Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing Review

Evolution has a number of wheel-based games under its belt, so originality was never going to be this live social game’s strong suit. That said, underneath the wintry, angling theme of this 2025 release, Ice Fishing does do something different – it focuses on fast-paced gameplay, with relatively low volatility.

The highlights include a fair base game house edge of 2.9%, prizes worth up to 5,000x are notable, and three bonus bets are supported. Is that enough for it to stand out? Find out as I dive into this live social casino game in my Ice Fishing review.

About Ice Fishing: Game Overview

Evolution’s Ice Fishing follows a clearly established format. Much like Crazy Time and Monopoly Live, it supports an immense fortune wheel, featuring a combination of standard segments, known as Leaf 1 and Leaf 2, as well as individually marked and colored bonus segments.

If you’ve played one of these games before, you’ll know how this works. Once you’ve made your selection, the wheel spins, and a pointer will highlight a section. If that matches your prediction, you’ll win. If not, you won’t. It’s a gaming format that’s straightforward and newbie-friendly.

The Leaf segments don’t yield much in the way of returns, but there are prizes worth up to 5,000x here. Those are won in the game’s three bonus rounds, and to have a stab at those, you’ll need to bet specifically on them cropping up and multipliers being applied to those segments.

How to Play Ice Fishing

I found that not much prior knowledge was required to play Ice Fishing. You certainly don’t need to have played any of its predecessors to get a feel for this live social casino game.

At the bottom of the screen, you’ve got chips of varying denominations. In my playthrough, they spanned 1.00 SC up to 1,000 SC, but yours may differ depending on which sweepstakes casino you choose and whether you opt to play with Gold Coins or Sweeps Coins.

Ice Fishing’s wheel is made of 53 segments. The breakdown of the segments is as follows:

• 4 Lil’ Blue segments
• 2 Big Oranges segments
• 1 Huge Reds segment
• 46 Leaf 1 and Leaf 2 segments (23 apiece)

I found the betting window short, at around 12 seconds on average, so you’ll need to move fast. Fortunately, there are only six possible options to consider.

Using the chips, you can predict that the pointer will land on Leaf 1, Leaf 2, Lil’ Blues, Big Oranges, or Huge Reds. Alternatively, you can bet on All Bonuses, covering all three bonus rounds with one play, but this costs 3x your bet.

Ice Fishing Rules

Once you’ve placed your bet (if you’re fast enough), the game commences with a spin. At this point, multipliers may be added randomly to the segments, according to the following rules:

• Leaf 1 and Leaf 2 segments can have multipliers of 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x, or 10x.
• Bonus game segments can feature multipliers of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x or 10x.
• The Leaf segment multipliers increase the value of wins if those segments appear.
• The bonus game multipliers only apply to the fish captured in the bonus round.

The wheel will eventually stop spinning. If it lands on a leaf segment, and you’ve predicted that, you’ll receive your reward, plus any multiplier specific to that segment. If it stops on a bonus, you’ll enter the selected bonus round. If you don’t specifically bet that the pointer will land on a bonus segment, and it does, you’ll have to watch from the sidelines as the bonus rounds continue without you.

SweepsKings Test of Ice Fishing

I decided to test Ice Fishing at MyPrize.us, where it is available to play with GC and SC. I took 10,000 GC to the table for this test, and most of the multipliers I landed tended to hover around the 4x mark.

In an hour, I played roughly 30 games and ended with a balance of just over 12,000 GC. I expected a little more, given the nature of this game. However, I only dropped chips on bonus segments once in every three bets.

Switching to SC yielded a slightly different result. My 10 SC balance was wiped out in fairly short order, over around 4 games. I failed to trigger any bonus during that test. Had my SC balance been larger, I would have expected to see similar results once a bonus feature (with multipliers) had been active.