Wheel of Wealth Pokie Machine
Although Wheel of Wealth may look like a standard 3 reel pokie, a closer examination reveals it to be much more, with several bonus features not normally found on games of this type.
Spinning the reels can not only reward players with jackpots of up to 5000 coins, but also bring in wild multiplier wins and even trigger a bonus round that gives the game its title and will guarantee a prize whenever it is launched.
By taking a look at how this game is played, people can decide for themselves if they want to give these particular reels a spin or not, as there are a couple of issues to contend with first.
Playing Wheel of Wealth
A blue background to the game has the reels up in the top left corner and below them we see information about how wild substitutions work. To the right is a paytable that lists the rewards for each winning combination and players should note that this table is divided into 3 columns. This is because they can play with 1, 2 or 3 coins, each with a fixed value of 1.00, and the relevant column will be highlighted once they have made a bet.
There are a couple of incentives to playing with the maximum number of coins, the first being that the jackpot payout is a higher percentage at this level, but more importantly, the bonus game can only be triggered with a 3-coin stake and as that’s the main feature of this pokie, there wouldn’t be much point playing when it’s not possible to launch it.
So it’s probably worth just going over the potential wins that come from a 3-coin bet and with each coin being worth 1.00, players will win 1x their stake, or 3.00, when a single cherry symbol stops on any reel across the payline.
Getting 2 cherries on the line will be worth 2x and a full row of 3 right across the reels will return 4x the stake to players. The next most valuable symbols are the classic Bar icons and any combination of the single, double and triple Bars will pay out 6x the bet, while the singles on their own are worth 10x, the doubles are 40x and the triple Bars pay 80x.
Wheel of Wealth
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Spinning up Extra Features
The Wheel of Wealth logo symbol is by far the most important one however, as it’s a wild and can substitute for any other to help complete a winning line, doubling the base value of the prize when a single example is needed.
If 2 wilds and any other symbol appear, the win will be quadrupled in value, but the real rewards come from landing a full line, with those players using a single coin winning 1000 back, while 2 coins returns 2000 and all 3 is worth a 5000 coin payout.
If that’s not enough, then the logo symbol landing on the right hand reel, when 3 coins are in play, is the trigger for the bonus game which takes place on a second screen.
This brightly-coloured side game sees a big wheel made up of 20 segments, each having a win value on them, which players click to spin and wait for it to come to rest with one segment stopping adjacent to a pointer. There are no losing sections, so once players have entered the round they are certain to walk away with a win and that can be from as little as 20 coins to as much as 1000. It’s a quick bonus round and only a single spin is granted, but it makes playing with 3 coins pretty much essential.
The Verdict
Take away the logo symbol and Wheel of Wealth is a perfectly ordinary game, but that single icon transforms it into something a little special. Not only does it help to create extra winning lines when it acts as a wild to replace any other, the fact that it multiplies those wins, is the jackpot symbol and is the one that takes players to the bonus round makes it the undoubted star of the show.
As long as players are willing to stake 3.00 per spin, which is fairly high for many bankrolls, this is a good pokie to play, but really not worth the effort at any other bet size.