18+ Only. Play Responsibly.
I left the Fever Boost switch alone.
It was glowing on the right side of the bank.
Very available.
Very red.
Very capable of charging €2.50 for a €1.00 base bet and then removing every symbol except Vaults.
Not yet.
The Vault Prize Multiplier was sitting at x1.
There was no reason to fill an entire bank with safes while the largest number attached to the burglary was still one.
Robin Banks stood on the left of the reels in a black mask and catsuit, surrounded by security cameras, steel walls and one enormous circular vault door.
Above reels 2, 3 and 4 sat three little mask collections.
Two masks per reel.
That was the part I watched first.
Robin Banks Bonanza had made the thief herself the Wild.
Then it had arranged things so that enough copies of the thief could occupy an entire reel.
This seemed like an excellent robbery plan if the objective was eventually to have more Robin Banks than bank.
The ordinary spins were reasonably civilised.
Diamonds.
Stacks of cash.
Gold bars.
A purse bulging with coins.
K, Q, J and the usual card ranks apparently allowed into the vault room for reasons nobody had explained to the security cameras.
A diamond line returned a few euros.
Cash did another.
Then the first Vault symbols appeared.
One on reel 1.
Another on reel 2.
Nothing on reel 3.
No Vault win.
The multiplier on the right moved.
x1.5.
That was useful.
The two vaults had got as far as the second room, discovered the corridor ended, and somehow made the next successful robbery more valuable.
I kept Fever Boost off.
A Robin Banks Wild landed on reel 3.
The first little mask above that reel filled.
She substituted into a modest line.
Gone next spin.
But the mask stayed.
Another Vault attempt arrived later.
Reel 1.
Reel 2.
Again, no third consecutive Vault.
No payout.
Multiplier:
x2.
The bank was rewarding failed approaches to the vault by making the next proper vault raid larger.
That became more interesting than most of the normal symbols.
Then Robin Banks appeared on reel 2.
One mask filled there.
Now reel 2 had one robber stored above it.
Reel 3 also had one.
Reel 4 remained innocent.
For the moment.
A few regular spins passed.
Gold bars paid around €6.
A diamond line with a Wild returned another €8.
Then Robin Banks landed on reel 3 again.
Second mask.
Collection full.
The next spin began and reel 3 stopped being a reel.
It became Robin Banks.
Top.
Middle.
Bottom.
Three identical masked thieves standing vertically inside a heavily monitored bank.
And immediately every Vault symbol disappeared from the game.
That was the beautiful contradiction.
I had spent several spins building a Vault multiplier.
Robin Banks had finally multiplied herself enough to occupy a complete reel.
The bank responded by banning the vaults.
Not locking them.
Not hiding them.
Simply refusing to let any Vault symbol enter while she was standing there.
The first Wild Reel spin produced diamonds on the outside.
Three Robin Banks occupied the entire centre.
The diamonds connected through them.
About €11.
Next spin, still all Robin Banks on reel 3.
Gold bars crossed.
A card line joined them.
Around €7.
Then her two-spin occupation ended.
Reel 3 returned to normal.
The Vaults were apparently allowed back inside their own building.
One appeared on reel 1 almost immediately.
Another reel 2.
Nothing beyond them.
Multiplier:
x2.5.
Good.
Another few spins.
A Wild here.
Cash there.
No collection completed.
No full Wild Reel blocking the vault room.
Then the same failed Vault approach happened again.
Vault reel 1.
Vault reel 2.
Reel 3 gave me a diamond.
No win.
x3.
That was the number I had been waiting for.
The Fever Boost switch was still on the right.
The Wild Reel had expired.
No reel was currently occupied wall-to-wall by Robin Banks.
I turned the Boost on.
The next spin cost €2.50.
The ordinary bank vanished.
No diamonds.
No cash bundles.
No gold bars.
No purse.
No card symbols.
No Robin Banks.
Only Vaults.
An entire screen devoted to enormous circular doors containing cash values and jackpots.
The bank had stopped pretending to be anything except a room full of things that needed breaking into.
First boosted spin.
Vault on reel 1.
Vault on reel 2.
The rest landed awkwardly.
No three-reel consecutive win.
Multiplier:
x3.5.
That was exactly what I wanted.
Also €2.50 gone.
Next spin.
Vaults everywhere.
Unfortunately, “everywhere” included several places that were not useful.
One on reel 1.
Nothing reel 2 in the matching route.
Several farther right.
No proper combination.
Another €2.50.
The Fever Boost had turned the reels into a corridor of vault doors and still found ways to arrange them so nobody could reach the third room.
Another spin.
Again.
Vaults.
Metal.
Numbers.
A Minor appeared on the right side where it could do absolutely nothing useful.
Gone.
The next spin finally placed Vaults on reels 1 and 2 again without completing the run.
The multiplier climbed.
x4.
Now the whole bank looked dangerous.
The jackpot ladder on the right had effectively become fatter too.
Mini.
Minor.
Major.
Mega.
All waiting under x4 if the right Vault combination arrived.
But a normal Vault win would also reset the multiplier.
That turned the next spins into something stranger than simply wanting a win.
I wanted the Vaults.
I wanted them to connect.
But I also wanted the x4 to survive long enough for Robin Banks to do something with it.
The game made the decision first.
The screen changed.
Robin Banks Bonus.
The masked thief appeared.
Vault symbols started being distributed across the reels.
Not suggested.
Not teased.
Placed.
Reel 1 received one.
Reel 2.
Reel 3.
The combination existed.
More Vaults landed around it during the same spin.
One opened as 5x.
Another 3x.
Smaller cash values appeared.
Then a purple one revealed Major.
50x.
At a €1 base.
Under x4.
That single Major had suddenly become €200 worth of very serious metal.
The other winning Vault values were multiplied too.
The whole result ran into the €180-ish range after the actual winning configuration was resolved.
It was the cleanest robbery of the session.
Robin Banks had spent the earlier spins turning herself into entire reels and temporarily making vaults illegal.
Now she had come back, physically arranged the vault doors into a paying route and left the x4 multiplier untouched.
The multiplier still showed x4 when the Bonus finished.
That mattered.
Fever Boost was still on.
I turned it off.
No attempt to squeeze one more all-Vault spin out of the bank.
The expensive part had done its job.
Normal symbols returned.
Diamonds.
Cash.
Gold bars.
The masked thief herself was allowed back onto the reels.
Two spins later, Robin Banks landed on reel 2.
The second mask above that reel filled.
Collection complete.
Next two spins:
Wild Reel.
Reel 2 became three Robin Banks stacked on top of one another.
And because a Wild Reel was now active, Vault symbols were banned again.
The x4 multiplier was still sitting on the right.
Beautiful number.
Completely unable to meet a Vault for the next two spins.
I looked at the full Robin Banks reel.
Looked at x4.
Looked at the vault door in the background.
Then stopped.
The session was roughly €45 ahead.
There were two free-standing opportunities for ordinary Wild Reel wins waiting if I continued.
There were also exactly zero chances for the x4 Vault multiplier to meet a Vault until Robin Banks finished occupying reel 2.
That was enough.
Robin Banks Bonanza had spent the session building a robbery around one central problem:
every time the thief became too successful at being everywhere, the vaults had to leave.
Autoplay on Dream Diner Deluxe is a study in regret automation.