The Majestic Wheelshow is the second big wheel gameshow launched by OnAir Entertainment. It’s less complex than many Wheel of Fortune-style games in this niche, which means you won’t find complex bonus rounds or much use of RNG.
The big wheel has 54 segments. 52 are numbered and contain instant prizes, with one number specially selected for every game to receive a boosted payout. The remaining two sections contain Boosters, which, if landed on, increase the payouts for the entire wheel with a multiplier for the following spin.
If I were to describe the game, I’d say it is like Mega Wheel on steroids.
Payouts are capped at 20,000:1, with an RTP of 94.65 to 96.82%.
In this review, I’ll explain how to play, examine the pros and cons, and compare the game with others in the market. If that’s not enough, you can watch my video, where I play a few game rounds and demonstrate one of the strategies I use to play.
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Majestic Wheelshow is super simple to play.
The wheel has 54 sections. Each section contains a number – 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 25, 20, 35 & 40 or a Booster. The number of sections for each number differs. The payouts reflect the number; for example, Number Five has a payout of 5:1, Number 15 – 15:1 and so on.
The game follows this simple sequence.
The 54 Segment Majestic Wheel contains the following sections:
There are nine betting positions. Depending on how volatile you want the game to be, you can bet on one, some, or all of them.
There is a useful Bet All button that will place a bet on every spot for the chip value you’ve chosen.
Betting time is about 12 seconds long, so you must be quick in making decisions.
There is no auto-play – well, not on the version I was playing, and there’s no information in the help file to say there is.
The Majestic Number is chosen every game round after Bettng Time has closed.
It’s used to change the payouts of one number on the wheel. The new payout and number are chosen at random by RNG.
Every occurrence of the number receives a new payout. While the board display shows a multiplier, it is, in fact, the new payout; it doesn’t multiply the existing payout.
The new payout can range from as small as 2x up to 1000x.
On Air has not divulged the exact distribution of the payouts for each number, so I can’t report what they are.
When landed on, the Booster Segments boost the payouts on all sections of the wheel by a random multiplier.
When this occurs, the wheel spins again until a result occurs.
If the wheel stops on the Booster for a second time, payouts that are already boosted are boosted again.
You can see how quickly the payout amount increases, especially for the Majestic Numbers, which already have increased payouts. Suddenly, you can get a payout on the wheel of 20,000:1, which is why payouts are capped at this amount.
The result is determined when the pointer at the top of the wheel comes to a stop on a section. This is the winning section, and all players with an active bet on the section receive a payout.
The paytable shows each number’s maximum Majestic Number payout. The multiplier can be any value between the base payout and the maximum.
The RTP ranges between 94.65% for the Number 15 bet and 96.82% for the number 20 bet.
Regarding probability, No 1 has the highest chance of winning at 37.03% of the time, with an RTP of 96.08%.
The maximum payout for the game is 20,000:1.
Number | Number of Segments | Payouts | RTP | Probability of hitting |
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1 | 20 | 1 – 100:1 | 96.08% | 37.03% |
2 | 13 | 2 – 150:1 | 96.81% | 24.07% |
5 | 6 | 5 – 200:1 | 96.66% | 11.11% |
7 | 4 | 7 – 300:1 | 94.68% | 7.40% |
10 | 3 | 10 – 400:1 | 95.79% | 5.55% |
15 | 2 | 15 – 500:1 | 94.65% | 3.70% |
20 | 2 | 20 – 500:1 | 96.82% | 3.70% |
35 | 1 | 35 – 700:1 | 96.01% | 1.85% |
40 | 1 | 40 – 1000:1 | 96.64% | 1.85% |
Booster | 2 | none | n/a | 3.70% |
This is a really interesting question. Depending on your goals for the game, you can choose several strategies.
Before I cover the strategies, let’s examine Majestic Wheelshow’s structure and what we can learn from it.
The wheel contains 52 Instant Win segments, with one number receiving a Majestic payout uplift every game. This is an important fact.
Numbers One and Two account for 33 segments, covering 61.11% of the wheel. The remaining numbers 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 35, and 40 cover 19 segments, covering 35.18% of the wheel.
You have twice the chance of hitting the One or Two as you do for any of the other numbers.
The biggest payouts are reserved for the bigger numbers. With the Majestic multiplier, the number Forty could pay up to 1000:1.
The Booster segments can dramatically increase a Number’s payout, especially if the Number is a majestic Number with an increased payout already.
The Booster and Majestic are free ways to increase the payout for the number you’re betting on.
Statistically, the most likely numbers to win are One and Two, and the least likely are Thirty-Five and Forty.
This strategy involves keeping your bankroll as long as possible. You aim to pick up regular wins while avoiding expensive losses.
Place a bet on Numbers One, Two, and Twenty. The amount on One should cover the bet amounts on Two and Twenty, and the amount on Two should cover the bet on One and Twenty. We want to ensure your wins on any of the numbers are equal to or greater than your total bet.
This bet relies on these numbers coming in more often than the others and being the Majestic Number now and again. The profits come when you win with a Majestic payout.
This is the most difficult strategy, as there are no guarantees you’ll win in the long run.
These bets rely on Numbers One and Two not coming in that often during the short term. It’s a tall order, as one of these will win 61% of the time.
Use this strategy in short bursts and place bets on all the numbers except One & Two.
Keep your fingers crossed that you get some majestic numbers, which will put you in Profit. Place two chips on Number Five and one on all the others.
This is the most volatile betting strategy and concentrates solely on the bigger payouts. By that, I mean Numbers Fifteen to Forty.
Place a chip on Fifteen, Twenty, Thirty-Five and Forty.
Don’t expect these to come in often; don’t make this the only betting strategy you use in this game. In the long term, you’ll lose betting like this, so restrict the number of spins you play this on.
This method will yield bigger wins, but it also involves many losses. Only do this if you have a large bankroll.
The playing interface shows the statistics of past spins. Unfortunately, only the previous twenty-one results are shown. But of those, you can see the winning number and whether the win was a Majestic Number. While past results are not an indicator of what will happen in the future, some players like to use this information to plan their betting strategy.
There are many reasons why you might want to play, and a few things that could affect your enjoyment. I’ve jotted down a few I’ve found. See if they resonate with you.
Majestic Wheelshow follows a long line of wheel-of-fortune-type games, from the basic Spin and Win to the very successful Crazy Time.
Games in this genre tend to use multipliers and bonus rounds to increase player’s enjoyment.
On Air has pitched this game at the lower end of the gameshow food chain, taking popular concepts from other games and combining them.
Mega Wheel by Pragmatic is the closest we can compare, as it also chooses a number at the start to have a multiplier. It doesn’t have a subsequent Boost segment, so the Wheelshow is one up there. It also has a better max payout potential of 20,000x, which Spin & Win and Dream Catcher don’t get near.
Other wheel games use additional Bonus Rounds, so I can’t run a comparison against them, as they are not alike.
As games go, Majestic Wheelshow is the pick of the bunch in this very small subset of games like this.
You can play Majestic Wheelshow at any online casino with On Air Entertainment Live Casino games.
My recommendation is Unibet.
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I think On Air has been spot-on with the design of this game. They haven’t gone for another all-out gameshow with many bonus rounds; in fact, they have gone in the opposite direction and returned to this genre’s roots.
They’ve taken the best bits from the existing games and produced something that gives multipliers and has a boost option to further enhance payouts. There are plenty of betting options—I’d like to see fewer to improve the playing experience, but you can’t have everything.
The game designers focus on what works, which is why I wonder how they produced Travel Fever, which is not a great game.
Majestic Wheelshow is a sticky game people will keep coming back to play, and I see it competing well with Spin and Win and Mega Wheel, the current leaders in this category.
Well done On Air.