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Sky words: a glossary of reel terms
Every word you will meet on the islands and in flight school, explained in plain English.
- Altitude check
- The reminder that pauses play once the time you picked in your account has passed: 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or never.
- Archipelago
- A cluster of islands that share a landscape. Kiteborne Isles has six of them.
- Auto-play
- Ten spins in a row at one play amount. It halts for a feature, an error, a hidden tab or an altitude check.
- Cloudburst
- Our cascade: winning symbols disappear, the others drop, empty cells refill, and each later win in the chain pays ×2, ×3 and then ×5.
- Day flight
- Playing without an account: three islands, 80,000 temporary Play Credits and a two-hour limit.
- Free spins
- Spins that use none of your balance, set off by three or more scatters in any position.
- Full Sail Wilds
- Our expanding wild: a wild landing on reel two, three or four takes over that whole reel before any line is checked.
- Hit rate
- How often a round pays anything, as measured over 2,000,000 rounds of each island.
- Kite tag
- The five numbered tags, I to V, which are the smallest-paying symbols on every island.
- Line
- A set route across all five reels. Three or more matching symbols along it, starting on reel one, make it pay.
- Play amount
- What a single spin costs in Play Credits: 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 or 320.
- Play Credits
- Make-believe units for playing the islands. Nobody can buy them, win them as a prize, pass them on or cash them out.
- Reel
- A single upright strip of symbols, three rows tall. Every island has five.
- Return
- Across an enormous run of rounds, the portion of credits played that came back as awards. It speaks about the long run and never about your next visit.
- Rising Thermal
- A free-spin multiplier that goes up one step per free spin and stays on its highest step once there.
- Scatter
- A symbol with no need for a line: it pays in any position, and three or more begin free spins.
- Second Gust
- A fresh spin of reel five on its own, given when nothing has paid and exactly two scatters are in view.
- Tethered Wilds
- Our sticky wild: if a spin pays nothing, its wilds hold their places while every other cell spins one more time.
- Volatility
- The shape of an island’s results. Low means modest awards that come often; high means bigger awards that come seldom.
- Wild
- A symbol that fills in for any other, the scatter excepted.
Want more than a line or two? Flight school takes each idea slowly, with examples.