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The ruby lasted about three seconds.
It landed on reel three.
Ra raised one hand.
A beam of sunlight hit it.
The gemstone disappeared.
The Sun Disc above the reels gained a glowing segment.
Nobody offered a receipt.
I had been playing Jewels of Ra for less than a minute and the Egyptian god of the sun had already converted jewellery into electricity.
This felt unnecessarily industrial.
My stake was €1.00.
The temple was spectacular.
Gold everywhere.
Sandstone columns.
Blue sky.
Torches.
Scarabs.
Pyramid doors.
Rubies.
Emeralds.
Sapphires.
Golden necklaces.
Falcons.
And Ra himself, positioned beside the reels with a solar disc above his head and the confidence of someone who had never once received an electricity bill.
Three emeralds paid €3.20.
Perfectly normal.
Then Ra landed Wild on reel three.
A line of golden necklaces used him.
His solar disc flashed.
SUN BEAM.
x3.
The ordinary €3.20 line became €9.60.
The beam disappeared.
The necklaces survived.
I began to understand the operating philosophy.
Ra did not use sunlight for agriculture.
He used it to improve paylines.
Ancient Egypt had apparently solved renewable energy thousands of years ago and immediately wasted it on jewellery.
The next few spins stayed calmer.
€1.40.
Nothing.
A falcon line for €4.00.
Then a blue sapphire appeared on the fourth reel alongside a small win.
The reels finished paying.
A scarab crawled onto the screen.
It went directly to the sapphire.
Picked it up.
Carried it away.
The jewel vanished into the giant Sun Disc above the reels.
Second glowing segment.
The scarab left.
No explanation.
I sat there with the uncomfortable feeling that I had just witnessed organised gemstone theft carried out by an insect acting on behalf of a deity.
Another ruby arrived later.
This one survived the spin.
No scarab.
No beam.
Just a ruby.
It looked relieved.
Two spins later, Ra appeared with x2 and helped a falcon line to €6.00.
Then an emerald was stolen.
Third segment.
The Sun Disc was filling.
Four collected Jewels would complete the first section.
One more.
I started watching the gemstones differently.
Originally they had been premium symbols.
Now they were fuel canisters with facets.
A sapphire line paid €5.00.
The scarab returned afterward.
Straight to one of them.
Grab.
Gone.
Fourth Jewel.
The first chamber above reel two ignited.
Golden light poured down the edge of the reel.
The Sun Disc reset to begin feeding the next chamber.
I looked at the scarab.
The insect had stolen four pieces of jewellery and somehow upgraded architecture.
Nobody in the temple seemed interested in recovering the property.
A few dead spins followed.
Then Ra appeared with x5.
That got my attention.
A line of rubies crossed him.
Normal value:
€3.60.
SUN BEAM.
x5.
€18.00.
The ruby symbols exploded in gold.
Ra lowered his arm.
Eighteen euros.
The ruler of sunlight had concentrated the power of a star onto three red gemstones and produced roughly the cost of dinner.
Still, it was working.
The second chamber began filling.
A scarab took an emerald.
Then another ruby.
Two.
A third Jewel came from a sapphire after a €4.00 win.
Three.
The fourth took longer.
Pyramid Door Scatters started appearing instead.
One.
Then two together.
No third.
A few spins later, another pair.
The doors were enormous.
Stone frames.
Blue light inside.
The sort of entrance that should have required twenty labourers and a priest.
Two of them still achieved nothing.
The balance stayed healthy enough.
Small hits kept arriving.
Ra x2 gave €5.20.
A necklace line paid €3.00.
Then the scarab stole another emerald.
Fourth Jewel.
Second chamber charged.
Now reels two and three both had golden chamber frames above them.
Reel four remained dark.
The temple looked asymmetric.
That bothered me more than it should have.
Ra controlled the sun.
Surely he could finish one more lamp.
Instead, he gave me two Pyramid Door Scatters again.
Still no third.
I left the Feature Buy alone.
The Sun Bet stayed untouched.
If Ra required additional money to locate his own pyramid, we had bigger theological problems.
Then the doors finally arrived properly.
One on reel one.
One on three.
The fifth reel slowed.
Pyramid Door.
Three.
The stone temple behind the game opened.
Ten Chamber Spins.
The two charged chambers carried in.
That changed the entire feature immediately.
I was not starting from an empty tomb.
I had already allowed a scarab to steal enough jewellery to partially modernise the building.
First Chamber Spin.
Ruby on reel two.
The charged chamber above it flashed.
The entire second reel turned Golden.
Wild.
A x2 marker appeared above it.
Three necklaces crossed through the Golden reel.
€4.00 became €8.00.
The reel returned.
Good.
One reel now had evidence.
Second spin.
Sapphire on reel three.
Golden Chamber.
That reel transformed.
x3.
Four falcons crossed it.
€3.00 became €9.00.
The feature had now used two gemstones to temporarily turn two entire stone columns into Wild machinery.
Egyptian engineering had become very aggressive.
Third spin.
Nothing.
No Jewel.
No chamber.
€1.20 from low symbols.
The temple briefly remembered it was still a slot.
Fourth spin.
Emerald on reel two.
Golden again.
x2.
A small line reached €5.00.
Then the scarab appeared.
Inside the feature.
It took the emerald.
Of course it did.
The Jewel flew into the Sun Disc.
First segment toward the remaining chamber.
The scarab had upgraded from theft to infrastructure maintenance.
Fifth Chamber Spin.
Ruby.
Another Jewel collected afterward.
Second segment.
No major win.
Sixth spin.
Sapphire line.
€4.40.
Scarab.
Third Jewel.
One more required.
The dark chamber above reel four remained unlit.
It had become the most important piece of architecture in Egypt.
Seventh spin.
No Jewel.
Ra Wild x3 landed instead.
A line of falcons used him.
€3.00 became €9.00.
Useful.
Wrong department.
I needed gemstones.
Eighth spin.
Emerald on reel five.
A small €2.00 win finished.
The scarab emerged.
Straight across the screen.
Picked up the emerald.
Fourth Jewel.
The final chamber ignited.
Reel four gained its golden frame.
All three middle reels were now charged.
The Sun Disc above them opened.
SOLAR CROWN.
The next spin would use all three chambers at once.
There were still two ordinary Chamber Spins left afterward.
They suddenly felt irrelevant.
The reels started.
Reel two turned Golden.
x2.
Reel three turned Golden.
x4.
Reel four turned Golden.
x5.
Three full Wild reels.
Side by side.
The multipliers combined.
x11.
I looked at the outside reels.
Sapphire on reel one.
Sapphire on reel five.
That was enough.
Five sapphires across the line.
Base value:
€10.00.
Three Golden Chamber reels filled everything in the middle.
x11.
€110.00.
Another line of necklaces crossed the same three Golden reels.
Base:
€2.00.
x11.
€22.00.
Falcons found another route.
€14.00.
Total Solar Crown:
€146.00.
The pyramid erupted.
Golden light filled the screen.
The sun disc spun.
Scarabs flew around the reels.
Ra raised both arms.
And at the centre of this immense theological event were two blue sapphires on the outside reels doing almost all of the actual employment.
€146.00.
That was more like it.
The temple had spent the entire session stealing jewellery to feed a solar machine.
Finally the machine had become dangerous.
The ninth Chamber Spin followed.
Everything returned to normal proportions.
One charged reel activated at x2.
€6.00.
After €146.00, it felt like the temple had switched to emergency lighting.
Final spin.
A ruby landed.
No full Solar Crown.
Ra appeared Wild with x3.
A necklace line crossed.
€7.80.
Then the feature ended.
No encore.
No fourth chamber.
No secret basement beneath the pyramid.
The ten Chamber Spins had produced €238.40.
The base-game jewels had become chamber fuel.
The chambers had become Golden reels.
Three Golden reels had become x11.
And x11 had finally persuaded two sapphires on opposite sides of the screen to behave as though they owned Egypt.
I was comfortably ahead.
Not slightly.
Not “technically profitable.”
Properly ahead.
The feature had done what the giant sun disc, stolen gemstones and aggressively illuminated temple had been threatening to do all session.
Back in the base game, everything looked strangely cheap.
Rubies were jewels again.
Emeralds sat on the reels without immediately being carried away.
The scarab appeared once and did nothing.
I no longer trusted that.
A scarab doing nothing had the posture of an insect between jobs.
One €1.00 spin gave €1.40.
The next was dead.
Then the sky behind the reels changed.
The golden glare that had covered the temple during the feature faded.
Torches remained.
The stone went dark blue.
The Sun Disc above the game stopped blazing and settled into a dull amber glow.
No payout.
No special symbol.
No message.
Just the temple suddenly looking exhausted.
I left it there.
Jewels of Ra had spent forty minutes feeding gemstones into the sun.
Eventually, even daylight ran out.
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