Rise of Fortuna: Spin the Lady of Luck's Wheels

Rise of Fortuna is a Hacksaw Gaming slot themed on Fortuna, the Lady of Luck. Its main feature is not a symbol that pays on its own but a wheel: whenever a Fortuna symbol lands on the grid, a Fortuna Wheel spins and its result is sent to a Cash Prize Bar outside the grid.

The wheels come in three tiers, Regular, Super and Epic, and each has 12 slices holding additive multipliers, multiplicative multipliers and Jackpot prizes. Whatever the wheels reveal is collected by the bar and paid out as a multiple of the bet.

Three free spins bonuses sit on top, triggered by 3, 4 or 5 FS scatter symbols. Each changes the wheels in a different way, from a better chance of triggering them to a guarantee of three on every spin.

Hacksaw Gaming's game page for Rise of Fortuna does not publish an RTP, a volatility rating, a max win, a release date or a grid size. Slotscritic does not guess at those figures, so none is given here.

Whether the game comes in more than one RTP version is not stated on the page either. The figure that matters is the one in the game's own rules or information screen, which shows the RTP of the version actually running.

The same screen is the reliable source for the max win and the bet range. Check it in the demo before reading anything into a result.

A Fortuna Wheel triggers when a Fortuna symbol lands on the grid. The wheel spins and its arrow stops on 1 of its 12 slices.

The slices hold three kinds of result: additive multipliers, multiplicative multipliers and Jackpot prizes. Hacksaw does not list the values on each slice on its game page, so the exact spread of numbers is something to see in the demo or the paytable.

There are three tiers of wheel. Regular, Super and Epic Fortuna Wheels can all appear, and the tier matters most in the bonus rounds, where one of them removes Regular Wheels altogether.

As an illustration of the two multiplier types, and not a published rule for this game: an additive value adds to a running total, so +5x on a 10x total gives 15x, while a multiplicative value scales it, so x2 on the same 10x gives 20x. The game's rules set the order in which the slices combine.

The Cash Prize Bar sits outside the grid. Whenever a Fortuna Wheel is on the grid, the value it reveals is collected by the bar as a cash prize.

Once the bar has collected the values from each wheel on the grid, the final cash prize is awarded as a multiple of your bet. In practice that means several wheels in one spin feed one combined payout rather than separate small ones.

That makes the bar the number to watch. Hacksaw's page describes no other way to win, so the useful questions on each spin are how many Fortuna symbols land together and which tier of wheel each one opens.

Lucky Charm is triggered by 3 FS scatter symbols and awards 10 free spins with a higher chance of triggering Fortuna Wheels. It needs the fewest scatters of the three and simply puts more wheels into play.

She Who Spins needs 4 FS scatter symbols and also awards 10 free spins, but here every Fortuna Wheel is a Super or Epic Wheel. The Regular tier is taken out of the round, so each wheel that triggers comes from the higher tiers.

Fortune Is Blind is the Hidden Epic Bonus, Hacksaw's name for its rarest round, and needs 5 FS scatter symbols. It awards 10 free spins and every spin is guaranteed to trigger 3 Fortuna Wheels, so the Cash Prize Bar collects on all 10 spins.

All three rounds award the same 10 spins. What changes between them is how often the wheels come and how good they are.

The free Rise of Fortuna demo on this page runs the game with play credits. Start by opening the rules screen to read the RTP, max win and wheel slice values that Hacksaw's web page leaves out.

Then watch the tier of each wheel as it appears and what the arrow lands on. Count how often a slice gives a Jackpot prize against a multiplier, and see how the Cash Prize Bar total changes when two or more wheels land in the same spin.

Hacksaw's game page does not list a bonus buy for Rise of Fortuna, so the three bonus rounds are reached by landing FS scatters. A demo session shows how the wheels and the bar behave, not what any future spin will pay.

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How do Fortuna Wheels work in Rise of Fortuna?

A Fortuna Wheel triggers whenever a Fortuna symbol lands on the grid. Its arrow stops on 1 of 12 slices holding additive multipliers, multiplicative multipliers or Jackpot prizes. Every value revealed is collected by the Cash Prize Bar outside the grid, which pays the final total as a multiple of your bet. Wheels come in Regular, Super and Epic tiers.

How do you trigger the Rise of Fortuna bonus games?

Land FS scatter symbols. Three award Lucky Charm, 10 free spins with a higher chance of triggering Fortuna Wheels. Four award She Who Spins, 10 free spins where every wheel is Super or Epic. Five award the Hidden Epic Bonus, Fortune Is Blind, with 10 free spins that each guarantee 3 Fortuna Wheels.

What is the RTP of Rise of Fortuna?

Hacksaw Gaming does not publish an RTP for Rise of Fortuna on its game page, and Slotscritic does not estimate one. The reliable figure is the RTP stated in the game's own rules or information screen, which shows the version actually running. The same screen gives the max win, which the web page also leaves out.

Can you play the Rise of Fortuna demo for free?

Yes. The Rise of Fortuna demo on this page runs Hacksaw Gaming's game with play credits, so you can watch Fortuna Wheels spin and the Cash Prize Bar collect without staking money. It is also the easiest way to read the slice values, RTP and max win in the rules screen, since the web page does not list them.

Does Rise of Fortuna have a bonus buy?

Hacksaw Gaming does not list a bonus buy on its Rise of Fortuna game page. The page describes three bonus games reached by landing 3, 4 or 5 FS scatter symbols: Lucky Charm, She Who Spins and the Hidden Epic Bonus, Fortune Is Blind. Check the game itself for any buy options available in your version.