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Midas turned a goblet, a bunch of grapes and the letter K into Wilds before the first tumble had finished.
The palace lost its wine, its fruit and one consonant in the same royal blessing.
All three symbols had landed in gold.
The goblet touched the grapes horizontally.
The grapes touched the K vertically.
Light ran through the little arrangement.
The cup disappeared first.
Then the fruit.
Then the alphabet surrendered.
Three Wild tiles remained, still carrying faint images of what they had been before the king improved them beyond usefulness.
Two Midas portraits sat against the new Wilds.
The five symbols joined.
The cluster paid.
Three Wilds had participated, so x3 appeared above the reels.
The winning positions exploded.
One Gold Midas portrait on the far side of the group did not leave with the others. It lost the king, kept the beard and returned as another Wild.
Midas had touched a picture of himself and converted it into something qualified to impersonate everybody else.
New symbols fell.
Goblets gathered around the surviving Wild.
They connected.
The cup-shaped symbols vanished.
The multiplier rose to x4.
One Gold goblet involved in that win remained behind as a Wild.
It had begun as a container for wine.
It had become precious metal.
Now it was a universal substitute with no opening at the top.
Princess portraits fell into the gaps.
They connected through the former goblet.
x5.
The princesses disappeared.
Gold light crossed the palace.
The full sequence paid €26.50.
I had selected €0.50 because Midas was already seated on a throne surrounded by coins, wearing the expression of a man who had never touched a sandwich without lowering its resale value.
The grid was a perfect 5×5 square.
Twenty-five palace tiles.
Above them, two enormous golden hands pointed inward from opposite sides.
Midas himself stayed out of the working area.
His hands did not.
They hovered over every spin with the posture of royal fingers searching for the next object to make expensive and inconvenient.
The symbols included Midas, a golden-haired princess, purple grapes, goblets, decorated coffers and letters dressed in enough gold trim to suggest the alphabet had received a court appointment.
The Scatter was a crown.
The Wild could retain the image of whatever had just been stripped of normal existence.
A golden Q became a Wild Q.
A golden grape bunch became a Wild grape bunch.
A gold Midas could become a Wild Midas.
The king’s gift did not remove the original shape immediately.
It left the victim visible long enough to remember what function had been lost.
Gold was not the final form in Midas Fortune.
Gold was the stage before identity collapsed.
Object.
Gold object.
Wild.
Multiplier.
Explosion.
The palace called the sequence prosperity.
The next few spins tested the limits of the curse.
A Gold goblet landed diagonally from a Gold grape bunch.
A Gold A appeared one corner away.
Three golden symbols.
No transformation.
They were close enough to ruin dinner together and still not officially touching.
Midas could turn food into bullion.
He could not reach through a corner.
The royal curse obeyed palace floor tiles.
Horizontal greed worked.
Vertical greed worked.
Diagonal greed remained outside the decree.
Another spin placed two Gold Ks side by side with a Gold princess directly beneath one of them.
The three connected.
All became Wilds.
The Ks lost their letters.
The princess lost her face.
A cluster of ordinary As formed around them.
The Wilds joined.
x3.
The alphabet had used a gilded royal woman and two dead consonants to organise a vowel meeting.
The payment came to €7.50.
The hands above the reels continued pointing.
Neither pointed toward a treasury.
They pointed at the damage.
Shorter transformations kept appearing.
One Gold goblet joined a winning cluster and returned as a Wild after the other symbols exploded.
On the next collapse, it helped grapes connect.
The goblet had become fruit.
The fruit then vanished.
The palace no longer had wine or grapes, but the multiplier showed x2, which appeared to satisfy the crown.
Another Gold coffer transformed after a win and helped several Qs connect.
Treasure storage had been reduced to assisting typography.
The king’s touch was not creating wealth.
It was moving palace equipment through increasingly abstract employment.
The crown Scatters began arriving in pairs.
One on the upper left.
Another near the lower right.
Between them sat Midas portraits, goblets and grapes.
Two crowns inside a palace should have been a constitutional emergency.
The slot required three before anything happened.
Later, two Scatters landed side by side beneath Midas’s left hand.
The third position received a Gold K.
The king had two crowns and one expensive consonant.
No Free Spins.
Another pair arrived with three touching Gold symbols elsewhere.
The Gold symbols transformed.
Wilds spread through the centre.
The crowns remained uninvolved.
Midas had successfully corrupted half the room while failing to arrange his own ceremony.
The trigger finally came after a small cluster of grapes.
The fruit exploded.
One crown dropped into the upper row.
A second landed near the centre.
The third appeared in the bottom-right corner.
Three crowns occupied the palace at once.
The hands above the grid opened.
Gold poured down the screen.
Eight Free Spins appeared beneath Midas’s throne while coins fell around him in quantities that would have made walking across the room an ankle problem.
The first Free Spin began with Gold grapes inside a winning fruit cluster.
The ordinary grapes exploded.
Two golden bunches stayed behind and became Wilds.
Fresh symbols fell.
Goblets connected through both.
Two Wilds participated.
x2 settled above the palace and stayed there for the feature.
The king had turned fruit into Wilds so the Wilds could pretend to be drinkware.
The first round paid €3.00.
Free Spin two brought three touching Gold symbols.
A coffer.
A Q.
A princess portrait.
They formed an L near the centre.
The curse travelled through the corners they shared.
All three became Wilds before the win.
Midas had gilded storage, language and royalty, then removed the distinction between them.
The three Wilds joined a cluster of princess portraits.
The multiplier rose from x2 to x5.
The princess had been used to replace more princesses.
The palace was copying royal family members through material collapse.
The win reached €7.50.
Free Spin three produced nothing useful.
The x5 remained above the reels.
Midas kept the accumulated multiplier even when his hands had failed to touch anything profitable.
The palace stored previous destruction better than it stored wine.
On Free Spin four, one Gold coffer joined a winning group.
The other symbols disappeared.
The coffer remained as a Wild.
New goblets fell around it.
They connected.
The multiplier moved to x6.
The Wild coffer substituted for the missing drink.
A treasure box had become a cup because the king had made it valuable enough to forget its hinges.
The spin paid €4.50.
Two crown Scatters appeared on Free Spin five.
Inside the feature, the pair was enough.
Four additional Free Spins arrived.
Midas had already collected three crowns to begin the ceremony.
Now two more had extended it.
The palace contained enough headwear to govern several neighbouring kingdoms and no visible head using any of it.
The next major conversion began with four touching Gold symbols.
A goblet.
A grape bunch.
An A.
Midas himself.
All four glowed.
The king transformed along with his own property.
Four Wilds remained.
They joined a large cluster of princess portraits.
The persistent x6 accepted four more Wilds.
x10.
The princesses paid €15.00.
Midas’s image disappeared in the explosion.
His hands remained above the grid.
The king had sacrificed one portrait and retained remote control.
A later Gold A became Wild after helping a letter cluster.
On the next collapse, that Wild joined five Ks.
The multiplier moved to x11.
The former A had spent one round impersonating K before both letters vanished.
Midas had found a way to make the alphabet liquid without using ink.
The feature’s main collapse started with five Gold symbols touching across the centre.
Two goblets.
A princess.
Grapes.
A coffer.
Drink.
Royalty.
Food.
Storage.
Every practical department of the palace had been placed in one golden chain.
The symbols lit together.
All five became Wilds.
A cluster of Midas portraits surrounded them.
The king’s face connected through the converted remains of his own household.
Five Wilds joined the win.
The multiplier leapt from x11 to x16.
The round paid €40.00.
Coins crossed the screen.
The throne glowed.
Midas raised both hands while several copies of his beard exploded across the grid.
The palace celebrated the king after he had transformed its wine, food, furniture and daughter into universal substitutes for more pictures of himself.
One final Gold goblet joined a later win.
It stayed behind as a Wild.
The next cascade brought grapes.
The Wild completed the cluster.
x17.
Another €8.50 entered the feature.
The goblet had ended its career pretending to be fruit.
By then, the multiplier above the reels represented seventeen separate pieces of Wild participation.
Midas had counted every ruined object and turned the casualty list into arithmetic.
The final Free Spin settled without another golden chain.
A princess stood on the left.
Midas occupied the centre.
Two goblets sat near the bottom.
In the upper-right corner, one ordinary bunch of purple grapes remained untouched.
Not gold.
Not Wild.
Still recognisably edible.
The feature ended at €88.50.
Combined with the earlier collapse, the session finished clearly ahead.
I stopped there.
Midas stayed on his throne.
Both golden hands pointed toward the grid.
The palace had lost cups, coffers, letters, portraits and most of its fruit.
One bunch of grapes remained purple.
I left before the king noticed.
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