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The first spin reached x18 and went nowhere.
An x10 multiplier sat near the left side.
An x8 occupied the lower middle.
Above them were a red racing car, several green gloves, two Ks, a wheel and enough scattered letters to suggest somebody had dismantled the starting grid and replaced half of it with alphabet magnets.
No win.
The reels stopped.
x10 plus x8.
Eighteen.
The machine displayed the number with complete confidence.
Then multiplied zero by eighteen.
Zero remained unusually calm.
I had selected €1.00.
On the screen, two sports cars leaned into each other beneath an orange city sunset while sparks flew from the bodywork. Floodlights surrounded the track. Palm trees blurred in the distance. Everything suggested speed, impact and several future conversations with tyre manufacturers.
The reels themselves had just achieved x18 stationary.
That established the evening.
Second spin.
A red car landed across the upper part of the grid.
Another followed.
A third joined from the left after the first winning symbols collapsed.
Three multiplier blocks were visible.
x2.
x3.
x4.
The car combination and the small continuation beneath it totalled €0.60 before the arithmetic arrived.
The multipliers added themselves.
x9.
€5.40.
At last, something moved.
Gold light crossed the grid. The cars flashed. The race had converted sixty cents into €5.40 using nine times more mathematical horsepower than the underlying vehicle deserved.
That was Speed Winner.
Six reels.
Five normal rows with extra positions hanging beneath the middle columns.
Red cars.
Wheels.
Green racing gloves.
Crossed tools.
Letters.
A female driver appearing as the Wild, dressed in red and carrying the expression of someone who had already checked the mirrors and found several multipliers tailgating.
I pressed again.
A wheel appeared on reel one.
Two more sat farther across.
No connection.
An x7 landed beneath them.
The x7 remained until the spin ended.
No win.
Seven times nothing.
Speed Winner had now fitted a racing wheel with an engine and forgotten the rest of the vehicle.
The next section became qualifying.
Small combinations.
Cars disappearing.
Letters collapsing into new letters.
Green gloves finding just enough company to pay €1.20.
A set of wheels reached €1.60.
One chain of As and crossed tools managed €2.40 before an x3 multiplier turned the whole spin into €7.20.
The screen celebrated.
Purple light.
Orange sparks.
The red car on the artwork continued travelling at a speed incompatible with municipal planning.
Then came the empty multiplier spins.
x6 beside two wheels and no third.
x4 and x5 on a grid full of unrelated letters.
An x10 landed beneath three green gloves that had carefully positioned themselves one reel too far apart to matter.
The x10 glowed.
The gloves remained separate.
This was race engineering by motivational poster.
Maximum enthusiasm.
No traction.
A large red car symbol sometimes occupied several spaces at once. It could cover enough road to require its own postcode and still fail because the next reel had elected a Q.
The Q became a recurring obstacle.
Cars stopped for it.
Wheels stopped for it.
A Wild driver appeared on reel four once and found Ks on either side.
She had turned up ready to substitute for almost anything except the Scatter.
The machine gave her no race to enter.
She disappeared at the end of the spin.
The driver had completed a full shift standing between consonants.
Two trophy Scatters began appearing.
One near the left.
One near the right.
Then three on another spin.
Three trophies.
No race.
No feature.
They stood among wheels and gloves while a x5 multiplier waited below.
Nobody had won enough to deserve the trophies, but the trophies had arrived anyway.
Speed Winner was handing out silverware during qualifying.
The Feature Buy button sat under the reels.
I ignored it.
Any race capable of producing x18 while parked could qualify under its own power.
The long middle continued.
One decent spin produced a car win followed by a collapse into green gloves.
€1.00 became €2.20 across the full sequence.
An x4 and x2 were visible at the end.
x6.
€13.20.
Useful.
Not enough.
The track kept taking euros.
Then the trophies jammed the grid.
One Scatter landed on reel one.
Another dropped onto reel three.
A third appeared on four.
The reels kept settling.
Fourth Scatter.
Feature secured.
The final reel stopped.
A fifth trophy appeared.
Five.
The screen exploded into racing lights.
Eight Free Spins became ten because the fifth Scatter added two more.
Ten laps.
The female driver appeared against a purple racing background while a sports car swung through the feature screen.
I pressed Start.
Free Spin one began with cars along the top and two multiplier blocks lower down.
x2.
x2.
The cars connected.
A short collapse added another tiny win.
€0.60 before the multipliers.
x4.
€2.40.
Nine spins remained.
A respectable formation lap.
Free Spin two landed x10.
Then x8.
Eighteen again.
The same number that had opened the session.
This time the grid contained wheels, gloves, tools and letters.
Nothing won.
x18 sat among them.
The race car had reached maximum advertised excitement and stalled at a pedestrian crossing.
Eight remained.
Free Spin three produced several green gloves.
They connected through the middle.
One x5 multiplier was visible.
The full unmultiplied spin reached €0.80.
x5.
€4.00.
Five times the value of several gloves.
The pit crew could now afford approximately one better glove.
Free Spin four began with red cars.
They connected.
Collapsed.
Wheels landed.
Another small connection.
The total before multipliers reached €1.20.
Two multiplier symbols were sitting on the grid.
x3.
x4.
Seven together.
€8.40.
The track flashed purple.
The driver appeared briefly at the side.
Seven-times power had converted a small car-and-wheel sequence into eight euros and change.
Somewhere, a tyre was being asked to justify the fuel bill.
Six spins remained.
Free Spin five delivered a huge car block across several positions.
No other cars.
An x9 appeared below it.
The giant vehicle occupied a large section of the track, possessed nine times potential and had nobody to race.
Nothing paid.
It disappeared.
The grid had parked a supercar across several lanes and declared the road clear.
Free Spin six brought crossed tools through a short winning route.
One x2 multiplier.
€0.50 became €1.00.
Five remained.
The crossed tools flashed.
One euro.
The pit crew had successfully repaired the exact financial condition they had started with.
Free Spin seven brought three trophy Scatters.
Three.
Inside the feature.
One short of a retrigger.
They occupied reels one, three and six.
A fourth trophy rolled past on reel five.
Stopped above it.
Then vanished.
The final symbol settled on a Q.
Of course.
The Q had now blocked cars, wheels, a Wild driver and overtime.
A small line elsewhere paid €0.40.
One x3 multiplier sat on the grid.
€1.20.
Four spins remained.
The trophies departed.
Nobody received them.
Free Spin eight finally produced a multiplier pile worthy of the artwork.
x10.
x5.
x2.
Seventeen.
At the same time, a small group of Js connected.
They collapsed.
Nothing useful replaced them.
The base win was €0.40.
x17.
€6.80.
The screen fired neon across the grid.
Seventeen times.
Six euros eighty.
The Js had entered the fastest race of their lives and finished with enough money for motorway coffee.
Three remained.
Free Spin nine showed one giant wheel symbol and a red car near the opposite side.
Two multipliers landed.
x6 and x4.
No winning combination.
x10 multiplied the complete absence of roadworthiness.
The giant wheel stayed alone.
The car stayed alone.
Speed Winner had assembled transport as separate departments.
One spin remained.
The last Free Spin started with the red car on reel one.
Green gloves fell through the centre.
A wheel appeared near the right.
An x8 multiplier landed below reel four.
The symbols settled.
The gloves connected.
€0.70.
No collapse continuation.
The x8 enlarged.
€5.60.
The final lap had arrived with eight times acceleration and seventy cents of actual forward motion.
The screen flashed.
The gloves disappeared.
Fresh symbols fell.
Two trophy Scatters appeared.
Not four.
No retrigger.
One sat beside a wheel.
The other landed above a K.
The final grid stopped.
Ten Free Spins had paid €29.40.
The long qualification had already consumed more than that.
The race lights swept across the screen anyway.
The female driver appeared beside the result with a sports car behind her, red cap low over her eyes, victory lighting filling the background.
The machine had the car.
It had the driver.
It had trophies.
It had reached x18 twice, x17 once and several other speeds that would attract immediate police interest if they represented kilometres per hour.
What it had struggled to locate was distance.
€29.40 settled beneath the chequered lights.
One trophy remained visible on the final frame.
The trophy had arrived.
The podium had not.
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