Fortune Wheels & Daily Bonus Spins

A bonus you spin for

Most casino offers arrive as a line of terms. Fortune Wheels arrive as something to do: a wheel that turns, or a set of covered symbols to pick from, with free spins, bonus money and deposit boosts behind them. The value is real and the ceremony is the point, because an offer you interact with is remembered and an offer in a table is not.

You must be 18 or over. Whatever a wheel awards comes with that award's own terms, which the wheel page states before you spin.

Two formats, and they play differently

A classic wheel is one spin with one outcome. It turns, it stops, you get what it lands on, and the whole thing is over in seconds. The Aurora Wheel and the Megaways WOF both work this way.

Pick-and-reveal gives you a grid of covered symbols and a choice about which to turn over. Diamond Vault and Maple Bonanza use this format. It feels like a decision, and it is worth saying plainly that it is not one: every symbol has the same expected value before it is revealed, and no order of picking is better than another. It is a nicer way to receive a random result, not a puzzle to solve.

What is behind the segments

Three kinds of thing, and they are not equivalent to each other:

• Free spins on a specific game. What they win usually lands as bonus funds rather than real ones.
• Bonus money, credited to the bonus balance with wagering attached in the normal way.
• Deposit boosts, which are a match applied to a deposit you have yet to make. This is the one people misread as free money: it is worth nothing until you fund the account.

The bonus conditions govern all three, and each wheel page states the wagering, the time limit and the maximum bet for what it awards.

How to get a spin

Wheels are unlocked by activity rather than bought. Depositing, playing, climbing a tier in the VIP Club and returning after a break can each open one, and the wheels available to you appear on the Fortune Wheels page as they unlock.

The set of live wheels changes, which is why this page names formats rather than promising a fixed list. The page itself is always the current answer.

Worth spinning, worth reading

A wheel is free to spin and there is no sensible reason to skip one. The thing worth two seconds is reading what you won before you use it, because a deposit boost and a cash-equivalent free spin are very different objects wearing similar packaging, and the difference decides whether the next thing you do costs you money.