Tales of Egypt

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Tales of Egypt",
    "provider": "Pragmatic Play",
    "internal_slug_note": "demo gameSymbol='vs20egypt'. The 'vs20' prefix LOOKS like it could mean '20 paylines' and in this particular game it coincidentally does (20 fixed lines), but this was confirmed by counting the payline diagrams on rules page 2/6, NOT by trusting the slug (PP slugs are internal codes and are known to be misleading in other titles).",
    "official_title_confirmed_on_screen": "'TALES OF EGYPT' (gold text on a brown parchment/scroll-shaped banner at the top of the reels and of every rules page). The word 'New' does NOT appear anywhere in this build (splash, title banner, or rules) -- this is the original 'Tales of Egypt', not the different game 'New Tales of Egypt' (which has an unrelated 'Queen's Chambers' feature).",
    "theme": "Ancient-Egypt tomb-raiding / pyramid-exploration theme. Stone temple walls carved with hieroglyphics form the outer frame of the reels and of every info panel. Cast of symbols: Bastet (dark navy-blue cat with a gold collar), Horus-style falcon (turquoise/teal bird with wings fully spread, gold trim), a scarab beetle (green/teal shell with gold outline and gold legs), Anubis (golden jackal-headed bust with a blue-and-gold striped nemes-like scarf), playing-card royals A/K/Q/J/10, a WILD symbol called 'The Archeologist' (a mummified skeletal pharaoh flanked by two skeleton guards), and 'The Great Pyramid' -- a single symbol that is simultaneously the SCATTER and the WILD.",
    "documentation_purpose": "Exhaustive accessibility documentation (blind/low-vision screen-reader users, deaf/hard-of-hearing, color-blind users of all types, motor-impaired users) built from 20 desktop screenshots (1280x800) plus zoomed crops of the paytable and symbols.",
    "method_notes": "All visual details verified directly from full-resolution screenshots and multiple zoomed crops (WILD symbol art, scarab icon, Great Pyramid alternate art, payline table). Numeric payout basis was independently measured across FOUR bet/view configurations, see payout_basis_investigation below. RTP, max win and volatility are NOT printed anywhere in this build's 6-page GAME RULES booklet -- all 6 pages were read in full twice; these fields are left null here rather than guessed (per anti-hallucination rule) and are expected to be sourced from the web by the team lead separately.",
    "language": "English"
  },

  "color_palette": {
    "base_game_background": "Warm brown/sepia carved-stone temple wall with hieroglyph reliefs, visible around and behind the reel frame.",
    "frame": "Ornate brown/tan stone-block border; a hanging scroll-shaped banner at the very top (brown parchment with gold trim and gold end-caps shaped like rolled scroll rods) displays the game title in gold serif letters with a dark red/maroon outline.",
    "reel_cells_base_game": "Dark brown/near-black semi-transparent panels separated by thin vertical seams, symbols rendered in full color on top.",
    "free_spins_background": "Distinct cool dark navy-blue / indigo stone temple background (a clear palette shift from the warm brown base game) with a light-blue vertical glow line dividing each reel.",
    "info_rules_panels": "Near-black translucent panel with a thin gold/tan border, white body text, gold section headings; paytable symbol tiles sit on a brown wood-plank strip.",
    "accent_colors": "Gold/amber (frame, headings, title, buttons highlights), green (navigation arrows, close X, START AUTOPLAY button, on-state toggle switches, scarab beetle), red/maroon (title outline, 'A' card color, CONGRATULATIONS text background accents), blue (falcon symbol, 'A' card letter color, free-spins background, Bastet cat body), orange/yellow (CREDIT/BET labels, Anubis symbol, K card)."
  },

  "layout_and_controls": {
    "note": "Consistent across base_game / settings / autoplay / paytable screens.",
    "top_left_bottom_bar": "Round hamburger MENU button ('=', three horizontal white lines in a dark circle) opens SYSTEM SETTINGS; round SOUND button (speaker icon) directly below it toggles sound.",
    "info_button": "Round 'i' INFORMATION button just right of the menu/speaker column; opens the 6-page GAME RULES booklet.",
    "balance_labels": "Center-left, bold text: 'CREDIT $100,000.00' (orange/gold) and 'BET $2.00' (orange/gold). Clicking these labels toggles between cash view (dollar amounts) and coins view (integer coin counts) -- confirmed by direct comparison of info_p2/info_coins_p2/basis_confirm screenshots.",
    "center_hint": "'HOLD SPACE FOR TURBO SPIN' white text, center of the bottom bar during idle base game.",
    "right_controls": "Large round SPIN button (two white curved arrows forming a circle), a round '-' (decrease bet) to its left and round '+' (increase bet) to its right; a small 'T'-style turbo/quick-spin toggle icon appears just left of '-' during some states; an 'AUTOPLAY' pill button with a small fast-forward icon sits directly under the SPIN button.",
    "branding": "'PRAGMATIC PLAY' in small grey text, bottom-left corner of the screen.",
    "free_spins_bar_extra": "During free spins an additional small square badge/icon (showing the currently-chosen extra-scatter character, e.g. the Bastet cat) appears in the bottom bar between the BET value and the center WIN/spins-left readout, reminding the player which symbol is acting as an extra scatter this round."
  },

  "grid_and_bet_mechanics": {
    "reels_rows": "5 reels x 3 rows, fixed grid (confirmed by direct symbol count on base_game.png and base_game_win.png).",
    "paylines": "20 FIXED paylines (not ways/cluster). Confirmed by the 20 numbered payline diagrams printed on GAME RULES page 2/6 (info_p2.png), independent of the demo slug 'vs20egypt'.",
    "payline_diagram_layout": "The 20 line diagrams are arranged in a grid of 4 columns x 5 rows on rules page 2/6. Each entry shows a line number (1-20, printed in a distinct color per line) next to a small 5-column x 3-row mini-grid where the cells belonging to that line are highlighted in the same color as the number (e.g. line 1's number is grey and its mini-grid shows a grey path). This is a standard fixed-payline reference chart; individual line shapes were not further decoded cell-by-cell as that level of detail is not required to understand the mechanic (20 fixed lines, pay left-to-right).",
    "win_direction": "'ALL SYMBOLS PAY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. SCATTERS PAY ON ANY POSITION.' (footer text on every paytable page).",
    "bet_range": {
      "minimum": "$0.20",
      "maximum": "$240.00",
      "source": "Measured directly: bet_min_probe.png shows the TOTAL BET stepper at $0.20 with the round '-' button greyed out/disabled (cannot go lower); bet_max_probe.png shows $240.00 with the round '+' button greyed out/disabled (cannot go higher). No ante bet, no super/special bet mode exists in this game -- SYSTEM SETTINGS only exposes a single TOTAL BET stepper, no ante toggle was found on any screen.",
      "demo_default_bet": "$2.00 (shown on base_game.png at load)."
    },
    "demo_credit": "$100,000.00 starting demo balance.",
    "bonus_buy": "Not present. The base game, settings and autoplay panels were checked and no BUY BONUS / BUY FEATURE control exists anywhere in this build.",
    "keyboard": "Not explicitly documented on-screen beyond 'HOLD SPACE FOR TURBO SPIN' (holding SPACE forces turbo-speed spins).",
    "malfunction_clause": "'MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYS AND PLAYS.' (printed on rules page 1/6)."
  },

  "payout_basis_investigation": {
    "summary": "The paytable uses TWO DIFFERENT display conventions on its two symbol pages, verified across 4 independent bet/view captures per direct TL instruction. This distinction is critical to interpreting every number below.",
    "page_1_regular_symbols_convention": "GAME RULES page 1/6 (WILD 'The Archeologist' + Bastet/falcon/scarab/Anubis + A/K/Q/J/10) prints an ALREADY-COMPUTED cash amount that scales LINEARLY with the current TOTAL BET. Evidence: WILD 5-of-a-kind reads '$10.00' at BET $0.20 (info_1.png) and '$12,000.00' (10000 coins x $0.01) at the equivalent of BET $2.00 in coins view (info_coins_p1.png: WILD 5=10000, BET=200 coins @ $0.01 = $2.00 total bet -> 10000 x $0.01 = $100.00, i.e. exactly 10x the $10.00 figure for a 10x larger bet). The dollar figures therefore already equal 'multiplier-of-total-bet x total-bet'; expressed purely as a multiplier of TOTAL BET, dividing every $0.20-bet figure by $0.20 gives: WILD 50x/7.5x/2.5x, Bastet cat 25x/3.75x/1.25x, falcon 17.5x/2.5x/1x, scarab 12.5x/2x/0.75x, Anubis 10x/1.25x/0.5x, A/K 6x/1x/0.35x, Q/J/10 5x/0.75x/0.25x (5-of/4-of/3-of-a-kind respectively).",
    "page_2_great_pyramid_convention": "GAME RULES page 2/6 (the Great Pyramid SCATTER+WILD combo symbol, '5-200 / 4-20 / 3-2') is DIFFERENT: these numbers did NOT change across 4 measurements -- $0.20 cash bet (info_p2.png), $2.00-equivalent coin bet (info_coins_p2.png, BET=200 coins), and $240.00 cash bet (basis_confirm_maxbet_p2.png) all show identical '5-200 / 4-20 / 3-2'. This proves the figures are a FIXED MULTIPLIER OF BET-PER-LINE, not a cash amount and not a coin count. This matches the printed rule on the same page: 'ALL WINS ARE MULTIPLIED BY BET PER LINE.' With 20 fixed lines, bet-per-line = TOTAL BET / 20, so the real payout as a fraction of TOTAL BET is: 5-of-a-kind = 200/20 = 10x total bet ($2.00 at $0.20 bet, $2,400.00 at $240.00 bet); 4-of-a-kind = 20/20 = 1x total bet; 3-of-a-kind = 2/20 = 0.1x total bet.",
    "evidence_frames": ["info_p2.png", "info_coins_p2.png", "basis_confirm_maxbet_p2.png", "info_1.png", "info_coins_p1.png"],
    "accessibility_note_for_screen_readers": "A screen-reader description of this game's paytable MUST distinguish the two conventions explicitly, otherwise a user would wrongly believe the Great Pyramid symbol pays a flat $200/$20/$2 regardless of stake, or wrongly believe its value never scales with bet size."
  },

  "symbols": {
    "note": "Payouts below are read verbatim from GAME RULES page 1/6 at the demo default view (BET $0.20, cash view) unless stated otherwise. See payout_basis_investigation for how to convert to a bet multiplier.",
    "wild": {
      "name": "WILD -- 'The Archeologist'",
      "appearance_paytable_idle": "A square gold-framed image of a mummified skeletal pharaoh (blue-and-gold striped nemes headdress, hollow black eye sockets, red glowing gem on the forehead) flanked by two smaller skeleton guards (also with red glowing forehead gems) on a dark reddish-brown background. Gold word 'WILD' printed below the image on the paytable.",
      "appearance_reel_win_highlight": "On a winning-line reel cell this same WILD symbol can instead render as a single glowing GOLDEN pharaoh bust/statue (Tutankhamun-style striped headdress) lit by vertical rays of warm golden light on a red background, with the gold word 'WILD' printed at the bottom of the tile (seen in base_game_win.png). This is interpreted as an animated/alternate win-state rendering of the SAME WILD symbol, not a second symbol -- both the skeleton-guards version and the glowing-bust version were seen occupying WILD-behavior tiles.",
      "rules": "Substitutes for all symbols EXCEPT the Great Pyramid scatter/wild. ('THE ARCHEOLOGIST IS WILD AND SUBSTITUTES FOR ALL SYMBOLS EXCEPT FOR SCATTER.' -- rules p1.)",
      "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$10.00", "4": "$1.50", "3": "$0.50"},
      "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "50x", "4": "7.5x", "3": "2.5x"},
      "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "10000", "4": "1500", "3": "500"},
      "rank": "highest-paying regular symbol"
    },
    "high_value": [
      {
        "name": "Bastet (black/navy cat)",
        "appearance": "Sitting cat in profile, dark navy-blue/indigo fur with subtle sparkle texture, gold collar around the neck and a gold teardrop-shaped pendant, gold outline around the whole silhouette, small gold/tan almond-shaped eye.",
        "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$5.00", "4": "$0.75", "3": "$0.25"},
        "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "25x", "4": "3.75x", "3": "1.25x"},
        "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "5000", "4": "750", "3": "250"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Falcon (Horus-style winged bird)",
        "appearance": "Stylized heraldic bird with wings fully spread symmetrically, turquoise/teal-blue plumage with gold trim outlining every feather, small gold accent studs at the wingtips and tail, hooked beak.",
        "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$3.50", "4": "$0.50", "3": "$0.20"},
        "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "17.5x", "4": "2.5x", "3": "1x"},
        "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "3500", "4": "500", "3": "200"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Scarab beetle",
        "appearance": "Green/teal iridescent beetle shell divided by a central gold seam, gold curved pincers/horns above the head, gold segmented legs, gold outline around the whole body.",
        "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$2.50", "4": "$0.40", "3": "$0.15"},
        "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "12.5x", "4": "2x", "3": "0.75x"},
        "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "2500", "4": "400", "3": "150"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Anubis",
        "appearance": "Golden jackal-headed bust, blue-and-gold striped nemes-style scarf/collar draped over the shoulders, gold body, profile facing right.",
        "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$2.00", "4": "$0.25", "3": "$0.10"},
        "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "10x", "4": "1.25x", "3": "0.5x"},
        "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "2000", "4": "250", "3": "100"}
      }
    ],
    "royals_low_value": [
      {"name": "A", "color": "blue letter with gold outline", "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$1.20", "4": "$0.20", "3": "$0.07"}, "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "6x", "4": "1x", "3": "0.35x"}, "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "1200", "4": "200", "3": "70"}},
      {"name": "K", "color": "gold/tan letter with darker gold outline", "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$1.20", "4": "$0.20", "3": "$0.07"}, "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "6x", "4": "1x", "3": "0.35x"}, "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "1200", "4": "200", "3": "70"}, "note": "A and K share one paytable price tile and identical payouts."},
      {"name": "Q", "color": "red letter with gold outline", "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$1.00", "4": "$0.15", "3": "$0.05"}, "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "5x", "4": "0.75x", "3": "0.25x"}, "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "1000", "4": "150", "3": "50"}},
      {"name": "J", "color": "green letter with gold outline", "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$1.00", "4": "$0.15", "3": "$0.05"}, "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "5x", "4": "0.75x", "3": "0.25x"}, "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "1000", "4": "150", "3": "50"}},
      {"name": "10", "color": "purple/magenta letters/digits with gold outline", "payouts_at_bet_0_20": {"5": "$1.00", "4": "$0.15", "3": "$0.05"}, "payouts_multiplier_of_total_bet": {"5": "5x", "4": "0.75x", "3": "0.25x"}, "payouts_coins_view_bet200coins": {"5": "1000", "4": "150", "3": "50"}, "note": "Q, J and 10 share one paytable price tile ('Q J 10') and identical payouts, distinguished from each other only by letter/digit color."}
    ],
    "great_pyramid_scatter_wild": {
      "name": "The Great Pyramid",
      "single_symbol_dual_role": "THIS IS ONE SYMBOL that is BOTH the SCATTER and the WILD simultaneously ('THE GREAT PYRAMID IS BOTH SCATTER AND WILD AND SUBSTITUTES FOR ALL SYMBOLS' -- rules p2). It is printed TWICE on the paytable page (once under a 'SCATTER' caption tile, once under a 'WILD' caption tile) purely to show its dual payout/substitution role -- it is not two different symbols.",
      "appearance_state_A": "A muted twilight/sunset desert landscape photo of the Giza pyramids silhouette against a dusty pink-and-purple sky, a smaller pyramid to the left, a tiny human figure standing at the base for scale. Gold word ('SCATTER' or 'WILD', depending on which capture) printed at the bottom of the tile.",
      "appearance_state_B": "A glowing golden bust of a pharaoh (smooth gold/tan face, blue-and-gold striped nemes headdress) lit by vertical warm-gold light rays on a red-brown background, similar in style to the WILD's win-highlight render but this one is captioned 'SCATTER' or 'WILD' depending on the capture. Confirmed present in info_coins_p2.png and basis_confirm_maxbet_p2.png.",
      "animation_note": "Across the 4 captured views of rules page 2/6, the two tile positions (labelled SCATTER and WILD) showed DIFFERENT art each time: info_p2.png showed state_A (pyramid landscape) for the SCATTER tile and a BLANK WHITE unrendered tile for the WILD tile (a texture-load glitch, not intentional design -- the gold 'WILD' text was still visible, only the background photo failed to load); info_coins_p2.png and basis_confirm_maxbet_p2.png both showed state_B (golden pharaoh bust) for the SCATTER tile and state_A (pyramid landscape) for the WILD tile. On the base-game reels and in the free-spins feature (free_spins_trigger_1.png, free_spins_gameplay_1/2.png) the landed symbol consistently rendered as state_A (pyramid landscape) captioned 'SCATTER'. Conclusion: this is a single animated symbol asset that cycles between the two art states; which state is captured is a snapshot-timing matter, not a fixed rule.",
      "pays_anywhere": "Scatters pay on any position (not restricted to a payline).",
      "payouts_bet_per_line_multiplier": {"5": "200x bet-per-line", "4": "20x bet-per-line", "3": "2x bet-per-line"},
      "payouts_as_multiplier_of_total_bet_at_20_lines": {"5": "10x total bet", "4": "1x total bet", "3": "0.1x total bet"},
      "trigger": "3 or more Great Pyramid symbols anywhere on the reels trigger the 'RAIDING THE PYRAMID' free spins feature.",
      "verified_constant_across_4_captures": "info_p2.png ($0.20 cash), info_coins_p2.png ($2.00-equivalent coins), basis_confirm_maxbet_p2.png ($240.00 cash) -- see payout_basis_investigation for the full analysis."
    }
  },

  "features": {
    "raiding_the_pyramid_free_spins": {
      "official_name": "'RAIDING THE PYRAMID' (title printed on rules page 3/6, info_p3.png).",
      "trigger": "3 or more Great Pyramid (scatter/wild) symbols anywhere on the reels.",
      "pre_round_mechanic": "'BEFORE THE ROUND STARTS, A RANDOM SYMBOL IS CHOSEN OUT OF THE CHARACTER SYMBOLS. THE CHOSEN SYMBOL WILL ACT LIKE A SCATTER SYMBOL DURING THE NEXT FREE SPINS ROUND. YOU WIN WITH IT ANYWHERE ON THE REELS AND IT PAYS ACCORDING TO THE SYMBOL'S PAYTABLE.' (rules p3, illustrated with the scarab beetle as an example icon on that page). Confirmed in play: free_spins_trigger_1.png shows a scroll popup with the Bastet cat chosen as that round's extra scatter, text 'THE CHOSEN SYMBOL WILL ACT LIKE A SCATTER SYMBOL DURING THE NEXT FREE SPINS ROUND...' and a 'CONTINUE' button. A small badge icon of the chosen character then persists in the bottom bar for the whole free-spins round (visible in free_spins_gameplay_1.png / free_spins_gameplay_2.png next to the BET value) as a reminder of which symbol is the extra scatter.",
      "spins_awarded": "Up to 10 free spins ('...IN WHICH YOU CAN WIN UP TO 10 FREE SPINS' -- rules p2/p3). The captured round awarded and completed exactly 10 free spins (free_spins_win_screen.png: 'YOU HAVE COMPLETED 10 FREE SPINS').",
      "retrigger": "'THREE OR MORE SCATTER SYMBOLS WHILE RAIDING THE PYRAMID GRANT YOU ADDITIONAL FREE SPINS WITH THE CURRENT MULTIPLIER! ... WIN UNLIMITED FREE SPINS DURING THE ROUND.' (rules p2/p3) -- i.e. hitting 3+ of either the Great Pyramid symbol OR the round's chosen extra-scatter symbol during the feature adds more spins, with no stated cap on the number of retriggers.",
      "win_accumulation": "'FREE SPINS WIN IS ADDED TO THE PAYLINE WIN.' 'ALL WINS ARE MULTIPLIED BY BET PER LINE.'",
      "visual_state_during_feature": "Background/reel palette shifts from the base game's warm brown stone temple to a cool dark navy-blue/indigo temple background with a light-blue glow dividing each reel column -- a clear, non-color-dependent visual + textual ('FREE SPINS LEFT n') cue that the feature is active.",
      "spins_left_counter": "'FREE SPINS LEFT n' text, bottom-center of the screen, decrementing each spin (captured at 4 and at 1 remaining).",
      "end_screen": "'CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE COMPLETED 10 FREE SPINS AND YOU HAVE WON $20.00' on a dark rounded panel over the dimmed free-spins reels, with a green 'CONTINUE' button below and a small 'X' close icon top-right.",
      "buy_this_feature": "Not purchasable -- no bonus-buy control exists in this build; the round captured here was triggered naturally during regular play.",
      "source_pages": "rules p2/6 (info_p2.png) and p3/6 (info_p3.png, titled RAIDING THE PYRAMID)."
    }
  },

  "screens": {
    "preview": {
      "type": "preview",
      "content": "Plain black background with the Pragmatic Play logo centered: white text 'PRAGMATIC' next to an orange ring-and-crown 'P' emblem (an orange circle outline with a 3-pointed crown on top and an orange dot inside, forming a stylized 'P') and white text 'PLAY' inside/beside the ring; a thin orange horizontal underline below the wordmark. No Tales-of-Egypt key-art, no game logo, no volatility/max-win badges, no carousel dots were present on this loading screen -- confirmed by loading with zero wait and burst-capturing immediately.",
      "purpose": "Generic provider loading splash shown briefly before the demo enters the base game directly (no separate game-branded splash/carousel was found in this build).",
      "color_blind_notes": "High-contrast white/orange text on black; not color-dependent for meaning."
    },
    "base_game": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "overall_layout": "5-reel x 3-row grid filling most of the screen, framed by a brown carved-stone hieroglyph border. A hanging scroll-shaped gold-trimmed banner at the top-center reads 'TALES OF EGYPT' in gold letters with a dark maroon outline.",
      "reel_cells": "Symbols rendered on a dark brown near-black background, thin vertical seams between reels.",
      "symbols_on_captured_frame": "A transient random mix (changes every spin) -- visible on the captured idle frame: Bastet cat, Anubis, red 'Q', a falcon, a green scarab, gold 'K', more red 'Q's and a blue 'A'. NOTE: exact per-cell layout is random and not a fixed game property, so it is not enumerated cell-by-cell.",
      "bottom_bar": "See layout_and_controls above (menu/sound far-left, info button, CREDIT/BET center-left, spin hint text, spin/+/-/autoplay right side, PRAGMATIC PLAY branding bottom-left).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Controls are white glyphs on dark circles (shape-based). CREDIT/BET are orange/gold text on dark brown -- high contrast, not relying on hue discrimination."
    },
    "base_game_win": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "content": "A line win in progress: a thin green line traces the winning payline (line 7) across the grid, connecting a blue 'A' (top-left reel), the WILD 'Archeologist' symbol on reel 1 row 2 (rendered here in its glowing golden-pharaoh-bust win-state, see symbols.wild), and two more blue 'A' symbols further right, with a floating yellow '$2.00' label over the rightmost winning cell. A second gold-framed skeleton-guards WILD tile also appears on reel 2 but the connecting line does not clearly extend to it in this frame. Non-winning symbols on other reels are dimmed to a flat grey silhouette (10, Q, A, J, cat) to emphasize the win path -- this greying-out is a non-color, contrast-based way of marking 'not part of this win'.",
      "readout": "Bottom bar shows 'WIN $9.00' (total round win, larger than the single $2.00 line shown, implying more than one line paid or the counter had partly animated) and directly below it in smaller white text 'A [WILD] A A   Line 7 pays $2.00'.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Winning path is marked by BOTH a bright green line/glow AND desaturating (greying out) every non-participating symbol -- a shape/brightness cue independent of hue."
    },
    "settings": {
      "type": "settings",
      "title": "SYSTEM SETTINGS",
      "panel_style": "Centered black translucent panel over the dimmed reels, closed via an 'X' at the top-right of the panel.",
      "left_side": "Greyed-out 'GAME HISTORY' link with an external-link icon (appears disabled/placeholder in the demo). Below it a 'TOTAL BET' stepper: white round '-' button, dark field showing the current bet (e.g. '$2.00', or '$240.00'/'$0.20' when driven to the limits), green round '+' button.",
      "right_side_toggles": "Three labelled on/off switches, each a horizontal pill with a white/green thumb: 'BATTERY SAVER' (white thumb = OFF, 'SAVE BATTERY LIFE BY REDUCING ANIMATION SPEED'), 'AMBIENT MUSIC' (green thumb = ON, 'TURN ON OR OFF THE GAME MUSIC'), 'SOUND FX' (green thumb = ON, 'TURN ON OR OFF THE GAME SOUNDS').",
      "color_blind_notes": "Toggle state is shown by BOTH thumb color (white=off/green=on) AND thumb position (left=off/right=on) -- position is the non-color-dependent cue."
    },
    "bet_probes": {
      "type": "other",
      "content": "Two control frames documenting the bet range: bet_max_probe.png shows TOTAL BET '$240.00' with the '+' button visibly greyed/disabled; bet_min_probe.png shows TOTAL BET '$0.20' with the '-' button visibly greyed/disabled. No ante or special-bet toggle is present in SYSTEM SETTINGS."
    },
    "paytable_page1": {
      "type": "paytable",
      "page": "1 of 6, header 'GAME RULES'",
      "content": "Left: the WILD 'Archeologist' tile with its 5/4/3-of-a-kind payouts and the word 'WILD' beneath the image. Right: two rows of symbol tiles on a brown wood-plank strip -- row 1: Bastet cat / falcon / scarab beetle / Anubis, each with 5/4/3 payouts below; row 2: 'A K' tile and 'Q J 10' tile, each with 5/4/3 payouts below. Bottom: 'MALFUNCTION VOIDS ALL PAYS AND PLAYS.' and footer 'ALL SYMBOLS PAY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. SCATTERS PAY ON ANY POSITION.'",
      "navigation": "Bottom-left: three GREEN controls, left-pointing triangle (previous, disabled/dim on page 1 since it is the first page), an X (close), a right-pointing triangle (next). 'Page 1/6' bottom-right.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Navigation controls are differentiated by shape (triangle-left / X / triangle-right), not by color."
    },
    "paytable_page2": {
      "type": "paytable",
      "page": "2 of 6, header 'GAME RULES'",
      "content": "Left: two square tiles captioned 'SCATTER' and 'WILD' (both are the single Great Pyramid symbol, see symbols.great_pyramid_scatter_wild for the two alternating art states observed) with its shared payout list '5 - 200 / 4 - 20 / 3 - 2'. Below: 'THE GREAT PYRAMID IS BOTH SCATTER AND WILD AND SUBSTITUTES FOR ALL SYMBOLS.' and 'HIT 3 OR MORE GREAT PYRAMID ANYWHERE ON THE REELS TO TRIGGER RAIDING THE PYRAMID, IN WHICH YOU CAN WIN UP TO 10 FREE SPINS. WIN UNLIMITED FREE SPINS DURING THE ROUND.' Right: 'THREE OR MORE SCATTER SYMBOLS WHILE RAIDING THE PYRAMID GRANT YOU ADDITIONAL FREE SPINS WITH THE CURRENT MULTIPLIER! ALL WINS ARE MULTIPLIED BY BET PER LINE. FREE SPINS WIN IS ADDED TO THE PAYLINE WIN.' Below that, the 20-line payline reference chart (4 columns x 5 rows of numbered mini-diagrams, see grid_and_bet_mechanics.payline_diagram_layout).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Each payline number in the chart is paired with a matching-colored mini-diagram, but the number itself (1-20, white/colored text) is the primary, non-color-dependent identifier."
    },
    "rules_page3_raiding_the_pyramid": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "3 of 6",
      "content": "Header 'RAIDING THE PYRAMID'. A decorative unrolled parchment scroll graphic in the center holds a framed square illustration of the scarab beetle symbol (used here purely as an example icon, glowing with light rays) sitting on a weathered tan scroll with ornate gold end-caps. Below: 'BEFORE THE ROUND STARTS, A RANDOM SYMBOL IS CHOSEN OUT OF THE CHARACTER SYMBOLS. THE CHOSEN SYMBOL WILL ACT LIKE A SCATTER SYMBOL DURING THE NEXT FREE SPINS ROUND. YOU WIN WITH IT ANYWHERE ON THE REELS AND IT PAYS ACCORDING TO THE SYMBOL'S PAYTABLE.'"
    },
    "rules_page4_how_to_play": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "4 of 6",
      "content": "Header 'HOW TO PLAY' then 'MAIN GAME INTERFACE'. Explains: +/- buttons change bet value and open the bet menu; SPIN button plays; hamburger-menu icon opens SETTINGS; a spin-speed icon cycles normal/quick/turbo; speaker icon toggles sound and music; 'i' opens the Information page; CREDIT/BET labels can be clicked to switch coins/cash view; +/- also opens the bet menu with denominations; the circular-arrows icon starts the game; AUTOPLAY button opens the automatic play menu and clicking it again while running stops it."
    },
    "rules_page5_settings_menu": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "5 of 6",
      "content": "Header 'SETTINGS MENU'. Lists: INTRO SCREEN (toggles the introductory screen on/off), AMBIENT (toggles ambient sound/music), SOUND FX (toggles sound effects), GAME HISTORY (opens the game history page). Then 'INFORMATION SCREEN': left/right arrows scroll between info pages, X closes it. Then 'BET MENU': shows the number of lines available and current total bet in coins and cash; +/- buttons in the COINS PER LINE and COIN VALUE fields change those values."
    },
    "rules_page6_autoplay": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "6 of 6",
      "content": "Header 'AUTOPLAY'. 'Click on the buttons showing the number of possible auto-spins to start Autoplay.' 'SKIP SCREENS option auto-skips the feature introduction and end screens after a short period of time.'"
    },
    "autoplay_panel": {
      "type": "autoplay",
      "title": "AUTOPLAY SETTINGS",
      "layout": "Dark panel centered over the dimmed reels, 'X' close top-right.",
      "options": "Three checkboxes in a row: 'TURBO SPIN' (unchecked/empty box), 'QUICK SPIN' (unchecked/empty box), 'SKIP SCREENS' (checked, green filled box with white checkmark).",
      "autospins_selector": "'NUMBER OF AUTOSPINS' label above a horizontal slider (green filled track on the left portion, round green handle with a pause-bars icon, grey track continuing to the right) showing the value '100' to the right of the slider.",
      "action": "Large green 'START AUTOPLAY (100)' button spanning the width of the panel at the bottom.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Checkbox state is shown by a checkmark glyph (shape), not color alone; the active slider value is also printed as a number ('100')."
    },
    "free_spins_trigger": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "content": "A tall scroll-shaped parchment popup (gold-trimmed brown paper, rolled gold end-caps top and bottom) appears over the free-spins-background reels (already showing the navy-blue palette and Great Pyramid 'SCATTER' tiles and other symbols behind it, dimmed). At the top of the scroll a framed square image shows the round's randomly-chosen extra-scatter character (captured example: Bastet, the dark navy cat, glowing with light rays). Below it: 'THE CHOSEN SYMBOL WILL ACT LIKE A SCATTER SYMBOL DURING THE NEXT FREE SPINS ROUND. YOU WIN WITH IT ANYWHERE ON THE REELS AND IT PAYS ACCORDING TO THE SYMBOL'S PAYTABLE.' A brown 'CONTINUE' button (styled like a scroll segment) sits at the bottom of the popup.",
      "footer": "Bottom bar shows 'CREDIT $99,953.90', 'BET $2.00', 'WIN $9.00' from the triggering base-game spin.",
      "color_blind_notes": "The chosen symbol is identified by its full-color illustration (shape+color) plus explicit text, not by color alone."
    },
    "free_spins_gameplay": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "reels": "Same 5x3 grid, now on the cool dark navy-blue/indigo background described in color_palette.free_spins_background.",
      "counter": "Bottom-center: 'FREE SPINS LEFT n' (captured at 4 and at 1).",
      "win_readout": "Bottom-center, above the spins-left counter: 'WIN $n.nn' (round-cumulative free-spins win so far; captured at $13.00 and $20.00).",
      "extra_scatter_reminder": "A small square badge icon (the round's chosen character, e.g. the Bastet cat) appears in the bottom bar next to the BET value, reminding the player which symbol currently also acts as a scatter.",
      "motion_blur_frame": "One capture (free_spins_gameplay_2.png) was taken mid-spin: reels show vertical motion blur/stretching of symbols, illustrating the spin-in-progress animation state.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Feature state is signalled by BOTH a background palette shift (brown->navy-blue) AND text ('FREE SPINS LEFT') -- not by color alone."
    },
    "free_spins_win_screen": {
      "type": "win_screen",
      "content": "A dark rounded rectangular panel centered over the dimmed final free-spins reels. Orange/gold header 'CONGRATULATIONS!'. White body text 'YOU HAVE COMPLETED', a large white '10', 'FREE SPINS AND YOU HAVE WON', a large white '$20.00'. A green 'CONTINUE' button spans the bottom of the panel; a small 'X' close icon sits top-right of the panel.",
      "footer": "Bottom bar: 'CREDIT $99,968.22', 'BET $2.00', 'WIN $20.00', 'FREE SPINS LEFT 0'.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Total spins and total win are printed as large high-contrast white numbers -- legible without color discrimination."
    },
    "paytable_coins_view_pages": {
      "type": "paytable",
      "note": "info_coins_p1.png and info_coins_p2.png are the SAME rules pages 1/6 and 2/6 re-captured after clicking the CREDIT/BET labels to switch into coins view. Layout identical to the cash-view pages; only the numeric values and the CREDIT/BET/WIN readout at the bottom change to integer coin counts (e.g. BET '200' instead of '$2.00', CREDIT '9997390' instead of '$99,973.90'). See payout_basis_investigation for the numeric analysis this enabled."
    },
    "basis_confirm_maxbet_p2": {
      "type": "other",
      "content": "Rules page 2/6 re-opened in cash view after driving TOTAL BET to its maximum, $240.00 (visible in the bottom bar: 'BET $240.00'). The Great Pyramid SCATTER/WILD payout table still reads '5-200 / 4-20 / 3-2', unchanged from the $0.20 and coins-view captures -- the control frame that proved the bet-per-line-multiplier convention (see payout_basis_investigation)."
    }
  },

  "accessibility_observations": {
    "screen_reader": "Control positions are stable across all screens: menu+sound in a vertical pair at the far left of the bottom bar, the 'i' info button just to its right, CREDIT/BET labels center-left (double as a coins/cash view toggle), SPIN centered-right with bet +/- flanking it, AUTOPLAY directly below SPIN, provider branding bottom-left. The GAME RULES booklet is a strictly linear 6-page sequence navigated with left/right triangle arrows and closed with a centered X -- 'Page n/6' is always printed bottom-right for orientation.",
    "motor": "All interactive targets are large rounded buttons; the central SPIN button is the largest target on screen. AUTOPLAY (with adjustable spin count and a SKIP SCREENS option to reduce interstitial clicks) reduces the number of manual actions required. Bet adjustment has both a quick +/- stepper and a fuller bet menu (per rules p5) for fewer or more precise clicks.",
    "color_blind": "Most affordances use non-color cues: toggle switches use thumb position as well as color, navigation arrows use triangle/X shapes, checkboxes use a checkmark glyph, win-line highlighting combines a green line with desaturating (greying out) non-winning symbols (a brightness/contrast cue, not pure hue), and every numeric value (bet, credit, win, spins-left, payline numbers) is rendered as explicit white/gold high-contrast text. Card-suit-style royals (A/K/Q/J/10) are differentiated primarily by their printed letter/digit shape, with color as a secondary cue -- color-blind users can still tell them apart by the character itself.",
    "deaf_hard_of_hearing": "No information observed to be conveyed by audio only; AMBIENT MUSIC and SOUND FX are separately toggleable and decorative. All game state (bet, credit, win amounts, free-spins-left, feature triggers, retriggers) is conveyed through on-screen text and imagery."
  },

  "anomalies_and_investigation_notes": [
    "RTP is NOT printed anywhere in this build's 6-page GAME RULES booklet -- all 6 pages read twice, no percentage found. Also absent from SYSTEM SETTINGS and the preview/splash screen (which is a generic black Pragmatic Play loading logo with no game-specific text at all). Left null; to be sourced externally by the team lead.",
    "Max win (e.g. 'WIN UP TO Nx BET') and volatility (flame/bolt badge or descriptive sentence) are likewise NOT printed anywhere in this build -- not on the splash, not in the rules booklet, not in settings. Left null; to be sourced externally.",
    "The Great Pyramid SCATTER/WILD combo symbol's artwork is not static: it alternates between a 'twilight pyramid landscape photo' state and a 'glowing golden pharaoh bust' state across different captures of the identical rules page 2/6, and one capture (info_p2.png) even shows the WILD-labelled tile as an unrendered blank-white square (a texture-load timing glitch, not an intentional blank design) -- documented in symbols.great_pyramid_scatter_wild.animation_note so nobody mistakes this for two different scatter/wild symbols.",
    "The WILD 'Archeologist' symbol also has (at least) two visual states: the paytable's default 'three skeleton guards flanking a mummified pharaoh' art, and a 'single glowing golden pharaoh bust with light rays' art seen highlighting a winning WILD on base_game_win.png. Both were verified directly by zoomed pixel inspection. (Note: an earlier capture note suggested a third 'woman explorer in a hat' variant; this was NOT observed in any of the 20 provided frames after direct visual inspection, so it is intentionally omitted here rather than repeated unverified -- see unreadable_or_uncertain.)",
    "The GAME HISTORY link in SYSTEM SETTINGS appears visually greyed out / non-interactive in this demo build.",
    "No ante bet, super-bet, or any special wager mode was found anywhere -- SYSTEM SETTINGS exposes only a single TOTAL BET stepper. The printed/measured $240.00 maximum is therefore the true play-ceiling, not an ante-inflated figure.",
    "No bonus-buy control was found on any captured screen."
  ],

  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "RTP percentage -- not printed anywhere in this build.",
    "Max win multiplier -- not printed anywhere in this build.",
    "Volatility rating -- not printed anywhere in this build (no flame/bolt icon count, no descriptive sentence).",
    "A capturer note (outside the 20 supplied frames) mentioned a possible 'woman explorer in a hat' art variant for the WILD symbol; this could not be confirmed from any of the 20 screenshots reviewed and is therefore NOT included as a confirmed fact above.",
    "Exact cell-by-cell shape of each of the 20 individual paylines was not decoded (only the general 4x5 chart layout and the fact that there are 20 fixed lines paying left-to-right were confirmed) -- would require a much higher-resolution crop of each of the 20 tiny mini-diagrams.",
    "Whether the small badge icon shown during free spins (extra-scatter reminder) is clickable/interactive, or purely decorative -- not testable from static screenshots."
  ]
}