Wheel of Fortune Megaways™

Theme and Design

Glitzy, Glamour and A Spacey Soundtrack

Wheel of Fortune is one you are either going to love or hate. It’s a classic, iconic gameshow brand, first made famous on TV and then converted into one of the biggest offline slots on Vegas floors in the 70s and 80s. It’s all gawdy glitz and glamour and BTG have chosen to use the TV studio as the backdrop to their version, which gives it a distinctly retro-feel in my opinion.

Visual highlights include a nod to the original TV show, as hostess Vanna White appears in a video clip that spans the expanded reel space before the wilds are displayed, as well as a nice animation on the logo as the colors of the wheel spin behind the words. Meanwhile, a spacey kind of electro soundtrack has been added to complete the scene, and as you would expect there is plenty of chinking of coins when wins drop.

It’s a long, long way from the world of modern online slots. But criticising would be to miss the point. This is Wheel of Fortune and this is how it is supposed to be.

RTP and Variance

Wheel of Fortune Megaways has an RTP of 96.46%. That is a solid return for any Megaways or Wheel of Fortune game. This is also, of course, a highly volatile slot, with a large chunk of that RTP saved back for the free spins round where much bigger wins are driven by features like expanding reels and Megastacks.

Maximum Win

The top payout in Wheel of Fortune Megaways is a huge 80,150x. That makes it one of BTG’s highest paying slots, falling short of only Wild Flower (114,100x), Max Megaways (139,200x) and Max Megaways 2 (147,620x) in the list.

If you enjoy win potential like this then I recommend checking out our list of the highest maximum win slots too.

Symbols and Paytable

A Staggering Win Ways Engine With Up to 1,000,000 Lines!!

Wheel of Fortune Megaways™ uses the classic expanding reels set up with 6 reels, each displaying between 2 and 7 rows on any given spin. The game uses a Win Ways system so wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols on adjacent reels from left to right, regardless of their position. This creates up to 117,649 win ways per spin, calculated as 7x7x7x7x7x7.

However, the interesting part, and one that got me listening, was the chance to expand these win ways still further to a massive 1,000,000. This is done with the special Expansion Symbol that creates up to 10 rows per reel in the bonus round, which I explain below.

The paytable has a whole range of values with some good payouts available right at the top end. Low payers are the cards, 9 through to Ace. These are valued at from 0.1x for 3 9s up to 0.7x for 6 Aces. The premiums are the luxury icons, cars, speed boats, jet planes and diamond rings. They are valued at from 0.3x for 3 cars up to 25x for 6 rings.

There are also wilds that sub for all other symbols except scatters and expanders to complete win ways, and scatters, required to unlock the bonus round.

Features and Gameplay

A Chance To Build Huge Cumulative Wins On An Expanded Reel Set 

An array of expanding reels, Megastacks and Free Spins enhance the gameplay in this slot. But how do they trigger the big wins? These are the big events on the reels to look out for when you start spinning.

To start, into the Megaways mix come MEGASTACKS – wilds that land on the reels can expand to up to 7 rows high. This way it’s possible in the base game to fill three reels entirely with wilds.

3, 4, 5 or 6 Wheel of Fortune logo scatters landing simultaneously will get you 12, 14, 16 or 18 free spins respectively.

But now, to add jeopardy to proceedings, the number of Megaways™ in play as the round begins is determined by the spin of a wheel. You may start with anywhere from 14,000 to 117,649 in play.

Then, during the round the number of paylines can be further boosted by the EXPANSION FEATURE – when the special Expanding Symbol lands during free spins it is replaced by two symbols sitting side by side. What does that mean? You can actually play with TEN symbols on ONE reel. When any reel reaches TEN high, then the Wheel Spin is triggered again and a further round of free spins is nominated – up to 12 again.

So how many paylines does that make? Incredibly, if ALL SIX reels are 10 ROWS high, that gives you 1 MILLION MEGAWAYS™!!

And to add further jeopardy, if you do re-trigger then you'll have to spin the wheel again to find out how many more spins you get!

Anyone who has played Big Time Gaming’s other early Megaways™ release, White Rabbit, will be familiar with the Expansion feature as something similar happens there. It’s a thrilling way to progressively build win upon win and extend your free spins round with cumulatively better and better paylines and win opportunities.