How to play
The table is a normal European roulette wheel, 0 to 36 with a single zero, and every usual bet pays exactly what it pays there. On top of it sits one extra spot, the Star bet.
Every spin, after bets close and before the ball drops, three numbers light up with a gold star. If you have a Star bet on the layout and the ball lands on a starred number, you collect a star. Three stars open the bonus round.
You start with 1,000 virtual credits.
- Choose a chip: 10, 50, 100 or 500.
- Place your roulette bets as usual: numbers, the rings between numbers, outside bets or the racetrack buttons.
- Tap Star bet to add a chip to it. It’s optional and its chip is spent every spin, win or lose.
- Press Spin. The three starred numbers show on the layout; if the ball finds one, the star meter fills a slot and shows the Star bet that earned it.
- When the third slot fills, press Open bonus. A multiplier is drawn and paid on the three Star bets in the meter, then the meter empties.
Each spot, the Star bet included, takes 10 to 1,000 credits in steps of 10, and the table holds up to 5,000 per spin. Your meter is kept between visits; it resets only if you run out of credits and take a fresh 1,000.
The bonus round
The bonus pays multiplier × the sum of the three Star bets that collected the stars. Example: you collected stars with Star bets of 10, 20 and 30, then draw ×20. The bonus pays 20 × 60 = 1,200.
| Multiplier | Chance |
|---|---|
| ×3 | 31% |
| ×5 | 31% |
| ×10 | 18% |
| ×20 | 11% |
| ×50 | 7% |
| ×100 | 2% |
The average multiplier is 11.98. Because the bonus is based on the bets that actually caught the stars, saving a big Star bet for the third star doesn’t help: the first two stars still count at what you staked when they landed.
The odds
Roulette bets: unchanged from the European wheel, a house edge of 1/37, about 2.70%, on every bet.
Star bet: a starred number comes up on 3 spins in 37, about 8.1%, so with a Star bet every spin you need 37 spins per bonus on average. Each Star bet of 1 unit earns, on average, 3/37 of a star worth 11.98 units, which comes back as 97.14% of what you stake on it: a house edge of about 2.86%, a touch above the main table.
That average hides big swings. A third of bonuses pay ×3, and the ×100 shows up only 2 times in 100 bonuses.
Strategy
- The Star bet is optional. Plain roulette bets work exactly as on a European table; skip the star if you’d rather keep the 2.70% edge.
- Keep the Star bet steady. Every star is worth what you staked when it landed. Changing the size mid-meter doesn’t change the odds, only how much each star is worth.
- Budget for the wait. About 37 spins per bonus on average means many Star bets go by without a star. Small stars and patience fit this game better than big ones.
- The stars don’t favour any number. They’re drawn fresh every spin, after bets close, three different numbers each time.
If you enjoy Star Bonus Roulette, try Star Voyage or Sticky Respin Stars next.
