Fireball Roulette Live from Evolution
Fireball Roulette Live from Evolution is a roulette based game show, including a Fireball bonus game giving players a chance to win a 2,500× multiplier on their bet.
The Fireball bonus game isn’t new. We were introduced to it as one of the bonus games on Evolution’s Lightning Storm big wheel (where it offered a max payout multiple of 10,000×).
After soft launching at a select few casinos mid April 2025, by the start of May the same year Fireball Roulette was more widely available for play including with major brands 888, Stake, Mr Green, Leo Vegas and Betway.
Get started placing chips on the table, racetrack for neighbours bets, or take the Fireball Chaser to guarantee a bet on a Bonus number
The Fireball Bonus numbers
Once bets have closed, and the air jet has launched the ball around wheel, the presenter pulls a lever on a single reel slot. The resulting number, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 dictates how many bonus numbers are randomly selected.
5 Bonus numbers this round
A corresponding number of bet spots on the bet grid are struck by lightning, transforming them to floating lava and becoming the Bonus numbers that, if hit will trigger the bonus game.
Having taken the Fireball Chaser bet in the example round, chips are placed on all chosen Bonus numbers.
With a Fireball chaser bet, your Straight Up bets cover each of the randomly selected Bonus numbers
Any of the selected Bonus numbers may also have a multiplier (2× up to 20×) assigned. For the above example round 36 has a 2× multiplier which (if 36 was the spin result) would carry and apply to the bonus game outcome.
The Fireball Bonus game
With a Bonus number hit (in this case 11) the Fireball bonus game is triggered and winning Straight Up bets carry to the bonus game. All other winning bets (outside bets and other inside bets covering the winning number) pay as they would in a normal game of roulette.
The Fireball bonus game is simple. The presenter hits a button and the red fireball drops into a 149 pocket grid. Each pocket has a regular multiplier value, or a double multiplier. If the ball comes to rest on a regular multiplier value, that multiplier is applied to the Straight Up bet. If the ball comes to rest on a double multiplier, all regular multipliers double and the ball is dropped again. This repeats until the ball lands on a regular multiplier.
If the Bonus number received a multiplier during the main game, all regular multiplier values are multiplied accordingly before the first ball drop.
Drop that Fireball!
Max Fireball bonus game multiplier
The final applicable multiplier from the Fireball bonus game is capped at 2,500×. With some games, the prospect of seeing a top possible multiplier is so remote as to be almost folly. In this case, it isn’t. Indeed, we witnessed a 2,500× bonus game outcome in the first hour of playing this game (no, didn’t have a winning bet on).
The top (regular) multiplier value on the Fireball grid are pockets of 400×. There are quite a few around or above 100. Throw double ups from the common 2x pockets, plus any multiplier carrying from the main game, and its easy to see how final multiplier values quickly escalate.
A wonderful 30x – the lowest possible multiplier on the Fireball bonus game
Not that there was much escalation on our first participation in the Fireball bonus game!
Fireball Roulette RTP by bet type
Only 2 bets on this game offer the chance of winning through to the Fireball Bonus round: Straight Up and Fireball Chaser. Works out, from a return to player (RTP) perspective these are the worst bets to take.
| Fireball Roulette | European Roulette compared | ||||
| Bet | Base Payout | Top payout | RTP | Payout | RTP |
| Straight Up | 25:1 | 2,499:1 | 97% * | 35:1 | 97.3% |
| Split | 17:1 | 17:1 | 97.3% | 17:1 | 97.3% |
| Street | 11:1 | 11:1 | 97.3% | 11:1 | 97.3% |
| Corner | 8:1 | 8:1 | 97.3% | 8:1 | 97.3% |
| 6-Line | 5:1 | 5:1 | 97.3% | 5:1 | 97.3% |
| Column | 2:1 | 2:1 | 97.3% | 2:1 | 97.3% |
| Dozen | 2:1 | 2:1 | 97.3% | 2:1 | 97.3% |
| Red/Black | 1:1 | 1:1 | 97.3% | 1:1 | 97.3% |
| Odd/Even | 1:1 | 1:1 | 97.3% | 1:1 | 97.3% |
| 1-18/19-36 | 1:1 | 1:1 | 97.3% | 1:1 | 97.3% |
| Fireball Chaser | 29:1 | 2,499:1 | 95.1% * | n/a | n/a |
* Payouts on this game are capped at €/£/$ 500,000. A Straight Up bet exceeding 200, and winning the max payout will exceed this cap. Therefore the RTP for maximum Straight Up bets impacted by the cap reduce to 96.57%.
Fireball Roulette optimal playing strategy
From the above table, optimal playing strategy for Fireball Roulette becomes self evident – avoid Straight Up and Fireball Chaser bets. The downside of this strategy, is that you never get a shot at the Fireball bonus game and the big payouts it teases.
The most enticing bets are also the most expensive (or most profitable for the casino). It’s not the first time a live casino game has been devised with this dilemma built in. It won’t be the last either.
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