Five reels · twenty lines
Midnight Reels
The Club’s own five-reel slot, set into a brass cabinet in the corner of the lounge. Nine pieces of the house turn on its ivory drums, from the porter’s key to the Club Crest itself. Choose a stake, press Spin and see what lines up.
How to play
Pick a stake per spin — 20, 40, 100 or 200 Velvet Chips — and press Spin. The reels stop one after another, left to right, and any line that pays is traced across the window in claret. All twenty lines are always active — three straight rows and seventeen zigzags — so there’s nothing to set beyond the stake. If your stack runs short, the Refill button above the reels brings it back to 5,000 at no cost.
Reading the paytable
Open “Paytable & rules” beneath the reels to see every symbol and what three, four or five of a kind are worth. Line amounts are multiples of the line stake, which is simply your spin stake divided by twenty, so a 200-chip spin puts 10 chips on each line. A line counts from the leftmost reel and has to run across neighbouring reels without a gap.
The symbols come in tiers. The brass key, cocktail coupe, velvet rope and pocket watch are the everyday pieces. The top hat and the candelabra sit a step above, and the ruby signet ring is the finest thing in the house. The Club Crest is wild: it stands in for any symbol except the fan, and a full line of crests is the richest result on the reels. The Golden Fan is the scatter — it pays on your whole stake wherever three or more open up in the window.
This cabinet is set the lively way. The everyday symbols pay a little less than you might expect — three brass keys return 9 times the line stake — and that thrift is spent at the top of the card: five signet rings pay 1,500 times the line stake, and five Club Crests 4,000. Expect plenty of quiet spins between the bright ones.
Rounds and chips
Each spin takes its stake the moment you press the button, and anything you collect is added as soon as the last reel settles. Only the best result on each line is paid. Your balance is kept in your browser, so it’s there next time on the same device — and it is worth exactly nothing outside the Club, which is rather the point. Velvet Chips can’t be bought, cashed in or traded, and no spin can earn you a prize.
From the Club’s story
Every club has a corner nobody quite explains. Ours holds a walnut-and-brass cabinet that the night porter insists arrived one winter without a delivery note. He polishes its glass at twelve o’clock every evening, which is how it came to be called Midnight Reels — and why the brass key on the first reel looks so very like the one on his chain.
Questions about Midnight Reels
How many lines am I playing?
All twenty, on every spin. The lines are fixed, so your stake is spread evenly across them and you never need to choose.
What does the Club Crest do?
It’s the wild. It substitutes for every symbol except the Golden Fan, and five crests on a line pay more than anything else on the reels.
Is there a knack to the reels?
No. Every stop is random and has nothing to do with the spin before it, so there’s no pattern to learn. Play for the look and sound of the thing.
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