Book of Cats

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Book of Cats",
    "provider": "BGaming",
    "theme": "Ancient Egypt, dedicated to the cat goddess Bastet and a festival held in her honor. Warm golden desert/temple setting for the base game (sand dunes, stone pillars, palm trees, a distant pyramid, offering bowls along the bottom of the frame); the free-spins round switches to a cool dark teal/blue night sky with silhouetted mountains and palm trees.",
    "documentation_purpose": "Exhaustive accessibility documentation (blind/low-vision screen-reader users, deaf/hard-of-hearing, color-blind of all types, motor-impaired) from 33 desktop screenshots (1280x800) + OCR + zoomed crops of every symbol, paytable page, line diagram and control.",
    "method_notes": "Grid geometry, symbol identities/payouts and all paylines were verified with 3x-6x zoomed crops, not read from OCR alone (OCR on the stylised hieroglyph-style font/ornate background art was largely unreliable and is not used as a source for numbers). Rules text (rules_p1-p9) and paytable text (paytable_p1-p9) were read directly from zoomed screenshots. Numbers are taken verbatim from on-screen text. Anything not clearly legible is listed in 'unreadable_or_uncertain' and not invented.",
    "language": "English",
    "capture_artifact_note": "A yellow square icon with a black letter 'B' appears in the top-left corner of every screenshot (e.g. base_game.png). This is a browser/extension overlay from the capture environment, not part of the game's own UI, and is not part of this documentation's description of in-game elements."
  },

  "grid_and_mechanics": {
    "layout": "6 reels x 3 rows. This is NOT the classic 5x3 layout used by most 'Book of' games from other providers - it is a deliberate, confirmed 6x3 scheme.",
    "confirmation": [
      "rules_p1.png text, verbatim: 'The Book of Cats has a 6x3 scheme and surprisingly pleasant features: winline expanding feature in the main game, free spins that can be retriggered and expanding symbol in the bonus game.'",
      "base_game.png shows 6 visually distinct reel columns divided by thin vertical dividers, each 3 symbol-cells tall.",
      "paytable_p9.png draws every one of the 10 payline diagrams on a 6-column x 3-row grid.",
      "every paytable symbol's top payout tier is printed as '6x <value>' (maximum matching combination = 6 identical symbols in a row), confirming 6 reels."
    ],
    "sixth_reel_lock": "In the base game the 6th (rightmost) reel is mostly covered by two rolled-up parchment/scroll graphics: the TOP cell and the BOTTOM cell of reel 6 are covered (their symbols are only faintly visible in outline through the scroll), and only the MIDDLE cell of reel 6 is open and shows a fully rendered, playable symbol. Verified by zooming reel 6 in base_game.png: top cell shows a dim gold outline of a 'K' cat-hieroglyph symbol under a scroll, middle cell shows a bright, fully-colored green 'Q' symbol (open), bottom cell shows a dim pink/purple outline of a 'J' symbol under a scroll.",
    "winline_expanding_feature": {
      "name": "Winline Expanding Feature",
      "rule_text": "paytable_p4/p5 and rules_p3, verbatim: 'In the main game the 6th reel is locked except for one cell. The feature works in case when the winning combination appears on the reels and in the 6th cell appears the same symbol as in this combination. Then the symbol expands to cover 3 positions on the 6th reel, complementing the winning combination.'",
      "in_plain_words": "If a payline win is formed on reels 1-5 and the symbol sitting in the single open cell of reel 6 matches that winning symbol, the open cell's symbol expands to fill all 3 rows of reel 6, extending/boosting the win. The illustration in paytable_p5.png shows three 'Bastet portrait' symbols on reels 1-3 (each labelled '+100'), an arrow pointing to reel 6, and a scroll captioned 'Any symbols' / '+1 Extra reel' with the Bastet portrait - i.e. any paying symbol can trigger this expansion, not just one specific symbol.",
      "source_frames": ["paytable_p4.png", "paytable_p5.png", "rules_p3.png"]
    },
    "reel_layout_note": "Per-spin cell content of the base-game reels is transient (random each spin) and intentionally not enumerated cell-by-cell, except for the always-informative reel-6 lock state described above, which is a fixed game property (not random)."
  },

  "bet_mechanic": {
    "type": "fixed paylines (lines), 10 lines total",
    "lines_source": "paytable_p8.png / paytable_p9.png, header 'Lines', diagrams for Line 1 through Line 10, each drawn on the 6x3 grid",
    "payout_basis": "PER LINE, measured (not just read from text). Evidence: win_screen_small.png shows a win of 0.02 FUN at Total bet 0.10 FUN with 2 'purple cat mask' symbols on a winning line; the paytable lists the purple cat mask's 2-of-a-kind payout as '2x 2' (a x2 multiplier). 0.10 / 10 lines x 2 = 0.02, matching the printed win exactly. Rules text confirms in words (rules_p7.png, 'Spin Results'): 'Payline wins are multiplied by the bet per line value, except for Scatters.' and 'Scatter pays in any part of the display from total bet value.'",
    "payline_diagrams": {
      "note": "Each line is described below as which row (top/middle/bottom) is lit on each of the 6 reel columns, read directly from the zoomed line diagrams on paytable_p8.png/paytable_p9.png. This is a fixed game property (not random), included for screen-reader / low-vision users who cannot see the diagrams.",
      "line_1": "straight, middle row across all 6 columns",
      "line_2": "straight, top row across all 6 columns",
      "line_3": "straight, bottom row across all 6 columns",
      "line_4": "top, middle, bottom, middle, top, top (columns 1-6)",
      "line_5": "bottom, middle, top, middle, bottom, bottom (columns 1-6) - mirror of line 4",
      "line_6": "middle, top, top, top, middle, middle (columns 1-6)",
      "line_7": "middle, bottom, bottom, bottom, middle, middle (columns 1-6) - mirror of line 6",
      "line_8": "top, top, middle, bottom, bottom, bottom (columns 1-6)",
      "line_9": "bottom, bottom, middle, top, top, top (columns 1-6) - mirror of line 8",
      "line_10": "bottom, middle, middle, middle, top, top (columns 1-6)"
    },
    "how_wins_are_paid": [
      "All symbols pay left to right on consecutive reels of an active payline (rules_p7.png).",
      "Coinciding wins on several active paylines are added together.",
      "Only the highest win is paid on each active payline.",
      "Free spins are played at the same bet and same active lines as the round that activated them.",
      "In the Free Spins/expanding feature, the special expanding symbol pays 'in any position on the lines played', i.e. even on reels/positions that would not normally be adjacent-from-reel-1 for a standard line win (rules_p7.png, rules_p4.png).",
      "If Scatter (Bonus/Golden Book) symbols pay AND other winning combinations land on the same spin, the player is paid for both the Scatter win and all winning combinations (rules_p7.png)."
    ]
  },

  "color_palette": {
    "base_game_background": "Warm golden-orange desert scene: sand dunes in the foreground, palm silhouettes at the left/right edges, a pyramid visible top-right, small offering bowls with glowing sand along the very bottom of the frame.",
    "frame": "Ornate gold-yellow stone/wood frame with turquoise-blue winged Egyptian ornament ('winged sun disc' style) above the title banner and red wooden side pillars with gold rings.",
    "title_banner": "'BOOK OF CATS' in carved gold 3D letters on a dark red plaque, flanked by a teal/blue and gold winged emblem.",
    "reel_cells": "Solid black background tiles separated by thin gold/teal dashed vertical dividers.",
    "free_spins_background": "Cool dark teal/blue night sky, silhouetted mountains and palm trees, small distant lights - visually distinct from the warm daytime base-game background.",
    "symbol_colors": "Golden Book (wild/scatter) is gold with a red gem and pink/blue crystal accents; Bastet portrait is gold/blue/red Egyptian headdress on natural skin tone; the green-background cat figure is brown/gold fur with green eyes on an emerald-green card; the fanged cat mask is purple and gold; the ankh/sceptre symbol is blue and gold; card-rank symbols are color-coded: A = red, K = orange, Q = green, J = purple/magenta, 10 (styled 'ID') = blue.",
    "ui_accents": "White glyph icons on dark semi-transparent circles/rectangles for buttons (info, settings, autoplay, spin); yellow-gold text for balance/bet labels; red/green for Cancel/Buy dialog buttons; bright orange-red for win-amount pop-ups."
  },

  "symbols": {
    "note": "All payout tiers read from zoomed paytable_p1.png through paytable_p3.png. Values are multipliers of the BET PER LINE (not the total bet) - see 'payout_basis' above. The game's own 'About the Game' text (rules_p1.png) explicitly names three symbols: 'the key of Nile, Pharaoh cat mask and Bastet' - these names are used below where they map onto a specific symbol; the green-background seated cat figure is not explicitly named in the rules text and is described purely by appearance.",
    "wild_and_scatter_combined": {
      "name": "Golden Book",
      "appearance": "A closed golden book/tome, ornately bound in gold with blue corner triangles, a large red gem in an octagonal setting on the cover, and three smaller gem-like decorations (blue, pink, blue) above the gem, with a red bookmark ribbon hanging from the bottom.",
      "role": "Both WILD and SCATTER at the same time.",
      "wild_rule": "Substitutes for all symbols in the winning line.",
      "scatter_rule": "3 or more Golden Book symbols anywhere on the reels in the base game trigger the Free Spins feature (10 free spins with an expanding symbol). Scatter pays are based on TOTAL bet, not bet-per-line, and pay 'in any part of the display' (not restricted to a payline).",
      "payouts": {"6": "x400", "5": "x200", "4": "x20", "3": "x2"},
      "special_note": "During the Free Spins bonus round, the Golden Book cannot itself be the expanding symbol (rules_p3.png: 'The Expanding symbol cannot be substituted by the Scatter symbol during the bonus game.')."
    },
    "high_value": [
      {
        "name": "Bastet (portrait) - top payer",
        "appearance": "Portrait of a young woman wearing a gold/dark cat-eared Egyptian headdress striped in blue and gold bands, blue eyeshadow, red lipstick, gold and turquoise jeweled collar, framed on a leopard-print gold background with turquoise corner fan ornaments.",
        "payouts": {"6": "x7500", "5": "x2500", "4": "x500", "3": "x50", "2": "x5"},
        "rank": "highest-paying symbol in the game"
      },
      {
        "name": "Golden cat statuette (green background)",
        "appearance": "A seated brown-and-gold furred cat figure with tall gold-tipped ears, green cat-eye markings, a gold headdress/collar with green gem accents, holding a gold ankh-topped sistrum-like object in one paw and a small kitten cradled in the other, on a bright emerald-green card with a faint gold hieroglyph-pattern background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "x2500", "5": "x1000", "4": "x200", "3": "x20", "2": "x2"},
        "rank": "2nd highest-paying symbol"
      },
      {
        "name": "Pharaoh cat mask",
        "appearance": "A stylised purple feline face/mask with pointed gold-striped ears, glowing white/gold almond eyes, gold stripe markings on the muzzle, and a gold chin/collar band - named explicitly in the game's About text.",
        "payouts": {"6": "x1000", "5": "x375", "4": "x50", "3": "x15", "2": "x2"},
        "rank": "tied 3rd/4th highest-paying symbol"
      },
      {
        "name": "Key of Nile (ankh sceptre)",
        "appearance": "A blue and gold ornamental ankh-topped sceptre/rod symbol with a cat-head finial at the top, wrapped in gold binding, on a black tile - named explicitly in the game's About text.",
        "payouts": {"6": "x1000", "5": "x375", "4": "x50", "3": "x15", "2": "x2"},
        "rank": "tied 3rd/4th highest-paying symbol, same tier as Pharaoh cat mask"
      }
    ],
    "royals_low_value": [
      {"name": "A", "color": "red, gold outline, stylised as a seated cat hieroglyph", "payouts": {"6": "x375", "5": "x75", "4": "x20", "3": "x3"}},
      {"name": "K", "color": "orange, gold outline, stylised as a seated cat hieroglyph", "payouts": {"6": "x375", "5": "x75", "4": "x20", "3": "x3"}},
      {"name": "Q", "color": "green, gold outline, stylised as a coiled cat/serpent hieroglyph", "payouts": {"6": "x250", "5": "x50", "4": "x12", "3": "x3"}},
      {"name": "J", "color": "purple/magenta, gold outline, stylised as a cat hieroglyph", "payouts": {"6": "x250", "5": "x50", "4": "x12", "3": "x3"}},
      {"name": "10 (rendered as a stylised 'ID' glyph)", "color": "blue, gold outline, on a rounded gold medallion tile with hieroglyph side-etching", "payouts": {"6": "x250", "5": "x50", "4": "x12", "3": "x3"}, "note": "This symbol is drawn as two vertical Egyptian-hieroglyph-style glyphs that read like the letters 'I' and 'D'; it is confirmed to represent the number '10' by the free-spins symbol-selection screen, which shows the same icon next to the printed number '10'."}
    ],
    "royals_lowest_tier_tie": "Q, J and 10 all share the exact same payout tier (x250/x50/x12/x3) - confirmed identical in two independent zoomed crops (paytable_p2.png and paytable_p3.png). This is 3 distinct symbols tied at one payout level, not a single merged symbol - each has its own distinct color and glyph shape."
  },

  "features": {
    "free_spins": {
      "trigger": "3 or more Golden Book (Scatter) symbols anywhere on the reels in the base game.",
      "spins_awarded": "10 free spins (fixed - no variable award table was found/shown on any captured screen; the intro screen and the trigger rule text both simply say '10 free spins').",
      "expanding_symbol_selection": "The symbol occupying the single open (middle) cell of reel 6 at the moment the Scatter trigger lands becomes the 'expanding symbol' for the whole Free Spins round. This is a real, working mechanic captured live: free_spins_intro.png shows an open golden book with '10 free spins' text and, next to it, the number '10' inside an Egyptian-style gold medallion icon (the same 'ID'-styled symbol described above) with the caption 'You have won 10 free spins with expanding symbol'. A small badge in the top-right corner of the game frame (symbol icon + its full paytable, e.g. '6x 250 / 5x 50 / 4x 12 / 3x 3') persists throughout the round to remind the player which symbol is expanding.",
      "expanding_symbol_cannot_be_scatter": "The Golden Book (Scatter/Wild) itself can never be the expanding symbol (rules_p3.png).",
      "unlocked_sixth_reel": "During Free Spins the 6th reel is fully unlocked (no scroll cover) - all 3 rows of all 6 reels are playable, confirmed visually in free_spins_1.png / free_spins_1b.png / free_spins_1c.png.",
      "expansion_mechanic": "Whenever the chosen expanding symbol lands at least once anywhere on a given reel during a free spin, that entire reel expands to show the expanding symbol on all 3 of its rows (not just the single landed cell), and it then pays on every active line regardless of adjacency to reel 1. Rule text (rules_p4.png, verbatim): 'One symbol selected in the 6th cell in the main game, plays the role of expanding symbol in the Free Spins round. This symbol plays as a regular symbol even not on the adjacent reels and on all lines played.' and (rules_p7.png): 'In the expanding feature (bonus round) the special symbol pays in any position on the lines played.' Visual evidence: free_spins_1c.png shows the '10' expanding symbol filling reels 2, 4, 5 and 6 completely (3 rows each = 12 instances total) while reels 1 and 3 kept their normal random symbols; the on-screen badge counter next to the expanding-symbol icon reads '10 x12', matching the count of 12 visible instances exactly.",
      "counter_badge_clarification": "The 'x12' shown in the top-right badge during a free spin is a live COUNT of how many copies of the expanding symbol are currently on the grid after expansion, not a win multiplier (verified by counting: 4 fully-expanded reels x 3 rows = 12, matching the badge).",
      "retrigger": "'During the bonus round additional Free Spins can be won, the process is unlimited' (paytable_p6.png / rules text) - i.e. landing 3+ Golden Book scatters again during Free Spins retriggers more spins, with no stated cap on retriggers. The exact number of spins awarded per retrigger was not shown on any captured screen.",
      "spin_counter": "Bottom bar shows 'Free spins: N/10' during the round (e.g. free_spins_1.png shows '1/10'; free_spins_total_win.png shows '10/10' at the end).",
      "round_end_summary": "free_spins_total_win.png: an open golden book graphic reading 'Total win' / '2.62' / '26x Bet', with 'Click to continue' below; footer shows Total win 2.62 FUN and Free spins 10/10.",
      "source_frames": ["paytable_p6.png", "paytable_p7.png", "rules_p3.png", "rules_p4.png", "free_spins_intro.png", "free_spins_1.png", "free_spins_1b.png", "free_spins_1c.png", "free_spins_1_win.png", "free_spins_total_win.png"]
    },
    "bonus_buy": {
      "name": "Buy Bonus / Buy Free Spins",
      "availability": "Single option only - no tiered/multiple bonus-buy choices were shown or found in the rules.",
      "price": "9.70 FUN at the default Total bet of 0.10 FUN (a 97x multiplier of total bet). Confirmed at a second bet level: at Total bet 10.00 FUN the button reads 'Buy bonus 970.00 FUN' - also exactly 97x, confirming the price scales linearly with bet (bet_min.png vs bet_max.png).",
      "button_location": "Small yellow/gold plaque button in the top-left of the game frame, under the info/settings icons, reading 'Buy bonus' and the current price.",
      "purchase_dialog": "bonus_buy_dialog.png: a gold-framed orange dialog titled 'BUY FREE SPINS', the price '9.70 FUN' in large gold text, and two buttons - a dark red 'Cancel' button (left) and a green 'Buy' button (right).",
      "rule_text": "rules_p6.png, verbatim: 'There is a possibility to buy a bonus: round of free spins. The player can buy a bonus at the price pictured on the button. If the player increases the bet, the buy bonus price will be automatically increased. Spins start after buying the bonus. The next spin triggers a bonus game with free spins. During the bonus round, the button is deactivated.'",
      "rtp_impact": "Buying the bonus changes the game's RTP from 96.99% (base) to 96.83% (Buy Bonus feature) - see 'technical_summary'."
    },
    "gamble_risk_game": {
      "name": "Risk Game / Gamble round",
      "availability_note": "Available after any base-game win; NOT played live for this documentation (out of scope for this capture pass) - fully documented from the rules text (rules_p5.png, rules_p6.png) and an illustrative example screen (paytable_p3.png/paytable_p4.png).",
      "how_to_enter": "A 'Gamble' button appears next to the Spin button after a win; clicking it opens the gambling room where the player's current win becomes the stake.",
      "choices": "Guess the COLOR (Red or Black) of a face-down card, or guess the exact SUIT (Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs).",
      "payout_multipliers": "Guessing the color doubles (x2) the stake; guessing the suit multiplies the stake by 4x (rules_p5.png, verbatim: 'If you guess the color, your stake is doubled. If you guess the suit, your stake increases 4 times.').",
      "collect_or_continue": "After a win in the Risk Game the player may collect (click the cash-bag icon) or risk again. A wrong guess loses the whole gambled amount and returns to the main game automatically.",
      "cap": "Play is capped at 1/4 of the game's maximum win; once the potential next win would exceed that cap the Gamble round closes automatically and the amount already won is credited to the balance (rules_p5.png).",
      "autoplay_integration": "To have Gamble auto-play during Autospins, the 'On any win' stop condition must be ticked in the Autospin settings menu.",
      "example_screen_shown": "paytable_p3.png/paytable_p4.png shows a worked example inside the paytable booklet: a gold-framed orange panel with a face-down gold cat-mask card in the center, 4 suit-icon buttons (spade, club, diamond, heart) above two large buttons 'Black' and 'Red', a 'Current win: 0.8' readout, a 'History' row of 3 small previous-card icons, 'Suit possible win: 384.00' and 'Color possible win: 1.60' readouts.",
      "unreadable_or_uncertain_flag": "The example's printed 'Suit possible win: 384.00' does not correspond to a simple x4 of the printed 'Current win: 0.8' (which would be 3.20). This is likely an illustrative/booklet example with numbers not meant to be internally consistent with a single-step gamble, or it reflects a compounded multi-step example not fully explained on screen; not resolved further here - flagged, not invented."
    }
  },

  "technical_summary": {
    "rtp_percent_base": 96.99,
    "rtp_percent_buy_bonus": 96.83,
    "rtp_source": "rules_p8.png, verbatim: 'The overall theoretical Return to Player (RTP) is 96.99%. RTP in the Buy Bonus feature is 96.83%'",
    "volatility": "Not stated/shown on any captured screen (no volatility indicator, flame icons or text found on the splash, base game, or rules pages). Not invented - left unset.",
    "bet_min": "0.10 FUN",
    "bet_max": "10.00 FUN",
    "bet_source": "Measured by clicking the Total bet -/+ arrows until each hit a visibly disabled (greyed-out) state: bet_min.png shows the down-arrow greyed and Total bet = 0.10 FUN; bet_max.png shows the up-arrow greyed and Total bet = 10.00 FUN.",
    "demo_default_bet": "0.10 FUN",
    "demo_credit": "1,000.00 FUN (999.35/989.85/etc. after a purchase/spin - the demo balance decreases and updates as normal)",
    "reels_and_grid": "6 reels x 3 rows; reel 6 is locked to a single open cell in the base game (see 'grid_and_mechanics').",
    "bet_mechanic": "10 fixed paylines (see 'bet_mechanic' section).",
    "max_win": "8202x bet, printed as 'MAX WIN 8202x' on the splash/preview screen (preview.png). Not repeated on any other captured screen.",
    "max_win_source": "preview.png (splash)",
    "bonus_buy": "Yes - single fixed-price 'Buy Free Spins' option, 97x total bet (see 'features.bonus_buy').",
    "gamble_feature": "Yes - 'Risk Game' card gamble (color/suit), see 'features.gamble_risk_game'.",
    "keyboard": "Spacebar can be used to spin instead of clicking Spin - toggleable in Settings ('Spacebar to spin' checkbox, checked by default).",
    "currency_view": "Demo currency is FUN throughout; no coins/cash view toggle was observed (unlike some other providers' UIs)."
  },

  "screens": {
    "preview": {
      "type": "preview",
      "content": "Splash/promo screen shown before entering the game. Top: 'BOOK OF CATS' logo in gold letters on a dark red plaque under a teal/gold winged Egyptian ornament, flanked by two temple-style pillars. Center-left: an open golden book graphic with red 'Free spins' text and a purple/gold cat mask emerging from it with an arrow pointing to a stack of small golden cat figurines, captioned 'Free spins with expanding symbol feature'. Center: bold white text 'MAX WIN 8202x'. Center-right: a small mock reel screenshot with three landed 'Bastet portrait' symbols each labelled '+100' and a blue arrow pointing right, captioned 'Expanding winline feature'. Far right: a decorative scroll reading 'Any symbols' above a large framed portrait of the Bastet character and 'plus 1 Extra reel' below, illustrating the Winline Expanding Feature. Bottom-center: 'CLICK TO START' in white text. Background: warm golden desert with palm trees, a temple gateway frame, and glowing offering bowls along the bottom edge. Top-right: a small speaker/mute icon and a small clock-style readout ('07:12').",
      "purpose": "Entry point; clicking anywhere starts the base game.",
      "color_blind_notes": "MAX WIN and feature captions are large white/gold high-contrast text on a warm background - legible without color discrimination; the two feature illustrations are also labelled with plain-language captions, not color-coded."
    },

    "base_game": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "overall_layout": "6-reel x 3-row grid centered on screen inside a gold Aztec-Egyptian-style stone/wood frame with red side pillars.",
      "title_banner": "Top-center: 'BOOK OF CATS' gold-on-red plaque banner between teal/gold winged ornaments.",
      "top_left": "Small yellow 'Buy bonus' plaque button showing the current price (e.g. '9.70 FUN').",
      "top_right": "Speaker/mute icon and a small numeric time readout (e.g. '07:12', increasing over the session - purpose not confirmed on captured screens, possibly a play-session clock).",
      "background": "Warm golden desert scene behind the reels; palm silhouettes at the edges, a pyramid faintly visible at top right, glowing sand-filled offering bowls along the very bottom of the frame under the reels.",
      "reel_cells": "Solid black tiles divided by thin gold/teal dashed vertical lines.",
      "sixth_reel_state": "Reels 1-5 fully open/random; reel 6 shows two brown scroll-parchment graphics covering its top and bottom cells (each with a faint gold-outline symbol visible through the parchment), leaving only the middle cell open with a fully rendered symbol.",
      "symbols_on_captured_frame": "A transient random mix (changes every spin) - not enumerated cell-by-cell as it is not a fixed game property.",
      "bottom_bar": {
        "far_left": "A round white 'i' INFORMATION icon and a round white gear/SETTINGS icon side by side, with 'Balance 1,000.00 FUN' printed below them.",
        "bet_control": "'Total bet' label with a small up-triangle (increase) above and down-triangle (decrease) below it, and the current bet value (e.g. '0.10 FUN') printed underneath the label.",
        "center_message": "A rotating text-tip area, e.g. 'Infinite riches await you!'.",
        "right_controls": "A round icon with the letter 'A' inside a circular arrow (opens Autospin settings) and, to its right, a larger round SPIN button showing two white curved arrows forming a circle (no text label)."
      },
      "color_blind_notes": "All primary controls (info, settings, autoplay, spin, bet +/-) are white glyph icons on dark backgrounds distinguished by shape/glyph, not by color alone. Balance/bet text is gold/yellow on a dark bar - high contrast."
    },

    "settings": {
      "type": "settings",
      "title": "Settings",
      "panel_style": "A dark grey rounded panel overlaid on the dimmed reels, with an 'X' close icon at its top-right corner.",
      "options": "Two checkboxes at the top: 'Quick spin' (unchecked/off in the captured frame) and 'Spacebar to spin' (checked/on, shown with a filled checkmark box). Below, an 'Audio' section heading, a 'Volume' slider (filled track with a round white handle, set high in the captured frame), and two further checkboxes: 'Music' (checked) and 'Sound FX' (checked).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Checkbox state is shown by a filled checkmark glyph inside the box (shape-based), not by color alone; the volume slider position is a spatial (not purely color) cue."
    },

    "autoplay": {
      "type": "autoplay",
      "title": "Autospin settings",
      "layout": "Dark panel overlaid on the dimmed reels/base-game view; a top-right toggle labelled 'Advanced' with an up-chevron (expanded state) shown active/highlighted.",
      "options": "An 'Enable quick spin' checkbox (unchecked and greyed-out/disabled in the captured frame, consistent with Quick spin being off in Settings). A 'Numbers of rounds' section with 9 selectable round-count buttons in two rows: 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 (first row) and 500, 750, 1000, and an infinity symbol '∞' (second row).",
      "additional_stop_conditions_from_rules_text": "rules_p2.png lists further Autospin stop conditions not visible as separate widgets on the captured autoplay panel screenshot (likely reached via further scrolling/advanced options): 'on any win', 'if bonus game is won', 'if single win exceeds [amount]', 'if cash balance increases by [amount]', 'if cash balance decreases by [amount]'. A 'Stop Autospins' button is also described in the rules text.",
      "color_blind_notes": "The disabled 'Enable quick spin' checkbox is shown in dimmed grey text/box (a brightness/contrast cue, not only color); round-count options are plain white-on-grey number buttons - readable regardless of color vision."
    },

    "bet_min_max_calibration": {
      "type": "other",
      "bet_min": {
        "file": "bet_min.png",
        "content": "Same base-game view; Total bet reads '0.10 FUN'; zoomed crop of the up/down triangle arrows shows the down-arrow rendered dim grey (disabled) and the up-arrow bright white (enabled) - i.e. bet is at its floor."
      },
      "bet_max": {
        "file": "bet_max.png",
        "content": "Same base-game view; Total bet reads '10.00 FUN' and the Buy bonus button reads '970.00 FUN'; zoomed crop shows the up-arrow dim grey (disabled) and the down-arrow bright white (enabled) - i.e. bet is at its ceiling."
      }
    },

    "paytable_booklet": {
      "type": "paytable, 9 pages (thinned from an original 16-page scroll capture by the pipeline; continuity of content verified, no content lost)",
      "structure": [
        "p1: 'Wild, Scatter' heading, Golden Book payouts + rule text; start of the symbol grid (Bastet portrait, green-background cat figure, Pharaoh cat mask, partial row of Key of Nile / A / K).",
        "p2: rest of the symbol grid (Key of Nile, A, K, Q, J, 10) with full payout tiers.",
        "p3: end of symbol grid (Q, J, 10 repeated/scrolled) and start of 'Features' section - 'The Risk Game' heading and rule text, plus the start of the example gamble panel.",
        "p4: rest of the Risk Game example panel ('Suit possible win: 384.00', 'Color possible win: 1.60'), then 'Winline Expanding Feature' heading and rule text with the reel-6-lock illustration.",
        "p5: continuation of the Winline Expanding Feature illustration ('Any symbols' / '+1 Extra reel' scroll with Bastet portrait), then 'Free spins' heading and trigger rule text.",
        "p6: continuation of Free spins text, golden-book graphic, then 'Expanding symbol' heading and rule text.",
        "p7: continuation of Expanding symbol text and illustration (open book -> array of purple cat-mask icons), then 'Lines' heading with diagrams for Line 1 through Line 8.",
        "p8: 'Lines' diagrams for Line 1 through Line 10 (fresh, uncut view of the full set).",
        "p9: duplicate/continuation of the Lines diagrams (all 10 lines fully visible, used as the authoritative source for the payline patterns documented above)."
      ],
      "navigation": "A vertical row of 3 round icons on the left edge of the overlay lets the player switch between panel sections: a money-bag/coin icon (Paytable - highlighted/active while viewing these pages), a clock-with-circular-arrow icon (round History - session-only, see 'accessibility_observations'), and a '?' icon (Rules/Help). An 'X' closes the whole overlay (top-right).",
      "color_blind_notes": "The active section icon is shown in solid white/highlighted fill vs. grey/inactive for the others - a brightness/fill cue rather than a hue cue."
    },

    "rules_booklet": {
      "type": "rules, 9 pages (thinned from an original 15-page scroll capture; continuity verified)",
      "structure": [
        "p1: 'About the Game' (theme/feature summary, includes the '6x3 scheme' confirmation quoted above) and start of 'How to play' / 'Autospins'.",
        "p2: continuation of 'Autospins' and the Stop-of-Autospins bullet list.",
        "p3: end of Autospins text, then 'Features' - 'Scatter, Wild.' and 'Winline Expanding Feature.' rule paragraphs.",
        "p4: 'Free spins.' and 'Expanding symbol (in the bonus round).' rule paragraphs, plus 'The special expanding symbol pays...' note.",
        "p5: continuation of the expanding-symbol note, then 'Gamble round' heading and rule text (color/suit multipliers, collect option).",
        "p6: continuation of Gamble round rules (loss/cap behaviour), then 'Buy bonus' heading and rule text.",
        "p7: 'Spin Results' heading and full payout-rules bullet list (left-to-right pay, coinciding wins added, per-line vs per-total-bet basis, expanding-symbol-pays-anywhere note, simultaneous Scatter+combination payout note).",
        "p8: continuation ('To learn the game payouts, click the Information (I) button.'), 'Settings' bullet list, then 'Return to Player' heading with the RTP figures (96.99% base / 96.83% Buy Bonus) and start of 'RNG' heading.",
        "p9: continuation of RNG text ('certified random number generator'), then 'Additional information' - malfunction/24h-unfinished-round policy and the rule-version footer: 'This is the game rule version 1.0, dated May 26, 2020. Game Version 1.0.0.' (a document/rules version date, NOT the game's market release date)."
      ]
    },

    "bonus_buy_dialog": {
      "type": "bonus",
      "content": "Gold-framed orange confirmation dialog centered over the dimmed reels, titled 'BUY FREE SPINS' in gold outlined text, the price '9.70 FUN' in very large gold text below, and two buttons at the bottom: a dark red 'Cancel' button (left) and a bright green 'Buy' button (right), both gold-outlined.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Cancel vs Buy are also distinguished by their printed text labels, not only by red/green color."
    },

    "free_spins_symbol_badge_and_gameplay": {
      "type": "bonus / free_spins",
      "bonus_symbol_selected_file": "bonus_symbol_selected.png",
      "content": "A live free-spins gameplay moment: top banner reads 'Bonus active' (replacing the Buy-bonus button while the feature is running); top-right badge shows the chosen expanding symbol icon ('10'/'ID') with its full paytable ('6x 250 / 5x 50 / 4x 12 / 3x 3'); the reel grid shows two Golden Book symbols that just landed (reel 4 row 1, reel 5 row 2 and row 3) plus a win pop-up 'Total win: 0.20 FUN'; footer shows 'Total win: 0.20 FUN'."
    },

    "free_spins_intro": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "content": "Centered over a dimmed reel view: a large open golden book graphic with 'Free spins' watermark text visible in the background page texture. Left page: '10' in large red-outlined pink text above 'free spins' in gold text. Right page: a gold Egyptian-medallion icon containing the '10'-styled glyph (the chosen expanding symbol for this round). Below the book: 'You have won 10 free spins with expanding symbol' in gold text, and 'Click to continue' in white text underneath. Top-right badge again shows the '10' icon with its paytable.",
      "color_blind_notes": "The awarded spin count is printed as a large plain number ('10'), not conveyed by color."
    },

    "free_spins_gameplay_sequence": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "spin_1_settling": {
        "file": "free_spins_1.png",
        "content": "Reels still settling; two '10' expanding-symbol tiles already visible (reel 4 top, reel 2 bottom) rendered as large gold medallion tiles distinct from the normal card-style tiles; reels 5-6 shown mid-blur (still spinning). Footer: 'Win:' and 'Total win:' fields empty, 'Free spins: 1/10'."
      },
      "spin_1_partial_expansion": {
        "file": "free_spins_1b.png",
        "content": "Reels 2 and 4 now show multiple stacked '10' expanding tiles (reel 4 shows an overlapping double-height tile mid-animation); badge top-right now reads '10 x12'. Footer unchanged from previous frame (win not yet resolved)."
      },
      "spin_1_full_expansion": {
        "file": "free_spins_1c.png",
        "content": "Reels 2, 4, 5 and 6 are now fully filled with the '10' expanding symbol (3 rows each = 12 tiles total, matching the '10 x12' badge exactly); reels 1 and 3 keep their normal random symbols (cat mask/K/J on reel 1, K/J/Q on reel 3). The bottom-right tile on reel 6 has a bright light-burst highlight, indicating a just-completed expansion animation."
      },
      "spin_1_result": {
        "file": "free_spins_1_win.png",
        "content": "Same grid as the previous frame; three horizontal gold light-beams trace across the top, middle and bottom rows of the grid (indicating the winning line paths), with an orange win amount '0.36' popping up over the middle row. Footer: 'Win: 0.36 FUN', 'Total win: 0.36 FUN', 'Free spins: 1/10'.",
        "uncertain": "The exact combination of symbols that produced this 0.36 FUN win (whether it came solely from the expanding '10' symbol paying on non-adjacent lines, from unrelated K/J matches, or both) is not fully resolvable from this single frame and is not asserted as fact."
      }
    },

    "free_spins_total_win": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "content": "End-of-round summary over a dimmed reel view: a large open golden book graphic with 'Total win' in red text, '2.62' in large purple/violet text, and '26x Bet' in smaller red text below it, plus a small red ribbon/gem bookmark under the book and 'Click to continue' in white text at the bottom. Footer: 'Total bet: 0.10 FUN', 'Total win: 2.62 FUN', 'Free spins: 10/10'.",
      "color_blind_notes": "The win amount and its bet-multiple are both printed as plain high-contrast text, redundant with the numeric footer readout."
    },

    "win_screen_small": {
      "type": "win_screen",
      "content": "A base-game (non-free-spins) win, used by the capture team as the payout-basis measurement frame. The 'Purple Pharaoh cat mask' symbol lands twice on reel 1 (top and middle row); a curved gold light-beam traces a payline path across the grid; an orange win amount '0.02' pops up over the third column. Footer: 'Total bet: 0.10 FUN', 'Total win: 0.02 FUN'. This matches the printed 2-of-a-kind payout for the Pharaoh cat mask (a x2 multiplier of the 0.10 FUN total bet, divided across 10 lines: 0.10/10 x 2 = 0.02).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Win amount is large high-contrast orange/gold text on a dark background - legible without color discrimination; the winning symbols are also outlined/highlighted by shape (a glowing border), not color alone."
    }
  },

  "accessibility_observations": {
    "screen_reader": "Control positions are stable across screens: info (i) + settings (gear) at the far left of the bottom bar with Balance printed beneath them; bet +/- just right of that with the Total bet value printed beneath; autoplay (circular 'A' icon) and Spin (circular double-arrow icon, no text) at the far right. The paytable/history/rules overlay is reached via 3 stacked round icons on its left edge and closed via a top-right 'X'; both the paytable and rules booklets are long, sequential scrollable documents (9 pages each in this capture) rather than paginated screens with next/prev arrows.",
    "motor": "Primary controls (Spin, Autoplay, bet +/-, Buy bonus) are all large, isolated circular/rounded targets. Spacebar can substitute for clicking Spin (toggle in Settings), reducing required precision clicking for repeated spins. Autospin round-count presets (10 up to 1000, or infinite) reduce the number of manual actions needed for extended play.",
    "color_blind": "Most game-state information is duplicated in plain text or shape/position cues, not conveyed by color alone: bet direction uses up/down triangle glyphs, disabled buttons are shown by dimmed brightness (not a distinct hue), the free-spins expanding-symbol count is a printed number ('x12') next to the symbol icon, win amounts are always accompanied by printed numeric text, and the base-game vs free-spins state is distinguished by BOTH a background color/temperature shift (warm gold vs cool teal) AND explicit text ('Free spins: N/10', 'Bonus active' banner) - not color alone. One residual note: royal symbols Q/J/10 are differentiated mainly by color (green/purple/blue) plus distinct glyph shapes, which should remain distinguishable via shape alone for users who cannot perceive the color difference.",
    "deaf_hard_of_hearing": "No audio-only information was observed; all game state (wins, spin counters, feature status, dialog prompts) is conveyed through on-screen text and graphics. Sound (music/SFX) is togglable and decorative per the Settings panel and rules text."
  },

  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "Volatility rating is not shown on any captured screen (no flame/bolt icon or text found) - left unset rather than guessed.",
    "Free Spins retrigger award amount (how many additional spins are granted per retrigger) is not shown on any captured screen; the rules only state that retriggering is possible and unlimited ('the process is unlimited').",
    "The exact symbol composition behind the 0.36 FUN win shown in free_spins_1_win.png is not fully resolvable from the single captured frame.",
    "The Risk Game example's printed 'Suit possible win: 384.00' does not reconcile with a simple x4 of the printed 'Current win: 0.8' shown in the same illustration; treated as an inconsistency in the booklet's illustrative example, not resolved further.",
    "The purpose of the small numeric readout near the speaker icon (e.g. '07:12', increasing across the session) is not confirmed by any in-game label - it may be an elapsed play-session or real-time clock; not asserted as fact.",
    "The Gamble round (Risk Game) was not played live for this capture pass - it is documented from rules text and the paytable's illustrative example screen only, not from an actual playthrough."
  ],

  "frame_captions": {
    "preview.png": "Splash screen: Book of Cats logo, MAX WIN 8202x, Click to Start",
    "base_game.png": "Base game 6x3 grid, reel 6 locked to one open cell, bet 0.10 FUN",
    "settings.png": "Settings panel: Quick spin off, Spacebar to spin on, audio",
    "autoplay.png": "Autospin settings: round counts 10 to 1000 or infinite",
    "bet_min.png": "Total bet at minimum 0.10 FUN, decrease arrow greyed out",
    "bet_max.png": "Total bet at maximum 10.00 FUN, Buy bonus shows 970.00 FUN",
    "paytable_p1.png": "Paytable page 1 of 9: Golden Book wild/scatter, Bastet top payer",
    "paytable_p2.png": "Paytable page 2 of 9: Key of Nile, cat mask, A K Q J 10 payouts",
    "paytable_p3.png": "Paytable page 3 of 9: end of symbol grid, Risk Game intro",
    "paytable_p4.png": "Paytable page 4 of 9: Risk Game example, Winline Expanding intro",
    "paytable_p5.png": "Paytable page 5 of 9: Winline Expanding diagram, FS intro",
    "paytable_p6.png": "Paytable page 6 of 9: Free spins trigger, Expanding symbol intro",
    "paytable_p7.png": "Paytable page 7 of 9: Expanding symbol text, Lines 1-8 diagrams",
    "paytable_p8.png": "Paytable page 8 of 9: payline diagrams Line 1 through Line 10",
    "paytable_p9.png": "Paytable page 9 of 9: full set of 10 payline diagrams, 6x3 grid",
    "rules_p1.png": "Rules page 1 of 9: About the Game text confirms 6x3 reel scheme",
    "rules_p2.png": "Rules page 2 of 9: Autospins stop-condition options list",
    "rules_p3.png": "Rules page 3 of 9: Scatter/Wild, Winline Expanding Feature text",
    "rules_p4.png": "Rules page 4 of 9: Free spins and Expanding symbol feature text",
    "rules_p5.png": "Rules page 5 of 9: Gamble round (Risk Game) rules text",
    "rules_p6.png": "Rules page 6 of 9: Gamble round cap and Buy bonus feature text",
    "rules_p7.png": "Rules page 7 of 9: Spin Results payout rules text",
    "rules_p8.png": "Rules page 8 of 9: Settings list, RTP 96.99%, Buy Bonus RTP",
    "rules_p9.png": "Rules page 9 of 9: RNG note and rule version dated May 26 2020",
    "bonus_buy_dialog.png": "Buy Free Spins dialog: price 9.70 FUN, Cancel and Buy buttons",
    "bonus_symbol_selected.png": "Free spins gameplay: expanding symbol 10 badge, win 0.20 FUN",
    "free_spins_intro.png": "Free spins won: 10 free spins, expanding symbol 10 revealed",
    "free_spins_1.png": "Free spin 1 of 10 settling, two 10 symbols landed on reels",
    "free_spins_1b.png": "Free spin 1: symbol 10 expanding across reels, counter x12",
    "free_spins_1c.png": "Free spin 1: symbol 10 fully expanded to 12 grid positions",
    "free_spins_1_win.png": "Free spin 1 result: win 0.36 FUN, winning lines highlighted",
    "free_spins_total_win.png": "Free spins round total win 2.62 FUN, 26x Bet, 10 of 10 spins",
    "win_screen_small.png": "Base game win: 2 Pharaoh cat masks pay 0.02 FUN on a payline"
  }
}