10JILI Ways to win Meaning: Ways, Megaways & the Numbers
Ways to win (including Megaways): An alternative to paylines in which matching symbols next to each other pay wherever they sit.
- Term
- Ways to win
- Short for
- including Megaways
- Set by
- Fixed paylines are replaced, by choice of the game studio
- Where you meet it
- Spec tables covering cluster and scatter-pays slots
- Not the same as
- A jackpot mechanic it is not, and nor is ways to win a bonus. Wins in the base game are resolved through this structure, and it applies on every spin and is not something that gets triggered. The varying count in a megaways game is not random generosity either, as the engine fixes the range.
Almost no casino page explains Ways to win, although the term appears on every one.
Ways to win (including Megaways) — An alternative to paylines in which matching symbols next to each other pay wherever they sit.
What Ways to win actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Ways to win |
| Written out | including Megaways |
| In one line | An alternative to paylines in which matching symbols next to each other pay wherever they sit. |
| Fixed by | Fixed paylines are replaced, by choice of the game studio |
| Where you meet it | Spec tables covering cluster and scatter-pays slots |
A ways-to-win game, in place of fixed paths, pays when matching symbols land on consecutive reels starting from the left, in any row. With 1,024 possible combinations, a 1024-ways game is just 4 to the power of 5, which comes from four rows on each of five reels. By varying the number of symbols per reel on each spin, Megaways extends this, and that is why its way-count shifts from spin to spin and is not fixed.
A worked example
Working through the arithmetic shows it most clearly. On a 5x4 grid, 4^5 works out to 1,024 ways. On a 6x6 grid, 6^6 comes to 46,656.
Both numbers describe how many symbol paths the engine evaluates, and neither says anything about generosity. A way-count in the tens of thousands describes the grid and not the payouts when a game advertises it.
Using it in practice
Ways-to-win games usually pay less per combination, which makes up for hitting more often. The headline way-count only describes the grid, so compare RTP and volatility instead. It makes more sense read together with what paylines means and what volatility means, since the same clause usually carries all of them.
Game pages on this site use terms such as Ways to win throughout, and when a studio publishes no figure behind one, the page says that plainly in place of borrowing a number from a comparison site. Several spec tables on these pages show empty cells for exactly this reason.
The common misreading
Many readers treat a large way-count as if it were a large advantage. The RTP calculation takes the count as an input; it does not add to the RTP. Forty-five times better is not what a 46,656-ways game is compared with a 1,024-ways one; it hits more often but pays less each time, at whatever long-run return the studio chose.
A jackpot mechanic it is not, and nor is ways to win a bonus. Wins in the base game are resolved through this structure, and it applies on every spin and is not something that gets triggered. The varying count in a megaways game is not random generosity either, as the engine fixes the range.
Checking Ways to win at 10JILI
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FAQ
What does Ways to win mean?
An alternative to paylines in which matching symbols next to each other pay wherever they sit.
Is Ways to win up to the casino to change?
Not on this site's evidence. Whenever the game's own mathematics determines a value behind ways to win, that value is the studio's property, not the operator's; a studio that withholds it leaves every outside source unable to confirm it.
What is commonly misunderstood about Ways to win?
Many readers treat a large way-count as if it were a large advantage. The RTP calculation takes the count as an input; it does not add to the RTP. Forty-five times better is not what a 46,656-ways game is compared with a 1,024-ways one; it hits more often but pays less each time, at whatever long-run return the studio chose.