Pinwheel Prizes: Cat & Tiger / Majestic Oasis Advantage Play Strategy

Pinwheel Prizes features five pinwheels above the reels—green, blue, purple, orange and red. Each pinwheel has eight wedges that contain either credit prizes or credit prizes with free spins (the golden wedges). Landing a pinwheel scatter symbol will increase the credit value on one of the wedges of the corresponding color and can also randomly upgrade one of the wedges to a golden wedge (so it will now include free spins). If three pinwheel scatter symbols of the same color land, it will trigger a spin of the corresponding pinwheel, where the player will win one of the prize wedges. After a wedge is won, it resets back to its default state.

• The golden wedges always contain eight free spins, regardless of the color of the pinwheel. Therefore, free spins are free spins regardless of where you win them. The green and blue pinwheels are easier to trigger, therefore it is better to chase after golden wedges in those colors.

• At some point, the game is likely +EV based on the credit values alone, independent of the number of golden wedges. I haven’t done the math to figure this out, but I don’t think busting out a calculator to add up the values of all 40 wedges (and then doing that again for each bet level and denomination) is a worthwhile use of time inside the casino.

• Overall, this isn’t a very lucrative AP game since it is rare to find it in a playable state. A lot of hustlers waste money playing this when the game is not +EV.

• It’s common to get retriggers during the free spins bonus. Landing two bonus scatter symbols adds four additional free spins, while landing three bonus scatter symbols adds eight additional free spins. You can also get retriggers by winning one of the golden wedges during the bonus.

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