Hailfall Acres open to all, two more worlds behind a free account, and each rule logged in the almanac.
Hailfall Acres is open to everyone: spin it on the home page or on its own page with free play coins. There is no name, email or password to give and nothing to tick.
Gourdlight Slope and Moonpane Loft open with a free account, and the sign-up takes four boxes: a nickname, an email address, a password and a tick confirming you are 19 or over. There is no card box, no address box and no phone number box, because nothing in the hollow is for sale. The account is kept for two reasons: so your coins and progress are still logged when you return, and so the reels stay with adults. A single button on your account page deletes it and everything written on it.
Your jar opens with 100,000 free coins, plus whatever Hailfall Acres rained on you on the same device. One balance, one level and one set of missions carry from world to world. The coins are virtual: they cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged for anything, and no win holds real-world value.
The hollow has no in-app purchases and not one payment page.
All three worlds use five reels and three rows. A win reads from left to right, beginning on the first reel and carrying on over adjacent reels along fixed paylines. Your stake is divided evenly across the lines, and paytable values are multiples of the line bet, except the scatter, which pays on the total stake. A line pays only its highest win.
| Type of bonus weather | What the bonus does to the reels | Where it falls |
|---|---|---|
| Tumbling reels | Winning symbols melt away like hail, the rest drop, and new ones fall in from above. Each fresh win in the chain is worth more: x1 on the spin itself, then x2, then x3, then x5 for each tumble after. | Hailfall Acres |
| A multiplier rising like a barometer | In free spins the multiplier rises step by step and never falls back during the round. | Gourdlight Slope |
| Sticky wilds that hold through a respin | When a paid spin pays nothing but lands a wild, each wild stays where it fell and the rest of the grid respins once, free. | |
| Last-reel respin | A paid spin with no win but two scatters sends the fifth reel round again, free, in search of the third. | |
| Free spins at double pay, as on Moonpane Loft | The calmest round in the hollow: three scatters begin free spins, and every win in them is paid twice. | Moonpane Loft |
Each reel holds a fixed strip of symbols. For every spin, your browser’s random number generator chooses an independent position on each strip. No spin is influenced by earlier ones, and nothing changes with your balance or the hours you have played.
For each world, return, hit frequency and feature frequency were measured by running the game’s own code for millions of spins, then printed in the paytable. They describe coin play in these free games and forecast nothing about any real-money game.
Almanac Hollow keeps its porch for grown-ups aged 19 or over. The reels run on virtual coins of no monetary value, coins nobody can buy, sell, withdraw or exchange. Look under every floorboard and there is still no coin shop and no page for payments; nobody is ever handed a prize of real-world value; and a lucky streak in the hollow does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
Free, confidential gambling support, written on the inside cover of the almanac: ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600, which answers 24 hours a day · CCSA · Responsible Gambling Council · Abner’s notes on playing within the weather