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The gold card landed face-down.
Nothing touched it.
Nothing opened it.
It sat on reel four beneath a wheel showing x1, shining like the most expensive secret on the screen and contributing exactly nothing to the spin.
Then it disappeared.
That became the first rule I actually cared about.
X-Wheel & Golden Deal had put a giant multiplier wheel above the reels, scattered sealed gold cards underneath it and made the cards behave like tiny safes that only acknowledged winning symbols physically crossing their position.
No win through the card.
No deal.
No reveal.
Just a gold rectangle sitting there with its mouth shut.
I was playing at €1.00.
The reels had the sort of polished gold-and-black casino look where even the low symbols seemed to have been buffed before being allowed onto the screen.
Sevens.
Bars.
Diamonds.
Gold trim everywhere.
And above all of it, the X-Wheel.
x1.
A magnificent circular object currently multiplying things by the same amount they were already worth.
The first few spins kept it there.
A bar win paid a few euros.
Diamonds crossed three reels.
Another little hit.
Golden Deal cards appeared twice more and both missed every paying route.
They arrived.
They gleamed.
They vanished unopened.
The game was filling the reels with sealed gold doors and making me wait for the symbols to accidentally walk through one.
The first one finally opened when a diamond way passed directly across it.
The card flipped.
Gold flooded the position.
Next spin, that exact spot remained golden.
Bars crossed it.
The X-Wheel was still x1, so the gold had achieved the impressive feat of making an ordinary win look considerably more expensive without changing its value very much.
Still, the position had been touched.
The game now had one patch of gold where there had previously been only polished black.
Another Deal card arrived two spins later.
This time a seven combination reached it.
The card flipped.
Not another Gold position.
Wheel Up.
The circle above the reels moved.
x2.
Much better.
Now the giant wheel had advanced beyond decorative furniture.
The next Golden Deal card landed on reel two.
No win.
Closed.
Gone.
Another on reel five.
A bar combination stopped one reel too early.
Closed.
Gone.
The cards were becoming the entire session.
I barely cared whether a small combination paid €2 or €4.
I wanted to know whether its route clipped the gold rectangle hiding behind it.
Two cards landed together.
A diamond win crossed both.
The first opened into Gold.
The second fed the wheel.
x3.
The new Gold position survived into the following spin and caught part of a seven combination.
x3.
That one mattered.
The counter moved properly for the first time.
Not huge.
Enough for the wheel to stop looking ceremonial.
Then the base game started eating again.
Several spins with no useful Gold.
One Deal card at the bottom of reel three that nobody reached.
Another on the far right sitting directly beside a respectable win and somehow avoiding it completely.
The reels had become very good at placing treasure one step away from being relevant.
Then three Golden Deal cards arrived together.
One low on reel one.
One through the centre.
One on reel four.
The symbols around them looked messy until the diamonds connected.
The winning path crossed all three.
Every card opened.
The first turned its position Gold.
The second hit the wheel.
The third hit it again.
x3 became x6.
Then the whole screen changed.
Eight Golden Deal Spins.
Six Gold positions were already waiting on the reels.
The wheel stayed at x6.
That was the first moment the game looked as though someone had tipped an entire tray of melted jewellery across it and then mounted a multiplier above the spill.
First spin.
Sevens connected through two Gold positions.
x6.
Around €24.
A new Deal card landed on the same result.
The win reached it.
Flip.
Another Gold position.
It stayed.
Now the feature had seven permanent golden patches.
The reels were slowly losing ordinary floor space.
Another spin dropped a Golden Deal card near the centre.
A diamond win touched it.
Wheel Up.
x8.
The circle moved again.
The Gold positions below it did not move at all.
That was the combination I wanted.
More gold underneath.
Bigger number above.
The feature was gradually turning into a room where every surface had been gilded and the ceiling had learned multiplication.
A couple of spins produced smaller wins.
Bars through one Gold position.
A seven route through two.
x8 made both useful.
Then diamonds spread across the middle.
Four Gold positions sat under the same winning shape.
The x8 wheel hit everything crossing them.
Around €38.
The screen now had enough gold on it that the ordinary dark positions looked temporary.
Another card opened.
Gold again.
The centre of reel three turned permanent.
Next spin, another card appeared directly above it.
Seven symbols crossed.
Flip.
Wheel Up.
x10.
The wheel was now only two steps away from becoming ridiculous.
Two spins remained after the next quiet one.
Gold filled most of reels two and three.
Several positions on reel four had joined them.
A card dropped onto the edge of the golden mass.
A small bar win just reached it.
The card opened.
Wheel Up.
x12.
That number sat above a reelscape that was already mostly gold through the middle.
The final two spins had stopped looking like ordinary slot spins.
They looked like somebody had covered the central reels in gold leaf and was now dropping casino symbols onto the wet surface to see what stuck.
Penultimate spin.
Sevens on the left.
Bars through the centre.
Diamonds filling gaps.
The Gold positions connected everything useful.
The wheel stayed at x12.
The first win counted.
Then another.
Then more ways through the same glowing centre.
The total jumped past €50.
Then €100.
The gold kept lighting.
Around €180 from the spin before it finally stopped.
The giant wheel above the reels had begun the session at x1, doing absolutely nothing a normal number could not do by itself.
Now it was sitting at x12 over a central block of permanent Gold while sevens, bars and diamonds fought over who got to cross it.
One spin left.
No giant repeat.
A smaller seven combination caught two Gold positions.
x12.
Around €22.
Enough.
The Golden Deal Spins ended near €310.
The base game had taken a decent bite before the three-card trigger, but not remotely enough to matter anymore.
The feature vanished.
The permanent Gold vanished with it.
The X-Wheel fell back to x1.
The reels returned to black and gold.
I gave it one more spin.
A Golden Deal card landed on reel two.
Face-down.
Diamonds appeared above it.
Bars below.
A seven combination passed somewhere else.
Nothing touched the card.
It stayed closed.
After a feature that had turned half the reels gold and pushed the wheel all the way to x12, X-Wheel & Golden Deal finished by placing one final gold secret directly on the screen.
And refusing to deal it.
Professor Big Win was designed by someone who lost a bet.