Anvil Strike

About Anvil Strike

Anvil Strike is the loudest stall in the roundhouse and the simplest to read. Five reels of three symbols, fifteen fixed lines, and wins that run from the left-most reel. The stake you choose is spread across all fifteen lines, so there is only one number to think about.

The anvil is what makes it ours. On roughly one spin in ten it falls before the lines are read. It picks one of the four coloured nuts showing on the reels, chooses one of the four tools, and turns every copy of that nut into that tool. A screen full of red nuts can become a screen full of tongs. Sometimes it changes very little; the reels show you exactly which cells were struck.

Three hammers anywhere on reels one, three and five open seven strike spins at the same stake, and the anvil falls on every one of them. The strike spins play out by themselves and the whole round is settled once at the end. They are rare, roughly one paid spin in a thousand, and they are not a reason to keep spinning: a long session usually ends with fewer bolts than it started with.

How a round works

1. Choose a stake with the minus and plus buttons: 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 or 250 bolts.
2. Press Spin. The stake leaves your bolts and the reels stop.
3. If the anvil falls, the struck cells glow violet and change before the lines are read.
4. Lines pay for three, four or five of the same symbol from the left-most reel. The anvil on reels two to four stands in for any symbol except the hammer.
5. Hammers pay wherever they land, and three or more open the seven strike spins.

Pay plate

Everything below is what comes back for a stake of one bolt; multiply by your stake. The numbers are read from the same file the game uses.

Line wins, as a multiple of the whole stake (the stake is spread over 15 lines)

Symbol	3 in a row	4 in a row	5 in a row
Crucible	5.67×	22.67×	85×
Tongs	3.4×	11.33×	45.33×
Gauntlet	2.83×	8.5×	28.33×
Gauge	2.27×	5.67×	17×
Red nut	1.13×	2.83×	8.5×
Blue nut	1.13×	2.83×	8.5×
Green nut	0.57×	2.27×	5.67×
Violet nut	0.57×	2.27×	5.67×
Hammer (bonus), anywhere	17×	85×	340×

Fair play

Every result is drawn by your browser's own random number generator at the moment you press the button. Nothing is adjusted for your bolts, your history, the time of day or how long you have played, and the game cannot see who you are. Over a long run every stall returns a little less than it takes, as games of chance do; bolts have no cash value, so nothing real is lost or won.