Lightning storm live is Evolution’s game show built on a 39-segment DigiWheel. Leaf segments pay instantly, and 20 bonus symbols land on numbered segments each spin, opening five bonus games with multipliers up to 10,000x and a top bonus capped at 20,000x. For the wider market picture, start at our online casino Canada hub.
The table below sets out how the game behaves. Read it first, then work through the detail beneath.
| Trait | Detail |
|---|---|
| Provider | Evolution |
| Wheel | 39-segment DigiWheel |
| Bonus games | Hot Spot, Monster Mash, Battery Charger, Fireball, Lightning Storm |
| Special bets | Storm Chaser and X Chaser |
| Top multipliers | 10,000x in four bonuses, 20,000x in Lightning Storm |
| RTP | 97.44 percent on Leaf, 95.12 to 95.13 percent on other bets, per CasinoScores |
What is lightning storm live?
An Evolution game show that combines instant payouts, multipliers and five bonus games on a digital money wheel. Players predict the segment where the DigiWheel stops, and a win either pays straight away or opens a bonus round.
Lightning storm live calls itself a high-voltage game show, in Evolution’s own words.
Evolution adds that every one of the five bonus games offers guaranteed multipliers, so a player who reaches a bonus always leaves it with a multiplier.
What does the studio look like?
Evolution describes a dark, mad-scientist laboratory-style studio built around weird experiments. The Lightning Storm bonus moves the action onto the roof, where a giant billboard waits for the strikes.
Lightning storm live carries the lab theme into its Monster Mash round, which Evolution opens with a welcome to the lab.
Evolution even tells players to close their windows and prepare for a power outage, which sets the storm theme from the first spin.
What is the DigiWheel?
A digital money wheel with 39 segments. Evolution says the host spins it once betting closes, and the wheel then generates 20 bonus symbols and assigns them to random numbered segments during the spin.
Lightning storm live shares the DigiWheel name with Evolution’s disco game show, Funky Time.
Lightning storm live bonus symbols and multipliers appear on the wheel itself, so the result of the spin and the bonus that follows are shown in one place.
How does a round work?
Players place bets, betting closes, and the host spins the wheel. During the spin, bonus symbols and random multipliers land on numbered segments. When the wheel stops, the flapper shows the winning segment, according to Evolution.
Lightning storm live then pays a Leaf win instantly or sends backers of that numbered segment into its bonus game.
Lightning storm live rounds that stop on a numbered segment move straight into the bonus assigned to it, and the main wheel waits until that bonus ends.
What do the Leaf segments pay?
Instant payouts, set out in the game’s payouts section. Evolution says a stop on a Leaf segment pays straight away, with no bonus round involved. CasinoScores lists the Leaf bet at a 97.44 percent return.
Lightning storm live Leaf bets carry the highest return of any bet type in the CasinoScores figures.
What are the numbered bet spots?
Spots 1 to 20, per CasinoScores. Each spin, the wheel assigns 20 bonus symbols to random numbered segments, so the bonus game behind each number changes from round to round.
Lightning storm live pays a numbered bet only through the bonus game assigned to that number in that spin.
A player who backs three numbers in one round holds three chances at whichever bonuses land on those numbers, at three times the stake.
Why do bonus symbols move every spin?
Evolution says the digital wheel generates the 20 bonus symbols during each spin and places them on random numbered segments. A number that carried Fireball in one round can carry Hot Spot in the next.
Lightning storm live players therefore bet on numbers before they know which bonus each number holds.
What wheel multipliers can land?
Segments that receive a bonus symbol can also get a random multiplier from 2x to 50x, according to Evolution. The multiplier then boosts the result of that bonus game.
Lightning storm live applies that boost to the bonus multipliers before the bonus round begins in each of the five games.
At the 50x top of that range, a bonus result of 100x would become 5,000x before any payout cap applies.
What is the Storm Chaser bet?
A bet that follows the Lightning Storm bonus symbol. Evolution says a Storm Chaser bet adds a chip to the spot that receives the Lightning Storm symbol, guaranteeing a seat in that bonus if the wheel stops there.
Lightning storm live sums the two amounts when that spot already held a bet from the player.
Lightning storm live Storm Chaser returns 95.12 percent in the CasinoScores figures, the lowest listed return of any bet type.
What is the X Chaser bet?
A bet that covers boosted bonus spots automatically. Evolution says X Chaser places bets on the spots that receive both a bonus symbol and a multiplier during the initial spin.
CasinoScores compares lightning storm live X Chaser to a feature buy option found in slot games.
Lightning storm live X Chaser returns 95.13 percent in the CasinoScores figures, level with the numbered spots.
Who can play a bonus game?
Only players with a bet on the matching bonus spot. Evolution says all players can watch a bonus game, but only backers of that spot take part and win from it.
Lightning storm live bonus winnings are paid from the multipliers gathered in that round.
A player who backed number 7 gains nothing from a Hot Spot round on number 12, even while watching it.
What is the Hot Spot bonus?
A guessing bonus on a giant 9×12 tile multiplier wall. Evolution says the multipliers are grouped by value into a hot spot, then hidden and shuffled before the player picks the tile expected to hold the highest value.
Lightning storm live Hot Spot has a top multiplier of 10,000x.
CasinoScores describes the round as all about anticipation, because the player commits to a tile before the multipliers are shown.
How does the 3×3 area work in Hot Spot?
After the reveal, a 3×3 area travels around the wall and stops, doubling every multiplier inside it. Evolution says a chosen tile inside that area has its awarded multiplier doubled as well.
Lightning storm live Hot Spot walls hold 108 tiles, and the 3×3 area covers nine of them, about 8.3 percent.
If the wheel spin placed a multiplier on the Hot Spot segment, every multiplier on the wall is multiplied by it before the round begins, per Evolution.
What is the Monster Mash bonus?
A three-reel lab bonus. Evolution describes horizontal reels for the monster’s head, torso and legs, each carrying a random multiplier, and a host who pulls a lever to spin them.
Lightning storm live Monster Mash caps its bonus multiplier at 10,000x.
The wheel multiplier, when one lands, multiplies the Regular multipliers before the lever is pulled, according to Evolution.
How are Monster Mash multipliers combined?
Regular multipliers add together, and Global multipliers multiply the total. Evolution’s example: legs 10, torso x10 and head x5 make 500x, while legs 10, torso 10 and head 5 make 25x.
Lightning storm live Monster Mash therefore swings widely depending on how many Global multipliers land.
The two Evolution examples use the same three numbers, 10, 10 and 5, and differ twentyfold only because of the Global markers.
What is the Battery Charger bonus?
A conveyor belt bonus with ten batteries. Evolution says nine carry Regular multipliers and one carries a Global multiplier, and a mini wheel spun by the host decides what happens to each battery as it drops into the charger.
Lightning storm live Battery Charger can build a multiplier up to 10,000x.
The Global battery doubles every battery still waiting on the belt, so an early Global result lifts the whole row.
How does the Battery Charger mini wheel work?
Red overloads the battery, which explodes and makes way for the next one. Green with a Regular multiplier wins that battery’s value. Green with the Global multiplier doubles every battery still on the belt, according to Evolution.
Lightning storm live ends the round on a Regular green result or when one battery remains, which then becomes the multiplier.
A round can therefore end on the first battery or run until only one battery is left on the belt.
What is the Fireball bonus?
A ball launch bonus. Evolution says a ball is fired into an enclosure with 149 multiplier pockets holding Regular and Double multipliers, and a Regular pocket sets the multiplier for the round.
Lightning storm live Fireball caps its bonus multiplier at 10,000x.
A grid of 149 pockets gives the ball a wide spread of landing spots, from Regular values to the Double pockets that restart the launch.
What does a Double pocket do in Fireball?
It doubles every Regular multiplier on the grid and relaunches the ball. Evolution says this can continue until all multipliers reach 10,000x, at which point the Double pockets are replaced by 10,000x multipliers.
Lightning storm live Fireball rounds can therefore chain several launches before settling.
If the wheel spin placed a multiplier on the Fireball segment, all Regular multipliers on the grid are multiplied by it before the first launch.
What is the Lightning Storm bonus?
The flagship bonus, played on a giant billboard. Evolution describes eight Regular and three Global multipliers, three lightning strikes, and a multiplier capped at 20,000x. CasinoScores calls the billboard 100 feet high.
Lightning storm live players choose one of the three strikes at the start of the round.
Lightning storm live Storm Chaser bets guarantee a seat in this round when its symbol lands on the winning number.
How is a lightning strike scored?
Each strike moves around the billboard and stops on one or several multipliers. Evolution says the result is the sum of the Regular multipliers selected, or that sum multiplied by one of the Global multipliers.
Lightning storm live players who picked the first or second strike still watch all three strikes play out.
A strike that lands on Regular multipliers of 20x and 30x with a 5x Global multiplier scores 250x by that rule, since 20 plus 30 makes 50 and 50 times 5 makes 250.
How do wheel multipliers boost each bonus?
Evolution says a wheel multiplier multiplies every multiplier on the Hot Spot wall and every Regular multiplier in Fireball and the Lightning Storm billboard before play starts. In Monster Mash and Battery Charger it multiplies the Regular multipliers.
Lightning storm live wheel multipliers range from 2x to 50x, so a 50x boost lifts a 20x Regular multiplier to 1,000x.
What are the maximum multipliers?
CasinoScores lists 20,000x for the Lightning Storm bonus and 10,000x each for Fireball, Monster Mash, Battery Charger and Hot Spot. Evolution quotes the same caps in its bonus rules.
Lightning storm live pays its largest wins only through the bonus games.
Lightning storm live bonus caps sit far above the 2x to 50x wheel multipliers that feed into them.
Is there a cap on winnings?
Yes. CasinoScores says the maximum payout for all winnings in a game round is capped at 500,000 euros or the equivalent in local currency.
Lightning storm live reaches that cap at 25 euros staked on a 20,000x result.
At 10,000x, the same cap is reached at a stake of 50 euros.
What is the RTP?
CasinoScores lists 97.44 percent on Leaf bets, 95.13 percent on numbered spots 1 to 20, 95.12 percent on Storm Chaser and 95.13 percent on X Chaser. Spinlytics gives a different figure of about 96.10 percent.
Lightning storm live returns differ by bet type, so the game help at each casino settles the figure.
Lightning storm live Leaf bets return about 2.31 percentage points more than numbered spots in those figures.
What does each bet cost per hundred dollars?
At 97.44 percent, Leaf bets cost about 2.56 dollars per hundred wagered on average. Numbered spots and X Chaser at 95.13 percent cost about 4.87 dollars, and Storm Chaser at 95.12 percent about 4.88 dollars.
Lightning storm live bonus bets cost almost twice as much as Leaf bets over time in those figures.
The gap between Leaf bets and Storm Chaser is 2.32 dollars per hundred wagered.
What does a thousand dollars in Leaf bets cost?
About 25.60 dollars on average at 97.44 percent. The same thousand dollars on numbered spots at 95.13 percent costs about 48.70 dollars, a gap of 23.10 dollars.
Lightning storm live bet type changes the long run cost at every stake.
How volatile is lightning storm live?
High, according to Spinlytics. Leaf segments pay instant wins, while the five bonus games carry caps of 10,000x and 20,000x.
Lightning storm live bonus spots carry both the rare large wins and the lower return.
What do trackers show?
Spinlytics logged 908 rounds over 24 hours, with a top multiplier of 5,000x in that window. It stresses that every spin is independent and past multipliers do not indicate future ones.
Lightning storm live runs at about one round every 95 seconds by that count.
A 5,000x top result across 908 rounds shows how rare the large multipliers are in a single day.
Do past results predict the next spin?
No. Spinlytics says each spin is independent and random, and that statistics describe trends without predicting outcomes. The bonus symbols are reassigned on every spin, per Evolution.
Lightning storm live history panels show the past only.
Is there a strategy?
No bet changes where the wheel stops. The choices are which spots to cover, whether to add Storm Chaser or X Chaser, and how much to stake per round.
Lightning storm live Leaf bets cost the least over time, while bonus spots carry the large multipliers.
Lightning storm live players weighing cost against potential compare the 97.44 percent Leaf return with the bonus caps behind the numbered spots.
How does it compare with funky time live?
Both use Evolution’s DigiWheel. Funky time live spins 64 segments with letter bets and four bonus games, while this game spins 39 segments with Leaf bets, numbered spots and five bonus games.
Lightning storm live also moves its bonus symbols between numbers on every spin.
How does it compare with monopoly live?
Monopoly live uses a 54-segment physical money wheel with a single 3D board bonus. This game uses a digital wheel, five separate bonus games and bonus symbols that move every spin.
Lightning storm live caps its top bonus at 20,000x.
How does it compare with ice fishing live?
Ice fishing live runs a 53-segment virtual wheel with three fish bonuses. This game has 39 segments, five bonuses and the Storm Chaser and X Chaser bets.
Lightning storm live bonus caps run to 20,000x in Evolution’s rules.
Can lightning storm live be played for free?
No. As a live game show it runs on real money bets, though every player at the table can watch the bonus games, per Evolution.
Lightning storm live bonus rounds pay only players with a bet on that spot.
Watching a bonus round shows how each game settles before a player stakes on a numbered spot.
Is lightning storm live available in Ontario?
Ontario players can check whether the operator offering the game appears on the regulator public register before depositing. The register lists every operator allowed to offer online casino games in the province.
Lightning storm live at an Ontario site runs under that operator’s registration.
What does a Canadian check before playing lightning storm live?
Four lines decide the session. The bet limits, the return for each bet type, the 500,000 payout cap and the operator registration all appear before any money moves.
Players in Ontario who want support can call ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600.
Lightning storm live limits and bet menus differ from casino to casino, so each check happens at the table.
Which game pages are worth reading next?
Four pages sit closest to this one. Each covers a game or a rule that touches the subject above, and each stands on its own.
Lightning storm live pays Leaf bets often and bonus spots rarely. Set a budget first, and the DigiWheel plays close to its published return.