How reel games score here
Every reel game in the library draws a fresh grid of symbols each time you press Spin, then checks that grid against a set of rules. The rules are what make one game feel different from another. There are four sets of rules on Pixtavia, and once you know which one a game uses, its pay table reads much more easily.
Lines
A line is a fixed path across the reels, one cell per reel. Nova Orchard has twenty of them, Solar Relic has ten and Cherry Circuit has five. A line scores when the same symbol appears on it from the first reel onwards: three in a row is the shortest result for most symbols, five in a row the longest. Cherries in Cherry Circuit are the one exception and score with two.
Wild symbols stand in for any paying symbol on a line, so a wild in the middle can join two fruits on either side. Only the best result on each line counts, and lines are checked separately, so one spin can score on several lines at once.
Ways
Polar Lights uses ways instead of lines. Rather than following a path, it asks whether a symbol appears anywhere on reel one, then anywhere on reel two, and so on. With three rows on five reels there are 243 possible routes. If an owl appears twice on reel one and once on reels two and three, that is two ways of three owls, and both score.
Clusters and tumbles
Lava Jewels ignores position entirely. It counts how many of each gem are on the six-by-five grid; eight or more of the same gem score together. The scoring gems then shatter, the gems above fall into the gaps and new ones drop in from the top. If the new grid scores again, it tumbles again, and the multiplier on the meter rises with each tumble in the same spin.
Hold and respin
Solar Relic plays as a line game until six or more sun discs land together. Then the discs lock in place and every other cell spins on its own. Three respins sit on the counter; each new disc locks too and sets the counter back to three. When the counter reaches zero, every disc value is added together.
Stake and return
Every figure in a Pixtavia pay table is a multiple of the stake you chose for that spin. If you spin at 100 practice points and a result shows 1.5×, it returns 150 points. That is why the session panel shows two separate numbers, points staked and points returned: over a long sitting the second is, on average, a little smaller than the first, which is how every game of this kind is built.
Practice points have no cash value and are never for sale. Playing or success here does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
