Rather than trust instinct, I gathered the evidence from every published game I could reach, and let the numbers point at the answer.

| Phase | What happened |
|---|---|
| 01 Collect | A web-scraping program gathered data from every published slot game, a full picture instead of a handful of examples. |
| 02 Correlate | A visualization mapped the relationship between each game's parameters and its overall rating. |
| 03 Decide | The patterns became a guide for real design decisions, grounded in the whole market rather than one opinion. |
Gut feeling is a fine place to start. A terrible place to stop.