Sybill's Wheel of Fortunes

How It Works

Once a day you may spin, free of charge. The wheel has eight wedges: four gold wedges, forest turns, a gem, beans, and a thin Donator Points wedge. The real odds are printed on the wheel itself every day, because the Ministry made the tower publish them. The wheel is drawn to scale, so a thin wedge looks thin. Each wedge carries its prize in writing and a color of its own, and the odds list, the wheel, the legend, and the win banner all use those same colors, which is the closest the tower has ever come to unanimity. At Silver and Gold the wedges say the doubled and tripled amounts out loud, because a wheel that paid 300 while saying 100 would be announcing one fortune and delivering another.

Spin several days in a row and the wheel takes an interest in you. Seven consecutive days turns it Silver: every gold wedge pays double. Thirty days turns it Gold: gold pays triple and the Donator Points wedge pays ten instead of five. Miss a day and the wheel forgets you, politely, completely, and your streak starts over at one. The streak counts spins, not logins, and paid spins keep it going the same as free ones.

The Donator Points wedge is guaranteed at least once every 25 spins: if it has not come up in 24 consecutive spins, the 25th lands on it. The wheel calls this destiny. The tower's records call it a counter.

Patrons in a hurry may buy extra spins at 10 Donator Points each (on the wheel page, or through Sybill's Extra Spins in the Prefect's Lounge, which is the same door seen from the other side), up to two per day, and the castle caps total wheel spending at 500 Donator Points per day across both, a ceiling that two ten-point spins have never once approached. Nothing on the wheel can be bought often enough to matter, which is the point of a wheel.