Answer first: a Starlight Princess round runs four stages - stake, spin, tumble check, and multiplier settle - and the whole cycle closes in seconds, with every chain recorded in the history panel.
Stage one - stake. Choose a flat unit that survives one hundred spins; tumble chains arrive in clusters, so the base game must stay alive until a hot drop lands. Stage two - spin. One press starts the reels; there is no second decision mid-round. Stage three - tumble check. Matching clusters burst and fresh symbols fall until a drop lands nothing new. Stage four - multiplier settle. Any orbs on screen add their value to the chain total and the figure posts to the balance at once.
Because the tumble engine handles everything between stake and settle, the only real lever is the stake itself - which is why the flat-unit habit below repeats through the whole page.




