Crazy Time glossary

Crazy Time borrows vocabulary from casino wheels, slots and TV game shows, then adds inventions of its own. Numbers below follow the international rules; a regulated-market variant and Pennsylvania's rules differ in places, and the official text lives in the game's in-client help.

A

Any bonus

The nine bonus segments taken together: 9 of 54, so 16.67% of spins, or about one in six. Evolution's wording is "approximately every sixth spin".

Autoplay

A panel option that repeats your current bets for a set number of rounds. Risky for bonus-only play, because chips keep leaving while you are not looking.

B

Bankroll

The money set aside for one session before you open the table. Guides converge on 1–2% of it per spin; our strategy guide covers the arithmetic.

Bet on Four

A button that puts the selected chip on all four numbers or all four bonus spots at once.

Bet spot

One of the eight places you can put a chip: 1, 2, 5, 10, Coin Flip, Cash Hunt, Pachinko and Crazy Time.

Betting time

The window for placing chips before the spin: 15 seconds per Evolution's how-to-play page. Immersive view shows a timer, Classic view uses traffic lights.

Bonus game

One of four mini-games (Coin Flip, Cash Hunt, Pachinko, Crazy Time) played when the wheel stops on a bonus segment. Everyone can watch; only players with a chip on that spot take part and win. Rules on the Bonus Games page.

Bonus segment

Any of the 9 wedges that launch a bonus game: 4 Coin Flip, 2 Cash Hunt, 2 Pachinko, 1 Crazy Time.

C

Cannon

The Cash Hunt aiming device. Point it at the symbol you think hides the biggest multiplier; choose nothing and a spot is picked at random.

Cash Hunt

Bonus with a wall of 108 hidden, shuffled multipliers from 5x to 500x before any Top Slot boost. Every player picks their own target, so results differ. Boosted by the Top Slot it has reached 25,000x, the highest multiplier ever recorded (the theoretical ceiling of a 500x board times a 50x Top Slot).

Clapper

Pennsylvania's regulatory word for the flapper.

Coin Flip

Bonus with a red-and-blue coin, each side carrying a random multiplier; the side landing face up wins. Evolution says it can pay up to 5,000x, but only with a 50x Top Slot.

Cover-all

One chip on every bet spot. Coverage is total, profit is not: a 1 returns 2 units on 8 staked, and without a Top Slot boost you are down on roughly 76% of spins.

Crazy Time (the bonus)

The headline bonus: a 64-segment virtual wheel behind the red door, three flappers to choose from, DOUBLE and TRIPLE re-spins, capped at 20,000x. Pennsylvania calls it "Crazy Time World".

Crazy Time A

A second, separate table with identical rules, listed on its own by trackers.

D

DOUBLE

Two meanings: a panel button that doubles every chip you have placed, and a Pachinko or Crazy Time wheel segment that doubles all multipliers and triggers another drop or spin.

Dream Catcher

Evolution's 2017 money-wheel game show that Crazy Time was built on. Also 54 segments, but with 20 and 40 numbers plus 2x and 7x wedges instead of bonus games.

Drop zone

One of 16 positions atop the Pachinko wall. The puck is released from a random central zone, never the edges.

E

Evolution

Evolution AB, the Stockholm-listed live-casino studio that produces and streams Crazy Time; branded Evolution Gaming until October 2020. This fan site has no connection to it.

Expected loss

House edge times everything you stake. At 96.08% RTP, $1 on number 1 costs about 3.9 cents per spin on average, so speed matters as much as stake size.

F

Flapper

The pointer atop the main wheel that marks the winning segment; also the three coloured pointers on the Crazy Time bonus wheel.

Flip-o-Matic

The machine that tosses the Coin Flip coin when the presenter presses a button (a review-site name, not one from the rules).

G

Gambler's fallacy

Believing a bonus is "due" after a drought. No bonus in 30 straight spins happens about 0.42% of the time, but each spin is independent; the wheel has no memory.

Game number

A round identifier based on the GMT start time, used in support queries.

Game show

Evolution's category for live games built around a wheel and a presenter rather than a table, such as Dream Catcher and Funky Time.

H

House edge

100% minus RTP, the casino's long-run margin: 3.92% on number 1, rising to 5.59% on the Crazy Time bet and 5.67% on Pachinko in the international rules. Every spot is compared on Odds & RTP.

Host / presenter

The person who spins the wheel and drops the Pachinko puck. Presenters rotate in shifts and have no control over results; Evolution publishes no roster, so named-host lists online are unverified.

I

Independent spin

Every spin is random and unaffected by earlier results, as Evolution's statistics page states outright. It is why no "prediction" app or signal group can work.

L

Live dealer

A game streamed from a studio with a real person running it. Crazy Time mixes a hand-spun physical wheel with RNG multipliers in the Top Slot and bonuses.

M

Martingale

Doubling your bet after every loss. It never changes the house edge, only the shape of results: surviving 10 straight losses on a $10 base needs $10,230, and table limits intervene first.

Multiplier

A factor applied to a payout; 25x pays 25 times the stake. They come from the Top Slot and from inside every bonus game.

P

Pachinko

Bonus with a physical pegged wall and 16 multipliers along the bottom. Landing on DOUBLE doubles the board and drops again, up to a 10,000x cap in the international rules (one independent analyst says 20,000x; disputed).

Payout (number bets)

Number segments pay face value on top of the returned stake: 1 to 1, 2 to 1, 5 to 1, 10 to 1. One unit on 10 gives back 11.

R

Red door

The "secret red door" the presenter opens to enter the Crazy Time bonus world; later reused as the gateway in Red Door Roulette.

Rescue Drop

An occasional Pachinko second chance after a 2x, 3x or 4x: lower multipliers are raised to that value and the puck drops again.

Rescue Flip

An occasional Coin Flip re-flip with fresh multipliers when the assigned ones are low.

RTP (Return to Player)

The theoretical long-run share of stakes paid back: 94.41% to 96.08% depending on the bet, per Evolution. It describes millions of spins, not your evening.

S

Segment

One of the 54 equal wedges on the main wheel: 45 numbers and 9 bonuses. Full layout on The Game.

Side bet

A blackjack and baccarat term. Crazy Time has none: the four bonus spots are ordinary bet spots on the main layout, not optional extras.

Stop-loss / stop-win

Session limits set before you play; common guidance is a stop-loss around 20–30% of the session bankroll and a stop-win of 25–50%.

Studio

Where the 24/7 stream is produced. Evolution says only "a vibrant studio"; third parties place the main table in Riga, Latvia, with localised tables in Malta, the US and São Paulo.

T

Top Slot

The two-reel mini-game above the wheel: reel one a bet spot, reel two a multiplier up to 50x. It counts only when both align on the centre line and the wheel then stops on that spot; for a bonus, every value inside is multiplied before play.

Tracker

A third-party site such as Tracksino or CasinoScores that logs every result. Useful for history, useless for prediction, none affiliated with Evolution. More in Community.

TRIPLE

A Crazy Time bonus wheel segment that triples all multipliers and re-spins. International rules only; the regulated variant uses DOUBLE alone.

U

Unit

Your base chip size, "one bet". Guides express bankroll depth in units: around 100 for number play, about 300 for bonus play.

V

Variance / volatility

How widely results swing around the RTP. Number 1 hits about two spins in five with small wins; the Crazy Time bet hits roughly once in 54 spins in rare, huge lumps.

W

Wheel

The vertical 54-segment money wheel, spun by hand. Pennsylvania requires at least 5 feet across and three full revolutions for a valid spin.

Quick reference: the caps