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By the time the counter reached 39/40, the diamonds had lost my attention.
So had the gold bars.
So had the hearts, spades, clubs and blue squares.
There was one spin left before the machine changed.
I was at €1.00.
The reels stopped.
Nothing important paid.
The counter moved.
40/40.
A new Drop Zone tile lit beside reel five.
DROP DOUBLE ZONE.
Tipping Point Drop Zone had spent forty spins teaching a coin machine how to drop coins twice.
The next few spins did not use it.
Naturally.
The game returned to gemstones and gold bars while the newly qualified piece of machinery sat behind reel five waiting for an invitation.
Three pink diamonds paid €6.
A gold-bar line reached €8.
Then a Wild Drop arrived without warning.
Two large W symbols fell onto reels two and four.
The symbols underneath them disappeared.
A line connected through both Wilds.
One Wild doubled it.
The second doubled it again.
€16 became considerably more interesting before the reels settled.
Then the Wilds vanished and the machine went back to being a machine full of expensive shapes.
A Drop Zone symbol finally landed on reel five.
Blue.
DOUBLE.
The normal lines paid first.
Then the reels dimmed and the coin area opened.
First drop.
A few coins landed.
2x.
1x.
5x.
They settled into the machine.
Second drop.
Another group came down.
2x.
3x.
5x.
The total added together and paid against my €1 stake.
Nothing enormous.
Enough to make the forty-spin upgrade feel less like decorative lighting.
The progress counter had already started its next journey.
41/80.
That became the rhythm.
The paylines were what happened while the machine worked toward its next alteration.
One spin gave €4.
Another gave nothing.
A Multiplier Wild helped a diamond line.
Then six blank-looking spins moved the counter six more places toward the fourth row.
The Free Spins Buy sat beside the game at 50x.
I left it alone.
The counter was already above 60.
The machine had spent most of the session constructing something and I was not paying €50 to leave halfway through the building work.
At 67/80, the two Mystery Bonus symbols arrived.
One on reel two.
One on reel four.
Orange question marks lit above them.
The usual screen disappeared behind a selection of possible outcomes.
Cash.
Free Spins.
Bigger Free Spins.
Jackpot.
Drop Zone.
Wild Drop.
The selector moved.
Past 5x.
Past 10x.
Past the Free Spins options.
Stopped on another spin with Wild Drop.
The reels returned.
Three Wilds fell onto reels one, three and four.
A pink diamond was already waiting on reel two.
Another landed on five.
The line joined.
Multiple Wilds inside it.
The payment started doubling.
Then doubling again.
The new spin finished at €24.
The Mystery symbols had managed to summon three Wilds, complete one diamond line and disappear without explaining why a coin machine now occasionally threw giant gold letters at jewellery.
Progress resumed.
74/80.
A small Drop Zone activation dropped three coins.
€7 total.
Then 80.
The fourth row unlocked.
The Drop Zone graphic expanded.
There was now more vertical space available for coins to land.
The machine had completed eighty spins and rewarded itself with another floor.
The first activation after that upgrade immediately used the new space.
One coin landed in the fresh row.
1x.
Of course.
The rest dropped below it.
2x.
2x.
5x.
An entire structural expansion had been completed so one silver coin could sit slightly higher than the others.
The more important screen arrived not long afterward.
Tipping Point.
Tipping Point.
Tipping Point.
Then a fourth.
Four of the round symbols sat across the reels.
The machine changed.
Free Spins.
Because there had been more than the minimum three Tipping Points, the feature began with its multiplier already raised.
x2.
The first Free Spin dropped coins onto reels one through four.
A 2x value.
5x.
Another 2x.
They stayed.
Second spin.
More coins.
A 10x landed high on reel three.
A 1x occupied a position near the bottom.
Nothing moved.
Nothing was cleared.
The machine was beginning to fill.
Then reel five stopped on MULTI.
The current multiplier increased.
x3.
Every visible coin suddenly mattered more.
Next spin.
Another coin dropped.
5x.
Then LEVEL UP appeared on reel five.
The smallest values were pushed out of the possible future drops.
The coins already sitting there remained exactly where they were.
The feature had looked at the crowded machine and decided the next arrivals needed to be better.
A new 5x landed.
Then an 8x.
The empty spaces were disappearing.
Another modifier arrived.
ROW.
The coin area expanded.
More room.
The machine now had an additional shelf available specifically because the existing shelves were not sufficiently full of money.
A coin immediately landed in it.
3x.
Then another.
5x.
There were still several Free Spins remaining.
No Collector yet.
That became the only symbol I wanted from reel five.
The coin field was already crowded.
2x, 5x, 10x, 5x, 8x and several smaller values were sitting across the positions.
Current multiplier x3.
The coins stayed still.
Reel five spun.
SPINS.
Extra Free Spins.
Useful.
Not the hand I wanted reaching into the machine.
Next spin.
Another coin.
Then reel five slowed.
BOOST.
Several existing values flashed.
One 2x increased.
A 5x became larger.
Another coin improved.
The machine had just made the coins better without paying any of them.
They remained sitting there.
Now Collector mattered even more.
Next spin.
Nothing useful on five.
A new coin landed.
The available spaces were getting scarce.
Then it came.
COLLECT.
Every visible coin lit.
The values added.
The x3 multiplier applied.
The feature total jumped through €30, then €50, then beyond €70.
The Collector finished a little above €80.
The coins did not disappear.
That was the important part.
Every one of them remained in position.
The machine had paid the shelf and left the shelf fully stocked.
The next Free Spin added nothing.
Reel five landed MULTI.
x4.
Now the same coins were worth more.
Another spin.
BOOST.
Two visible values increased again.
The feature was improving money that had already been collected once and was still physically sitting in front of me.
A second SPINS modifier added more time.
The coin machine had apparently concluded that one payment from the same pile was insufficient entertainment.
Two spins later, reel five slowed.
COLLECT.
Again.
Every existing coin flashed.
Same crowded field.
Higher values.
Higher current multiplier.
The counter moved faster this time.
€28.
€56.
€91.
Past €100.
The second collection finished above the first.
None of the coins had needed to fall again.
They had simply remained on the machine long enough to become more expensive and get collected twice.
The remaining Free Spins added a few smaller coins into the last open positions.
Another Level Up appeared, pushing the low-value future coins even further away.
No third Collector.
That would have been excessive even for a machine that had already installed an extra row specifically to hold more circular objects.
The feature ended around €190.
The reels returned to the five-by-three base game.
The progress counter kept climbing.
The session was comfortably ahead.
I stayed at €1.00 for a few more spins.
One ordinary diamond line paid €4.
A Wild Drop missed anything useful.
Then another Drop Zone symbol landed.
The fourth row opened again.
Coins began falling.
One landed low.
Another bounced into the middle.
Then a final silver coin dropped into the newest row.
1x.
Nothing else joined it.
The feature paid and closed.
Eighty spins had taught the machine to build an entire extra level.
It had used the new construction to give one €1 coin a room of its own.
Deck of Divinity doesn’t tease features — it flirts with despair.