Fat Santa

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Fat Santa",
    "provider": "Push Gaming",
    "provider_ref": "fatsanta",
    "theme": "Christmas / Santa's snowy village. Base game is set outdoors against snow-capped mountains and a log cabin with festive lights; the Free Games Feature moves the action indoors to a warm, candle-lit living room with a fireplace, red armchair and a decorated Christmas tree.",
    "art_style": "Flat 2D vector cartoon illustration, bold clean dark outlines, flat cel-shaded colour fills with simple soft highlights (no photoreal lighting or gradniented rendering). Cute rounded chibi-style character proportions (short, round Santa/elf/snowman). Symbols are framed as square portrait tiles in ornate gold/coloured picture frames, front-facing, static camera. Bright, cheerful daylight snow-village palette in the base game (pale blue sky, white snow, warm wood-cabin browns) shifting to a cosy warm-amber indoor palette during free spins. Casual, family-friendly mobile-slot mood, not dark or cinematic.",
    "documentation_purpose": "Exhaustive accessibility documentation (blind/low-vision screen-reader users, deaf/hard-of-hearing, colour-blind of all types, motor-impaired) from 33 captured frames (desktop) + OCR ground truth + zoomed crops of the paytable.",
    "method_notes": "All numeric values are taken verbatim from on-screen/OCR text (paytable, GAME INFO booklet, bonus-buy dialog) or verified by the TL's own arithmetic cross-check (payout basis). Anything not directly legible on a captured frame is listed in 'unreadable_or_uncertain' and not invented.",
    "language": "English"
  },
  "color_palette": {
    "base_game_background": "Pale blue winter sky, snow-covered mountains, a snow-laden pine tree on the left, a log cabin with warm yellow window/string lights on the right, light snowfall particles.",
    "reel_frame": "Light icy-blue translucent glass-like border around the 5x5 grid with a frosted white rim.",
    "reel_cells": "Muted slate-blue/grey cell backgrounds separating individual symbol tiles.",
    "free_spins_background": "Warm brown/amber indoor room: red upholstered armchair, lit candles, grey brick wall, wooden furniture; green Christmas tree with lights and a vertical 'Christmas Pie meter' track on the right edge of the screen.",
    "win_screen_background": "Same indoor room tinted teal/green with a bright white-yellow radial glow burst behind the win figure.",
    "accent_colors": "Gold (symbol frames, 'Fat Santa' logo lettering, UI icon accents), red (Santa's suit, spade baubles, 'CONGRATULATIONS'/'BIG WIN' outline strokes), green ('Fat Santa' wordmark fill, clover baubles, free-spins wordmark strokes), candy-cane red-and-white stripes (all large numeric win figures)."
  },
  "symbols": {
    "note": "Identities and payouts read from paytable_p1.png/paytable_p2.png. Header text: 'All wins shown are in fun and valid for the current bet of 0.50 fun.' Values below are the printed currency amounts at that 0.50 anchor bet (i.e. multiplier of total bet = printed value / 0.50).",
    "wild": {
      "name": "Fat Santa (Wild)",
      "appearance": "Chubby cartoon Santa Claus head-and-shoulders portrait (red hat with white pompom, white beard, rosy cheeks) in a gold ornate picture frame with red holly-berry corner decorations.",
      "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
        "5": 10.0,
        "4": 2.0,
        "3": 0.4
      },
      "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
        "5": 20,
        "4": 4,
        "3": 0.8
      },
      "rules": "Substitutes for all other symbols. Can ONLY land on reel 1 (paytable_p1.png / rules_p2.png/p3.png, dedicated 'Wild Symbols' section)."
    },
    "high_value": [
      {
        "name": "Elf",
        "appearance": "Young grinning elf character with a green pointed hat with bell, red tunic, in a red-bordered gold-cornered frame.",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 10.0,
          "4": 2.0,
          "3": 0.4
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 20,
          "4": 4,
          "3": 0.8
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Reindeer (Rudolph, pie-faced)",
        "appearance": "Brown reindeer head with antlers and a large red glowing nose, framed in green with gold corner ornaments.",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 8.0,
          "4": 1.5,
          "3": 0.3
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 16,
          "4": 3,
          "3": 0.6
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Snowman",
        "appearance": "Round white snowman with an orange carrot nose, red scarf, no frame (freestanding icon, unlike the portrait symbols).",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 5.0,
          "4": 1.0,
          "3": 0.2
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 10,
          "4": 2,
          "3": 0.4
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Wrapped gift box",
        "appearance": "Blue gift box with a pink/magenta ribbon and bow, sitting on a small snow mound, no frame.",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 3.0,
          "4": 0.8,
          "3": 0.16
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 6,
          "4": 1.6,
          "3": 0.32
        }
      }
    ],
    "low_value_baubles": [
      {
        "name": "Red bauble (spade motif)",
        "appearance": "Glossy red Christmas-ball ornament with a black spade icon, small gold cap/hook at top",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 1.0,
          "4": 0.4,
          "3": 0.1
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 2,
          "4": 0.8,
          "3": 0.2
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Orange bauble (heart motif)",
        "appearance": "Glossy orange Christmas-ball ornament with a dark heart icon, gold cap",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 1.0,
          "4": 0.4,
          "3": 0.1
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 2,
          "4": 0.8,
          "3": 0.2
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Lime/olive bauble (diamond motif)",
        "appearance": "Glossy yellow-green Christmas-ball ornament with a dark diamond icon, gold cap",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 0.8,
          "4": 0.3,
          "3": 0.08
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 1.6,
          "4": 0.6,
          "3": 0.16
        }
      },
      {
        "name": "Teal/green bauble (clover motif)",
        "appearance": "Glossy teal-green Christmas-ball ornament with a dark clover/club icon, gold cap",
        "payouts_at_0.50_bet": {
          "5": 0.8,
          "4": 0.3,
          "3": 0.08
        },
        "payout_multiplier_of_total_bet": {
          "5": 1.6,
          "4": 0.6,
          "3": 0.16
        }
      }
    ],
    "special_wild": {
      "name": "Christmas Pie / Wild Christmas Pie",
      "appearance": "A golden baked pie with a red berry/holly garnish on top, in a gold frame with a green wreath border; the 'Wild Christmas Pie' variant additionally carries a blue ribbon banner reading 'WILD' across the bottom of the tile.",
      "rules": "Wild symbol that substitutes for all other symbols EXCEPT the Fat Santa symbol (paytable_p4.png, rules_p3.png). Produced by the Santa's Sleigh Feature (locks in place on the reels) and is the trigger condition for the Free Games Feature when it lands together with a Santa symbol anywhere on the grid.",
      "has_own_payout_table": false
    }
  },
  "technical_summary": {
    "grid": "5 reels x 5 rows, fixed grid (not a random-height/cluster layout) — confirmed visually on base_game.png, base_game_win.png and all free-spins frames.",
    "paylines": {
      "value": 50,
      "mechanic": "fixed win lines (not ways-to-win)",
      "sources": [
        "rules_p1.png: 'Fat Santa is a 5-reel slot with 50 win lines, and 5 symbols per reel.'",
        "info.png: 'Bet Lines: 50'",
        "paytable_p8.png-p12.png: individual zig-zag diagrams for lines 1 through 50 on the 5x5 grid"
      ]
    },
    "payout_basis": {
      "value": "total_bet",
      "evidence": "base_game_win.png: WIN 0.30 at TOTAL BET 0.50 matches the paytable's printed 4-of-a-kind tier (0.30, e.g. teal clover / lime diamond bauble) exactly at the 0.50 anchor bet — i.e. paytable values ARE total-bet multipliers already scaled to the current bet, not per-line values.",
      "note_on_rules_text_conflict": "rules_p2.png literally states 'The paytable reflects the current bet configuration, based on the bet per line' — this phrasing is the SAME kind of self-contradicting boilerplate flagged in the Push Gaming playbook for '10 Swords' (rules text disagrees with itself/with measurement). The arithmetic cross-check above overrides the printed phrase; there is no separate 'bet per line' figure anywhere in the UI (bet selector only offers a single TOTAL BET value), so a genuine per-line basis is not even expressible in this build."
    },
    "rtp": {
      "base_percent": 96.45,
      "bonus_buy_percent": 96.59,
      "source": "rules_p7.png: 'The theoretical average return to player (RTP) is 96.45%.' and 'The theoretical average return to player (RTP) of the Bonus Buy is 96.59%.'; the 96.59% figure is repeated inside bonus_dialog.png ('RTP 96.59%')."
    },
    "max_win_structural": {
      "value_multiplier_of_current_bet": 11322.76,
      "source": "rules_p7.png: 'The maximum payout per game round is 11,322.76x the current bet amount.'",
      "note": "This is the structural cap printed inside the game build itself and is what is used as the documented maximum."
    },
    "storefront_highest_observed_win": {
      "value": "3,844x",
      "note": "This figure appears ONLY on the Push Gaming marketing/storefront page, not on any captured in-game frame, and is explicitly a record of an observed player result ('HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN'), not a structural payout cap. It is a smaller, irregular number compared to the printed structural cap (11,322.76x) precisely because it reflects what has actually happened to date, not the theoretical ceiling. It must NOT be recorded as max_win."
    },
    "bet_range": {
      "min": 0.25,
      "max": 100.0,
      "currency_label_on_screen": "fun (demo token label, not a real-money currency)",
      "available_values": [
        0.25,
        0.5,
        0.75,
        1.0,
        2.0,
        3.0,
        5.0,
        10.0,
        20.0,
        30.0,
        50.0,
        100.0
      ],
      "source": "info.png (TOTAL BET panel, 'Available Bets fun')"
    },
    "reel_symbols_per_reel": 5,
    "version": {
      "server_version": "2.24.0",
      "client_version": "10.20.5 (03-07-2026)",
      "source": "rules_p7.png/rules_p8.png (bottom of GAME INFO booklet)"
    },
    "malfunction_clause": "MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYS AND PLAYS. (rules_p7.png)",
    "incomplete_game_policy": "Incomplete games will be automatically resolved after 48 hours; any winnings from automatic resolve are paid to the player's account. Where an incomplete game cannot be resolved, the stake is returned to the player. (rules_p6.png/p7.png)"
  },
  "features": {
    "santas_sleigh_feature": {
      "status": "documented from printed source only — gameplay NOT captured (see 'not_captured' below)",
      "trigger": "Triggered randomly while the reels are spinning, in the base game.",
      "effect": "Santa's sleigh may fly over the reels, leaving Christmas Pie symbols at random positions on the reels. These symbols lock in place and act as Wild. The reels then land, and any symbol that would have landed underneath a Christmas Pie symbol is replaced by a Christmas Pie symbol instead.",
      "source_quote": "paytable_p2.png/p3.png and rules_p3.png (identical wording): \"The Santa's Sleigh Feature is triggered randomly whilst the reels are spinning. When the Santa's Sleigh Feature is triggered, Santa's sleigh may fly over the reels, leaving behind Christmas Pie symbols at random positions on the reels. These symbols lock in place, and act as wild. Reels then land, with any symbols landing underneath Christmas Pie symbols being replaced [by] Christmas Pie symbols.\"",
      "captured": true,
      "observed_frames": [
        "sleigh_feature_wilds_locked.png",
        "sleigh_feature_win.png"
      ],
      "observation_note": "OBSERVED, not only printed. Found by a dedicated hunt of 200 clicks / 194 confirmed spins (a spin was counted only when the on-canvas balance region changed, because this provider renders the game inside a cross-origin iframe and no DOM balance expression exists). The feature fired twice in those 194 spins. Frames were selected objectively by the share of gold pixels in the reel area — both hits sat in the tail of that distribution (5.95% and 6.97% against a median near 1.5%)."
    },
    "free_games_feature": {
      "trigger": "A Santa (Fat Santa) symbol lands together with one or more Wild Christmas Pie symbols anywhere on the grid.",
      "initial_award": "5 Free Spins.",
      "persistent_symbol": "The Santa symbol stays locked on the reels for the entire duration of the Free Games Feature.",
      "collection_mechanic": "During the feature, whenever Christmas Pie symbols land, the Santa symbol moves to them and 'collects' them; each collected symbol is added to an on-screen Christmas Pie meter (a horizontal string-of-lights track next to a small Santa-shaped marker, visible on the right edge of the free-spins screen, e.g. free_spins_play.png/free_spins_retrigger.png).",
      "meter_reward_table": {
        "1st_fill": "+3 additional spins",
        "2nd_fill": "+2 additional spins",
        "3rd_fill": "+2 additional spins",
        "4th_fill": "+1 additional spin"
      },
      "santa_growth": "Each time the meter is filled, the Santa symbol visually increases in size (illustrated on paytable_p9.png/p10.png as three overlapping Santa portraits of increasing size).",
      "sources": [
        "paytable_p5.png",
        "paytable_p6.png",
        "paytable_p7.png",
        "rules_p4.png",
        "rules_p5.png"
      ],
      "observed_gameplay": "Captured directly: free_spins_intro.png (award screen, 5 spins), free_spins_play.png (2/5 spins, WIN 1.80, meter shows 3 collected pies), free_spins_retrigger.png (moment after a meter fill: enlarged Santa portrait shown center-reel, counter at 5/8 meaning the total was extended from 5 to 8), free_spins_megawin.png (mid-round 'BIG WIN 3.65' celebration overlay at 9/10 spins), win_screen.png (round-ending total)."
    },
    "bonus_buy": {
      "available": true,
      "options_count": 1,
      "button": "Star icon in the bottom-right corner of the game screen (visible on base_game.png etc.); opens the BONUS BUY dialog.",
      "buys": "Free Games Feature only, for 80x the current Base Bet.",
      "dialog_contents": "bonus_dialog.png: 'BONUS BUY' header, a Base Bet stepper (0.50 shown, with -/+ buttons), a preview panel showing the Fat Santa portrait and a Christmas Pie/Wild icon, 'Feature Cost: 40.00 fun' (at 0.50 base bet, i.e. 40.00/0.50 = 80x), 'RTP 96.59%' printed bottom-right of the panel, and a BUY button.",
      "cost_example_measured": {
        "base_bet": 0.5,
        "feature_cost": 40.0,
        "multiplier": 80
      },
      "sources": [
        "rules_p5.png/p6.png: 'By pressing or clicking on the Bonus Buy button (the star icon in the bottom corner of the screen) you will be presented with the option to buy the Free Games Feature for 80x your base bet...'",
        "bonus_dialog.png"
      ]
    }
  },
  "screens": {
    "preview": {
      "type": "preview",
      "content": "Splash/loading screen shown before entering the game. Snowy mountain village background (same art as base game but darker/dusk-toned). Centered gold-framed 'FAT Santa' logo lockup (FAT in white/icy-blue block letters, Santa in red script with a small holly sprig, both inside a decorative gold ornament frame with hanging string-lights along the bottom edge). Below the logo, two feature preview panels side by side: left panel 'FAT SANTA FEATURE / GROWING WILDS' shows three overlapping/glowing Santa portrait frames (illustrating the Free Games meter-growth mechanic); right panel 'SLEIGH FEATURE / RANDOM WILDS' shows Santa's sleigh flying with a Christmas Pie symbol and a coin/pie icon trailing behind it. Bottom-center text 'CLICK ANYWHERE TO CONTINUE'.",
      "rtp_on_this_screen": "NOT printed (differs from the Push Gaming playbook's general expectation that RTP appears on the loading screen; confirmed absent here after direct inspection).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Feature names are labeled with full text captions under each panel, not relying on color alone."
    },
    "base_game": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "layout": "5x5 symbol grid inside a light icy-blue glass-effect frame, centered on screen.",
      "top_left_logo": "'Fat Santa' wordmark badge (gold ornate frame, same style as the splash logo but smaller) floating above the top-left corner of the reels.",
      "top_right_bonus_button": "Circular white star-outline icon (Bonus Buy entry point), bottom-right of the reel frame area.",
      "bottom_bar_left_to_right": "Grid-of-squares MENU icon (opens paytable/rules/settings/autoplay panel), speaker MUTE icon, 'BALANCE fun' with the numeric balance (e.g. 1,000.00), 'TOTAL BET fun' with the numeric current bet (e.g. 0.50) and a small up-chevron above it (opens the bet-selection panel), 'WIN fun' with the current round's win amount, a fast-forward/skip icon, and the large circular SPIN button (two curved white arrows forming a loop) on the far right.",
      "color_blind_notes": "All bottom-bar controls are white glyph icons on a dark translucent bar — differentiated by shape/pictogram, not color; numeric labels (BALANCE/TOTAL BET/WIN) are plain white text with a caption word above each figure."
    },
    "base_game_win": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "content": "Same layout as base_game; a 2x2 block of matching teal/green clover-motif and reindeer symbols is shown mid-grid, WIN reads 0.30 at TOTAL BET 0.50 — the frame used as the payout-basis evidence."
    },
    "paytable": {
      "type": "paytable",
      "pages": "12 pages total, one continuous scrolling panel (no internal tabs/sections) — reached the bottom (scrollbar at the end, content stops changing on page 12).",
      "page_1_2": "Symbol grid with all payouts (see 'symbols' section above), plus the header disclaimer 'All wins shown are in fun and valid for the current bet of 0.50 fun.'",
      "page_2_3": "'Features > Santa's Sleigh Feature' description with an illustration of the sleigh flying over the reels.",
      "page_4": "'Wild Symbols' section: Fat Santa Wild and Christmas Pie/Wild Christmas Pie Wild, each with its own illustration and rule text.",
      "page_5_7": "'Free Games Feature' section: trigger condition, initial 5 spins, Christmas Pie meter collection mechanic, and the +3/+2/+2/+1 meter reward table, illustrated with the growing Santa portrait sequence.",
      "page_8_12": "'Win Lines' section: numbered zig-zag line diagrams for all 50 fixed paylines drawn on a 5x5 grid.",
      "navigation": "Left rail icons (replay/history, coin-stack bet selector, paytable grid icon, gear settings, question-mark help) plus right-side vertical scrollbar and two small icons (shield/shape and star) stacked bottom-right of the panel."
    },
    "rules": {
      "type": "rules",
      "pages": "8 pages captured (settle-confirmed at the bottom: pages 7 and 8 are visually identical, i.e. the panel had already reached its floor), header 'GAME INFO', one continuous scroll (no internal tabs).",
      "page_1": "Game summary sentence ('Fat Santa is a 5-reel slot with 50 win lines, and 5 symbols per reel. Features include Wild symbols, Free Games Feature, and Santa's Sleigh Feature.'), 'How to Play' (Bet button + Spin button or Space bar), 'Autoplay' (choose number of rounds, Stop Autoplay shows remaining count), start of 'Quick Play' (Skip button or Space bar to skip animations).",
      "page_2_3": "'Payout Rules' (line-win definition, highest line win per line is awarded, wins on separate lines summed, note about paytable reflecting current bet — see payout_basis note above), 'Wild Symbols' (Fat Santa restricted to reel 1; Christmas Pie/Wild Christmas Pie substitute for all but Fat Santa), start of 'Santa's Sleigh Feature'.",
      "page_4_5": "'Santa's Sleigh Feature' full text, 'Free Games Feature' full text including the Christmas Pie meter mechanic and the +3/+2/+2/+1 reward table, start of 'Bonus Buy'.",
      "page_6": "'Bonus Buy' full text (star icon, 80x base bet, confirm/cancel flow), 'Base Bet' definition ('the total bet selected for each new spin or game round').",
      "page_7_8": "'Additional Information': incomplete-game resolution policy, malfunction clause, RTP 96.45% (base) and 96.59% (Bonus Buy), max payout 11,322.76x current bet, Server Version 2.24.0, Client Version 10.20.5 (03-07-2026)."
    },
    "settings": {
      "type": "settings",
      "content": "One-screen panel, no scroll. Three toggles: 'All Sounds', 'Sound Effects', 'Music', each with a round dark button showing a speaker-with-X (muted) icon on the right."
    },
    "info": {
      "type": "info",
      "content": "'TOTAL BET' panel. 'Available Bets fun' grid of 12 bet-value buttons (0.25 through 100.00 fun) in a 4-column x 3-row layout; the active bet (0.50) is highlighted white/light while the rest are grey. Below the grid: 'Bet Lines: 50'."
    },
    "autoplay": {
      "type": "autoplay",
      "pages": 2,
      "content": "'AUTOPLAYS' header. 'Number of Spins' row of 8 buttons: Off, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000 (Off is selected/highlighted). 'Loss Limit (Expressed as multiples of total bet)': x5, x10, x20, x50, x100 (x100 highlighted/selected). 'Single Win Limit (Expressed as multiples of total bet)': No Limit, x10, x20, x50, x100 (No Limit highlighted/selected). Page 2 shows the same content with only a minimal residual scroll offset, confirming the panel's bottom."
    },
    "bonus": {
      "type": "bonus",
      "content": "See features.bonus_buy above (bonus_dialog.png)."
    },
    "free_spins": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "content": "See features.free_games_feature.observed_gameplay above. Bottom bar during free spins additionally shows a 'FREE SPINS n / total' counter and a skip-to-end (fast-forward, double-chevron) icon replacing the normal spin button."
    },
    "win_screen": {
      "type": "win_screen",
      "content": "Round-ending summary shown after the Free Games Feature (bought) completes. Three gold stars at the top, 'CONGRATULATIONS' (green text, red outline), 'YOU WON', a large candy-cane-striped numeral reading '96.70', 'DURING FREE SPINS' (green), and 'CLICK ANYWHERE TO CONTINUE' at the bottom. Background is the indoor fireplace room with a decorated Christmas tree on the right, tinted with a bright warm radial glow behind the text."
    },
    "sleigh_feature_wilds_locked": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "file": "sleigh_feature_wilds_locked.png",
      "content": "Santa's Sleigh Feature caught IN ACTION during a base-game spin. Ten Christmas Pie symbols, each carrying a white 'WILD' ribbon across its lower edge and framed in a gold ornate border, are LOCKED across reels 1 and 3-5 while the remaining reel positions are still visibly spinning (those symbols are motion-blurred). This is the printed mechanic made visible: the sleigh leaves pies at random positions, they lock, and only then do the reels land. BALANCE 994.38 fun, TOTAL BET 0.50 fun, WIN field still empty."
    },
    "sleigh_feature_win": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "file": "sleigh_feature_win.png",
      "content": "Santa's Sleigh Feature, settled outcome. Three Christmas Pie WILD symbols remain locked on reels 3, 4 and 5 (top row and middle row); the reels have stopped and a large red '1.80' win animation is drawn across the grid. BALANCE 969.48 fun, TOTAL BET 0.50 fun, WIN 1.80 fun — the second half of the mechanic, where symbols landing under the pies are replaced by pies and pay as wilds."
    }
  },
  "ui_controls_accessibility": {
    "shape_vs_color_dependence": "All persistent bottom-bar and left-rail controls (menu grid, speaker/mute, settings gear, help '?', bonus-buy star, spin arrows, skip/fast-forward chevrons) are white monochrome pictograms on dark translucent buttons — identified by icon shape, not by color, which is safe for color-blind users.",
    "selected_state_indication": "In both the TOTAL BET grid (info.png) and the AUTOPLAYS panel (autoplay_p1.png/p2.png), the currently selected option is shown with a light/white filled button and dark text, versus grey buttons with white text for unselected options — this is a brightness/contrast difference, not a hue-only difference, and should register for all color-blind types.",
    "text_redundancy": "Numeric labels (BALANCE, TOTAL BET, WIN, FREE SPINS n/total) always carry a text caption directly above/beside the figure, so the value is never conveyed by color or position alone.",
    "screen_reader_notes": "This is a canvas-rendered game (Push Gaming, cross-domain iframe) with no native DOM text nodes exposed to assistive tech for in-game numbers; all textual information here was recovered via OCR/visual reading for documentation purposes only, not as evidence the live game itself is screen-reader accessible."
  },
  "feature_coverage": [
    {
      "feature": "free_games_feature (bought via Bonus Buy)",
      "buy_dialog": "bonus_dialog.png",
      "gameplay": "free_spins_play.png, free_spins_retrigger.png, free_spins_megawin.png",
      "win": "win_screen.png",
      "trigger_dialog_note": "free_spins_intro.png is the post-purchase 'FREE SPINS AWARDED' screen, not a natural scatter-trigger moment — the feature was entered by purchase in this session."
    },
    {
      "feature": "santas_sleigh_feature",
      "buy_dialog": null,
      "gameplay": null,
      "win": null,
      "not_captured": "Gameplay was not captured. The feature is documented from the printed paytable/rules source only (see features.santas_sleigh_feature). It triggers randomly during base-game spins; the observed session entered the game via Bonus Buy straight into free spins, so no base-game spin in this set happened to trigger it."
    }
  ],
  "not_captured": [],
  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "Volatility rating is not printed anywhere in this build (paytable, rules booklet, settings, or preview screen); only the Push Gaming storefront advertises a rating, and per playbook policy storefront-only figures are not carried into this documentation.",
    "No explicit 'operator win cap may differ from the printed cap' disclaimer sentence is present in Fat Santa's rules_p7.png (unlike the Deadly 5 precedent from the same provider) — the printed 11,322.76x figure is presented without that caveat in this build, so it is documented as-is without assuming the caveat applies.",
    "No visible 'Push Gaming' studio/developer branding was found on any captured frame (splash, reel footer, or rules booklet) — studio attribution cannot be sourced from these screenshots."
  ],
  "anomalies": [
    "During the observed free-spins round, an intermediate WIN counter reached 98.50 fun shortly before the round ended, but the final win_screen.png prints 'YOU WON 96.70 DURING FREE SPINS' (a 1.80 fun discrepancy). No explanation is visible on the captured frames; the round-ending screen (96.70) is treated as the authoritative final figure, consistent with the general pattern of win counters animating/being mid-count on intermediate frames.",
    "A duplicate of the free-spins-award moment (near-identical to free_spins_intro.png, differing only in a glow/lighting animation detail) was present in the raw capture as '_dup_free_spins_awarded.png' and was removed by the TL prior to documentation; it is not referenced anywhere in this file or in the manifest's active shot list.",
    "The game's own splash screen names both features explicitly: 'FAT SANTA FEATURE / GROWING WILDS' and 'SLEIGH FEATURE / RANDOM WILDS' — a second, independent confirmation of the printed paytable text."
  ],
  "provider_notes": {
    "playbook_reference": "documentation/playbooks/push.md and documentation/provider-defects/push.md (P-U01..P-U04) were read before writing this documentation.",
    "iframe_note": "The game runs inside a cross-domain iframe (player.eu.demo.pushgaming.com); provider_ref 'fatsanta' was read from the iframe src's rgsGameId query parameter at the top-level DOM, per P-U01/P-U03.",
    "rtp_on_loading_screen_correction": "This slot is the second observed case (after '10 Swords') where the playbook's general note 'RTP is printed on the loading screen' does NOT hold — preview.png carries no RTP text. RTP for Fat Santa is only available in the rules booklet (rules_p7.png) and in the Bonus Buy dialog (bonus_dialog.png)."
  }
}