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Complete Ice Fishing game guide

Five bet routes, a ten-second window and one payout rule that catches out almost every new player. The whole game in the order it happens.

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A round in order

  1. Choose a route

    Leaf 1 and Leaf 2 are the base bets at 23 segments each. Lil’ Blues, Big Oranges and Huge Reds are the bonus routes.

  2. Place chips

    Ten to fifteen seconds. Most players back a base bet plus one or more bonus chips rather than a single route.

  3. Multipliers are dealt

    The RNG boosts random segments after betting closes. They light up before the spin, so you can see them but cannot act on them. Advice to bet only on boosted rounds describes something the interface does not permit.

  4. The wheel resolves

    A leaf result settles instantly at 1:1 or at the boosted multiple.

  5. The host fishes

    Catches come up one at a time, each carrying its own multiplier, with a crane or a helicopter for the heavy ones.

  6. Payout

    Stake times result — with the caveat two sections down.

The five bet routes

Published figures, standard euro ruleset
BetSegmentsHit ratePaysRTPHouse edge
Leaf 123 / 5343.40%1:1, or 3x–10x boosted97.10%2.90%
Leaf 223 / 5343.40%1:1, or 3x–10x boosted97.10%2.90%
Lil’ Blues4 / 537.55%3x – 100x95.69%4.31%
Big Oranges2 / 533.77%4x – 200x95.60%4.40%
Huge Reds1 / 531.89%10x – 500x95.17%4.83%

Bonus bets large enough for a maximum result to breach the 500,000 single-round cap are published at a reduced 94.55%.

Leaf 1 and Leaf 2 never both win, so backing both splits one stake across the same 86.8% of the wheel rather than covering more of it.

The fish routes are one-way tickets: you enter a bonus round only if you held that exact route. Watching a Huge Reds land while your chip sits on Lil’ Blues is the ordinary experience, not bad luck.

The payout rule worth memorising

An unboosted leaf pays 1:1: stake back plus the same again, so 1.00 returns 2.00.

Any multiplier win pays the multiplier instead of returning the stake. A 10x boosted leaf on 1.00 returns 10.00 — a 9:1 net win, not 10:1. A 3x boost is 2:1. The same applies to every bonus catch.

Small on one round, compounding across a session, and the single most misread line in the rules. Every payout figure on this site is the gross multiple, exactly as the rules state it. How the two multiplier systems differ.

Rules questions

What is the minimum bet in Ice Fishing?

0.10 in the table currency on every route. Maximums differ: 10,000 on Leaf, 2,500 on Lil’ Blues, 1,000 on Big Oranges and 500 on Huge Reds.

What is the All Bonuses bet?

A shortcut placing your chip on all three fish routes at once. Convenient rather than discounted: you pay three separate bets at three sub-96% returns.

Do I get my stake back when I win?

On an unboosted leaf, yes. On any multiplier win the multiplier replaces the stake instead of adding to it, so a 3x boost is a 2:1 net win.

Is autoplay available?

In most markets, in blocks of 5 to 100 rounds, and not for players in Great Britain. More on mobile and autoplay.
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