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The ape punched every compass off the grid.
The explorer answered by throwing a rope net over four bananas.
Five seconds earlier, none of those objects had anything to do with each other.
Now the compasses were gone, the bananas were Wild, and a red boxing bell was hanging above the jungle as if somebody still believed there were rules.
The bananas connected.
They vanished.
Fresh symbols dropped through the net.
Two explorer helmets joined them.
Another win.
The ape beat his chest.
The explorer tightened the rope.
The Clash Multiplier moved to x2.
€7.70.
I had started the spin neutral.
By the end of it, I was supporting whichever mammal removed the most clutter.
The bet stayed at €0.70.
Man vs Ape had started more politely than the title suggested.
Dense jungle behind the grid.
Vines around old stone.
Bananas.
Coconuts.
Compasses.
Binoculars.
Rope coils.
Explorer helmets.
The Man stood on one side carrying enough expedition gear to cross a continent.
The Ape stood on the other carrying nothing except two fists and the very obvious advantage of not needing equipment.
The first few wins came from ordinary jungle rubbish.
Helmets joined.
Gone.
Fresh symbols fell.
Three coconuts landed together but needed more company.
End.
Later a group of bananas paid €1.40.
They disappeared.
Binoculars fell into the holes.
Nothing.
The Ape watched.
The explorer watched.
Nobody attacked.
I spun again.
A compass group finally connected.
The symbols disappeared.
More fell.
Another small win followed.
That woke the Man.
He threw the Rope Net.
Four central positions became one square patch of Wild rope.
The next drop put helmets through it.
€2.80.
No Ape.
No Clash.
The net disappeared when the tumble ended.
That seemed sensible enough.
A man in a jungle owned a net.
Fine.
The Ape’s first intervention was less selective.
Coconuts paid.
They vanished.
The next symbols produced another win.
The Ape leaned forward and smashed every visible binocular off the grid.
All of them.
Not the winning ones.
Every binocular.
They burst out of the jungle.
Fresh symbols dropped into the newly empty positions.
Four compasses landed together.
Another little win.
The Ape had improved the spin by declaring optical equipment extinct.
I immediately preferred his method.
Several spins later, the Man fought back.
Two tumbles woke him.
Net over the lower-right section.
Inside it:
one banana.
one coconut.
one helmet.
one compass.
Everything became Wild under the rope.
A row crossed through the patch.
€4.20.
The explorer had just solved four completely unrelated jungle objects by putting fishing equipment on top of them.
The Ape remained still.
I went back to neutrality.
The Fight Bell Scatters started appearing after that.
One giant red bell on reel one.
Nothing else.
Gone.
Two arrived together several spins later.
One at the top.
One near the bottom.
The third position filled with a banana.
The bells looked enormous enough to begin a heavyweight bout on their own.
The banana disagreed.
No Free Spins.
Ape intervention on the next tumble.
This time he removed helmets.
Every explorer helmet disappeared.
The explorer himself remained on the edge of the grid with a full head of hair and no visible concern that his entire supply of protective equipment had just been destroyed by the opponent.
The replacement drop brought bananas.
Five of them.
€1.40.
The Ape had smashed safety equipment to improve fruit.
The jungle accepted it.
I kept the €0.70 stake where it was.
The session moved in short fights.
A couple of tumbles.
Explorer throws net.
Small hit.
Later, Ape removes rope coils.
Fresh symbols fall badly.
Nothing.
The Ape could erase an entire species of object and still end up with three isolated coconuts.
Power was not the issue.
Placement was.
Then they finally interfered with the same tumble.
Bananas disappeared first.
Helmets dropped and connected.
The Man threw the Rope Net over four positions.
Fresh symbols fell through it.
A second win formed.
The Ape woke immediately afterward.
He smashed every compass off the screen.
The empty compass spaces refilled while the Rope Net was still covering the middle.
A helmet landed inside.
Bananas joined from the left.
The red bell above the fighters shook.
x2.
Another win.
The Man still had his net.
The Ape had removed navigation.
Nobody appeared worried about how the expedition would leave the jungle.
That spin paid €7.70.
Afterward I began wanting both of them involved.
One fighter alone had become disappointing.
The Man could throw a perfectly good net across four symbols and return €2.10.
Fine.
The Ape could obliterate every coconut and produce nothing.
Fine.
Together, they turned the grid into an argument.
That was better.
The base game still slowly took money.
Small wins came back.
€1.40.
€2.10.
A Wild-net sequence for €3.50.
Ape smashed bananas once and replaced them with an even larger number of bananas, which seemed less like removal and more like gardening.
A Fight Bell landed beside the whole thing.
Alone.
No feature.
By spin forty, I had developed loyalties that lasted roughly one tumble.
The Ape cleared binoculars and produced a win.
Ape.
The Man netted four useless symbols and somehow made helmets connect.
Man.
The Ape removed helmets and replaced them with separated card-like jungle symbols.
Man again.
The Man threw a net over four coconuts already paying without him.
Ape.
Neither fighter had earned permanent support.
They were trading possession of my opinion in seventy-cent pieces.
Then spin forty-seven stopped.
Fight Bell on the left.
Fight Bell in the middle.
The last section turned.
Helmet.
Banana.
Fight Bell.
Three.
The jungle darkened around the grid.
Eight Clash Free Spins.
By then €32.90 had gone through the session and €20.30 had returned.
The balance sat at €120.00.
The first Free Spin immediately put the Man to work.
One tumble.
Another.
Rope Net over the middle.
Bananas fell through it.
They connected.
€4.20.
No Ape.
The second spin belonged to him.
A coconut group vanished.
Ape attack.
Every compass disappeared.
Fresh symbols dropped.
A second group formed.
Then another.
The red bell above the fight shook.
x2.
The whole sequence reached €6.30.
Two Free Spins in and the jungle already contained fewer navigational instruments than when the feature started.
The third spin brought neither fighter.
Just helmets and bananas.
A small win.
Quiet.
That felt wrong now.
The fourth gave me both.
The Man threw his net first.
Four positions locked into Wild rope.
A group crossed through it.
The Ape followed by smashing every binocular.
Empty positions opened around the live net.
Fresh bananas and helmets fell.
Another win.
The Clash Multiplier moved.
x3.
The Ape beat his chest.
The explorer raised both fists while still standing beside a pile of equipment he had not used.
€12.60 came out of the mess.
My allegiance shifted to the jungle itself.
Both fighters were now just different ways to damage it.
The next Free Spin put three Fight Bells on the grid.
They did not retrigger anything.
They simply sat among coconuts and ropes while a helmet group paid nearby.
For once, the bells had become decoration inside their own fight.
Then came the fifth major collision.
Bananas vanished.
A small win.
The Man threw the Rope Net across the centre-left.
Four Wild positions.
The next drop brought compasses through it.
Win.
The Ape saw the compasses and chose violence.
Every compass disappeared while the net remained stretched underneath the holes.
The empty positions refilled with helmets, bananas and one coconut.
The helmets connected through the Rope Net.
The Clash Multiplier climbed to x4.
Those symbols vanished.
More dropped.
A second Ape action triggered from the continuing tumble.
This time he removed coconuts.
The coconut disappeared.
Its replacement was a banana.
That banana completed another group.
The bell shook again.
x5.
The explorer was holding the rope.
The Ape was surrounded by destroyed navigation equipment.
The jungle had become a heap of helmets and bananas.
€15.40.
That was the biggest hit of the feature.
The explorer celebrated.
The Ape celebrated.
Neither of them had actually supplied the bananas.
I refused to pick a side.
The remaining Free Spins were smaller.
One Ape smash removed rope coils and produced no follow-up at all.
He beat his chest anyway.
One Man net landed over four symbols that never formed a useful line around it.
He raised his fists anyway.
They were becoming very similar.
The last useful sequence belonged to the Ape.
Helmets disappeared first.
Fresh symbols fell.
He smashed all bananas.
More symbols dropped.
A group of compasses finally connected without any fighter touching them.
€7.00.
The jungle had discovered self-sufficiency right at the end.
The eighth Free Spin stopped with the explorer on one side and the Ape on the other.
One Fight Bell landed between them.
No win.
No final Clash.
The feature settled at €56.70.
My balance climbed from €120.00 to €176.70.
I had entered the bonus supporting nobody.
I left it fairly certain the bananas had done the most honest work.
Six more €0.70 spins followed.
A small helmet line returned €1.40.
The rest produced no second fight.
No three Bells.
No overlapping attacks.
The explorer threw one net over a patch of symbols that achieved nothing.
The Ape appeared on the next spin and smashed coconuts into another dead grid.
They had both reverted immediately.
€4.20 went in.
€1.40 came back.
The balance stopped at €173.90.
On the last screen, the explorer stood at one side of the jungle holding his rope.
The Ape stood at the other.
Between them sat a single banana.
After watching both of them spend the session smashing, netting and removing half the jungle, I knew exactly which participant had the better survival strategy.
The banana did nothing.
Billie Wild gives retriggers like false promises in a toxic relationship.