Up to 1 Million Ways to Win with Wheel of Fortune Megaways!

Megaways Mechanic Published: sun 28 feb 2021 What do you get when you cross one of the most famous television game shows of all time with one of the most popular slot mechanics around? The answer is the Wheel of Fortune Megaways slot, which has just recently been released by IGT. This slot gives players up to 117,649 ways to win in the main game thanks to its integration of Megaways from Big Time Gaming and up to 1,000,000 ways to win in its Free Spins with Extending Reels feature. It can also deliver a sizable fortune, having a top payout of more than 80,000 times your stake!

About Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune game show first aired in 1975. It featured a large board containing a number of tiles, each of which concealed a letter in a popular word or phrase. Contestants would spin the Wheel of Fortune to determine how much their next guess would be worth and then try to guess letters that hadn’t yet been revealed. If they were right, the tiles would be rotated or illuminated to show the correctly guessed letter, and the contestant could then have a go at naming the word or phrase. The first contestant to do that successfully would win the round.

This format, which was presented with an outrageous amount of glitz and glamour, was massively successful. So much so that the game show is still running today. It has undergone several facelifts and modernizations over the decades, but the popularity of Wheel of Fortune has never waned.

Wheel of Fortune Megaways Format

The Wheel of Fortune Megaways slot has six reels, and in the main game, each reel can show up to seven symbols. The more symbols are shown, the more ways to win you will have, with seven maximized reels giving you 117,649 pay lines.

This slot is set in a TV studio environment, so if you’re a fan of the game show, you will love the familiar aesthetics that are on display here. The playing card ranks of 9, 10, J, Q, K and A serve as the lower-value symbols, whilst a sports car, speedboat, private plane, and large diamond ring - all golden in colour - serve as higher-value symbols.

Wild Megastacks

A golden Wild symbol can appear on the second, third, fourth or fifth reels only. However, every one that lands has the potential to turn into a Wild Megastack, which fills the entire reel. It is possible for up to three Wild Megastacks to appear on the reels at the same time in the main game.

Free Spins Feature

A spinning Wheel of Fortune symbol serves as a scatter. When you land 3, 4, 5 or 6 scatters on the reels at the same time, you will trigger a Free Spins feature. Here you will get 12, 14, 16 or 18 free spins, according to how many scatters triggered the feature.

When the Free Spins feature begins, you will get to spin the Wheel of Fortune itself to determine how many Megaways will start you off. The highest number on the Wheel here is 117,649.

Extending Reels

Free spins will then commence, and in this part of the game, a special Expansion Symbol will be in play. This looks like the scatter symbol, but the spinning Wheel here is golden. The original scatter symbol, as used in the main game, doesn’t appear when you are using your free spins.

Land an Expansion Symbol on the reels, and it will be replaced by two different symbols. This effectively adds another symbol to the reel in question. What makes this particularly exciting is that it can help you to extend the reel beyond the usual seven symbol maximum. Thanks to Expansion Symbols, any reel in the Free Spins round can be extended to as many as ten symbols. This pushes the maximum potential ways to win from 117,649 to a jaw-dropping 1,000,000.

Free Spin Retrigger and More Wild Megastacks

Should you get a reel to the maximum of 10 symbols, you will receive a Free Spin Retrigger. Here you’ll spin another Wheel of Fortune to determine how many extra free spins you will get. The highest number of free spins on this Wheel is 12.

After a fully extended reel has retriggered free spins, any Wild on that reel can turn into a Wild Megastack, which will fill the entire reel. You can have two Wild Megastacks on any free spin.

Get Set to Spin the Wheel of Fortune!

Wheel of Fortune Megaways is a fantastic slot that should appeal to a huge number of players. Fans of the TV game show will love it for its authentic style and presentation. Megaways fans will love it for the chance to experience up to 1,000,000 ways to win. And everyone else will love it for the simple opportunity to win more than 80,000 times their bet!