How to play
The screen is a plain five-reel, three-row video slot with 20 fixed lines, and almost everything interesting happens on one wheel. You start with 1,000 credits.
Pick a coin from the row of buttons: 1, 2, 5, 10 or 20. That coin is your line bet, so the stake for a spin is the coin times 20. Press Spin (Space or Enter works too). Line wins are added as soon as the reels stop; a line pays from the leftmost reel, and only its best combination counts.
The wheel symbol is printed only on reels 1, 3 and 5. When it shows on all three at once, anywhere in the window, the reels are replaced by the Bonus wheel. Tap the SPIN button in its middle and the wheel turns to its prize. After that you either collect cash, or the main button changes to Free spin until those spins are used up.
The Pay table button opens the full list of line pays and every wheel slice for the coin you have chosen. Coins can’t be changed in the middle of a bonus: free spins always use the coin of the spin that started them.
The bonus wheel
Twelve slices, all the same size, all equally likely:
| Slice | How many | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | 2 | 5 × total bet |
| Cash | 1 | 6 × total bet |
| Cash | 1 | 8 × total bet |
| Cash | 2 | 10 × total bet |
| Cash | 1 | 15 × total bet |
| Cash | 1 | 25 × total bet |
| Jackpot | 1 | 250 × total bet |
| Free spins | 2 | 5 spins |
| Free spins | 1 | 10 spins |
So three slices in twelve hand out spins instead of credits. Those free spins are ordinary spins in every way, including the chance to line up three more wheel symbols and spin the wheel again from inside the feature.
Reels and line pays
Each of the odd reels has 36 stops with two wheel symbols, which means any one of them shows the wheel one spin in six. All three together: exactly 1 in 216.
The reels and line pays are the same set used by Treasure Picks. Five wilds pay 1,515 coins on a line (about 76 times the total bet), five gold stars 757, and the five royals at the bottom pay between 61 and 151 for five. The wild covers every regular symbol but does not count as a wheel symbol. Nothing on these reels is a scatter and there is no other way into free spins: the wheel is the only feature.
The odds
This return can be computed exactly rather than estimated.
- Line wins alone return 81.85% of what you stake.
- One wheel spin is worth 334 ÷ 12 = 27.83 times the total bet in cash on average, plus 20 ÷ 12 = 1.67 free spins.
- A free spin is worth the same as a paid one, so the full return R satisfies R = 81.85% + (27.83 + 1.67 × R) ÷ 216.
Solving gives 95.47%. The jackpot slice turns up in one wheel in twelve, so roughly once per 2,600 paid spins. With 14% of the return tied to a feature that arrives once per 216 spins, a short session can end well above or well below that long-run number.
Strategy
The wheel’s slice is decided the moment the third symbol lands; tapping SPIN only reveals it. There is no timing trick, and the coin size has no effect on the odds.
What you can control is how long your credits last. At the 20-coin level a spin costs 400 credits, so a fresh 1,000-credit balance covers two spins and a half. The 1 coin (20 credits a spin) gives you about fifty spins, a much better shot at seeing the wheel at least once. Waiting through 216 spins on average is the normal rhythm of this game, so a smaller coin keeps you playing through the dry spells.
Compared with the chest room in Treasure Picks, the wheel pays a little less in cash but adds free spins, and its biggest outcome (250×) is far larger than anything the chests can reach. Pick the wheel if you like one big moment; pick the chests if you prefer several small reveals. For a pick game with four fixed jackpot tiers, there is also Four Jackpots.
If you enjoy Fortune Wheel Slot, try Four Card Bonus or Four Card Showdown next.
