The Wheel of Fortune Gameshow has proven to be a huge hit in America and its success has also 
seen it take off, with varying degrees of success, in many other countries around the world. The show has also spawned a number of hit slot games and one of these is the Wheel of Fortune Triple Extreme Spin slot from IGT.
You can play this slot right now at the popular Leo Vegas Casino and what will you find when you load up the slot? Well apart from having a title that is a bit of a mouthful to be perfectly honest, the first thing you will notice when the game loads up is that this slot does things a little differently to the norm.
Instead of the usual rectangular 5×3 or 5×4 set up, what we have here is a 5-reel game that has 3-4-5-4-3 symbols across the reels which gives it a somewhat hexagonal shape. In addition, there are no pay line in play on the slot and instead what you have is a massive 720 ways to win available on each spin.
The good news is that you don’t have to cover all those ways with your choice of base coin. Instead, wagers begin at just $0.50 and you can increase that wager right up to $500, which means that this is a game which is suited to both lower stakes players as well as higher rollers. There’s also a 50,000 coin jackpot available, which is certainly going to attract plenty of interest, especially for those that like to wager more and chase big jackpot games.
What is good about this slot is that you get the high presentation values that come with the TV show within the game, so you can expect plenty of music and sound effects as you play that help draw you in to the whole game-show feel of the slot. But what does the Triple Extreme Spin part of the slots name actually mean? To discover that we need to delve into the main features of the game.
Key Features of the Wheel of Fortune Triple Extreme Spin Slot
The first bonus feature of the slot is the Wild symbol which is very easy to determine as it is just labelled “Wild”. This appears across the middle three reels of the slot only and can substitute for all of the low and medium value symbols on the reels to create winning lines.
The lower value symbols are the fruit symbols, the banana, plum, orange, cherry and apple symbols. The medium value symbols are the prize symbols which are a car, an emerald necklace and a rather beautiful yacht. Wins of up to 1,000 coins are possible using these symbols.
There is one high value symbol on the reel and that is the Wheel of Fortune logo symbol and this really does pay some big money out with 2,000 coins for three across the reels, 5,000 coins for four and 10,000 coins for five across the reels. However the Wild symbol cannot substitute for this symbol.
The other two features the Wild cannot substitute for are the Mini Wheel Scatter symbol and the Triple Wheel Bonus symbol. We will take a look at each of these in turn.
If you land three or more of the Mini Wheel Scatter symbols on the reels, then you enter the Mini Wheel Bonus game. When this is triggered, each of the Mini Wheels will spin on the reels and will award you a cash prize which when totalled up will be between 50x and 3850x the total bet you have made.
The main bonus feature of the slot however is the Triple Extreme Spin bonus and this is triggered when you land three or more of the Triple Extreme Bonus symbols across the reels. When you trigger the bonus you get to select from a number of envelopes. The number you can select is determined by how many symbols triggered your bonus (so it will be three, four or five).
These envelopes contain Red, Blue and Yellow Wheel pointers that correspond to each of the three wheels part of the bonus game. These pointers are then placed onto the three wheels that they match the colour of and the bonus game begins by spinning the wheels.
The Red and Blue Wheels each contain coin values, with the Blue Wheel having smaller values of between 30 and 1,000 coins, while the Red Wheel has values of 100 to 5,000 coins. The Yellow Wheel is different in that it is a multiplier wheel and offers multipliers of between 2x and 10x the standard win. If you have more than one pointer on any reel, then the values recorded by your pointers are added together, including the value of multipliers on the yellow reel.
You could earn a multiplier of up to 21x the standard win from the Yellow Reel and you could win almost 3,000 times your stake in this bonus if you get very lucky indeed.
How to win at the Wheel of Fortune Triple Extreme Spin Slot
The Wheel of Fortune Triple Extreme Spin slot is a game that tends to reward players once they have triggered the two main bonus features of the slot, therefore the key element here to consider is longevity of play and playing at a coin size that means you can play for as many spins as possible while still getting good value on your wins.
The good news is that unlike some slots that have bonus features seemingly locked away for eternity, the Wheel of Fortune Triple Extreme Spin slot offers players a fair chance of triggering the bonuses a decent amount of times in a typical session. Of course that tends to mean that the pay outs you get from the bonus are somewhat variable, and that is pretty much the case here, but at least you feel like you have a chance of triggering the bonus game when you play the base game.
Of the two bonuses I think the Mini Wheel Bonus triggers more frequently by a considerable margin, but it offers smaller value wins. The Triple Extreme Spin Bonus is less frequently triggered and it does offer a greater range of wins from disappointingly small, to huge wins, but that is the nature of any bonus feature on a slot and I think overall, the Triple Extreme Spin Bonus, if you can trigger it 2 or 3 times in a session, will generally pay out a handsome amount at least once in that time, more if you get very lucky.
What is true is that this is a hugely fun slot to play and the bonus games do give it an added edge of excitement.
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