How do you trigger the Jackpot Bonus Wheel on the Atlantean Treasures slot?

In this latest in a series of articles that look at the Atlantean Treasures: Mega Moolah progressive jackpot slot, we are going to be focusing on the one aspect of the game that everybody who spends even just one spin playing, would love to experience for themselves. That is the fabled Jackpot Bonus Wheel.

I say fabled because the bonus is difficult to trigger and at times, it can seem like a pipe-dream. You may have played the game for a long time and are yet to trigger it, but we do know that people have won cash on the game, including one big Mega Jackpot winner of NZ13.6 million and a number of Major Jackpot prize winners too.

So, in this article, we are going to be taking a look at some of the key things you need to know about the Jackpot Bonus Wheel in Atlantean Treasures. What do you need to do to trigger the bonus itself? How can you improve your chances of doing so? What does the bonus wheel game look like? And if you trigger the Jackpot Bonus Wheel what are your chances of landing that massive Mega jackpot prize, which is currently primed to crash through the 10 million mark at the time of writing.

With that in mind, let's begin at the very start of the process and how you actually trigger the Jackpot Bonus Game in Atlantean Treasures.

How to trigger the Jackpot Bonus Wheel on Atlantean Treasures

The first thing to note with Atlantean Treasures is that unlike the original Mega Moolah slot, or the Casino Rewards Network exclusive Mega Vault Millionaire, you may not be eligible to win a shot at the Mega Moolah top jackpot prizes on every spin.

The minimum bet on Mega Moolah and Mega Vault Millionaire is 0.25, whereas on Atlantean Treasures, it is just 0.10 per spin. So not every spin will qualify for a shot at the Jackpot Bonus Wheel. However the game uses a clever trick, the Jackpot Bonus Trigger symbol, to decide which spins of yours will stand a chance of triggering the bonus.

In addition to the standard symbols on the reels, on some symbols you will see overlaid on them a golden pearl. This is the Jackpot Bonus Trigger Symbol and each time you land one or more on the reels on a spin, you have a chance of triggering the game. If you have a spin that does not land one of these symbols, then that spin will not offer you a chance at triggering the bonus game.

One nice touch is the fact that the more of these golden Jackpot Bonus Trigger pearl symbols you land, the more your chances of triggering the game on that spin increase. All the pearls you collect are added to the clamshell in the bottom left corner of the screen.

As with all Mega Moolah games, Jackpot Bonus Game triggers are entirely random and cannot be predicted, so you are at the whims of fate as to whether you will trigger a Jackpot Bonus Game or not.

Improving your chances of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Wheel

For me, this is the most important part of this article, because there are a lot of people out there who will claim to have a short-cut to triggering the Jackpot Bonus Game, or some strategy that will help you do so, usually for a fee. I can tell you now, that anything offering this, is either outright lying, or only going to tell you what is available for free in this section.

There are only two ways that are guaranteed to improve your chances of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Wheel on the Atlantean Treasures slot. They are:

• Play more spins and land more of the Gold Pearl symbols on a spin.
• Play for more money on each spin.

The first of these two methods is obvious. The more spins you play, then the more chances you give yourself of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Wheel in the game and the more Gold Pearl Jackpot Bonus Trigger symbols you land, the better your chance on that spin.That is blindingly obvious to any player.

However, the second of these issues is a little more complex. All Mega Moolah games, including the original Mega Moolah, plus the sister games to Atlantean Treasures, Mega Vault Millionaire and Absolootly Mad, run under the same premise.

That premise is that the more you bet on your spin, the more chance that this spin has of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Game. While the exact numbers on this are kept a secret, it is reasonable to assume that if you play for the minimum bet of 0.10 per spin, then you have half the chances of someone who is playing at 0.20 per spin.

So, playing the maximum bet is the best way to give yourself the maximum chance of triggering the Jackpot Bonus Game on a spin and of course, the more spins you play at that amount, the more chances you will have of triggering the bonus.

So let's assume you have £50 to play with on Atlantean Treasures, you could play this with 10 Spins at £5.00 per spin, which would give you much more chance on each of those ten spins of triggering the jackpot, than playing 100 spins at 0.50 per spin. However, in terms of profitability, the 100 spins option is less volatile (because you play more spins and have more chance of triggering other in game bonuses) than putting all your eggs in one basket with the 10 spins option.

Getting the balance right between the amount you bet and the number of spins played is the key to longer term success on the Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah slot and it really depends on your attitude to the game and your bankroll as to what the best options are for you.

If I trigger the Jackpot Bonus Wheel, what jackpot am I most likely to win?

So, you have triggered the Jackpot Bonus Wheel on Atlantean Treasures, congratulations, you are one of the lucky ones! Triggering this jackpot game is, as we have noted above, somewhat rare, so now the question is, which of the four jackpot prizes are you going to win?

A quick look at the Jackpot Bonus Wheel on Atlantean Treasures shows that it follows a very similar design to the game used on both Absolootly Mad and the original Mega Moolah slot. By that we mean one single reel that is divided up into sectors. Each sector is shaded in one colour, with each of the four colours corresponding to one of the four progressive jackpot prizes.

Now, when the Jackpot Wheel is loaded, you will see that there is just one Mega jackpot prize sector, a couple of Major prize sectors with the majority of sectors being for the two smaller jackpot prizes, the Mini and the Minor. However, judging by the size of the sectors, you may feel that you still have a relatively decent chance of a win.

It is at this point that we have to give players a little reality check. The odds suggested by the sections on the Jackpot Bonus Wheel are not the actual odds of landing the jackpot prizes stated. The wheel is only used by the game to display the outcome of that random number selection.

In actual fact, the odds of you landing the top Mega jackpot prize are much slimmer than it suggests on the wheel and the chances of you winning the Mini and Minor prizes are much greater than it suggests on the reel.

Now some people may think that is false advertising, but in actual fact, if the game designer wanted to show the real chances of you landing a win on the Jackpot Bonus Wheel, the sectors on the wheel would be so small as to make them utterly indistinguishable. The wheel would need to be divided up into millions of sectors and you would not be able to satisfactorily replicate that graphically on screen.

So instead, the outcome of your calculation for the Jackpot Bonus Game is displayed as the wheel shown in the game. It makes it much easier to follow, but you must remember that it is not representative of your chances of landing those particular jackpots.

In truth, you are much more likely to win the Mini or Minor jackpot prizes than either of the two bigger value prizes and if you think about it, it has to be that way otherwise the jackpot would be won far more frequently and as a result the game would not be cost-effective for a casino to offer.

Is there a cheat I can use to access the Jackpot Bonus Wheel?

No, while the thought of being able to perhaps click a few buttons to activate a cheat mode on the game where you could win millions sounds like the stuff of fantasy, there is a good reason why that is. It is the stuff of fantasy.

All top slot games are thoroughly checked to ensure they comply with safe and fair gaming, that means both for the player and also for the casino too. No game with any form of shortcut to landing the top prize would get past the rigorous testing that a game undergoes.

However, on top of that, there is a built-in failsafe for any non-genuine triggers of the Mega Moolah jackpot prize on any of its slots. In the terms and conditions of the game, it does state that the casino will investigate all triggers of the jackpot and if, in their view, the win is not a genuine one, then they are within their rights to withhold the funds.

Now, I have certainly not heard of this happening with the Mega Moolah slot, but there have been cases documented on other games, often in real-world casinos, where a player has landed a win that has been viewed as dubious, or where the game has malfunctioned, and the winnings have been withheld.

So unfortunately, any of these articles that you can read about "how to win the Mega Moolah progressive jackpot guaranteed" or "Mega Moolah progressive jackpot cheats" are all simply click bait. No such cheat or shortcut to success exists and even if it did, you would not receive a penny of the cash as it would not be a genuine jackpot win.

The final thing to note with the Atlantean Treasures Mega Moolah progressive jackpot prize is that it is entirely random. While you can try and improve your chances of landing the prize in the ways shown above, it still remains a completely random chance as to whether it will trigger or not and it is this which makes Atlantean Treasures and all the Mega Moolah slots so appealing as the jackpot can be won at any time, on any spin, by anybody, playing for any amount of money.