18+ Only. Play Responsibly.
The lemon was the only thing preventing a thunderstorm.
Blue Orb on reel one.
Lemon in the middle.
Blue Orb on reel three.
The two outside reels froze.
The lemon disappeared.
Only reel two started spinning again.
Thunder Blitz 2nd Chance had looked at a perfectly ordinary piece of citrus sitting between two balls of cosmic electricity and decided the lemon deserved another attempt.
The middle reel stopped.
Nothing useful.
No Thunder Blitz symbol.
The Orbs disappeared.
Fruit returned.
The storm had held an emergency second audition for one reel and the lemon’s replacement had failed too.
I stayed at €0.75.
There was no possible reason to leave after that.
I had started with €100.00 on a 3×3 grid that looked as though somebody had taken a very old fruit machine and installed it in the centre of a purple electrical nebula.
Three reels.
Three rows.
Nine paylines.
Pink sevens.
Gold stars.
Bells.
Watermelon.
Grapes.
Oranges.
Plums.
Lemons.
Perfectly traditional objects.
Behind them, lightning crawling through the sky.
Above the reels, a giant glowing Orb.
The game looked one cable away from discovering that grapes conduct electricity.
The first several spins were almost aggressively normal.
Three plums.
€0.75.
A row of oranges.
€1.50.
Bells lined up through the centre.
€1.80.
Then a Wild appeared on reel two and helped a line of watermelons reach the third reel.
€3.00.
Nothing alarming.
The Wild belonged in the middle reel.
It substituted.
Paid.
Gone.
Then came the two Orbs with the lemon between them.
That changed the entire relationship with the grid.
Before that, a failed spin was just a failed spin.
Now I knew the game could occasionally look at a nearly useful arrangement, freeze whichever reels had done their electrical work correctly and send only the disappointing reel back into the storm.
The first attempt had failed.
That barely mattered.
I now distrusted every lemon in the middle.
A few spins later, the centre reel produced a different kind of Wild.
Thunder Blitz.
x2.
Pink seven on reel one.
The x2 Wild in the middle.
Pink seven on reel three.
The line connected.
The Wild substituted and doubled it.
€4.50.
That was much cleaner.
Three symbols.
One line.
Electricity applied to fruit.
Money.
The x2 vanished.
The next centre-reel Thunder Blitz symbol was x5.
It landed between a star and a bell.
Nothing matched.
Five times absolutely nothing remained nothing.
The symbol disappeared.
That was useful too.
The game could put x10 in the centre if it wanted.
Reels one and three still had to agree on what sort of fruit they were discussing.
The balance moved slowly downward.
€91.
€87.
A line of pink sevens pulled back €6.00.
Then several empty rounds removed it again.
One of the blue Orbs landed on reel one by itself.
Nothing in the middle.
Nothing on reel three.
No special treatment.
Another Orb appeared on reel three a few spins later.
Again alone.
The machine required enough electrical evidence before it started questioning individual reels.
At €78.60, I got an Orb on reel one and a Thunder Blitz collector symbol in the middle.
Nothing useful on reel three.
The first two reels held.
Reel three respun.
There it was again.
Second Chance.
This time the missing piece was on the right.
The reel spun by itself.
Blue light moved through the column.
Stopped.
No Orb.
The almost-feature died.
Whatever value had been involved in the original little cash interaction finished and the base game returned.
I stared at reel three longer than any person should stare at a column containing grapes.
That was two.
First attempt: outer Orbs ready, middle failed.
Second attempt: left Orb and middle ready, right failed.
The game had now demonstrated that any part of the three-reel arrangement could become the idiot.
I continued.
€70.
A x3 Wild helped a line of stars.
€4.50.
Two paylines paid together on another spin for €3.75.
Then nothing.
The cosmic background continued pulsing behind a lemon.
There was something wonderfully disproportionate about the whole machine.
The GRAND sat above at a value huge enough to matter.
MAJOR, MINOR and MINI waited around the Orb system.
Thunder Spins had their own button below the reels.
A Buy Bonus button sat beside it.
I left both untouched.
The ordinary €0.75 fruit had already developed a habit of granting failed weather systems another chance.
I wanted the natural version to finish one.
The balance reached €55.20.
Then €51.45.
A red seven line pushed it to €55.95.
Three spins later, €53.70.
I was deep enough into the session that the next electrical incident needed to be useful rather than educational.
It arrived at €42.30.
Blue Orb on reel one.
Middle reel: yellow Thunder Blitz symbol.
x3.
Reel three: grapes.
The first reel froze.
The centre froze.
The grapes were removed from duty.
Only reel three respun.
This was the third Second Chance of the session.
I had seen the middle fail.
I had seen the right fail.
Now the right had been given another attempt with a yellow x3 collector already sitting in the centre like somebody had put a multiplier directly between the weather systems.
The reel slowed.
Blue Orb.
There.
Left Orb.
Yellow x3 in the middle.
Right Orb.
All three pieces.
The entire fruit machine disappeared behind electricity.
Collection Respin Bonus.
Three respins.
The triggering symbols carried over.
The outside Orbs had values.
€1.50 on the left.
€3.00 on the right.
The yellow x3 Thunder Blitz sat between them.
The side values were gathered into it.
€4.50.
Then the Orbs cleared.
The x3 collector remained locked in the centre.
Three spins.
The first respin brought a new Orb on reel one.
€1.50.
It fed the centre.
The yellow collector became €6.00.
The counter reset to three.
The Orb disappeared after collection.
Now there was a six-euro object in the centre carrying x3.
The feature could have stopped there and already created a fairly strange sentence.
It did not.
Next respin.
No Orb on either side.
Something landed in reel two.
Blue Thunder Blitz collector.
Locked.
The counter returned to three.
And the new collector copied what the existing one had already accumulated.
€6.00.
Both of them.
One blue collector showing €6.00.
One yellow x3 collector showing €6.00.
The storm had duplicated the entire history of the first collector into a second object simply because it had arrived later.
This was the point where fruit ceased to have any relevance.
The base game had contained lemons and bells.
The bonus contained two pieces of thunder standing beside each other with matching memories.
Next respin.
Right side.
Blue Orb.
€3.75.
It was collected.
Both centre symbols increased.
€9.75 on the blue.
€9.75 on the yellow x3.
The Orb vanished.
Three spins again.
Now I wanted side Orbs more than anything.
Not because €1.50 or €3.75 was especially dramatic.
Because every new value was feeding both collectors.
One coin of electricity entering from the edge had become two improvements in the middle.
Next respin.
Blank on the left.
Nothing on the right.
Counter down.
Again.
Left Orb.
€2.25.
Right Orb.
€1.50.
Both landed together.
€3.75 of new value.
Both collectors absorbed it.
€13.50.
Blue: €13.50.
Yellow x3: €13.50.
The side Orbs cleared.
The counter went back to three.
The purple background had become almost entirely irrelevant.
I was staring at two centre symbols.
One was worth €13.50.
The other was also worth €13.50 but had x3 attached to it.
They had begun the feature as one yellow collector holding €4.50.
Now there were two of them in value terms, and one had developed a serious multiplication problem.
Next respin.
Nothing.
Two left.
Nothing.
One.
I wanted another Orb.
Either side.
Any value.
€0.50 would have been welcome purely because both centre symbols would eat it.
The reels spun.
Blank.
Finished.
The blue collector paid €13.50.
The yellow one applied its x3.
€40.50.
Total from the two: €54.00.
My balance jumped from €42.30 to €96.30.
The feature disappeared.
Three ordinary reels returned.
First symbol on the left: orange.
Middle: bell.
Right: plum.
No electricity.
No copied collector.
No Orb.
After several minutes of watching cash values bounce from the edges into two locked pieces of thunder, the game had gone straight back to presenting one orange, one bell and one plum as though that was a sensible follow-up.
I stayed at €0.75.
One spin.
Nothing.
Second.
x5 Thunder Blitz Wild in the centre.
Pink seven on the left.
Pink seven on the right.
The line hit.
The x5 applied.
€3.75.
Balance: €98.55.
That was nearly perfect.
I had spent most of the session falling from €100 toward €42 while a fruit machine repeatedly tried to assemble a thunderstorm one reel at a time.
The successful one had rescued almost all of it.
I gave the game one more spin.
Orb on reel one.
Lemon in the centre.
Grapes on reel three.
No Second Chance.
Not enough of the storm had assembled.
The lemon was allowed to remain.
I stopped at €97.80 after the stake.
The final screen contained ordinary fruit again.
No blue Orbs on both sides.
No Thunder Blitz collector in the middle.
Nothing being held for another attempt.
Just a lemon occupying the centre reel without consequences.
At the start of the session, a lemon in the wrong place had been enough for the game to spin an entire reel again.
By the end, one was sitting there peacefully.
Apparently even thunderstorms eventually get tired of arguing with fruit.
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