The Game
How Crazy Time works
A live presenter, a 54-segment money wheel, a two-reel Top Slot and four bonus games: here is the whole round, from the 15-second betting window to the payout, explained by fans rather than by a rulebook.
The studio show format
Crazy Time is a live-dealer game show made by Evolution (Evolution AB, Stockholm, formerly Evolution Gaming) and streamed around the clock. The set is built around one large vertical money wheel that a presenter spins by hand. Above it, a screen runs the Top Slot, a two-reel mini-game that spins with the wheel. When the wheel stops on one of its nine bonus segments, the show moves to one of four bonus games: Coin Flip, Cash Hunt, Pachinko or the headline Crazy Time bonus behind the secret red door.
Evolution describes it as its earlier Dream Catcher money wheel with four bonus games added, mixing multi-camera studio action with RNG multipliers and augmented reality. Wizard of Odds calls it an elaborate form of the classic Big Six wheel. Both are fair: underneath the lights it is a wheel game where you bet on where the pointer stops, and the bonus games are where the big multipliers live.
This page is a fan summary. The official rules live in the game's in-client help; where a detail comes only from a third-party source, we say so.
The 54-segment wheel
The wheel has 54 equally sized segments: 45 carry a number and 9 carry a bonus game. The pointer at the top that marks the winning segment is the flapper (Pennsylvania's regulations call it a clapper). Those regulations also require a wheel at least 5 feet across and a valid spin of at least three full revolutions.
| Segment | Segments | Share of wheel | Pays | Usually shown as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 | 38.89% | 1 to 1 | Blue |
| 2 | 13 | 24.07% | 2 to 1 | Yellow |
| 5 | 7 | 12.96% | 5 to 1 | Pink |
| 10 | 4 | 7.41% | 10 to 1 | Purple |
| Coin Flip | 4 | 7.41% | Bonus game, up to €500,000 | Bonus segment |
| Cash Hunt | 2 | 3.70% | Bonus game, up to €500,000 | Bonus segment |
| Pachinko | 2 | 3.70% | Bonus game, up to €500,000 | Bonus segment |
| Crazy Time | 1 | 1.85% | Bonus game, up to €500,000 | Red door |
| Total | 54 | 100% | 45 numbers, 9 bonuses |
Segment counts and payouts from the international rules. Colours are how the segments are commonly described on tracker sites; the official rules do not print them.
Number payouts are quoted as "X to 1" and your stake comes back on top: one unit on 1 returns 2 units, one unit on 10 returns 11. With 21 of 54 segments showing a 1, that segment lands about two spins in five, while the single Crazy Time segment appears about once in 54 spins. The full breakdown per bet is on the Odds & RTP page. Trivia: Live Casino Comparer reports the physical wheel is made by TCS John Huxley, maker of the Dream Catcher wheel; Evolution has not confirmed it.
The eight bet spots
The betting grid mirrors the wheel: one spot per number and one per bonus game, eight in total. You can spread chips across as many as you like in a round.
Number spots: 1, 2, 5, 10
Pay their face value to 1 plus your stake back. Together they cover 45 of 54 segments, so all four numbers win something on five spins in six, though often less than the total staked.
Bonus spots: Coin Flip, Cash Hunt, Pachinko, Crazy Time
Nine segments in total, so roughly one spin in six opens a bonus. Everyone watches, but only players with a chip on that spot take part and get paid. See the Bonus Games page for each one.
Interface buttons worth knowing
- Bet on Four drops the selected chip onto all four numbers, or all four bonuses, in one click.
- REPEAT, DOUBLE (2x) and UNDO do what they say; Autoplay repeats the same bets for a set number of rounds.
- Every round has a game number based on its GMT start time; quote it if you ever query a result with support.
- Bet limits are set per table and vary by operator; published examples run from $0.25 (or £0.10) up to $5,000.
The Top Slot
The Top Slot is a two-reel slot machine displayed above the wheel. Reel one shows a bet spot (a number or a bonus), reel two shows a multiplier. Both reels spin at the same time as the wheel. It only counts if a bet spot and a multiplier line up on the horizontal centre line, which the game calls a match. A miss simply means the round runs without a Top Slot multiplier.
A matched multiplier applies only if the main wheel then stops on that same segment. For numbers, the payout is multiplied: a 10-to-1 payout with a 5x Top Slot on 10 becomes 50 to 1. For bonuses, every value inside the bonus is multiplied before it is played: all 108 Cash Hunt multipliers, all 16 Pachinko values, both sides of the Coin Flip coin, or all 64 segments of the Crazy Time wheel.
The biggest Top Slot multiplier in the international rules is 50x; the values seen in play are 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x and 50x. A "12x" quoted on some blogs appears in no tracked spin history and looks like an error. In Pennsylvania the second reel carries only 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15 and 20, so that variant tops out at 20x.
In Wizard of Odds' analysis of Tracksino data the reels miss about 21.5% of the time, show 2x about 25% of the time and hit 50x only around 0.3% of the time, averaging roughly 3.8x with a miss counted as 1x. That average is already priced into the published RTP, which is why number bets return in the mid-90s. A big Top Slot on a spot you have not bet is not a signal to do anything: the wheel still has to land there, and only bets already placed are paid. Our Strategy page explains why "following the Top Slot" is not a strategy.
A round, step by step
- Betting time (15 seconds). You place chips on any of the eight spots; in the classic view a traffic light runs green, yellow, red as time runs out.
- The spin. The presenter pulls the wheel by hand while the Top Slot reels spin above it. The reels settle first, so you know before the wheel stops whether a multiplier is in play and on which spot.
- The result. The flapper marks the winning segment. A number pays immediately; a bonus segment sends players who bet on it into that bonus game while everyone else watches.
- The bonus, if any. Any matched Top Slot multiplier is applied to the bonus values first; then the coin flips, the cannon fires, the puck drops or the red door opens. Caps: Coin Flip up to 5,000x with a 50x Top Slot, Pachinko 10,000x, the Crazy Time wheel 20,000x, and every bonus is listed as paying up to €500,000, subject to table limits.
- Payout. Winnings land in your balance and the next betting window opens.
If your connection drops after you bet, the bet stands and is settled without you. If anything malfunctions during a round, the round and its payouts are void. Both are in the official rules.
History, studio and the game family
Release timeline
Crazy Time was previewed at ICE London in February 2020 as the headliner among a dozen new Evolution titles and launched on 1 July 2020. Evolution's launch release said it took a year to develop and was the most expensive game the company had ever produced; Chief Product Officer Todd Haushalter described the goal as "a game that is so entertaining that people would enjoy just watching it as they would a game show on television." In December 2020 it won Innovation in Casino Entertainment at the SBC Awards, the one award we can verify for the game itself.
The US rollout came state by state: New Jersey in December 2023, Pennsylvania and West Virginia in June 2024 from the Philadelphia studio, Michigan in October 2024 from Southfield, and Connecticut in October 2025. US tables run a regulated-market rules variant; Pennsylvania's regulations, for example, cap the Top Slot at 20x and use DOUBLE only (no TRIPLE) on the bonus wheel. Localised tables followed: Crazy Time Italia from Malta in September 2024 and a Brazilian version from São Paulo in 2026. As of September 2026 no "Crazy Time 2" has been announced.
Where it is filmed
Evolution's own page says only that the game streams "24/7 daily" from a "vibrant studio". Third-party reporting, including the Baltic Times, places the main international stream in Riga, Latvia, where Evolution opened its first studio in 2006. Presenters rotate in shifts and spin the wheel by hand; review sites add that they climb the stairs to drop the Pachinko puck and press the button on the coin-flipping machine. Evolution publishes no presenter roster, so any list of "hosts" online is unverified. Language options on the official page: English, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish and Swedish.
The game family
Crazy Time sits mid-way in a line of Evolution game shows, and several later titles borrow its bonus games outright.
| Game | Launched | Link to Crazy Time |
|---|---|---|
| Dream Catcher | 2017 | The original 54-segment money wheel that Crazy Time builds on. |
| MONOPOLY Live | April 2019 | Dream Catcher wheel plus a 3D bonus round; Hasbro licence. |
| Mega Ball | April 2020 | Launched the same spring, previewed alongside Crazy Time at ICE 2020. |
| Crazy Coin Flip | June 2022 | Evolution's first live slot hybrid, ending in a live Coin Flip. |
| Funky Time | May 2023 | 64-segment digital wheel, billed as the biggest new show since Crazy Time. |
| Red Door Roulette | November 2023 | Roulette that leads through the red door into the Crazy Time bonus wheel. |
| Crazy Pachinko | Announced November 2023 | Online slot with the live Pachinko bonus. |
| Lightning Storm | July 2024 | 39-segment digital wheel with five bonus games. |
| Crazy Balls | November 2024 | Ball draw that ends in all four Crazy Time bonus games. |
Related Evolution game shows, with launch dates from Evolution press releases unless noted.
New to a term? The Glossary has the short version. And if you are wondering whether any of this can be gamed: no. Evolution states each spin is independent and random, and every bet spot carries a house edge. Play for fun, only with money you can afford to lose.