Wheel of Fortune pokies are IGT’s licensed slot franchise based on the TV game show, running since 1996, and this review covers Wheel of Fortune On Tour, the 30-line online version Australians are most likely to find. The Wheelmobile turns symbols wild at random, and three bus symbols lead to the On Tour Bonus Wheel. It returns up to 96.60%. The free demo below is a similar wheel-bonus pokie.
Wheel of Fortune On Tour runs on five reels and three rows with 30 fixed lines that pay left to right. A spin costs 50 coins, 30 for the lines and 20 for the features, and stakes run from 50 cents to $500. Two RTP figures are published, 96.60% and 92.50%, so the casino chooses the setting, and Level Up Plus raises the payback as you unlock tiers; IGT has not said whether the headline figure is a blend or the top rate. Most sources rate volatility as medium, with outliers at low to medium and high. Hit frequency is not published, and nor is a maximum win: the top bonus wheel wedge is 200x the total bet, and published claims run from 500x to a “50,000x” that probably counts coins.
Wheel of Fortune Pokies Characteristics
Lines pay left to right. The Wheel of Fortune logo is the wild, substitutes for everything except the bus and is also the top-paying symbol. The yellow bus, the Wheelmobile, is the bonus symbol and lands on reels 1, 3 and 5. Every bus adds a point to a fuel gauge, ten points fill a tank, and tanks decide how far the bus travels in the bonus, so buses that trigger nothing still count.
Line wins are paid on the coin value, a fiftieth of the stake, which is why they look small against the total bet. There is no bonus buy and no jackpot, and autoplay stops at 50 spins.
Figures are credits per coin, meaning multiples of the coin value (the line bet); divide by 50 for multiples of the total bet. Only five-of-a-kind pays and four logos are documented.
The bus has no cash pay in any source we found. Five logos are worth 50x the total bet, Hollywood 25x, New York up to 10x, the other landmarks 5x and the props 3x at most, so the real money is in the bonus wheel, whose top wedge is four times the best line.
Wheelmobile Wilds can trigger at random on any base-game spin without a bus on reel 1. The game picks one to four symbol types, never the wild or the bus, and every one of them on screen turns wild, so a blank spin can become several paying lines. One database describes it as one to four single wilds instead, but most sources agree on whole symbol types.
Three buses on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once start the On Tour Bonus (one review says anywhere). The trigger adds a tank of fuel, the Wheelmobile drives across a map of the United States one stop per tank, and each destination it reaches unlocks a feature. Then you spin the On Tour Bonus Wheel: its wedges pay 300 to 10,000 times the triggering coin value or award an unlocked feature, and the 10,000 wedge, 200x the total bet, is the most it can pay before anything is unlocked.
Those unlocks are Level Up Plus, the thing that sets On Tour apart. Six arrive in a fixed order, each raising the payback:
One source places these at levels 5, 13, 25, 45, 80 and 150 of 180, so the full wheel takes a long time. Sources disagree on whether your level survives closing the game, so it probably varies by casino.
At 96.60% the game keeps about 3.4 cents of every dollar over the long run; at 92.50% it keeps 7.5 cents. IGT publishes no hit rate or bonus frequency, so those figures and the medium volatility rating, meaning moderate swings with the wheel deciding most sessions, are the only Wheel of Fortune slot odds you can check. Each unlock also raises the payback, so a fresh game pays less than a levelled one.
At 50 cents a spin the coin value is 1 cent, so five logos pay $25 and the top wedge $100. At $1 a spin those become $50 and $200, and $100 buys 100 spins at a long-run cost of about $3.40 on the higher setting or $7.50 on the lower. Because progress comes from buses landed rather than stake, a long session at a modest bet sees far more of the game than a short one at a big bet.
The first Wheel of Fortune slot machine, a mechanical-reel stepper with a physical bonus wheel, was field-tested in Las Vegas in December 1996. IGT licenses the brand from Sony Pictures Television, and its land-based progressives in North America had created more than 1,200 millionaires by September 2024. The main relatives:
For Wheel of Fortune online in Australia, On Tour is the usual find: a scan of 161 casinos that take Australians found Triple Extreme Spin in just one.
On Tour turns the show into an American road trip. The Wheelmobile drives a map with stops such as Hollywood, New York, Texas and Philadelphia, the reels carry landmarks and road-trip props, and the show’s letter board returns as a pick bonus that spells WHEEL OF FORTUNE. The game is HTML5 and runs on desktop, iOS and Android. The show also had long-running Australian versions, so the brand needs no introduction here.
We found no Wheel of Fortune pokie on Australian venue floors. IGT sells machines here through IGT (Australia), but no Wheel of Fortune title appears in the ACT approvals we checked or in IGT’s 2023 and 2024 Australasian Gaming Expo line-ups, and every venue we found is in North America. For real money online, On Tour is confirmed in regulated New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and West Virginia, and offshore casinos that accept Australians carry it widely: one database found it at 113 of the 161 it scanned, though lobbies change. For Wheel of Fortune free play, we found no official public demo from IGT, only free-play versions hosted by review sites.
On Tour suits players who like a game that changes as they play: modest line pays, but a bonus wheel that keeps gaining wedges, from free spins to a 5x multiplier, while the payback rises. It does not suit anyone who wants a published ceiling, a jackpot, a bonus buy or short sessions. Check which RTP the casino runs first, 96.60% or 92.50%, and if you plan to return, whether the casino keeps your level.
96.60% or 92.50%, depending on the setting the casino runs. Level Up Plus also raises the payback as you unlock tiers.
Land the yellow bus on reels 1, 3 and 5 at once. The Wheelmobile moves along the map and you spin the On Tour Bonus Wheel.
Yes, once Level Up Plus unlocks them: three free spins, with one more symbol turning wild on each spin and no retrigger.
IGT does not publish one. The top wedge is 200x the total bet, a 5x Multiplier Slice could make that about 1,000x on paper, and published claims range from 500x to “50,000x”.
Not in venues, as far as we could find. Online, offshore casinos that accept Australians carry On Tour widely, at 113 of 161 in one scan.
No. The 1996 original is a mechanical-reel machine with a physical wheel and progressive jackpots; On Tour is an online-only 5×3 video slot with no jackpot.
