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Max increased the multiplier after the Q had already been paid.
The Q was gone.
Its money was settled.
The book had fallen into a glowing pink Catalyst Zone, done the scientific work and then been removed by the cascade.
Only then did reel two change from x1 to x2.
Max stood beside the reels holding a book.
Blue robes.
Pointed hat.
Round glasses.
An entire laboratory behind him full of bottles, paper, crystals and floating geometry.
He had successfully combined mathematics with magic.
His first discovery was retroactive usefulness.
I was playing €1.00.
Five reels.
Three rows.
243 ways.
Above them sat five multiplier plaques.
Every one started at x1.
On the grid were books carrying the usual 10, J, Q, K and A, except somebody had bound them like university texts and embedded the letters in gemstones.
The expensive symbols looked even more academically unwell.
A green geometric instrument.
Blue atoms.
Purple glass containing something that should probably not be inhaled.
A golden construction that appeared to have escaped from both mathematics and jewellery.
Five pink Catalyst frames appeared on the reels.
One position per reel.
Fixed for that spin.
The Q combination had touched the one on reel two.
After paying, reel two became x2.
Fresh symbols dropped.
Three Js connected across the first reels.
The second J landed in the same Catalyst Zone.
This time the win used the existing x2 on reel two.
Then the J disappeared.
Max upgraded reel two again.
x3.
Fresh symbols fell.
Nothing connected.
Spin over.
Next spin.
Five plaques returned to x1.
Max had discovered x3 and erased it before I could use it again.
The mathemagician’s base-game memory lasted exactly one experiment.
Another spin produced a little cascade on reels one to three.
One Catalyst lit.
Multiplier increased afterward.
No second cascade arrived to use it.
The new number disappeared at the next spin.
Several rounds went like that.
Max kept conducting successful experiments whose conclusions were destroyed before publication by the spin button.
The balance moved down.
A small blue-atom win returned a few euros.
A Wild Max appeared on reel four, giving the laboratory a second Max while the original Max remained standing beside the reels.
Neither version objected to the duplication.
The original held the book.
The Wild version substituted for a symbol.
Mathematics had reached the stage where the professor could also be part of the equation.
Around €10.40 below the starting balance, three FS Scatters landed.
E = mc2.
Eight Free Spins.
Max had named the Bonus after one of the most famous equations in physics.
The immediate practical benefit was that the reels finally learned to remember multiplication.
All five started at x1.
First Free Spin.
K books connected.
One occupied the Catalyst position on reel two.
The win paid.
Then reel two rose to x2.
Spin ended.
The x2 stayed.
That alone made the Bonus feel like a scientific breakthrough.
Max had invented memory.
Second Free Spin brought two FS Scatters.
Not enough to open another Bonus.
Enough for two extra spins.
The counter grew.
Ten Free Spins in total.
The next useful spin dropped blue atom symbols across reels one to three.
Their win passed through reel two.
The multipliers were x1, x2 and x1.
Combined x2.
€2 paid.
Then Catalyst Zones on reels one and three lit.
After the payment, both increased.
The multiplier row became x2, x2, x2 across the first three reels.
The winning atoms disappeared.
Fresh books dropped.
Qs connected.
Now the same three reels multiplied to x8.
A €0.20 book win became €1.60.
The Q on reel two had also landed in its pink Zone.
After paying, reel two climbed again.
x3.
Max had built x2, x3, x2 out of a few textbooks and an atom.
The laboratory shelves behind him suddenly seemed less decorative.
A quiet Free Spin followed.
No useful connection.
The numbers stayed.
That was the dangerous part.
No reset.
No forgetting.
The next spin brought purple symbols across the first three reels.
Base value €1.40.
The active reel multipliers were x2, x3 and x2.
Together they made x12.
€16.80.
The purple symbols vanished.
Catalyst Zones lit on reels two and three.
Only after the win had left did those reels improve.
The row became x2, x4, x3.
Books fell into the empty spaces.
Three Js connected.
Cheap books.
€0.20 before Max got involved.
The three reels now multiplied to x24.
€4.80.
Another Catalyst flashed on reel one after that payment.
x3.
The whole sequence finished at €21.60.
A J had just become useful because three different reels had spent previous experiments earning qualifications.
Max remained beside the screen with one hand raised.
The pose suggested sorcery.
The numbers suggested he had simply discovered compound multiplication and was taking it extremely personally.
One Free Spin passed with nothing.
The multipliers stayed at x3, x4, x3, x1, x1.
Then the green geometric symbols connected across four reels.
Their ordinary four-symbol value was €0.80.
Reels one through four contributed x3, x4, x3 and x1.
Combined x36.
€28.80.
The win vanished.
Catalyst Zones on reels two and four lit afterward.
Reel two reached x5.
Reel four reached x2.
Fresh Q books fell.
Three connected from the left.
The first three reels now carried x3, x5 and x3.
x45.
A €0.20 Q became €9.
Total for the sequence reached €37.80.
The humble Q had now paid more than most of the laboratory equipment.
Max had filled his room with alchemical bottles, glowing geometry and a floating blue equation.
The real source of wealth was a textbook letter standing in the correct pink square several cascades earlier.
More Catalyst hits followed.
Not every one produced immediate money.
That was almost the point.
A symbol touched the Zone.
Current equation paid.
Then the reel became better for whatever came later.
By the late feature, the plaques above the first reels read x4, x6, x5.
Reel four sat at x2.
Reel five remained x1, apparently having failed the entire course.
Three K books connected.
Only reels one to three mattered.
Four times six times five.
x120.
The K itself was still worth €0.20 for three.
€24.
A cheap letter had become a premium experiment because Max had spent the previous spins teaching three reels multiplication.
The K disappeared.
Another cascade dropped As.
Three connected.
The active product had changed again after another Catalyst hit.
The A paid €19.20.
No dragon.
No exploding planet.
No jackpot coin.
Just books being subjected to increasingly unreasonable mathematics.
The final Free Spin arrived with the five multipliers still uneven.
One last winning cascade formed.
It touched another Catalyst Zone.
The win was calculated using the existing number.
Paid.
Symbols removed.
Then the multiplier increased.
A better equation appeared above the reel.
Fresh symbols fell.
Nothing connected.
The improved number sat there unused.
The Bonus total settled around €118.20.
Against the roughly €10.40 lost before E = mc2, the session finished approximately €107.80 ahead.
Then the experiment ended.
The first reel returned to x1.
Second reel returned to x1.
Third.
Fourth.
Fifth.
Five identical ones.
Max had spent ten Free Spins turning textbooks, atoms and Catalyst squares into a multiplication problem worth more than a hundred euros.
Then he erased the blackboard.
x1 × x1 × x1 × x1 × x1.
The Mathmagician’s greatest trick was making the answer disappear.
Every click on Penalty Shoot Out Super Spin rewrites my will.