Lucky Wheel Deluxe

How to play Lucky Wheel Deluxe

Lucky Wheel Deluxe plays like the classic three-reel stepper cabinets: three mechanical-style reels, one payline across the middle, and a big bonus wheel in the top box. Tap BET ONE to bet 1, 2 or 3 coins, or BET MAX to bet 3 coins and spin in one press. SPIN (or the Space bar, or a pull on the handle) plays the same bet again.

• Coins per credit: the denomination button sets how many shared coins one credit is worth: 25, 50, 100 or 250. A 3-coin bet at 25 costs 75 coins. Every win in the paytable is in credits and pays credits times the denomination.
• Double Gem wild: the gem stands in for any symbol. One gem in a winning line doubles the pay, two gems multiply it by four, and three gems pay the top award. A single gem anywhere on the line pays 2 credits per coin on its own, two gems pay 10.
• Spin the wheel: reel 3 carries two WHEEL stops. Land one on the payline with 3 coins bet and the top-box wheel spins for 10 to 1,000 credits. With 1 or 2 coins bet the WHEEL pays 7 credits per coin instead, so bet max if you want to see the wheel turn.
• Lucky Coin: on a spin that would otherwise pay nothing, 1 in 10 drops a lucky coin into the reel window. It pays 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 credits per coin bet, at any bet size.
• Lucky Meter: every credit you bet fills the meter under the reels. At 150 credits it pays a free spin of the wheel, then starts again. That is every 50 spins at 3 coins (150 at 1 coin). Each denomination keeps its own meter, and the meter is saved on this device.
• Autoplay and turbo: AUTO keeps spinning the same bet until you stop it, a win of 100 credits or more comes in, or you run short. Wheel spins play out on their own during autoplay. TURBO shortens the reel timing. Tap the meters or the win banner to skip a count.

Paytable

Per coin bet: three Red 7s pay 80 credits, three Triple BARs 40, three Double BARs 25, three single BARs 10 and any mix of three BARs 5. The top award, three Double Gems, pays 1,250 credits at 1 coin, 2,500 at 2 coins and 5,000 at 3 coins, so the third coin is worth the most. The lit column on the paytable glass shows the bet you are playing.

Odds, honestly

Each reel has 22 physical stops: 11 symbols with a blank between each. Like real stepper machines, the result is drawn from a weighted virtual reel, so blanks and BARs come up far more often than 7s, gems or the WHEEL. Every blank on a reel has the same weight, so no extra blanks are parked next to the big symbols to fake near-misses. We counted every one of the 10,648 weighted reel combinations together with the exact wheel, lucky coin and meter odds, and checked it with 10,000,000 simulated spins per bet size. At 3 coins the game returns about 95.5 coins for every 100 bet over the long run: about 58 from line wins, 10 from the wheel on the reels, 14 from lucky coins and 14 from the Lucky Meter. At 1 or 2 coins it returns about 95 out of 100, a touch less only because the top award is smaller. About 1 spin in 10 is a line win, and counting the WHEEL and lucky coins about 1 spin in 5 pays something. The WHEEL lands on the payline about once every 75 spins, a lucky coin drops about once every 11 spins, and at 3 coins the wheel turns about once every 30 spins counting the meter. The wheel averages about 21.5 credits; its 1,000 segment is the rarest stop on it, about 1 wheel spin in 2,031. Three Double Gems land about once in 142,000 spins. Every spin is independent: no streak makes a win more or less likely, and the meter only counts credits bet.

Free play only

Lucky Wheel Deluxe uses the shared Play in Phone coin wallet, the same balance as our other casino-style games. Coins are play money: nothing to buy, nothing to cash out. Run low and the Refill coins button tops you up for free, and a daily bonus is waiting once a day. Read our not a casino house rules.