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The chicken above the blue pot had just watched a chilli pepper come out from underneath a popcorn bucket.
That was apparently enough to make him nervous.
The chilli dropped into the pot.
The flames kicked up.
The chicken’s eyes widened.
He was standing directly above a cooking vessel while I collected ingredients underneath him.
Red Hot Chilli Chickens had found a remarkably efficient way to explain motivation.
I had €214 and kept the stake at €0.80.
The kitchen behind the reels was already fully prepared for bad news.
Brick ovens.
Metal pans.
Shelves.
Knives among the symbols.
Garlic.
Onions.
Popcorn buckets for reasons that became less important once three live chickens appeared above three separate pots.
The blue one sat over Free Spins.
The red one had Jackpot Spins.
The green one was attached to Hold & Win.
None looked like they had volunteered.
The first Mystery symbols arrived on reel two and reel four.
They flipped together.
Garlic.
The regular symbols stayed underneath once everything settled.
One Mystery also uncovered the Chilli that went into the blue chicken’s pot.
The bird leaned forward.
The pot glowed.
Nothing triggered yet.
Next few spins brought ordinary food.
Onion combinations.
A little popcorn.
Some letters.
R$—no, euros. The kitchen had not changed currency simply because the ingredients looked familiar.
A line with popcorn paid €4.
Another with garlic returned €2.40.
Then came more Mystery symbols.
This time they revealed onions.
Another Chilli appeared among them.
Different pot.
The red chicken’s.
Into the Jackpot pot it went.
The red bird immediately became the least comfortable object above the reels.
A third useful Mystery reveal came several spins later.
The normal symbol underneath was a knife.
One Chilli fed the green chicken.
Now all three pots had started.
That changed the whole kitchen.
Every Mystery symbol became suspicious.
A block of them landed.
Popcorn.
No Chilli.
Another group.
Garlic.
Nothing.
Then onions plus another blue-pot Chilli.
The blue chicken looked down at the flames again.
If this had been a restaurant, he was standing in the one location a chicken should have rejected immediately.
The balance drifted.
€188.
Then €173.
A few small Wild-assisted lines slowed it.
The pots kept collecting.
Red got another Chilli.
Green got one.
Blue again.
No bonus.
The chickens were now watching the reels with the expression of three birds who had finally understood that every pepper appearing below them was not decorative.
At €149, a large group of Mystery symbols landed across four reels.
They opened.
Popcorn.
Lots of popcorn.
No Chilli.
The three chickens remained alive.
The next spin paid nothing.
Then another.
At roughly €137, Mystery symbols covered enough of the reels that all three birds started moving before the reveal had even finished.
The first hidden Chilli went to blue.
The second went red.
Then green.
Three pots flashed.
Three chickens panicked simultaneously.
All three bonuses lit up from the same spin.
The kitchen had spent nearly an hour heating three separate pots and had somehow reached dinner all at once.
Colossal Free Spins came first.
The middle three reels disappeared behind one enormous 3×3 symbol.
It was garlic.
Nine positions of garlic.
Enough garlic to protect the entire kitchen from vampires, neighbours and possibly flavour.
The surrounding reels failed to connect properly.
€3.20.
Next spin.
Another huge symbol landed over reels two through four.
This one connected better.
€6.40.
Then came a giant popcorn bucket.
It occupied nine positions.
The chickens were still visible above everything, now being threatened by cookware while the reels produced enough popcorn for a cinema.
The lines connected.
€18.40.
Best hit so far.
Another Colossal spin covered most of the middle with a symbol that did almost nothing useful.
Nine positions.
€0.
The slot had found a way to make failure physically enormous.
A couple more paid €4 and €7.20.
Then the colossal part ended.
The blue chicken had survived being surrounded by ingredients considerably larger than itself.
The red chicken’s Jackpot Free Spins took over.
Coloured Jackpot Chillis began appearing.
Blue first.
Then green.
Another blue.
The fixed prizes sat off to the side.
Three Blue Chillis would be MINI at x10.
Four Green would reach MINOR at x20.
The higher colours demanded increasingly improbable amounts of pepper.
A third Blue landed.
MINI.
At €0.80, x10 gave me €8.
The red chicken had activated Jackpot Spins so another chicken’s colour could win eight euros.
Poultry politics had become difficult to follow.
Two Green Chillis appeared during the rest of the feature.
Not four.
One Purple.
Nowhere near five.
Yellow appeared once.
Red did not build anything serious.
The MAX remained x5,000 and completely theoretical to this particular kitchen.
Jackpot Free Spins finished with the MINI and a few ordinary wins.
Then the green chicken’s Hold & Win opened.
The reels stripped back.
Prize symbols began landing.
x3.
x6.
x10.
Then nothing.
A Collector appeared.
Everything visible was gathered.
x19.
€15.20.
The Collector also added two extra spins.
The green chicken had managed to delay dinner by collecting the contents of the pot.
A new x5 arrived.
Then x8.
Another spin produced nothing.
A later Collector gathered the new values and added one more spin.
No x1,000 Prize symbol ever appeared.
Nothing even looked interested in becoming x1,000.
The feature finished with useful money rather than heroic money.
Across all three bonuses, the recovery was substantial.
The balance had climbed back toward where the session had been before the pots became dangerous.
Not ahead.
Close enough that the three chickens could reasonably claim they had survived the main course.
The base game returned.
All three pots went back to waiting.
I kept the stake at €0.80.
For a while, that seemed sensible.
A Wild helped onions to €4.80.
Mystery symbols revealed popcorn.
No Chilli.
Another group produced garlic and a green Chilli.
Into the Hold & Win pot.
The green chicken looked down.
Here we go again.
A few spins later, the red pot received one.
Then blue.
The kitchen restarted its recipe much faster than I expected.
None of the pots filled.
The balance began sliding again.
€152.
Then €139.
The ordinary wins became smaller.
Mystery symbols kept arriving just often enough to keep the chickens involved.
Three appeared.
Onions.
No pepper.
Five appeared.
Popcorn plus one Chilli.
Blue.
Another group gave garlic.
Nothing.
A Wild landed beside enough Ks for €3.20.
The three birds remained perched above the same cookware, increasingly surrounded by evidence that the first escape had not changed the menu.
One Mystery reveal put two Chillis on the same spin.
Red and green.
Both pots flashed.
Neither triggered.
The blue chicken stayed quiet.
The next twelve spins produced no Chillis at all.
The pots cooled.
The reels filled with letters, onions and knives.
Then one chilli appeared alone.
Blue.
A few spins later, green.
The kitchen kept restarting without ever reaching the same simultaneous panic as before.
Eventually one final block of Mystery symbols landed across the centre.
They opened together.
Onions.
A lot of onions.
The regular symbols underneath remained on the reels.
One hidden Chilli appeared among them.
It dropped into the blue pot.
The flame rose.
The blue chicken looked straight down.
The red chicken turned toward him.
The green one stayed beside its own pot.
Above the reels, all three were still alive.
Below them, the kitchen had already started the recipe again.
My Wi-Fi dropped. Mighty Masks kept spinning.