The six pieces of stagecraft compared

Straight Play, Rising Applause, Held Pose, Scene Change, Encore Reel and Full Spotlight, side by side and sorted by when each one acts.

Stagecraft that steps in after a quiet spin

Held Pose keeps the wilds from a spin that paid nothing and spins everything else once. Encore Reel gives the fifth reel one more spin when nothing paid and exactly two scatters are showing.

Stagecraft that follows a win

Scene Change clears the winning symbols, lets the rest fall, refills the gaps and pays any further wins at 2×, 3× and then 5×.

Stagecraft that acts before anything pays

Full Spotlight turns a wild on reel two, three or four into a whole column of wilds before the lines are read, in ordinary spins and free spins alike.

Stagecraft kept for free spins, or none at all

Rising Applause lifts the multiplier one step with each free spin. Straight Play has no extra rule: lines, scatters and free spins at ordinary values.