We love reporting on big wins for slot players! We love the Wheel of Fortune slots! Here we have both, with a huge jackpot at the California Casino on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas!
This time the lucky player was from Hawaii and spinning the reels on a Wheel of Fortune game with a progressive jackpot. Luck smiled on her when a $5 bet suddenly turned into a over $1.3 million!
In a press release about the jackpot at the California Casino, Boyd Gaming confirmed details on the big win came on a Wheel of Fortune slot, and that the winner, identified as “Michelle”, was the third Wheel of Fortune jackpot winner at one of their properties just this year.
Wheel Of Fortune slots awarded over $2 million in jackpots in Las Vegas recently, including a $1.4 million jackpot at the Wynn Las Vegas, and a $1.1 million jackpot at the Fremont Casino. IGT’s iconic slot brand has now made over 1,100 millionaires and awarded over $3.3 billion since its launch.
Late in 1996, IGT debuted the Wheel of Fortune progressive slots. The game continues to be one of the most popular gaming machines of all time. Group play and community bonus games were introduced to the marketplace in 2006 with the debut of Wheel of Fortune Special Edition.
The company also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the most popular gaming machines ever made, Wheel of Fortune slots,[15] and the 20th anniversary of the Megabucks wide area progressive game.