Online slot studios are already releasing casino games that celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Mind you it’s just around the corner. Some of them are skins of other slots with the same mechanics.
Pragmatic Play’s Wheel O’Gold looks similar to Gates of Olympus 1000, cough, cough. The slot has 6 reels, and 5 rows and utilizes the Scatter Pays engine. The RTP isn’t too bad at 96.02% taking into account the extreme volatility.
However, there are RTP ranges as low as 94.02%. The jackpot is 10,000x your stake or $2.4 million which is perfect for high rollers. The bonus rounds include Free Spins and a Multiplier feature.
There’s also a Buy Option if you don’t want to wait for 3 scatters to land. We won’t blame you if you use the buy option; the average free spins trigger is 1 in 255 spins.
Draped in colors of green, purple, and gold the game art of this Pragmatic Play slots pops. Wheel O’Gold plays out in cycles of day and night making it more immersive. The betting range is wide starting with 20 cents up to $240 per spin.
The Ante Bet feature awards more scatters increasing your chances by 25% to trigger the free spins bonus. The Scatter-Pays System is an interesting one because when 8 matching symbols appear, they award scatter wins.
Moreover, the symbols on the grid explode leaving empty spaces and new symbols will fill them. As a result, repeat wins ensue thanks to the Tumble feature.
The low-value symbols are the gems of different colors. The high pays are the beer mug, horseshoe, clover, pipe, and top hat. The symbols award payouts from 0.2x up to 25x your stake for 12 or more matching symbols. Interestingly, Wheel O’Gold does not have any wilds.
Gameplay and Features
Multiplier Feature
When you hit 5 Tumbles in a row a Multiplier Wheel will pitch with values from 2x to 50x. The slot will then choose a random multiplier which it then multiplies to your wins.
Free Spins
The free spins feature triggers 10, 15, or 20 free spins when 4, 5, or 6 scatters pitch. Before the free spins commence the Multiplier Wheel assigns a random multiplier.
For every 4 or more scatters you’ll receive an extra 4 free spins. The nice bit is you’ll get a chance again for an even bigger multiplier on the wheel.
Buy Free Spins
When you buy the free spins for 100x, 4, 5, or 6 scatters randomly appear. Moreover, the RTP is slightly lower at 95.94%.
Paytable
What We Like About Wheel O’ Gold
The Wheel that assigns the multiplier values up to 50x is mint, hit the biggest one and you’re going places. The free spins feature is not too shabby either awarding up to 20 free spins with re-triggers.
The jackpot of $2.4 million will rope in the high rollers like bees to honey.
Tips & Strategy
Slots are simple online casino games to play that require no skill. It doesn’t mean that you must through your mantle to the wind. Decide on a betting strategy and stick to it.
You can only do that if you play the slots for free. The volatility is high, so we suggest you double your average bet. The wins may not pitch that often but you can land a big win.
How to Win Money Wheel O’ Gold
After we tested the slot in demo mode for 50 spins we played it for real. The results we got during free play weren’t good. Note that we played the slot at the same betting range of $2.
The biggest payout we could muster was $30 or 15x our stake which is not very encouraging. However, we learned a lot about Wheel O’Gold slot during that brief stint. It’s volatile and it will smash most small bankrolls.
Verdict: Wheel O’ Gold Slot
Pragmatic Play delivers a fine online slot with Wheel O’Gold. The Emerald Isle theme with its pesky leprechaun is a crowd-pleaser. Play pivots around the Wheel which drops multiplier wins of 2x to 50x.
For a quick comparison, the top multiplier in Gates of Olympus 1000 is 500x. During the testing phase, we played with a multiplier of 2x for the most part.
The jackpot of 10,000x the stake is huge and will have the big spenders salivating at the gills. However, triggering the free spins feature is no cakewalk as it takes on average 266 spins. The buy option is a quick exit but consider yourself fortunate if you get a win of more than 300x.
Also, the Wheel automatically awards a starting multiplier in the free spins. The value of the multiplier grows with every tumble. Not sure what happens if you get the top one of 50x before the free spins feature commences.
