid spin had cost another €1.20.
€242.60 remained outside the feature.
The first Free Spin was almost polite.
A cluster paid €1.20.
No pumpkins were eaten.
Greed Multiplier:
1x.
Then Free Spin two brought three pumpkins.
The King leaned forward.
Vines.
Three pumpkins gone.
The multiplier climbed to 4x.
Their positions became Wild.
A group of candy corn hit around them.
The first tumble cleared.
More symbols fell.
Lanterns connected through a Wild Pumpkin.
€9.60.
The Pumpking had eaten three members of his own kingdom and turned the empty graves into Wilds.
The scarecrow was now visibly redundant.
Crows were no longer the leading threat to agriculture.
Free Spin three did nothing.
No win.
No pumpkin meal.
The multiplier stayed at 4x.
That was the dangerous difference inside the feature.
The King remembered.
Free Spin four supplied four pumpkins.
One near the top.
Two through the middle.
One lower down.
The vines moved.
All four vanished.
4x became 8x.
Wild Pumpkins occupied the positions.
A small lantern win crossed them.
The payout climbed to €9.60.
Eight times greed.
Still wearing the same crown.
Still a pumpkin.
At this point the title made complete biological sense only if “Pumpking” meant a monarch selected specifically for his willingness to eat the electorate.
Then came the five-pumpkin meal.
The moment I had opened with.
Five disappeared.
8x became 13x.
An extra Free Spin arrived.
The Wild positions lined up with dead leaves and lanterns.
€15.60.
The feature total had started becoming useful.
The Pumpking looked exactly the same afterward.
No larger stomach.
No visible remorse.
No concern that the patch was running out of pumpkins.
Free Spin six was empty.
The multiplier stayed at 13x.
This mattered more now.
A completely ordinary tumble at 13x could do more damage than an elaborate base-game feast.
Free Spin seven delivered three more pumpkins.
The King ate again.
16x.
Three Wild Pumpkins remained behind.
A small win hit through them.
€9.60.
The crown flashed.
The vines withdrew.
The Pumpking settled back above the reels.
He had now consumed twelve pumpkins during the feature.
The scarecrow had prevented zero of them.
I began to suspect the scarecrow’s contract covered birds only.
Free Spins eight and nine passed without another meal.
One small cluster formed but did not survive into anything meaningful.
No new pumpkins reached the threshold.
The multiplier remained 16x.
The King waited.
There was still Free Spin ten.
Three pumpkins landed.
Left side.
Centre.
Lower right.
The vines came down immediately.
No hesitation anymore.
The ruler of the patch had become very efficient at removing constituents.
Three pumpkins disappeared.
16x became 19x.
Wild positions appeared.
The tumble began.
A group of lanterns connected.
Then leaves dropped.
Another tiny win.
The amounts were small before the multiplier.
They were not small afterward.
€11.40 for the sequence.
The extra Free Spin from the five-pumpkin feast still remained.
One last chance.
The grid spun.
Crow.
Lantern.
Candy corn.
Scarecrow.
Two pumpkins.
Only two.
The Pumpking stared down at them.
Nothing happened.
The feature ended at €57.
Balance:
€299.60.
I had started with €260.
The King had eaten fifteen pumpkins, reached 19x greed, created a temporary population of Wild vegetables and somehow left the patch financially healthier than before.
The base game returned.
The multiplier reset.
1x.
The Pumpking’s crown dimmed.
That was abrupt.
One second earlier he had been a 19x agricultural predator.
Now he was back to watching three-or-more pumpkins like a man waiting for dinner reservations.
I continued for twelve paid spins.
The first few were dry.
Then a lantern cluster brought €1.20.
A later group of leaves paid another €1.20.
No second set of Crown Scatters.
No major feast.
Pumpkins appeared in pairs several times.
The King did nothing.
Twelve spins cost €14.40.
€2.40 came back.
Final balance:
€287.60.
€27.60 above the start.
The last screen had one ordinary pumpkin in the bottom-right corner.
No crown.
No Wild frame.
No vine around its neck.
The Pumpking sat above it with his mouth closed.
After everything that had happened, that was about as close to agricultural peace as the patch was going to get.
I let the pumpkin remain produce.
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