Funky Time

Funky Time is a live game show from Evolution, launched in May 2023 and billed by the studio as its biggest game show since Crazy Time. A presenter spins a 64-segment digital money wheel in a 1970s disco studio; you bet on where it stops. Most segments pay straight away, and twelve of them open one of four bonus games, where the multipliers are guaranteed.

This guide covers the wheel, what each bet pays, how the four bonus games work, the published RTP for every bet spot, and what those numbers mean for the way you play.

Funky Time at a Glance

The Wheel

The DigiWheel has 64 segments. The letters spell out PLAY, FUNK and TIME, and each of those words appears twice, so there are two segments for every one of the twelve letters. Before each spin the wheel also drops random multipliers onto some segments, which is where most of the big main-game wins come from.

How a Round Works

1. Place your bets. Bet on the number 1, on any letter, or on any of the four bonus games. Two shortcut buttons help: Bet on 12 Letters places a bet on every letter at once, and Bet on 4 Bonuses covers all four bonus games.
2. Multipliers are drawn. When betting closes, the DigiWheel assigns random multipliers to random segments.
3. The wheel spins. The presenter spins it, and the flapper marks the winning segment.
4. Settlement. If it stops on a 1 or a letter you backed, you are paid that segment’s payout, multiplied by any multiplier sitting on it. If it stops on a bonus segment you backed, you go through to that bonus game; everyone can watch, but only players who bet on it can win.

The Four Bonus Games

Bar

Set at the disco’s bar, with a robot bartender. You pick one of three empty glasses; each glass is then filled with a random multiplier. A single-reel slot spins to reveal one more multiplier, which lands in one of the three glasses and multiplies what is already there. If the Bar segment carried a multiplier from the main wheel, it is applied on top, for every player.

Stayin’ Alive

A ball-drawing machine holds 90 coloured balls, and a 20-level ladder runs from 5× all the way up to 10,000×. You pick a team colour — green, pink or orange — and start with four lives. A ball of your colour moves you up the ladder one or two levels; a black STOP ball costs every player a life. When the last life is gone, you are paid at the level your colour reached.

Disco and VIP Disco

Mr Funky dances across a light-up floor — 37 squares in Disco, 63 in VIP Disco — moving in whichever direction a small eight-segment wheel points. The squares he lands on add their multipliers to your total, and special floor squares double five of the regular multipliers. The round ends when he steps off the edge of the floor.

RTP for Every Bet

The return varies a little by bet spot. All six sit between 95.38% and 95.99%:

The wheel itself shows where the multipliers matter. Paid at its flat 1:1, the number 1 would return 87.50% of what is staked on it; a letter at its flat 25:1 would return 81.25%. The rest of each bet’s RTP is paid by the random multipliers:

Two things follow. First, no bet spot is a bargain: the spread from best to worst is 0.61 percentage points, so choosing a bet is mostly about how you like to play, not about value. Second, letters and bonus games are streaky. The number 1 wins almost every other spin and pays little; a single letter lands about once in 32 spins, and the VIP Disco about once in 64, so most of what those bets return arrives in a few large hits.

Funky Time vs Crazy Time

If you already know Crazy Time, the main change is the letters: 24 segments paying 25:1 before any multiplier, which gives the main game more chances at a large win without going through a bonus round. Our Crazy Time guide and MONOPOLY Big Baller guide cover Evolution’s other big shows.

Where the Game Shows Up

Funky Time sits in the live casino under game shows, next to Crazy Time and MONOPOLY Big Baller, rather than among the slots. Operators reviewed here that run Evolution on the live floor:

The live floor an operator carries differs from country to country, so the lobby search box is the quickest way to confirm the game is there. The rest of the catalogue is in the casino games guide.

Playing It Sensibly

A Funky Time round takes well under a minute, and the bonus games make it easy to keep betting “one more spin” to catch the next one. Set a budget for the session before you start and stick to it, set a deposit limit and a session time limit in your account, and use the reality-check and time-out tools a licensed operator provides. Free, confidential support is available at BeGambleAware.org. 18+ only.

Also worth a look: Red Door Roulette is Evolution’s roulette take on the game-show bonus — the Crazy Time wheel behind a red door, reached with a keyed straight-up win.

Also worth a look: Ice Fishing is Evolution’s faster money-wheel show — three fish bonus rounds and the best-returning main bet of Evolution’s wheel shows.

Also worth a look: Evolution Gaming: every game show from the studio behind Funky Time, with launch dates and RTPs side by side.

Funky Time: frequently asked questions