WinEvaluatePayways

Overview

Evaluates wins using the "payways" (aka "ways to win") mechanic. Any matching symbol on adjacent reels from left-to-right counts, regardless of row position. The number of ways is the product of matching symbol counts on each consecutive winning reel.

Disabled Position Handling

Positions with the disabled:true tag are skipped during symbol counting. They do not contribute to the ways calculation.

Algorithm

1. Build grid: map each reel to its symbols
2. For each non-wild, non-scatter symbol:
   • Count consecutive reels from left containing the symbol (or wild)
   • Skip positions with disabled:true
   • Calculate ways = product of matching counts per reel
   • Look up payout from paytable
3. Write win tags to global entity

Example

Grid:
┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐
│ A │ A │ A │ K │ Q │
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
│ K │ A │ W │ A │ J │   W = Wild
├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
│ Q │ W │ A │ J │ 10│
└───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘

Symbol A:
- Reel 1: 1 A
- Reel 2: 2 (A + W)
- Reel 3: 2 (A + W)
- Reel 4: 1 A (breaks here due to only 1)

Ways: 1 × 2 × 2 × 1 = 4 ways
Count: 4 reels