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By Free Game six, one square of jungle masonry had become more valuable to me than the entire temple.
The same skull had landed there again.
FRAME flashed.
The multiplier climbed from x3 to x4.
Not the whole reel.
Not some enormous golden idol.
One rectangle in the upper half of a six-row grid.
A skull had now returned to that exact address often enough for the jungle gods to consider it premium real estate.
There were six Free Games still to come.
I was already watching that square instead of the other twenty-nine positions.
This had started considerably smaller.
€1.00.
Five reels.
Three rows.
243 ways.
Stone letters, carved animals, ceremonial symbols and round golden faces stared out from a jungle temple sunk into blue-green ruins.
Three gods waited beside the reels.
Green at the top.
Red-orange in the middle.
Purple underneath.
The green one had fangs.
The red one looked permanently surprised that nobody had brought tribute.
The purple one had the expression of a deity who had recently learned the building could be taller.
Jungle Gods & Gems gave each of them a gemstone.
The first green gem appeared on reel two about ten spins in.
Huge thing.
Bright green.
Impossible to mistake for anything else.
It landed.
Nothing activated.
The god remained where it was.
Several spins later, a red gemstone arrived on reel three.
Same story.
No feature.
Apparently gemstones could enter the temple without automatically convincing the gods to do anything.
A purple stone later stopped on reel four.
I watched the purple idol.
It watched the reels.
The building remained three rows high.
That was probably for the best.
The base game had already produced a few modest ways wins.
€1.40.
€2.20.
A Wild temple landed on reel three and helped another connection to €3.60.
Then several dead spins followed.
The BUY BONUS button sat on the right offering an immediate feature for 100 times the bet.
I left it alone.
The jungle had three coloured gods, three dedicated gemstone reels and a temple visibly capable of violating local height expectations.
I wanted to see them misbehave naturally.
Eventually all three gemstones appeared on the same spin.
Green on reel two.
Red on reel three.
Purple on reel four.
Three coloured rocks lined across the middle of a structure already covered in carved faces.
The green god reacted first.
Four Extra Spins.
The usual eight Free Games became twelve.
Red followed.
Five Extra FRAME overlays.
Then purple.
The reels physically stretched downward.
Three rows became six.
243 ways became 7,776.
The temple had received one purple gemstone and immediately constructed three additional floors.
No scaffolding.
No dust.
No conversation with anybody living nearby.
The three effects merged into one feature.
Twelve Free Games.
5×6.
Five FRAMEs already waiting on random positions.
The gods had taken one spin and produced longer visiting hours, more wall decoration and a vertical extension.
I pressed Start.
The first Free Game dropped a skull onto one of the existing FRAME positions.
That FRAME moved from x1 to x2.
A few ordinary symbols connected across the enlarged reels for €2.40.
Eleven games remained.
Second spin gave nothing financially.
No skull either.
The five FRAMEs stayed where they were.
Their multipliers stayed too.
The purple god had created 7,776 ways and immediately demonstrated that zero remained one of them.
Third spin.
The skull returned to the same position.
x2 became x3.
Elsewhere the enormous grid finally cooperated.
Wild in the centre.
Several matching carved symbols across the left.
€4.80.
I had thirty reel positions available and was already developing a relationship with one square.
Fourth Free Game.
Another skull landed somewhere new.
Fresh FRAME.
x1.
The ways win underneath it managed €1.20.
The red god now had six framed patches scattered across the expanded temple.
It looked less like treasure discovery and more like somebody had started hanging portraits before deciding what the portraits were.
Fifth spin.
A skull landed on a different original FRAME.
x2 there.
No ways win.
Then came the sixth spin.
The point where we started.
Skull.
Same favourite square.
x3 became x4.
That one position had now been hit three times after beginning with its original FRAME.
The border thickened.
The multiplier glowed.
The rest of the six-row temple became scenery.
And then reel three produced another red gemstone.
The Extra Frames god triggered again.
Three more FRAMEs appeared across random positions.
The red idol flashed beside the reels as though the obvious cure for too many supernatural picture frames was more wall space with supernatural picture frames.
The same spin connected several symbols through a Wild.
€9.60.
Six games remained.
There were now nine framed positions.
One carried x4.
Another x2.
The others sat at x1 waiting for skulls to develop repeat-customer habits.
Free Game seven produced €3.00 but no skull.
Eight was completely dead.
The giant temple briefly offered 7,776 ways to discover nothing.
Free Game nine put another skull onto the second-most interesting FRAME.
That position climbed from x2 to x3.
A different skull landed on one of the original x1 FRAMEs and pushed it to x2.
The ways paid €6.40.
Now two pieces of wall had started competing for my attention.
The x4 still won.
Free Game ten brought another repeat skull.
A separate FRAME increased from x1 to x2.
€5.20 from the ways.
Two spins left.
The green god remained quiet.
No extra Free Games retrigger.
Purple was absent entirely now that its construction work was complete.
The red god had already added its extra decoration.
Everything depended on what the skulls did before the feature ended.
Free Game eleven placed a skull on an unframed position.
New FRAME.
x1.
No ways win.
That gave me ten framed positions altogether.
Final Free Game.
The six-row temple filled with stone symbols.
A Wild landed in the centre.
One decent connection ran through it for €4.20.
No skull hit the x4.
No last multiplier increase.
The Free Games ended.
Ways wins across the twelve spins had reached €36.80.
Good.
But the FRAMEs still had not paid.
The temple darkened.
One by one, the framed positions began revealing their credit values.
The first small FRAME showed 10x.
€10.00.
Another gave 5x.
€5.00.
Then 4x.
€4.00.
3x.
€3.00.
Two more revealed 2x each.
€2.00.
€2.00.
The x2 FRAMEs came next.
One revealed 5x.
Multiplied by x2.
€10.00.
The other showed 4x.
x2.
€8.00.
Then the x3 FRAME.
Its hidden value was 10x.
Thirty euros.
Only my favourite square remained.
x4.
The one the skull had repeatedly returned to while thirty positions were available.
The FRAME opened.
25x.
Then the multiplier hit.
x4.
€100.00.
One square.
One hundred euros.
The total FRAME payout reached €174.00.
Added to the €36.80 from the actual reel wins:
€210.80.
The feature total filled the screen.
I had spent twelve Free Games watching a temple grow to six rows, three jungle gods activate three different powers and skulls repeatedly decorate the same pieces of stone.
One square supplied €100 because a skull had visited it three times after the original FRAME was placed.
Archaeologists are going to be furious when they hear about this.
Chicken Man made me feel mathematically punished.