Big Bite Push Ways

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Big Bite Push Ways",
    "provider": "Push Gaming",
    "game_kind": "video_slot",
    "in_game_wordmark": "BIG BITE PUSH WAYS - identical to the catalog/preview name, no divergent short form observed on any captured frame (preview.png, base_game.png, autoplay.png, push_bet_on.png, free_spins_intro.png all print the same full wordmark).",
    "theme": "Arctic / polar-ocean pirate-animal adventure. Anthropomorphic seafaring animals (bear captain, walrus, penguin) in pirate/naval outfits, an orca predator as the collector symbol, fish and treasure (jackpot) prizes, all set against icebergs and frozen sea water.",
    "mood": "Bright, playful, family-friendly cartoon adventure - no horror or dark elements.",
    "art_style": "Flat-to-semi-painterly 2D vector cartoon illustration. Character portraits (bear, walrus, penguin, orca) use bold dark outlines with soft airbrushed/glossy shading (rounded highlights, gentle gradients) giving a toy-like finish, while low-tier symbols (playing-card suits, compass, potion bottle, boot) are flatter, simpler icon art. Lighting is bright, even daytime arctic light - pale blue sky, white ice, no dramatic shadows, no neon, no photoreal rendering. Camera is a static frontal view directly onto the reel grid (no isometric or angled perspective). Overall mood is casual-mobile-casino cheerful, not cinematic or dark.",
    "background_setting": "Frozen sea / iceberg field behind the reels: pale blue-white ice floes and mountain-like icebergs under a light blue sky, softly blurred (depth-of-field) so the reel grid stands out.",
    "reel_frame_decoration": "The 6-reel grid is boxed in a thick wooden frame wrapped in brown twisted rope with round brass/gold rivets at the corners and mid-points - a pirate-ship / treasure-chest visual motif repeated on every game screen.",
    "symbol_tile_texture": "Individual reel cells are translucent, frosted ice-blue tiles with a visible cracked-ice texture pattern; paying symbols sit on this icy tile background."
  },
  "grid_and_mechanic": {
    "base_grid": "6 reels x 4 rows (24 base positions)",
    "mechanic": "Push Ways - a variable-ways cluster/cascade hybrid. Printed verbatim on rules_p1.png: 'Big Bite Push Ways is a 6 x 4 ways slot with up to 262,144 ways.'",
    "ways_range": "4,096 ways (base 6x4 grid, 4 symbols per reel) up to a printed maximum of 262,144 ways (all 6 reels expanded to 8 symbols per reel, 8^6 = 262,144). Verbatim from rules_p2.png/p3.png: 'Big Bite Push Ways can pay in up to 262,144 Ways. Any combination of 2 or more matching symbols will award a win, provided they appear anywhere on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel.'",
    "ways_counter_ui": "A grey stone/wood tablet in the top-left of the game screen permanently displays the current ways total; it starts every spin at 4,096 and climbs live (observed values across captured frames: 4096 -> 8192 -> 16384 -> 32768 -> 65536 -> 131072 -> 262144) as Hot Zone splits add rows to individual reels.",
    "payout_rule_text": "Verbatim from rules_p2.png: 'A symbol win is awarded when a combination of two or more matching symbols appear on adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. Only the payout for the longest winning combination is awarded. The highest combination win value is always awarded. All wins occur on matching win combinations except for Jackpot and Instant Prize Symbols. Jackpot and Instant prizes are added to matching combination wins or equivalents. Wins on separate matching combinations are added.'",
    "cascade_rule_text": "Verbatim from rules_p2.png: 'At the start of a game round, all symbols from the previous game round are removed from the grid and new symbols spin in. When matching combinations occur, winning symbols are paid and removed, and all remaining symbols on the board collapse downwards. Also, new symbols drop from the top of the screen to fill all available positions on the board.'",
    "bet_selection_memory_text": "Verbatim from rules_p3.png: 'When a bet is selected, the symbols on the reels change to the symbols that were on the reels at the end of the last game that was played at the selected bet. If a game has not been previously played at the selected bet, default symbols will appear on the reels.'"
  },
  "hot_zone_feature": {
    "name": "Hot Zone",
    "description_text_verbatim": "From rules_p6.png/p7.png: 'Hot Zones can land anywhere on the reels. Hot Zones come in stacks of 4 and may land in any position on the reels, as long as there are not already any Hot Zones on that reel. While symbols spin under a Hot Zone, they become split. Symbols that land inside the Hot Zones will remain split into 2 symbols in their current position. When symbols are split inside the Hot Zones, the number of winning ways will increase. The Hot Zones will nudge down by 1 position on each spin. When a win occurs within the Hot Zones, winning symbols are paid and removed, introducing new and existing symbols which fall in. When existing or new symbols fall into the Hot Zone, they will also split into 2 symbols. When symbols that are split into 2 symbols fall down and outside of the Hot Zone, they will remain split. All Paying Symbols, Wild Symbols, Fish Symbols, Jackpot Symbols, Orca Symbols and Bonus Symbols can split in the Hot Zone. The Hot Zones can land during the Base Game and the Free Spins Feature. In the Free Spins Feature, two stacks of Hot Zones start on reels 2 and 5.'",
    "visual_cue": "A Hot Zone stack is shown as a distinct glowing turquoise/cyan outline around the affected reel column, one reel-cell-column wide, spanning the 4 stacked positions; base_game_hotzone_split.png shows the first such split (ways 4096 -> 8192), and base_game_hotzone_65536.png / base_game_all_bonus.png / base_game_max_ways.png show progressively more reels affected up to the observed maximum of all 6 reels split to 8 rows each (262,144 ways, base_game_max_ways.png).",
    "practical_effect_observed": "Doubling a reel from 4 to 8 positions doubles the ways total for that reel's contribution; repeating across all 6 reels during the purchased Bonus Buy sequence produced the printed sequence 4096 -> 8192 -> 16384 -> 32768 -> 65536 -> 131072 -> 262144, matching 4^6=4096 through 8^6=262144 exactly."
  },
  "symbols": {
    "note_on_basis": "All currency figures below are printed at the paytable's stated anchor bet of 0.50 fun (paytable_p1.png header: 'All wins shown are in fun and valid for the current bet of 0.50 fun'). Payout basis is Total Bet (rules text calls the anchor 'Base Bet', which equals Total Bet whenever the Push Bet toggle is off, as it was for every paytable capture). Tier counts are number of matching symbols on adjacent reels (Ways mechanic, not fixed paylines).",
    "wild": {
      "name": "Wild Symbol",
      "appearance": "A ship's steering wheel (helm), rendered in warm gold/brown wood tones, mounted over a stylised silhouette of a wooden sailing ship on rolling teal-blue waves; the word 'WILD' is printed across the lower half in bold gold 3-D bevelled letters outlined in dark brown. Sits on the same gold rope-and-rivet frame border as all other symbol tiles.",
      "function_text_verbatim": "From paytable_p1.png / rules_p3.png: 'The Wild Symbol is a symbol that substitutes for all other paying symbols except for the Fish Symbols, Jackpot Symbols, Orca Symbols and Bonus Symbols.'",
      "payouts": null
    },
    "paying_symbols_high_to_low": [
      {
        "name": "Bear Sea Captain",
        "tier": "highest-paying regular symbol",
        "appearance": "Cream/tan bear head and shoulders wearing a red captain's cap with a gold anchor emblem and black peaked brim; a reddish hair tuft between the ears; brown eyes, tan snout with a dark nose; a dark brown wooden smoking pipe held in the mouth; wears a red double-breasted coat with gold trim and buttons, visible at the shoulders.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 1.00, "5": 0.75, "4": 0.50, "3": 0.25, "2": 0.10},
        "note": "Only symbol on the sheet with a printed 2-of-a-kind payout (0.10 fun for 2 matching)."
      },
      {
        "name": "Walrus",
        "tier": "mid-high",
        "appearance": "Brown/tan walrus face wearing a dark grey-brown knit beanie hat; thick blonde/tan mustache and two long ivory tusks; pink nose, sleepy half-closed eyes; wears a lavender-purple knitted turtleneck sweater. Purple-toned tile background.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.80, "5": 0.60, "4": 0.40, "3": 0.20}
      },
      {
        "name": "Penguin Sailor",
        "tier": "mid-high (same tier as Walrus)",
        "appearance": "Black-and-cream penguin wearing a dark green ushanka-style fur trooper hat with dark ear flaps; green canvas overalls with metal buttons over a black body; yellow beak, stern lowered-brow expression. Green-toned tile background.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.80, "5": 0.60, "4": 0.40, "3": 0.20}
      },
      {
        "name": "Compass",
        "tier": "mid-low",
        "appearance": "A round red compass instrument with gold trim and a red-and-white needle dial, hung from a rope loop at the top; icy blue-tinted tile background.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.40, "5": 0.30, "4": 0.20, "3": 0.10}
      },
      {
        "name": "Potion Bottle",
        "tier": "mid-low (same tier as Compass)",
        "appearance": "A dark red/maroon glass bottle with a cork stopper and a wrapped paper label around its middle; purple-tinted tile background.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.40, "5": 0.30, "4": 0.20, "3": 0.10}
      },
      {
        "name": "Boot",
        "tier": "mid-low (same tier as Compass/Potion Bottle)",
        "appearance": "A worn brown/olive leather sailor's boot with visible laces; gold/olive-tinted tile background.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.40, "5": 0.30, "4": 0.20, "3": 0.10}
      },
      {
        "name": "Spade (card suit)",
        "tier": "lowest",
        "appearance": "A spade-shaped icon tinted red, on a frosted ice-blue translucent tile.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.20, "5": 0.15, "4": 0.10, "3": 0.05}
      },
      {
        "name": "Heart (card suit)",
        "tier": "lowest (same tier as Spade)",
        "appearance": "A heart-shaped icon tinted purple/lavender, on a frosted ice-blue translucent tile.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.20, "5": 0.15, "4": 0.10, "3": 0.05}
      },
      {
        "name": "Diamond (card suit)",
        "tier": "lowest (same tier as Spade/Heart)",
        "appearance": "A diamond-shaped icon tinted green, on a frosted ice-blue translucent tile.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.20, "5": 0.15, "4": 0.10, "3": 0.05}
      },
      {
        "name": "Club (card suit)",
        "tier": "lowest (same tier as Spade/Heart/Diamond)",
        "appearance": "A club-shaped icon tinted blue, on a frosted ice-blue translucent tile.",
        "payouts_fun_at_0.50_bet": {"6": 0.20, "5": 0.15, "4": 0.10, "3": 0.05}
      }
    ],
    "colorblind_note": "The four card-suit low symbols are distinguished primarily by SHAPE (spade/heart/diamond/club), with color as a secondary, non-essential cue (red/purple/green/blue tints on an otherwise uniform icy tile) - safe for all colorblind types. The mid-tier trio (Compass/Potion Bottle/Boot) and the two upper-mid symbols (Walrus/Penguin) are distinguished by distinct object silhouettes, not by color alone. The five jackpot tiers (see jackpots section) are each labelled with printed text (MINI/MINOR/MAJOR/MEGA/GRAND) in addition to their color coding.",
    "fish_symbol": {
      "name": "Fish Symbol",
      "appearance": "A small teal/turquoise fish icon on an orange-to-blue gradient square tile, with a currency amount printed on a light-blue ribbon/banner directly beneath the fish.",
      "function_text_verbatim": "From paytable_p3.png / rules_p4.png: 'The Fish Symbol is a symbol with an Instant Prize value attached to it. It can only land on reels 2, 3, 4, and 5. These values are: x1, x2, x5, x10, x25, x100. Fish Symbols are available during the Base Game and the Free Spins Feature.'",
      "instant_prize_multipliers": [1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 100],
      "observed_currency_values_at_0.50_bet": [0.50, 1.00, 2.50, 5.00, 12.50],
      "note": "Instant Prize values are paid independently of the ways paytable and are not part of the symbols table above; they are collected by the Orca Symbol (see below) or paid directly if adjacent to it."
    },
    "jackpot_symbol": {
      "name": "Jackpot Symbol",
      "appearance": "A scallop-shell-shaped badge, color- and text-coded per tier, displaying the tier name (e.g. a green shell reading 'MINOR', seen in free_spins_jackpot_minor_symbol.png).",
      "function_text_verbatim": "From paytable_p4.png / rules_p4.png: 'The Jackpot Symbol is a symbol with an Instant Prize value attached to it. These values are seen at all times above the reels. Jackpot Symbols can only land on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. The Jackpot values are Base Bet multipliers, and their values are: Mini (x10), Minor (x25), Major (x100), Mega (x500), Grand (x2000). Jackpot Symbols are available during the Base Game and the Free Spins Feature.'"
    },
    "orca_symbol": {
      "name": "Orca Symbol",
      "appearance": "A dark navy/near-black orca whale head shown head-on with mouth wide open, sharp white teeth, a red throat/gum interior, a pale grey-white lower jaw/belly patch, and small narrow blue-white eyes with an angry expression. Set inside the same gold rope-and-rivet frame border used for the reel grid, giving it a distinct 'trophy tile' look versus the plain ice tiles of other symbols. During Free Spins collection it additionally shows a small circular gold multiplier badge (e.g. 'x10') near its lower jaw.",
      "function_text_verbatim": "From paytable_p6.png / rules_p5.png: 'The Orca Symbol is a Collector Symbol and can only land on reels 1 and 6 during the Base Game and the Free Spins Feature. When the Orca Symbol lands alongside Fish Symbols or Jackpot Symbols, it collects any Fish and Jackpot Symbol values. When the Orca Symbol lands with a multiplier attached to it, the multiplier value will be applied to any value collected. The multiplier values that can appear on the Orca Symbol during the Base Game are: x1, x2, x3, x5 and x10. 2 Orca Symbols may land at any point. When they land together with Fish Symbols or Jackpot Symbols, each Orca Symbol will collect the values attached to them and apply the corresponding multipliers, if available.'",
      "base_game_multiplier_range": [1, 2, 3, 5, 10],
      "restricted_reels": "Only reels 1 and 6 (the two outer reels)",
      "arithmetic_verification_base_game": "base_game_orca_collected.png: collected total shown as 4.00 fun at x1 multiplier (default, no multiplier badge shown) after collecting nearby Fish Instant Prizes of 0.50 and (implied) further prizes summing to 4.00.",
      "arithmetic_verification_free_spins": "Cross-checked twice during the captured Free Spins round at x10 starting multiplier: (1) free_spins_orca_collect_950.png / free_spins_orca_x10_9500.png show the Orca settling on a collected total of 95.00 fun (= 9.50 raw Fish-tile sum x10); (2) free_spins_super_win_200.png shows the Orca badge reading 'x10' with a resolved value of 75.00 fun directly above the 'SUPER WIN 75.00' banner (= 7.50 raw sum x10). Both pairs are internally consistent with the printed x10 multiplier rule. Note: on the two named frames captured for the first pair the win-counter animation had already resolved to the post-multiplier figure (95.00) in both stills - the pre-multiplier 9.50 tally itself was not caught on a still frame, only its arithmetic consequence."
    },
    "bonus_symbol": {
      "name": "Bonus Symbol",
      "appearance": "A gold anchor-and-key emblem on a dark wood-textured shield/crest, with a curved 'BONUS' text banner in orange/gold beveled lettering underneath, flanked by small gold stars. When split by a Hot Zone, two identical copies stack vertically and both read 'BONUS' (visible as a doubled 'BONUS / BONUS' banner in base_game_hotzone_split.png, base_game_jackpot_symbol.png, base_game_hotzone_65536.png, base_game_all_bonus.png and base_game_max_ways.png).",
      "function_text_verbatim": "From rules_p6.png/p7.png: 'The Free Spins Feature is triggered when 3 or more Bonus Symbols land anywhere on the reels. When more than 3 Bonus Symbols land, the number of Free Spins and the initial multiplier will be increased.'",
      "trigger_threshold": "3 or more Bonus Symbols landing anywhere on the reels (not restricted to specific reels; can appear anywhere, and be duplicated by Hot Zone splits)."
    }
  },
  "free_spins_feature": {
    "name": "Free Spins Feature",
    "trigger": "3 or more Bonus Symbols landing anywhere on the reels during the Base Game.",
    "award_table_by_bonus_symbol_count_verbatim_from_rules_p7_p8": [
      {"bonus_symbols": 3, "free_spins": 10, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x1"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 4, "free_spins": 11, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x1"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 5, "free_spins": 12, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x1"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 6, "free_spins": 12, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x2"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 7, "free_spins": 13, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x2"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 8, "free_spins": 13, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x3"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 9, "free_spins": 14, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x3"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 10, "free_spins": 14, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x5"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 11, "free_spins": 15, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x5"},
      {"bonus_symbols": 12, "free_spins": 15, "starting_orca_multiplier": "x10"}
    ],
    "hot_zone_start_in_free_spins": "Two Hot Zone stacks always start on reels 2 and 5 (rules_p6.png/p7.png verbatim: 'In the Free Spins Feature, two stacks of Hot Zones start on reels 2 and 5.').",
    "progression_meter": {
      "description_verbatim": "From rules_p8.png: 'Orca Symbols that land during the Free Spins will be collected towards the Progression meter next to the reels. When a new level is reached, additional Free Spins and an Orca Symbol multiplier is awarded.'",
      "levels_verbatim": [
        {"level": 1, "reward": "4 additional Free Spins and a x2 Orca Symbol Multiplier"},
        {"level": 2, "reward": "4 additional Free Spins and a x3 Orca Symbol Multiplier"},
        {"level": 3, "reward": "4 additional Free Spins and a x5 Orca Symbol Multiplier"},
        {"level": 4, "reward": "4 additional Free Spins and a x10 Orca Symbol Multiplier"}
      ],
      "hot_zone_double_contribution_rule": "Verbatim from rules_p8.png: 'Orca Symbols that land within a Hot Zone during the Free Spins Feature will contribute twice to the progression meter.'",
      "ui_widget": "A vertical ladder to the right of the reel grid, visible throughout Free Spins (e.g. free_spins_gameplay.png). Reading top to bottom: a gold circular 'x10' badge cap, then a purple/lavender striped ladder track with round waypoint markers labelled 'x5', 'x3', 'x2' in descending order, terminating at the bottom in a circular orca-head icon (the progression meter's current position/base). The currently-reached rungs are highlighted; the top 'x10' badge glows gold to show the maximum reachable base-game-independent multiplier tier."
    },
    "captured_round_summary": {
      "trigger_method": "Bonus Buy purchase of the Random Bonus Symbol Feature (see bonus_buy section), which chained multiple Hot Zone splits up to the printed maximum of 262,144 ways before resolving into a very large number of Bonus Symbols on the board (well above the 12-symbol table ceiling).",
      "award_shown": "free_spins_intro.png: 'YOU HAVE BEEN AWARDED X10 MULTIPLIER WITH 15 FREE SPINS' - matches exactly the table's 12-Bonus-Symbols row (15 spins, x10 starting multiplier), consistent with the Bonus Buy having produced at least 12 Bonus Symbols on the triggering board.",
      "documented_through": "Spin 13 of 15 (free_spins_super_win_200.png / win_screen.png), cumulative round total WIN: 200.20 fun at Total Bet 0.50 fun, with win-tier banners MEGA WIN 41.73 and SUPER WIN 75.00 observed along the way. The round was not followed to its final 15th spin / total-win summary screen due to the session's time budget; trigger, gameplay, Hot Zone/Orca/Fish/Jackpot mechanics and the escalating x10 Orca multiplier were all captured and cross-verified before wrap-up (see manifest anomalies)."
    }
  },
  "push_bet": {
    "name": "Push Bet (trademarked, printed with a (TM) mark in-game)",
    "cost_multiplier": 1.5,
    "cost_multiplier_source": "rules_p10.png and info.png, printed verbatim: 'Push Bet = 1.5x of your Base Bet, and increases the chance of triggering the Free Spins Feature. RTP 96.37%.' Independently confirmed live: with Base Bet set to 100.00 fun, toggling Push Bet ON changed the displayed Total Bet to 150.00 fun (push_bet_on.png), i.e. exactly 1.5x. The bet-list values under Push Bet ON (30.00/37.50/45.00/60.00/75.00/90.00/150.00 fun, bet_select frames) are each exactly 1.5x of the corresponding Push-Bet-OFF values (20.00/25.00/30.00/40.00/50.00/60.00/100.00 fun).",
    "effect": "Increases the probability of triggering the Free Spins Feature; does not change the paytable numbers themselves.",
    "rtp_with_push_bet": 96.37,
    "payout_evaluation_caveat_verbatim": "rules_p10.png/p11.png, printed verbatim: 'When using the Push Bet, wins are evaluated respectively of the Base Bet amount and not the Total Bet amount.' - i.e. even though the player stakes 1.5x, all symbol/jackpot payouts remain multiples of the original (lower) Base Bet, not of the inflated Total Bet.",
    "toggle_ui": "A pill-shaped toggle switch labelled 'PUSH BET (TM) - INCREASE chance to win feature', shown above the Total Bet selection list. Rules text (rules_p10.png verbatim): 'The Push Bet can be activated or deactivated by clicking or tapping the toggle above the available bets. The switch will be displayed in green when the Push Bet is active. The switch will be shown in grey when the Push Bet is inactive.' Also: 'The Push Bet can be deactivated at the end of a game round. When the game is in autoplay, the autoplays must be switched off first to deactivate the Push Bet.' A short warning line also appears directly under the bet list: 'Turn on/off Push Bet will change the symbols on the reels.'",
    "colorblind_note": "State is conveyed by toggle POSITION (left/right) as well as color (grey/green), so it remains distinguishable without color perception."
  },
  "bonus_buy": {
    "name": "Random Bonus Symbol Feature",
    "price_multiplier_of_base_bet": 120,
    "price_at_0.50_base_bet": 60.00,
    "rtp_with_purchase": 96.36,
    "source_text_verbatim": "rules_p9.png / info.png: 'Random Bonus Symbols for 120x your Base Bet. 96.36% RTP.'",
    "how_it_works_verbatim": "rules_p9.png: 'By pressing or clicking on the (star icon) button, you will be presented with the option to buy the Free Spins Feature. You can reduce or increase your Base Bet by pressing the '-' or '+' buttons. If you click the Buy button you will have the option to confirm you wish to buy the bonus by clicking or pressing the Ok button, which will start the Free Spins Feature and will deduct the total stated Feature Cost from your balance, or if you click the Cancel button you will return to the Bonus Buy page. Hot Zones that land from the Bonus Buy will be removed on returning to the Base Game. The reels before the Bonus Buy was purchased will be present instead.'",
    "options_available": "Only one Bonus Buy option exists in this build: the Random Bonus Symbol Feature at 120x Base Bet. No other purchase tiers were found.",
    "ui_flow": [
      {"screen": "bonus_buy_dialog.png", "description": "'BONUS BUY' panel: a white card on the left reading 'Random Bonus Symbol Feature', '60.00 fun', and a red 'BUY' button; on the right a square blue art panel showing a golden key-and-anchor Bonus emblem flanked by two orange question marks over 'BONUS' text."},
      {"screen": "bonus_buy_confirm.png", "description": "Confirmation step: same artwork enlarged and centred, an (i) info icon next to the feature name, 'Base Bet: 0.50 fun' and the total cost '60.00 fun' printed above two buttons: red 'OK' and outlined 'CANCEL'."}
    ],
    "purchase_confirmed_live": "Balance dropped from 1,003.00 fun (visible pre-purchase in bonus_buy_dialog.png) by exactly 60.00 fun to trigger the feature, matching the printed 120x-of-0.50 price."
  },
  "jackpots": {
    "tiers": ["Mini", "Minor", "Major", "Mega", "Grand"],
    "base_bet_multipliers": {"Mini": 10, "Minor": 25, "Major": 100, "Mega": 500, "Grand": 2000},
    "source_text_verbatim": "paytable_p4.png: 'The Jackpot values are Base Bet multipliers, and their values are: Mini (x10), Minor (x25), Major (x100), Mega (x500), Grand (x2000). Jackpot Symbols are available during the Base Game and the Free Spins Feature.'",
    "observed_values_at_0.50_bet": {"Mini": 5.00, "Minor": 12.50, "Major": 50.00, "Mega": 250.00, "Grand": 1000.00},
    "observed_values_at_100.00_base_bet_push_bet_on": {"Mini": 1000.00, "Minor": 2500.00, "Major": 10000.00, "Mega": "not fully visible (partially cropped, value not legible)", "Grand": "not fully visible (partially cropped, value not legible)"},
    "ui_ladder": "Five color-coded capsule badges span the top of the game screen at all times, ordered left to right Mini/Minor/Major/Mega/Grand: Mini is a blue rounded-rectangle badge, Minor is green, Major is purple/violet, Mega is pink/magenta-red, Grand is gold/orange with small jewel decorations at its corners. Each badge prints the tier name and current value stacked vertically, so the tier is identifiable by printed text as well as by color and left-to-right position (safe for colorblind users).",
    "how_won": "Landing an Orca Symbol (reels 1/6) alongside a Jackpot Symbol (reels 2-5) collects that jackpot tier's value, subject to any Orca multiplier in play; see orca_symbol section."
  },
  "payout_basis": {
    "basis": "total_bet (equal to Base Bet in every capture, since Push Bet was off during all paytable/jackpot measurements)",
    "formula": "symbol tier payout in currency / 0.50 fun (paytable anchor bet) = payout multiplier of Total Bet / Base Bet",
    "cross_checks": [
      "Jackpot ladder at 0.50 fun bet printed 5.00 / 12.50 / 50.00 / 250.00 / 1,000.00 fun, matching the declared x10/x25/x100/x500/x2000 multipliers exactly (5.00/0.50=10, 1000.00/0.50=2000, etc.) - a numeric, symbol-paytable-independent confirmation.",
      "Fish Instant Prize tiles print their currency value directly on the reels; observed 0.50 and 1.00 fun tiles at the 0.50 fun bet anchor match the declared x1 and x2 Instant Prize multipliers one-to-one (0.50/0.50=1, 1.00/0.50=2)."
    ],
    "why_no_single_ways_combo_tier_match": "This is a cascading Push Ways game: rules_p2.png/paytable_p5.png state verbatim that winning symbols are 'paid and removed' in the same animation frame that resolves the win, so a clean isolated screenshot of one uncontaminated ways-combination win (uncorrupted by simultaneous Fish/Jackpot/Orca activity) could not be captured during this session. Basis is therefore established via the two independent numeric channels above plus the internally consistent printed text (paytable header, rules_p9 'based on the Base Bet', rules_p11 Push Bet caveat), rather than a single symbol-tier currency match.",
    "push_bet_caveat": "When Push Bet is ON, Total Bet = 1.5x Base Bet, but all payouts (symbols, Fish, Jackpot) remain multiples of the unchanged Base Bet, not of the inflated Total Bet (rules_p11.png verbatim, see push_bet section)."
  },
  "betting": {
    "min_bet_fun": 0.10,
    "max_bet_fun": 100.00,
    "measured_by": "Scrolling the Total Bet selection list to both ends via the bet-selector panel (bet_select_min.png shows the list's top entry, 0.10 fun; bet_select_max.png shows the list's bottom entry, 100.00 fun, with no further entries below). No separate Limits dialog exists in this build.",
    "bet_steps_observed_low_end": [0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.40, 0.50, 0.60, 0.70],
    "bet_steps_observed_high_end": [20.00, 25.00, 30.00, 40.00, 50.00, 60.00, 100.00],
    "default_bet_at_capture": 0.50,
    "max_win_cap": "NOT PRINTED anywhere in this build. All 7 paytable pages and all 11 rules pages were captured and read; no 'maximum win', 'win cap' or 'max payout' figure appears on any of them. The provider's public storefront lists a 'HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN 4,941x' figure, but this is an external, empirically-observed statistic, not an in-game printed cap, and is therefore NOT recorded as a game limit here (honest gap, see unreadable_or_uncertain).",
    "volatility": "NOT PRINTED anywhere in this build (checked settings/info/rules/paytable panels). The provider's public storefront states 'Low', but this is an external source, not a fact read from the game itself, and is therefore NOT recorded as a game fact here."
  },
  "rtp": {
    "base_rtp_percent": 96.27,
    "source": "rules_p11.png verbatim: 'The theoretical average return to player (RTP) is 96.27%.' Confirmed identically on info.png ('KNOW THE GAME' panel).",
    "with_bonus_buy_percent": 96.36,
    "with_push_bet_percent": 96.37,
    "malfunction_disclosure": "rules_p11.png verbatim, printed in bold: 'MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYS AND PLAYS.'",
    "reel_configuration_note": "rules_p11.png verbatim: 'Different reel configurations are used, depending on the progression in the Free Games Feature.' - i.e. reel weighting changes as the Free Spins progression meter advances through its levels."
  },
  "additional_rules_text": {
    "incomplete_game_resolution_verbatim": "rules_p10.png: 'Incomplete games will be automatically resolved after 48 hours. Any winnings resulting from automatic resolve shall be paid to the player's account. Where an incomplete game cannot be resolved, the stake will be returned to the player.'"
  },
  "user_interface": {
    "main_hud_base_game": {
      "top_left": "Ways counter tablet (grey stone/wood tile with the current ways total).",
      "top_center": "Five jackpot tier badges (Mini/Minor/Major/Mega/Grand), see jackpots section.",
      "top_right": "Speaker icon (mute/unmute all sound) and a 3-line hamburger menu icon.",
      "bottom_left": "'Balance: X fun' in white text.",
      "bottom_right": "'Total Bet: X fun' in white text. During Free Spins and win presentations, a centred 'WIN: X fun' (running round total) and 'Free Spins: N/15' counter also appear between the balance and bet figures (e.g. free_spins_super_win_200.png, win_screen.png).",
      "right_side_icon_column_top_to_bottom": [
        "Black circular button with a red ring outline and a white 5-point star inside - opens the Bonus Buy dialog.",
        "White-outlined circular button with a right-pointing play triangle - opens the Autoplay panel.",
        "White-outlined stack-of-coins icon - opens the Total Bet selection list.",
        "Large circular button with two curved arrows forming a refresh/loop shape - the Spin button (also confirmed via rules_p1.png: 'press the Spin button. Alternatively, press the keyboard space bar')."
      ],
      "top_left_game_logo": "In-game wordmark badge at top-left of the reel area: a circular emblem with the Orca head on a red background, above 'BIG' in large bold yellow/gold letters outlined dark red, then 'BITE' in the same style, then 'PUSH WAYS' in smaller white capital letters on a red ribbon shape - matches the preview.png splash artwork exactly."
    },
    "bottom_navigation_bar_in_panels": "Present at the bottom of every side panel (paytable/rules/settings/info): four icons - a 2x2 grid icon (opens Paytable), a circled question mark (opens Rules/'GAME INFO'), a gear/cog icon (opens Settings), and a shield icon (opens the 'KNOW THE GAME' info summary panel). The currently active panel's icon is not distinctly highlighted in the captured frames beyond panel content itself.",
    "paytable_panel": {
      "pages": 7,
      "scroll_confirmed_exhausted": true,
      "content_order": "Symbols (Wild, Bear Captain, Walrus, Penguin, Compass, Potion Bottle, Boot, Spade, Heart, Diamond, Club) -> Features header -> Fish Symbol -> Jackpot Symbol -> Hot Zone -> Free Spins Feature -> Orca Symbol (description continues across the boundary into the Rules panel's fuller text; the paytable panel's own Free-Spins/Orca copy is shorter and illustrated with gameplay screenshots rather than the full spin/multiplier table)."
    },
    "rules_panel": {
      "title": "GAME INFO",
      "pages": 11,
      "scroll_confirmed_exhausted": true,
      "bottom_confirmed_by": "Server/Client version footer printed on the last page (rules_p11.png).",
      "content_order": "Game summary (6x4 ways, up to 262,144) -> How to Play -> Autoplay -> Quick Play -> Payout Rules -> Cascading and Collapsing -> 4,096 to 262,144 Ways -> Bet Selection -> Symbols (Wild, Fish, Jackpot, Orca, Bonus) -> Hot Zone -> Free Spins Feature (full 3-12 Bonus Symbol award table + 4-level Progression meter table) -> Paytable note -> Bonus Buy -> Base Bet -> Push Bet -> Additional Information (incomplete-game resolution, Malfunction disclosure, RTP, reel-configuration note) -> Server/Client version footer."
    },
    "settings_panel": {
      "options": ["All Sounds", "Sound Effects", "Music"],
      "control_type": "Each row has a speaker icon with a small 'x' toggle to mute/unmute that channel.",
      "note": "No turbo/quick-spin/skip-screens options exist in this build."
    },
    "autoplay_panel": {
      "title": "AUTOPLAYS",
      "options": ["Off", "10", "20", "50", "100", "250", "500", "1000"],
      "layout": "Single vertical list, no further scrolling needed; 'Off' is the default highlighted (white) entry."
    },
    "info_panel_know_the_game": {
      "content_verbatim": "MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYS AND PLAYS. The theoretical average return to player (RTP) is 96.27%. Bonus Buy Options: Random Bonus Symbols for 120x your Base Bet. 96.36% RTP. Push Bet: Push Bet = 1.5x of your Base Bet, and increases the chance of triggering the Free Spins Feature. RTP 96.37%."
    }
  },
  "screens_captured": {
    "preview": "Brand splash screen (preview.png) shown after the Enable Sounds prompt: central circular badge with the Orca head on a red ring, the full wordmark below, and three feature callout cards - 'JACKPOTS AND INSTANT PRIZES' (showing the Orca trophy tile at 1265.00 fun, three jackpot shell badges Minor/Grand/Major, and four Fish tiles at x1/x5/x10/x100), 'UP TO 262,144 WAYS' (showing a Bear Captain symbol splitting into two stacked copies via blue arrows), and 'FREE SPINS' / 'PROGRESSIVE FREE SPINS FEATURE' (showing the x2/x3/x5/x10 progression ladder with the orca-head base icon).",
    "base_game": "Default 6x4 board at 4,096 ways, Total Bet 0.50 fun, Balance 1,000.00 fun.",
    "base_game_variants_captured": ["Fish Instant Prize tiles landed (0.50/1.00)", "Orca collecting on reel 6", "Orca showing a collected total (4.00 fun, default x1 multiplier)", "first Hot Zone split (ways 4096->8192)", "a Minor Jackpot Symbol landed", "mid-purchase Hot Zone cascade at 65,536 ways", "all six reels split with paired Bonus Symbols at 131,072 ways", "printed maximum 262,144 ways with all six reels fully expanded to 8 rows"],
    "bonus_buy_dialog_and_confirm": "See bonus_buy section.",
    "free_spins_intro": "Full-screen award card: game logo at top, 'YOU HAVE BEEN AWARDED', large 'X 10' in gold, 'MULTIPLIER WITH 15 FREE SPINS', 'CLICK TO CONTINUE' prompt at the bottom.",
    "free_spins_gameplay": "Standard Free Spins HUD adds the right-side progression ladder (x2/x3/x5/x10 markers plus the orca-head base icon, currently glowing at x10) and a bottom-center 'Free Spins: N/15' counter alongside Balance and Total Bet.",
    "win_tier_banners_observed": ["MEGA WIN 41.73", "SUPER WIN 75.00 (with the Orca badge simultaneously reading 'x10' / '75.00')"],
    "win_screen": "Free Spins round win banner (SUPER WIN 75.00 fun) with the cumulative round total 'WIN: 200.20 fun' shown in the bottom bar at Free Spins 13/15, Balance 943.00 fun, Total Bet 0.50 fun."
  },
  "versions": {
    "server_version": "1.2.0",
    "client_version": "11.151.7 30-06-2026",
    "source": "rules_p11.png, printed verbatim at the very bottom of the GAME INFO/rules panel (confirms the panel's scroll was exhausted)."
  },
  "accessibility_notes": {
    "screen_reader_navigation": "Every game state is reachable via four bottom-nav icons in the side panel (grid=Paytable, ?=Rules, gear=Settings, shield=Know The Game info) plus a top-right hamburger menu from the base game; the right-side vertical icon column (star=Bonus Buy, play-triangle=Autoplay, coin-stack=Bet, circular-arrows=Spin) provides the complete set of primary game actions from the main screen.",
    "color_redundancy": "Jackpot tiers, low card-suit symbols and the Push Bet toggle all pair color coding with a second cue (printed tier name, distinct shape, and toggle position respectively), so none of the game's essential state is conveyed by color alone.",
    "motor_considerations": "Spin can be triggered by the on-screen circular Spin button or the keyboard space bar (rules_p1.png verbatim); Quick Play (skip animations) is available by pressing anywhere on the screen or the space bar (rules_p2.png verbatim), reducing the number of precise clicks needed during a fast-paced cascading round.",
    "audio_dependency": "No content is exclusively audio-only; all wins, multipliers and feature awards are also shown as on-screen text/numbers (e.g. WIN totals, Orca multiplier badges, jackpot ladder values), so the game remains fully playable with sound off (confirmed via the Settings panel's independent All Sounds/Sound Effects/Music mute toggles)."
  },
  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "Maximum win cap / win limit: not printed anywhere in the captured paytable (7 pages) or rules (11 pages) booklets. Left null rather than substituting the provider storefront's 'HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN 4,941x' figure, which is an external observed statistic, not an in-game printed cap.",
    "Volatility rating: not printed anywhere in this build's UI. Provider storefront states 'Low' but is not treated as an in-game fact.",
    "Jackpot values MEGA and GRAND at the 100.00 fun base bet / Push Bet ON state (push_bet_on.png): partially cropped by the Push Bet toggle overlay and not fully legible; only MINI (1,000.00), MINOR (2,500.00) and MAJOR (10,000.00) were legible at that bet level.",
    "The exact pre-multiplier Fish-tile sum (9.50 fun) that the Orca collected before applying its x10 badge on the free_spins_orca_collect_950.png / free_spins_orca_x10_9500.png pair was not caught on a still frame - both captured stills already show the resolved post-multiplier total of 95.00 fun (counter-animation timing, see memory note on animating win counters). The x10 arithmetic itself is independently confirmed by the SUPER WIN 75.00 = 7.50 x10 pair on free_spins_super_win_200.png, where the pre- and post-multiplier figures are both legible on the same frame.",
    "The Free Spins round documented in this session was followed through spin 13 of 15 (cumulative WIN 200.20 fun) rather than to its final 15th spin and TOTAL WIN summary screen, due to the capture session's time budget; all core mechanics (trigger, Hot Zone, Orca collection at multiple multiplier levels, Fish/Jackpot Instant Prizes, three win-tier banners) were nonetheless captured and cross-verified.",
    "A single, uncontaminated numeric example of a plain ways-combination win (unmixed with Fish/Jackpot/Orca activity) could not be captured, because winning symbols are paid and removed in the same frame the win resolves (cascading mechanic) - payout basis was instead established via two independent numeric cross-checks (jackpot ladder, Fish tile face values) plus consistent printed text, see payout_basis section."
  ]
}