007JL Ways to win Explained — What 1024 Ways Actually Counts
Ways to win (including Megaways): Instead of a payline, adjacency decides the payout, so matching symbols next to each other pay regardless of position.
Key facts and contents
- Term
- Ways to win
- Short for
- including Megaways
- Set by
- Taken as the option other than fixed paylines, the game studio
- Where you meet it
- Tabled specs for slot games using cluster and scatter pays
- Not the same as
- Whatever ways to win is, a jackpot mechanic and a bonus are what it is not. Base game wins get resolved by it, and it is there on every spin rather than triggered. Engine-fixed ranges, not random generosity, are behind the variable count of a megaways game.
Few casino pages explain Ways to win, though it appears on every one of them.
Ways to win (including Megaways) — Instead of a payline, adjacency decides the payout, so matching symbols next to each other pay regardless of position.
What Ways to win actually means
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Term | Ways to win |
| Written out | including Megaways |
| In one line | Instead of a payline, adjacency decides the payout, so matching symbols next to each other pay regardless of position. |
| Fixed by | Taken as the option other than fixed paylines, the game studio |
| Where you meet it | Tabled specs for slot games using cluster and scatter pays |
Starting at the left, a ways-to-win game pays for matching symbols on consecutive reels, in any row, and not for fixed paths. All a 1024-ways game does to reach 1,024 possible combinations is apply 4 to the power of 5, with four rows on every reel of five. Each spin in Megaways brings a different number of symbols per reel, extending this idea and making the way-count change instead of being fixed.
Using it in practice
What ways-to-win games give in hit frequency they usually take back in per-combination payouts. Because the headline way-count describes the grid and nothing more, RTP and volatility make the better comparison.
Rather than quote a comparison site’s number, the game pages here say so whenever a studio publishes no figure behind a term such as Ways to win. This explains the blanks you will see in several spec tables on this site.
The common misreading
Large way-counts are routinely read as large advantages. Rather than adding to RTP, the count is simply one input to its calculation. The studio’s long-run return stays whatever it set, so a 46,656-ways game gives frequent, smaller hits compared with a 1,024-ways one, not forty-five times the value.
Whatever ways to win is, a jackpot mechanic and a bonus are what it is not. Base game wins get resolved by it, and it is there on every spin rather than triggered. Engine-fixed ranges, not random generosity, are behind the variable count of a megaways game.
A worked example
Work it out on paper and it is easy to see. You get 4^5 = 1,024 ways from a grid sized 5x4. Multiply it through on a 6x6 grid and the answer is 6^6 = 46,656.
Generosity does not come into it, as both numbers just describe the number of symbol paths the engine evaluates. Grid description is all it is when a game advertises a way-count in the tens of thousands, and it has no bearing on payouts.
Checking Ways to win at 007JL
- At 007JL, open a game and look through it for the info or help screen.
- Once you have located Ways to win there, the definition above tells you how to read it.
- Compare it with the same entry on another title before you pick one to play at 007JL.
- Write your stake and your stop point down before the first round at 007JL.
FAQ
What role should Ways to win play when you pick a game?
What ways-to-win games give in hit frequency they usually take back in per-combination payouts. Because the headline way-count describes the grid and nothing more, RTP and volatility make the better comparison.
Which mistakes are common around Ways to win?
Large way-counts are routinely read as large advantages. Rather than adding to RTP, the count is simply one input to its calculation. The studio's long-run return stays whatever it set, so a 46,656-ways game gives frequent, smaller hits compared with a 1,024-ways one, not forty-five times the value.
Can the operator behind a casino site adjust Ways to win?
Not on this site's evidence. No outside source can confirm a value behind ways to win that a studio has not published, since the game's own mathematics sets it and that makes it the studio's property, not the operator's.