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How to play
Starwheel
Starwheel
Starwheel is a serious contender for the "most pretty game reward". If such a reward existed. It is clearly designed with attention for detail.
It is a fast, fun game, and nicely easy. Watching it being played is already a joy for the eye. Let's walk through a game of Starwheel.
I selected a game that can be played for L$1. As is displayed on the game, I need to beat the score of 10444 in order to win twice the amount I paid.
I pay the game, and it instantly will start.
The game started. You see a 3x3 play field, and below that a spinner. Above the game shows I play to win L$2. Below we see that I still need to beat 10444, my score is zero, and I got 8 rounds left to beat that 10444.
On the spinner we see that I got one matching number. The 9. Now I click the 9 on the play board as if I were playing bingo. Not that I am playing bingo, I am playing Starwheel.
After matching the 9, I got 250 points. For each number match the game gives 250 points. That would be a long run till 10444, but luckily that is only one of the ways to get points.
I got limited time to make my matches, but even when playing slow due to having to record each image, that is plenty enough.
I don't have to wait till the game goes to the next round. Just click the spinner and it moves on.
Of course: Do not click the spinner until all matches are made. But I made the only possible match, so...up to the next round.
Hmmm...I promised an exciting game. Didn't I?
That is not this round. It has again only a single match.
Let me just match that, by clicking the 8 on the play board and then clicking the spinner to go to the next round. Pretending to be all happy with what I got so far, the game might give me 3 wilds or so...
Damn. The next round is even less exciting. There is just nothing. Simply nothing. Nothing to match. There I sit with my 2 matches in 3 rounds and only 500 points, still almost 10K needed.
Ok, I might be overreacting. These rounds happen when playing, and how long would it take you to conclude there is nothing and move to the next round? A second, two seconds? You take your time in rounds that matter, and that isn't this one.
Small improvement: I got a match again.
Spoiler: I record a bunch of games I play and then choose the one I think shows the game best to describe here. Since that is the game we are looking at, be sure things will get better.
That is starwheel: Louzy moments with horrible rounds and wonderful moments with great rounds. The games stays interesting till the end, there is always a chance to still win. Or almost always. But surely with still 5 rounds to go.
I click the spinner and see what the next round will bring.
Here we go!!
A Joker, a , a money bag and with 26 a number to match.
The money bag gave me 1000 points. Just like that, nothing I got to do to collect them or so. They are already added to the score.
Let's match the 26, adding another 250 to my score and then see what to do with the joker.
In Starwheel most points are scored making lines. Either a horizontal line, a vertical line or a diagonal line. All tiles are on a horizontal and a vertical line, some are also on a diagonal. The one in the middle is even on both diagonals. That is the tile that has number 18 now.
With the joker I can match any tile on the board. It doesn't have to be in the same column or so. Matching 18 will also complete a diagonal line.
My mouse moves to 18 and clicks it.
I got 250 points for matching the field and 1000 for matching the line. Each line match gives 1000 points.
And...the wheel starts spinning. It looks better in real than on this picture I took from it. The wheel can give extra points, an extra round or a free game.
When winning the free game you get paid back the amount you payed for this game. The starwheel icons on the wheel are the worse outcome: Only 50 points.
Right.
I got the 50 points.
However, I started this round with 500 points and end it with 3300. I guess all upset kicking the machine because of the only 50 is overdone.
I click the spinner and see what the next round will bring.
One should have a reasonable threshold for annoyance. Starwheel puts that to the test. This round is again a useless round, giving nothing.
But like I said, it is the good rounds that matter. ** sighs **
Clicking the spinner again, still a few rounds to go.
My nerves are tested!
Again nothing.
Spinner click!!!
Two matches!
1 and 17.
I will complete two vertical lines, and a horizontal line.
I click the 17, that could have also been the 1. For no particular reason I take 17 first.
Thus I got my points, 250 for the match of 17, 1000 for completing a line, and the wheel spin gave me another 50.
For a game like Starwheel, most scoring happens near the end of the game, as then the lines start completing.
Now, let's match the 1. That completes a horizontal and vertical line and thus gives 2 x the 1000 points and 2 wheel spins.
The first wheel spin gave me 1000 points.
Adding that to the score I had, plus 2 x 1000 for completing the lines, and the 250 for matching the number, I come already on 7850 points.
Interesting... the next wheel spin could mean victory. I don't even need the highest possible outcome. With e.g. 4000 points, I win!
Ah well, I got an extra round out if it.
Clicking the spinner once again, see if the next round will bring the little fortune that I still need.
A joker! A joker! A joker!
I can use the joker to match 28, complete 2 lines, set my score at a whopping 10100 already and get 2 spins.
Or I can be less smart and go for 27, completing only 1 line, leaving the score at 9100 and giving only 1 spin.
A smart girl as I am, I move the mouse to the 28 and click it.
Bam!
The first wheel spin did it.
1500 points, enough to elevate my score above 10444.
Scores can only go up on this game, never down. Thus. I won. That 2 L$ are mine!
That is Starwheel, when you least expect it, you still win. And an almost sure win, is never sure till it is sure. Games are very unpredicable.
The second wheel spin tries to annoy me with yet another 50 points only. But it fails, I am not annoyed, I don't care, I already won.
The mouse goes to the spinner and a click brings us into the next round.
Oh! Winning seems not be enough. I gonna win big time.
I have a wild, and I have one number to choose from. Thus after careful consideration I play 27. Making 2 lines, the wheel will spin 2 times and
7000 points for playing the entire board empty.
Btw, if you play the board empty and still got rounds left, the game continues to play, you simply get a new board.
The first wheel spin gives me a 50. Nicely irrelevant that points are added to my score which is already twice the score I need. So, ok.
We will say goodbye to this game with 1500 points extra from the last spin.
Now would be a great moment to spin x2, or the Free Game.
But ok, there is already a winner, and that winner is me.
When the game is done, it gives a bonus wheel spin.
For us in our current game, not relevant. But if you aim to 6 figure scores or so, a perfect moment to get a x2.
Anyways, with another 50 points more, the game ends.
There is nothing to play anymore. So it is done. The L$2 I won with my hard work, serious playing and a slight amount of luck, pops up on my account instantly.
Where to play?
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