Zombie School Megaways

{
  "game": {
    "name": "Zombie School Megaways",
    "provider": "Pragmatic Play",
    "theme": "Horror-comedy zombie outbreak inside a Japanese-style high school. Panicked living students (in white shirts/school uniforms) run from zombified classmates and teachers. A yellow school bus (the SCATTER symbol) is the evacuation vehicle. Backgrounds show a blood-spattered school corridor/classroom (base game) and a rain-soaked street outside the school with a distant crashed/parked school bus and students fleeing through a gate (free spins).",
    "documentation_purpose": "Exhaustive accessibility documentation (blind/low-vision screen-reader users, deaf/hard-of-hearing, color-blind of all types, motor-impaired) built from 33 desktop screenshots (1280x800) plus zoomed crops of paytable icons.",
    "method_notes": "Automated pytesseract OCR (scripts/ocr.py) timed out repeatedly on this run (tesseract process timeout after 25s, machine under load) and could not be used as a supplementary ground-truth pass. All text quoted in this document was instead read directly from the full-resolution screenshots and zoomed crops (scripts/zoom.py) via visual inspection, which was fully legible on every info/rules page and every UI panel captured. Numbers/text below are verbatim transcriptions of what is rendered on-screen; nothing has been inferred or guessed from memory of other Pragmatic Play Megaways titles.",
    "language": "English",
    "mechanic_family": "Megaways (licensed from Big Time Gaming, credit shown at bottom of paytable page 1: 'MEGAWAYS is used under licence from BIG')"
  },

  "color_palette": {
    "base_game_background": "Dim teal-green/grey school corridor interior seen through a wooden-framed reel window; ceiling tiles and lockers visible top and left; dark red blood streaks on the ceiling and wooden frame edges.",
    "reel_frame": "Rough dark wood-plank frame with a bloodstained texture; a hand-written paper note ('レフ'-like Japanese-style scribble) hangs from a chain top-left, and a decayed zombie hand/arm reaches in from the right edge of the frame.",
    "reel_cells": "Symbol cards alternate between a warm dark-red/maroon card background (for the student/zombie character symbols) and a cool teal/blue-green card background (for object symbols: backpack, lunch box, first-aid kit, phone).",
    "free_spins_background": "Shifts to an outdoor rainy street scene at dusk: orange/amber sky, dark storm clouds, silhouette of the yellow school bus at far left, a distant school building and iron fence at right with two fleeing student silhouettes; visible rain streaks.",
    "buy_feature_side_panels": "Three hanging wooden sign-boards on the left edge of the base game screen: 'BUY FREE SPINS $200.00' (red/white distressed text on tan wood), 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS $1,000.00' (same style), and a 'BET' plaque showing the current total bet with red 'BET' label, white bet amount, and white text '5X HIGHER CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE' with a red/white toggle switch labelled 'OFF' with a right-pointing arrow icon (Ante Bet toggle).",
    "accent_colors": "Gold/yellow (MEGAWAYS counter plaque, WILD lettering, win amounts, credit/bet labels), blood red (SCATTER lettering, title logo outline, buy-feature plaque text, blood spatter decoration throughout), sickly green (game logo 'ZOMBIE' wordmark, ooze/slime effects, zombie skin tone), white (dialog text, student uniforms, close-button X panels).",
    "win_celebration_colors": "Regular/tumble win banner: plain white 'WIN $X' text bottom-center. Bigger wins escalate through named tiers rendered on the yellow school bus windshield: 'SENSATIONAL!' (warm orange/red fiery glow, embers, zombie hands reaching at both sides of the bus) and 'MEGA!' (cool blue lightning glow around the bus). Free-spins award/summary screens use a broken glass double-door graphic in teal/turquoise with red dripping 'CONGRATULATIONS!' lettering and green 'YOU HAVE WON' text."
  },

  "symbols": {
    "note": "All ten paying symbols, WILD and SCATTER identified and their payout tables read directly from the fully legible paytable (paytable_p1.png, header 'GAME RULES', Page 1/7) plus zoomed crops for exact icon identification. Payouts shown are for 6/5/4/3-of-a-kind (Megaways pays left-to-right on adjacent reels, any number of symbols per reel up to 7, not fixed positions) at the demo's displayed bet at capture time; on-screen values are the actual game paytable entries (dollar amounts), not per-unit coin values converted by hand.",
    "high_value": [
      {
        "name": "Male student with wooden bat/plank (top symbol)",
        "appearance": "Young man with short messy dark hair, white button-down shirt with loosened tie, blood spatter on the collar, gripping a wooden bat/plank weapon, framed on a dark maroon/red card.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$10.00", "5": "$5.00", "4": "$3.00", "3": "$1.50"},
        "rank": "Highest-paying regular symbol",
        "source": "paytable_p1.png, zoomed crop confirmed identity"
      },
      {
        "name": "Female student (schoolgirl) with weapon",
        "appearance": "Young woman with long dark ponytail, white shirt and red necktie (Japanese school uniform style), blood stains on the uniform, holding a wooden weapon, dark maroon card background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$5.00", "5": "$3.00", "4": "$1.50", "3": "$0.80"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Screaming male student with glasses",
        "appearance": "Boy with dark curly hair and round glasses, both hands raised in a panicked/surrendering pose, white shirt and tie, mouth open in a scream; dark maroon card.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$4.00", "5": "$2.00", "4": "$1.00", "3": "$0.50"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Zombified elderly male teacher (reaching pose)",
        "appearance": "Bald/balding elderly man, grey-green rotting skin, glasses, mouth agape showing teeth, one hand reaching toward the viewer, wearing a torn grey/green jacket; dark maroon card.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$3.00", "5": "$1.50", "4": "$0.80", "3": "$0.50"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Zombified female teacher",
        "appearance": "Woman with dark curly disheveled hair, cracked glasses, decayed grey-green skin with wounds, wearing a cream/tan blouse unbuttoned at the collar; dark maroon card.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$2.50", "5": "$1.20", "4": "$0.80", "3": "$0.50"}
      }
    ],
    "low_value": [
      {
        "name": "Second zombified elderly male (different pose)",
        "appearance": "Same bald elderly zombie-teacher character type as above but a distinct portrait/pose, arms outstretched forward; dark maroon card.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$2.00", "5": "$1.00", "4": "$0.60", "3": "$0.40"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Backpack",
        "appearance": "Khaki/olive-green school backpack with brown leather straps and buckles, red blood spatter across the front pockets; cool teal card background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$1.50", "5": "$0.80", "4": "$0.50", "3": "$0.30"}
      },
      {
        "name": "First-aid / tackle box",
        "appearance": "Open red tool/first-aid box showing white medical supplies, bandage roll and a small green medicine bottle inside; teal card background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$1.50", "5": "$0.80", "4": "$0.50", "3": "$0.30"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Bento lunch box",
        "appearance": "Open Japanese-style bento box with rice and food compartments, chopsticks resting alongside; teal card background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$1.00", "5": "$0.60", "4": "$0.40", "3": "$0.20"}
      },
      {
        "name": "Smartphone / ID card with lanyard",
        "appearance": "A phone or ID/badge card with a cracked/photo screen lying face-up on a green-tiled floor, an orange coiled lanyard strap beside it, dark blood pool underneath; teal card background.",
        "payouts": {"6": "$1.00", "5": "$0.60", "4": "$0.40", "3": "$0.20"}
      }
    ],
    "wild": {
      "name": "WILD",
      "appearance": "A blood/IV transfusion bag (red bag with two clear plastic tubes at the top and a yellow warning-style label on the bag) on a blue card background, with the word 'WILD' in gold 3D letters below it. In free-spins gameplay frames the same bag graphic is seen labelled 'ZOMBIE' with 'WILD' underneath (e.g. fs_progress_check.png, fs_progress_check14.png).",
      "rules": "Substitutes for all symbols except the SCATTER symbol. Appears only on reels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (i.e. never on reel 1).",
      "source": "paytable_p1.png rules text, verified visually: 'This symbol is WILD and substitutes for all symbols except for [SCATTER]. It appears on reels 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.'"
    },
    "scatter": {
      "name": "SCATTER",
      "appearance": "A yellow school bus, front-facing view with headlights lit, seen close-up; the word 'SCATTER' in red dripping-blood-style lettering below the bus.",
      "rules": "Appears only during the base game, on all reels. Hitting 4, 5 or 6-or-more SCATTER symbols anywhere triggers the FREE SPINS feature, awarding 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively.",
      "source": "paytable_p1.png ('This is the SCATTER symbol. It appears only during the base game on all reels.') and paytable_p2.png ('Hit 4, 5 or 6 or more SCATTER symbols to trigger the FREE SPINS feature and win 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively.')",
      "visual_confirmation": "Multiple scatter buses visible simultaneously on reels in pm_gameplay_1.png (free-spins gameplay frame, 3 scatters shown; per the rules text scatters do not retrigger during the feature)."
    }
  },

  "megaways_mechanic": {
    "reel_layout": "6 reels of variable height. Each reel (1 through 6) can display up to 7 symbols per spin (paytable text: 'Reels 1 to 6 can have up to 7 symbols'). The reel window height therefore changes every spin, and reels are visually taller/shorter from spin to spin (observed heights ranged roughly 4 to 7 rows across captured frames).",
    "ways_to_win": "Not fixed paylines. Wins are 'ways to win': matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel (reel 1), regardless of vertical position, pay as a win. A same-height diagram in the paytable shows a green checkmark example (multiple symbols per reel forming a scattered adjacency win) versus a red X example (a single vertical column, which is explicitly shown as NOT a valid way).",
    "max_ways": "117,649 maximum possible ways to win, stated explicitly in paytable_p1.png ('In total the maximum number of possible ways to win is 117649').",
    "ways_counter_ui": "A wooden plaque top-right of the reels labelled 'MEGAWAYS' in gold shows the current spin's live ways total, e.g. observed values across frames: 63504 (preview splash), 7200 (base game frame), 2880 / 30870 / 17640 / 8400 (regular free spins gameplay), 972 / 4200 / 45360 / 1080 / 1920 / 9600 / 4704 (persistent-multiplier free spins gameplay). This number changes on every single spin/tumble and is NOT a fixed game property; it is not itself the number of ways won, just the number in play for that reel configuration.",
    "tumble_feature": "Officially named 'TUMBLE FEATURE' in the rules (paytable_p2.png). After every spin, winning combinations are paid and all winning symbols disappear ('explode'); remaining symbols fall to the bottom of the reel and empty positions are refilled with new symbols falling from above. The number of symbols on a reel after a tumble can randomly increase (only for reels that had at least one winning symbol) — this is the mechanism by which Megaways ways totals grow between tumbles within the same base spin. Tumbling repeats until no further winning combinations appear. All wins from all tumbles of one base spin are added to the balance only after the whole tumble sequence completes.",
    "tumble_visual_confirmation": "fs_progress_check3.png captures the tumble mid-animation: several reel cells are shown as empty dark-green blank tiles where symbols have just exploded, with remaining symbols still populating the rest of the grid — a direct visual confirmation of the cascade mechanic."
  },

  "features": {
    "free_spins_regular": {
      "trigger": "4, 5 or 6-or-more SCATTER (school bus) symbols land anywhere on the reels during the base game.",
      "spins_awarded": {"4_scatters": 10, "5_scatters": 15, "6_plus_scatters": 20},
      "retrigger": "Explicitly NOT possible — paytable_p2.png states 'The feature cannot be retriggerd [sic].' (in-game typo for 'retriggered', transcribed verbatim).",
      "in_feature_multiplier": "During free spins, each win is multiplied by a number equal to the total amount of symbols that exploded in the current tumble. This is shown live via a '+Nx' floating badge on the winning symbol cluster (e.g. '+4X' in fs_progress_check2.png, '+10X' in fs_progress_check14.png) and a running win-line readout at the bottom, e.g. 'WIN $130.73 / 4X [symbol icon] PAYS $1.00 x 4 = $4.00' (fs_progress_check2.png) — showing the multiplier applied to that specific symbol's base pay.",
      "multiplier_persistence": "In the REGULAR free spins mode this per-tumble multiplier is NOT carried over between spins — a side plaque labelled 'MULTIPLIER' resets to blank between spins where no win occurred (seen blank in fs_gameplay_1.png, fs_progress_check.png before a win) and only shows a value during/just after a winning tumble.",
      "special_reels": "Rules text states 'Special reels are in play during the round' for free spins (paytable_p2.png) — the exact difference in reel strip composition versus base game reels is not independently verifiable from these screenshots and is not asserted further; background artwork visibly changes to the outdoor rainy street scene.",
      "counter_ui": "Left-side hanging plaques read 'FREE SPINS LEFT N' (decrementing each spin) and 'MULTIPLIER' (current tumble multiplier value or blank). On the final spin of the round a plaque instead reads 'LAST FREE SPIN' (fs_progress_check21.png).",
      "end_summary": "'FREE SPINS COMPLETED' status text appears at the bottom of the reels once spins reach 0 (back_to_base_check.png), followed by a full-screen 'CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON $X.XX IN N FREE SPINS' plaque over the broken-glass door graphic with 'PRESS ANYWHERE TO CONTINUE' (fs_end_summary.png)."
    },
    "free_spins_persistent_multiplier": {
      "name": "Persistent Multiplier Free Spins (purchasable feature, distinct from the regular Free Spins mode)",
      "trigger": "Only obtainable by paying the 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS' price (see bonus_buy below); not obtainable organically via scatters in the base game per the captured rules pages.",
      "core_difference": "Rules text (paytable_p3.png): 'Pay 500x total bet to trigger the PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS feature in which multipliers achieved after every tumble add to a total multiplier that persists throughout the FREE SPINS feature.' Unlike the regular mode, the tumble-win multiplier here ACCUMULATES across the whole round instead of resetting each spin.",
      "visual_progression_observed": "Captured sequence for one purchased round (initial award: 10 free spins, pm_intro.png 'YOU HAVE WON 10 FREE SPINS'): multiplier at 0/blank early in the round (pm_gameplay_1.png, 9 free spins left) -> 5X (pm_gameplay_2.png, 7 free spins left, WIN $4.00) -> 18X (pm_gameplay_3.png 'MEGA!' celebration WIN $88.00, and held at 18X with 4 free spins left in pm_gameplay_4.png, confirming it does NOT reset between spins) -> 26X (pm_gameplay_5.png, 1 free spin left, WIN $111.60, a '+3X' badge visible on the last winning symbol) -> 31X intermediate (pm_end_summary_check.png, 'LAST FREE SPIN', WIN $136.40) -> final 36X (pm_end_summary.png, 'LAST FREE SPIN' plaque, WIN $208.40).",
      "end_summary": "'FREE SPINS COMPLETED' status (pm_final_summary.png, WIN $208.40) followed by the same 'CONGRATULATIONS!' broken-glass end screen pattern used for the regular feature (not separately re-captured as a distinct full-screen plaque in this set, but the completion banner and win total were confirmed on-reel)."
    },
    "bonus_buy": {
      "available": true,
      "two_distinct_options": [
        {
          "name": "Buy Free Spins",
          "price_displayed": "$200.00",
          "price_relative": "100x total bet",
          "effect": "Instantly triggers the regular FREE SPINS round with 4, 5 or 6 SCATTER symbols guaranteed to hit randomly on the triggering spin (paytable_p3.png / paytable_p4.png: 'When buying the FREE SPINS round 4, 5 or 6 SCATTER symbols are guaranteed to hit randomly on the triggering spin.').",
          "confirmation_dialog": "buy_fs_dialog.png: parchment sign reading 'BUY FREE SPINS $200.00' with a red X (cancel) button and a green checkmark (confirm) button.",
          "captured_result": "15 free spins awarded (fs_intro.png), full round played through to completion, total win $674.00 (fs_end_summary.png)."
        },
        {
          "name": "Buy Persistent Multiplier Free Spins",
          "price_displayed": "$1,000.00",
          "price_relative": "500x total bet",
          "effect": "Instantly triggers the Persistent Multiplier Free Spins variant (see features_persistent_multiplier above) with guaranteed 4-6 scatters on the trigger spin.",
          "confirmation_dialog": "buy_pm_dialog.png: same parchment-sign style dialog reading 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS $1,000.00' with red X / green check buttons.",
          "captured_result": "10 free spins awarded (pm_intro.png), full round played through, persistent multiplier climbed to 36X by the final spin, total win $208.40 (pm_final_summary.png)."
        }
      ],
      "base_game_ui": "Both buy options are always visible as two hanging wooden sign-boards on the left edge of the base game screen ('BUY FREE SPINS $200.00' and 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS $1,000.00'), clickable at any time when Ante Bet is off.",
      "ante_bet_interaction": "Both BUY options are disabled/greyed when Ante Bet (bet multiplier 40x) is active; a third plaque shows 'BET $X.XX / 5X HIGHER CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE' with an ON/OFF toggle switch for this Ante Bet mode (base_game.png shows it in the 'OFF' position with a red background and right-pointing arrow icon)."
    },
    "ante_bet": {
      "name": "Ante Bet",
      "mechanic": "A selectable bet multiplier. paytable_p3.png ('ANTE BET'): 'The player has the option to select the bet multiplier... Bet multiplier 40x - the chance to win the FREE SPINS round naturally is higher. More SCATTER symbols are present on the reels. The BUY FREE SPINS feature is disabled. Bet multiplier 20x - Normal play.'",
      "ui_toggle": "Toggle switch on the 'BET' plaque in the base game bottom-left, labelled with the current bet amount, subtext '5X HIGHER CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE', and an ON/OFF switch (captured in the OFF/normal-play state).",
      "tradeoff": "Enabling Ante Bet increases the total bet (40x multiplier vs. the normal 20x reference multiplier baked into the base bet) and increases scatter density/free-spins hit-rate, but disables both Buy Free Spins options while active."
    }
  },

  "technical_summary": {
    "rtp_percent": 96.55,
    "rtp_breakdown": "Identical across all modes per paytable_p4.png: 'The theoretical RTP of this game is 96.55%. The RTP of the game when using the \"ANTE BET\" is 96.55%. The RTP of the game when using \"BUY FREE SPINS\" is 96.55%. The RTP of the game when using \"BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS\" is 96.55%.'",
    "volatility": "High — shown as a 'VOLATILITY' pill containing 5 gold lightning-bolt icons (all 5 filled/lit, paytable_p4.png), with text: 'High volatility games pay out less often on average but the chance to hit big wins in a short time span is higher.'",
    "bet_min": "$0.20",
    "bet_max": "$480.00",
    "bet_source": "paytable_p4.png: 'MINIMUM BET: $0.20  MAXIMUM BET: $480.00'.",
    "demo_default_bet_observed": "$2.00 (shown throughout most base-game and free-spins frames); one frame shows $4.00 with Ante Bet plaque visible (base_game.png alternate capture).",
    "demo_credit_observed": "$100,000.00 at session start (preview/base_game), fluctuating through play (e.g. $99,800.00, $100,474.00, $99,682.40, $99,474.00 at various points as buys/wins were applied).",
    "max_win": "10,000x bet. paytable_p3.png: 'The maximum win amount is limited to 10,000x bet in both base game and free spins. If the total win of a FREE SPINS round reaches 10,000x bet the round immediately ends, win is awarded and all remaining free spins are forfeited.' (paytable_p6.png repeats this for the general bet-menu/round-cap case, also confirming the 10,000x figure.)",
    "win_rules": "All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels/ways starting from reel 1 (Megaways ways-to-win, not fixed paylines). Only the highest win is paid per winning combination on the same way; wins on multiple ways are summed. Free spins round win is awarded to the player after the round completes; the free-spins total win in game history contains the whole win of the cycle. (paytable_p4.png, verbatim.)",
    "keyboard": "SPACE and ENTER buttons start and stop the spin (paytable_p4.png / paytable_p5.png).",
    "malfunction_clause": "'Malfunction voids all pays and plays.' (paytable_p4.png, verbatim.)",
    "currency_view": "CREDIT and BET labels can be clicked to switch between coins view and cash view (paytable_p5.png)."
  },

  "screens": {
    "preview_splash": {
      "type": "preview",
      "content": "Base-game reel view shown before any interaction, with the game logo 'ZOMBIE SCHOOL MEGAWAYS' top-right (green 'ZOMBIE' in a dripping-slime 3D font, white 'SCHOOL' below it, gold 'MEGAWAYS' beneath that, small trademark superscript), the MEGAWAYS live ways counter plaque showing 63504, a large round white double-arrow SPIN icon centered on the right side, a 'VOLATILITY' pill with 5 lightning-bolt icons, a yellow-outlined checkbox labelled \"DON'T SHOW NEXT TIME\", and red-outlined text at the bottom: 'IN FREE SPINS EACH WIN IS MULTIPLIED BY THE NUMBER OF WINNING SYMBOLS' (a one-line teaser of the free-spins multiplier mechanic). Bottom of frame shows a green wooden counter/desk ledge and an amber medicine/chemistry bottle prop bottom-right.",
      "purpose": "Entry/promo screen with feature-teaser text; clicking the round spin icon proceeds into the interactive base game.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Volatility uses 5 identical lightning icons (count-based, not color-coded); the checkbox is a plain white square outline — shape-based."
    },
    "base_game": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "overall_layout": "6 variable-height reels inside a rough dark-wood, blood-stained frame, centered-right of the screen; a hand-lettered paper tag hangs top-left on a chain and a decayed zombie arm/hand reaches in from the right edge of the frame.",
      "background": "Dim teal-green school-corridor interior: ceiling tiles and a wall clock visible top-right, wood-panel wainscoting below the reel frame, blood streaks on the ceiling.",
      "left_side_panels": "Three stacked hanging wooden sign-boards: 'BUY FREE SPINS $200.00', 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS $1,000.00', and a 'BET $X.XX / 5X HIGHER CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE' plaque with an OFF-state red toggle switch (right-pointing white arrow icon) for Ante Bet.",
      "right_side": "Game logo 'ZOMBIE SCHOOL MEGAWAYS' with a decayed hand graphic reaching from behind it; below the logo, the gold-framed 'MEGAWAYS' live ways-counter plaque; a wall clock is visible further down-right in the background art.",
      "bottom_bar": {
        "far_left": "Round hamburger MENU icon ('≡', three horizontal lines) opening System Settings, and a round SOUND (speaker) icon below it, and a round 'i' INFO icon to their right opening the paginated rules booklet.",
        "balance_labels": "'CREDIT $100,000.00' and 'BET $2.00' in gold/yellow text, center-left.",
        "center_hint": "'HOLD SPACE FOR TURBO SPIN' in white bold text, center.",
        "right_controls": "Oval '−' (decrease bet) and '+' (increase bet) buttons flanking a large round SPIN button (two white curved arrows forming a circle); an 'AUTOPLAY' pill button sits directly below the spin button.",
        "branding": "'PRAGMATIC PLAY' small grey wordmark bottom-left corner."
      },
      "color_blind_notes": "All primary controls are white glyph-on-dark-circle icons distinguished by shape/pictogram (hamburger lines, speaker, 'i', +/-, curved-arrow spin), not by color; CREDIT/BET are yellow-on-dark high-contrast text."
    },
    "paytable_page1": {
      "type": "paytable",
      "page": "1 of 7",
      "header": "'GAME RULES' with the subline 'All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel.'",
      "content": "Grid of the 10 paying symbols with their 6/5/4/3-of-a-kind payouts (full list under 'symbols' above), the SCATTER symbol with its rule text, the WILD symbol with its rule text, and a 'Ways to win' diagram (green-checkmark valid-adjacency example vs. red-X single-column example) plus the max-ways statement (117,649).",
      "navigation": "Bottom-left: green ◄ (previous, disabled/dim on page 1), green X (close), green ► (next); page indicator 'Page 1/7' bottom-right; separate white X close button top-right of the panel. Footer credit line: 'MEGAWAYS is used under licence from BIG' with the Big Time Gaming roundel logo.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Nav icons differentiated by triangle-direction/cross shape, not color alone."
    },
    "paytable_page2_tumble_and_freespins": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "2 of 7",
      "content": "Two stacked text blocks on a black panel: 'TUMBLE FEATURE' (full text quoted in megaways_mechanic.tumble_feature) and 'FREE SPINS' (trigger, spins awarded, multiplier rule, no-retrigger clause, 'special reels' clause — quoted in features.free_spins_regular)."
    },
    "paytable_page3_maxwin_ante_buy": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "3 of 7",
      "content": "Three stacked text blocks: 'MAX WIN' (10,000x cap and forfeiture-of-remaining-spins rule), 'ANTE BET' (40x/20x multiplier behaviour), 'BUY FREE SPINS' (both buy options, prices as 100x/500x total bet, guaranteed-scatter-on-trigger clause)."
    },
    "paytable_page4_rtp_bet_limits": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "4 of 7",
      "content": "'GAME RULES' header with the 'VOLATILITY' 5-bolt pill; paragraphs covering ways-to-win payment rules, free-spins/bonus-win aggregation rules, the four RTP figures (96.55% in every mode), MINIMUM BET $0.20 / MAXIMUM BET $480.00, SPACE/ENTER keyboard controls, and the malfunction clause."
    },
    "paytable_page5_how_to_play": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "5 of 7",
      "content": "'HOW TO PLAY' walkthrough of the +/- bet controls, SPIN button, hamburger MENU (settings), spin-speed-cycle icon (normal/quick spin/turbo spin), sound toggle, info-page 'i' icon, CREDIT/BET coins-vs-cash toggle, and the AUTOPLAY button (open/close by re-clicking)."
    },
    "paytable_page6_settings_menu": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "6 of 7",
      "content": "'SETTINGS MENU' descriptions (INTRO SCREEN, AMBIENT, SOUND FX, GAME HISTORY toggles/links), 'INFORMATION SCREEN' navigation (◄/► scroll, X close), 'BET MENU' description (bet multiplier and total bet shown in coins and cash), and a repeated MAX WIN 10,000x statement worded for the general bet-menu context."
    },
    "paytable_page7_autoplay": {
      "type": "rules",
      "page": "7 of 7 (last page, confirmed by on-screen 'Page 7/7')",
      "content": "'AUTOPLAY' section: clicking a preset auto-spins-count button starts Autoplay; 'SKIP SCREENS option auto-skips the feature introduction and end screens after a short period of time.'"
    },
    "settings": {
      "type": "settings",
      "title": "SYSTEM SETTINGS",
      "left_side": "'GAME HISTORY' link button (external-link icon) and a 'TOTAL BET' stepper: round white '−' button, dark field showing the bet value (e.g. '$2.00'), round green '+' button.",
      "right_side_toggles": "Four on/off switches, each with a label and one-line description: 'BATTERY SAVER' (save battery life by reducing animation speed) shown OFF/grey with a white pause-bar icon on the left side of the switch; 'AMBIENT MUSIC' (turn on or off the game music) shown ON/green; 'SOUND FX' (turn on or off the game sounds) shown ON/green; 'INTRO SCREEN' (show the intro screen before starting the game) shown ON/green.",
      "close_control": "White X icon top-right of the panel.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Every toggle additionally shows its state via HANDLE POSITION (left=off, right=on) and an icon (pause-bars) inside the handle, not color alone."
    },
    "autoplay_dialog": {
      "type": "autoplay",
      "title": "AUTOPLAY SETTINGS",
      "options_row": "Three checkboxes: 'TURBO SPIN' (unchecked, empty white square outline), 'QUICK SPIN' (unchecked), 'SKIP SCREENS' (CHECKED, green square with a white checkmark) — captured state has only Skip Screens enabled.",
      "autospins_selector": "'NUMBER OF AUTOSPINS' label above a horizontal slider (green filled track to the left of a green round handle showing a pause-bars icon) with the numeric value '100' displayed to the right of the slider.",
      "action_button": "Full-width green 'START AUTOPLAY (100)' button at the bottom.",
      "close_control": "White X icon top-right.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Checked vs unchecked state is shown by a checkmark glyph inside the box (shape), not color alone; the primary action button carries explicit text ('START AUTOPLAY') in addition to its green fill."
    },
    "buy_free_spins_dialog": {
      "type": "bonus",
      "content": "A hanging parchment sign (chained top corners, zombie hand gripping one side) reads 'BUY FREE SPINS' then '$200.00' in yellow with a red glow outline. Two buttons below: red square with white X (cancel/decline) on the left, green square with white checkmark (confirm) on the right. 'TOTAL BET' stepper (−/field/+) and CREDIT/BET readout remain visible at the bottom of the screen behind the dialog.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Confirm/cancel differentiated by both color (red/green) AND icon shape (X vs checkmark) — safe for color-blind users."
    },
    "buy_persistent_multiplier_dialog": {
      "type": "bonus",
      "content": "Same parchment-sign dialog style, text reads 'BUY PERSISTENT MULTIPLIER FREE SPINS' then '$1,000.00'. Same red-X / green-check button pair.",
      "background_state": "Reel background visible behind the dialog shows a MEGAWAYS counter of 8400 and CREDIT already reduced to $100,474.00 from the prior regular-Free-Spins win, confirming this screenshot was taken after playing the first (regular) bought feature to completion."
    },
    "free_spins_trigger_regular": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "content": "Full-screen 'CONGRATULATIONS!' banner in red 3D dripping-style letters over a teal broken-glass double-door graphic (cracked glass panels, two zombie silhouettes pressing against the glass from inside, one hand bursting partly through the glass bottom-left, blood droplets on the door frame). Below: 'YOU HAVE WON' in green, the awarded spins count in large gold/yellow numerals ('15'), 'FREE SPINS' in green, and 'PRESS ANYWHERE TO CONTINUE' in white at the bottom. Footer shows CREDIT/BET and a live 'FREE SPINS LEFT 15' counter.",
      "color_blind_notes": "Spin count is a large legible number; red/green text pairing is also distinguished by position and different font weight/style."
    },
    "free_spins_gameplay": {
      "type": "free_spins",
      "background": "Outdoor rainy dusk street scene outside the school: amber sky, storm clouds, silhouette of the parked yellow school bus at far left, distant school building and iron fence with two fleeing student silhouettes at right, visible rain streaks across the whole frame.",
      "side_plaques": "Two hanging wooden signs on the left: 'FREE SPINS LEFT N' (large number) and 'MULTIPLIER' (shows the current tumble multiplier as 'NX' once a win occurs, otherwise blank space under the label). On the final spin, the first plaque instead reads 'LAST FREE SPIN'.",
      "win_readout": "Bottom-center shows 'WIN $X.XX' during/after a winning tumble, or the plain 'FREE SPINS LEFT N' text when there is no active win.",
      "in_progress_win_detail": "During a specific tumble resolution the game shows a breakdown line, e.g. 'WIN $130.73 / 4X [symbol] PAYS $1.00 x 4 = $4.00', and floats a '+NX' badge (white text, e.g. '+4X', '+10X', '+3X') directly over the symbol cluster whose count set that tumble's multiplier.",
      "empty_tumble_frame": "Mid-cascade frames show some reel cells rendered as plain dark-green blank tiles where a just-exploded symbol has not yet been replaced (fs_progress_check3.png) — this is the visual tell of the Tumble Feature in motion.",
      "win_celebration_tiers_observed": "'SENSATIONAL!' (orange/ember fire glow around the school-bus windshield graphic, zombies grabbing at the bus from both sides, coin icons falling) for a mid-size win; 'MEGA!' (cool blue lightning glow, same bus graphic) for a larger win; a plain 'WINNER' caption (no special full-screen takeover) for another sizeable single-spin win ($621.18, fs_progress_check14.png).",
      "color_blind_notes": "Feature/mode is signalled by BOTH the background palette shift (rainy amber street vs. the cool teal base-game corridor) AND persistent text labels ('FREE SPINS LEFT', 'MULTIPLIER', 'WIN $'), not by color alone."
    },
    "free_spins_end_summary": {
      "type": "win_screen",
      "content": "Same broken-glass-door 'CONGRATULATIONS!' template as the trigger screen, but reading 'YOU HAVE WON $X.XX IN N FREE SPINS' (dollar amount in large gold numerals, spins count in red) with 'PRESS ANYWHERE TO CONTINUE' below. A 'FREE SPINS COMPLETED' status line and matching 'WIN $X.XX' readout also appear briefly on the reel screen itself immediately before this full-screen summary (back_to_base_check.png / pm_final_summary.png).",
      "observed_totals": "Regular bought Free Spins (15 spins): total win $674.00 (fs_end_summary.png). Persistent Multiplier bought Free Spins (10 spins): total win $208.40, final persistent multiplier reached 36X (pm_end_summary.png / pm_final_summary.png)."
    },
    "return_to_base_game": {
      "type": "base_game",
      "content": "Reels show the completed free-spins result still on-screen with 'FREE SPINS COMPLETED' status text and the round's win total at the bottom; CREDIT balance updated (e.g. risen to $100,474.00 after the $674.00 regular Free Spins win, from a $99,800.00 mid-feature balance). Buy-feature side plaques and Ante Bet toggle reappear once back in the interactive base game."
    }
  },

  "accessibility_observations": {
    "screen_reader": "Stable, consistently-positioned controls: hamburger MENU + sound speaker far bottom-left, 'i' info icon just to their right, bet +/- flanking the large central SPIN button, AUTOPLAY directly below SPIN. The rules/info booklet is a strict linear 7-page sequence navigated by ◄/► with a persistent 'Page N/7' indicator, and a single X reliably closes it from any page. The two Buy-Feature entry points are fixed hanging signs on the left edge of the base game at all times (when Ante Bet is off), each carrying an explicit price and description in text (not icon-only).",
    "motor": "Large circular touch targets for SPIN, MENU, sound and info; SPACE/ENTER keyboard shortcuts start/stop spins without needing to target the on-screen button at all, which is a strong benefit for motor-impaired users. Autoplay (with adjustable spin count and a Skip Screens option that shortens forced-wait intro/outro screens) reduces the number of repeated clicks required to play many rounds.",
    "color_blind": "Nearly all state is duplicated by non-color cues: settings toggles show handle position plus a pause-bar icon; autoplay checkboxes show a checkmark glyph; buy-feature confirm/cancel dialogs pair color with an X-vs-checkmark icon; free-spins vs base-game mode is signalled by full background artwork change and persistent text labels, not hue alone; win-size celebrations ('SENSATIONAL!' vs 'MEGA!') are distinguished by different WORDS as well as by a warm-vs-cool glow color, so the tier is legible even without color perception. Residual note: SCATTER text and the tumble '+NX' badges are rendered in red/white on busy backgrounds — always legible due to bold outline/drop-shadow, but color is not the sole differentiator anyway since the symbol art (bus / labeled cluster) also identifies it.",
    "deaf_hard_of_hearing": "No audio-exclusive information was observed in the captured frames; all game state (win amounts, spins remaining, multiplier value, feature name, RTP/rules text) is conveyed through on-screen text and iconography. AMBIENT MUSIC and SOUND FX are independent, clearly-labelled toggles in System Settings so audio can be fully disabled without losing any information."
  },

  "unreadable_or_uncertain": [
    "Automated pytesseract OCR could not be run for this slot in this session (tesseract process repeatedly timed out under machine load); ground truth here relies entirely on direct visual reading of the screenshots, which was fully legible for every text element encountered — no numeric values were guessed.",
    "The precise nature of the 'Special reels are in play during the round' free-spins clause (paytable_p2.png) — i.e. exactly how the free-spins reel strip/weight table differs from the base game reel strip — is stated in the rules text but not independently verifiable from screenshots (reel-strip weighting is server-side and not visually observable).",
    "Per-cell content of any given reel snapshot (base game or free spins) is a random spin outcome, not a fixed game property, and is intentionally not enumerated cell-by-cell per project convention.",
    "The exact full-screen 'CONGRATULATIONS' end-summary graphic for the Persistent Multiplier Free Spins feature was not captured as a separate dedicated frame in this set (only the on-reel 'FREE SPINS COMPLETED' + win-total state was captured for that feature, pm_final_summary.png); the completion total ($208.40) and final multiplier (36X, pm_end_summary.png) are nonetheless directly confirmed on-screen.",
    "Whether the Ante Bet toggle can be engaged simultaneously with Autoplay, and any interaction between Ante Bet and the Persistent Multiplier buy option specifically (beyond the general 'BUY FREE SPINS feature is disabled' clause which groups both buy options as 'BUY FREE SPINS' in the rules text), is not explicitly spelled out on any captured rules page."
  ]
}