World Cup Roulette is a table game that Inspired Gaming launched on October 10, 2015. A European roulette game adaptation of soccer, it is named after the global soccer competition formally called the FIFA World Cup.
Inspired Gaming’s roulette games: 20p Roulette (2015), 100/1 Roulette, Big 500X Roulette (2015), Fortune Roulette, £500 Wheel Roulette, Hit the Top Roulette, Find the Ball Roulette, Mike Tyson Roulette (2015), and Double Ball Roulette. The developer’s soccer-themed games: Football Favorites (2019), Rush Football Live (2016), Rush the World Go! (2018), and Rush the World Cup Live (2018).
World Cup Roulette Game Characteristics
The starting page prompts players to click the screen before continue to the interface—the mobile version prompts full screen and landscape modes. World Cup Roulette is set atop a soccer field’s penalty arc.
World Cup Roulette’s eight casino chips (in pence and £; equivalent to) are: $0.10, $0.20, $0.50, $1, $5, $10, $25, and $100. The three bet types: table bets; neighbor bets; and World Cup bet.
The ten table bets: straight up (numbers 0-36); split; trio (0/1/2 and 0/2/3); street; top 4 numbers (0/1/2/3); corner; avenue; columns (topmost, second and third columns “2to1”), dozens (1st 12, 2nd 12, and 3rd 12); and even money (red or black, even or odd, and 1-18 or 19-36 numbers).
The “neighbor bets” icon near bottom left reveals a duplicated racetrack. The World Cup bet, at the right, is a three-round side game where players take penalties to earn guaranteed bet multipliers.
World Cup Roulette has lowly and highly bet limits. Single number: $0.05 minimum and $1000.00 maximum bets. Paired numbers: $0.10 minimum and $2000.00 maximum bets. Three numbers: $0.10 minimum and $3000.00 maximum bets.
Four numbers: $0.10 minimum and $4000.00 maximum bets. Six numbers: $0.10 minimum and $6000.00 maximum bets. Columns, or dozens, and even money: $0.20 minimum and $10000.00 maximum bets. World Cup bet: $0.20 minimum and $198.00 maximum bets. The neighbor bets have $0.25 minimum and $5000.00 maximum bets.
World Cup Bonus: $0.20 minimum and $198.00 maximum bets. Neighbor bet: $0.25 minimum and $5000.00 maximum bets.
Clicking the game-starting “bet” yields these World Cup Roulette payouts. Straight up pays 35:1. Split pays 17:1. Street pays 11:1. Corner pays 8:1. Line pays 5:1. Column, or dozen pays 2:1. Red/black, even/odd, or 1-18/19-36 pays 1:1. The neighbors bet pays 35:1.
The roulette ball may land on the wheel’s bonus section, thus triggering the penalty-shooting side game; first, players place their tokens on any of the four neon-green squares—representing the goalpost positions—surrounding the goalkeeper. On pressing “start”, a three-second red countdown precedes the penalty kick. The bonus bet’s offers a X5 multiplier if the penalties are missed; players can win up to X500 bet multiplier. The non-progressive jackpot is $100000.00.
The HTML5 World Cup Roulette game has: undo, and bet-clearing/repeating icons; history; turbo mode; and mobile and desktop versions. The mutable sound effects: female dealer, rattling, chinking, referee’s whistle, and artificial crowd noise. Animated 3D graphics: spinning roulette wheel and its rotating ball; glitter effect, fidgeting and diving goalkeeper, hurled soccer ball, and swaying soccer net.
Luck in World Cup Roulette
World Cup Roulette, a game of luck, has two sets of RTP rates. Regular game: 94.74% RTP rate; and 5.26% house edge. Bonus game: 95.39% RTP rate; and 4.61% house edge.