Lines, ways and falling crystals: how a reel game pays

Lines: Comet Trail and Brass Telescope

A line is a fixed path across the reels. Comet Trail has ten, Brass Telescope five. A win needs matching symbols along a line, starting from the leftmost reel. Your stake is shared across all lines, so our pay tables show each line win as a multiple of your total stake.

Wild symbols stand in for others. In Comet Trail the comet fills its reel, which makes it part of every line that crosses it. In Brass Telescope, a line that uses the lens pays double.

Ways: Twin Moons and Nebula Ways

With ways, the rows do not matter. A symbol on reel one, then the same symbol anywhere on reel two, then anywhere on reel three, makes a way. If reel two has two of them, that is two ways, and the win counts twice. On a five-by-three grid there are 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 243 possible ways; on Nebula Ways' five-by-four grid there are 1,024.

Falls and multipliers: Nebula Ways

In Nebula Ways, winning crystals vanish and new ones fall into the gaps. If the new board pays too, the fall is counted with a higher multiplier: ×2, then ×3, then ×5. One press can produce a chain of small wins that add up.

Hit rate and swing

Hit rate is how often a round returns anything. Nebula Ways returns something in about six rounds out of ten, but most of those returns are smaller than the stake. Twin Moons hits less often and saves more of its return for free rounds, so it swings harder. Neither is better; they feel different.

Every pay table on Orrery Hall is the exact table the game uses. If a page and a result ever disagree, tell us at hello@orreryhall.com.