Extending a feature round from inside it is a small clause with a large effect. Whether an extension continues the round or restarts it determines how much of the game’s return sits in outcomes that a player may go months without encountering.

The two arrangements

Continuation preserves everything accumulated — multiplier level, collected symbols, any persistent wilds — and simply adds spins. Restart clears the accumulated state and begins a fresh round with the same spin count as the original entry.

Both are common, both are disclosed, and the descriptions read almost identically because both are usually phrased as awarding additional spins. The distinguishing detail is a phrase about what carries over, and it is one line long.

Why continuation matters so much

Because it makes the tail multiplicative rather than additive. A round extended twice with a carried multiplier reaches values a single round cannot approach, and those extended rounds carry a share of the total return far out of proportion to how often they occur.

Finding the clause

It is in the feature section, near the entry condition. Checking the Megaways version for the sentence describing what happens on a retrigger takes under a minute, and it is the single most informative minute available in that panel.

Note also the trigger condition for the extension itself. Some builds require the same scatter count as the original entry, some require fewer, and a reduced requirement makes extensions substantially more frequent than they would otherwise be.

• Establish whether the extension continues or restarts
• Check what specifically carries over
• Note the scatter requirement for the extension
• Look for any limit on the number of extensions
• Confirm whether the spin award differs from the entry

The extension limit

Where a build caps the number of retriggers, the tail is truncated at a known point and the maximum win figure reflects that cap. An uncapped build has a longer tail and usually a correspondingly higher stated ceiling, which is one of the more reliable places the two figures agree.

Why designers include it

Because it produces the rounds players remember and describe to other people, at a cost to the base game that is spread thinly enough to be invisible. It is an efficient way to buy memorability, and the efficiency is why almost every feature has one.

What to expect from it

Nothing, in the sense that planning around retriggers is planning around an event with a low probability per round. The clause is worth reading not because it will happen but because it explains where the quiet base game went, and that explanation makes the rest of the design legible.