Carnival X

Carnival X is not a slot. It is a collection of carnival betting games from GameArt, released on 7 October 2025 – a set of wheels, dice and prize boards sharing one balance and one set of four jackpots. It returns 96.04% and the published maximum is 10,000x the bet.

A Fairground After Dark

Everything happens in the same place: a travelling carnival at night, striped tents on both sides, bunting strung between them, a red balloon drifting overhead and a carved pumpkin sitting on the grass. Nothing about the scene changes between games – only the machine standing in the middle of it does.

The four jackpot plaques sit in a row across the top of the screen at all times, and the stake selector and spin control sit at the bottom. Whichever game you are playing, the furniture stays put.

Four Jackpots, Shared Across Everything

At the 3.00 bet our session ran at, the plaques read:

GRAND – 7,500.00, or 2,500x
MAJOR – 1,500.00, or 500x
MINOR – 600.00, or 200x
MINI – 300.00, or 100x

The steps are clean: Mini to Minor doubles, Minor to Major is two and a half, Major to Grand is five. And the Grand at 2,500x is a quarter of the published 10,000x ceiling, so the maximum needs the top plaque plus something else on top of it.

These are not separate pots for separate games. They stay on screen through every machine in the carnival, which is the organising idea of the whole thing.

The Colour Wheel

The first machine is a rainbow wheel with a pointer at the top and a row of six tiles beneath it – a betting board. Four carry multipliers – x2, x3, x9 and x12 – and two read BET ALL, with a green $ tile at the end.

You put your stake on a tile and spin. The arithmetic is exact and we watched it work: the wheel stopped on X12, the screen filled with the multiplier, and the message underneath read “YOU WON 36.00”. Three times twelve, to the cent.

The tiles are ordered by risk rather than by position – the x2 and x3 come up often, the x12 rarely – and the BET ALL option spreads your stake across every tile, guaranteeing a return but rarely a good one. The $ segment in the middle of the wheel is the jackpot trigger.

High Or Low, On Three Dice

The second machine is a dice game. Three dice sit at the top of the screen, a large number is shown in a gold frame in the middle – ours read 13 – and a strongman in a leopard-print singlet stands beside it holding a barbell.

Two buttons sit under the number: a red HIGH at x021 and a blue LOW at x009. You are betting on whether the next roll comes in above or below the number on display, and the two sides are priced very differently – the high side considerably longer than the low one, which is what you would expect with the marker sitting above the midpoint of three dice.

It is the cleanest game in the set: one number, two choices, both prices visible before you commit.

Ball Of Fortune

The third machine is headed BALL OF FORTUNE and is the most straightforward of all. A turbaned fortune teller leans over a glowing crystal ball with his hands either side of it, and nine hexagonal tiles float inside the sphere, each carrying a multiplier.

Ours showed X2, X6, X1, X2, X2, X1 and X4 – a spread weighted heavily toward the low end, with a single X6 as the prize. Nine tiles revealed at once, no picking and no waiting, which makes it the fastest round in the carnival.

The distribution tells you what to expect: most of the ball is ones and twos, and the reason to play is the one tile that is not.

The Prize Wheel In The Cage

The fourth machine is the biggest. A full-size prize wheel stands inside an iron cage with two monkeys sitting on the bars, and its segments are a mixture of numbers and words: 40, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, plus segments reading GRAND, MAJOR, MINOR and BONUS.

This is where the jackpots are actually won. The plaques along the top are not decoration – four of the wheel’s segments award them directly, which is why they sit on screen throughout.

Our spin landed on a number rather than a name and returned 120.00 – 40x the 3.00 stake, matching the wheel’s largest numbered segment exactly.

One Balance, Four Games

The stake selector at the bottom stayed at 3.00 throughout, and the balance carried straight across from one machine to the next – 151.00, then 148.00, then 109.00, 97.00, 55.00 as we moved between them.

That continuity is the point. Carnival X is not a menu of separate titles; it is one session in which the machine in front of you changes. Nothing resets, nothing is ring-fenced, and the jackpots grow no matter which game you are in front of.

96.04%, And What It Does Not Tell You

The published return is a shade below average and it covers the whole carnival rather than any individual game. That is worth being clear about, because the four machines are plainly not equivalent.

The colour wheel at x2 is close to an even-money bet. The same wheel at x12 is not. The dice game prices its two sides explicitly and you can choose which. The Ball of Fortune is mostly ones and twos. One 96.04% figure sits across all of that, so the number tells you what the carnival returns over a long run – not what any single machine does on the next press.

Neither GameArt nor the catalogues publish a volatility rating for this title, and we have left that field empty rather than invent one. In a game where you choose between an x2 and an x12 bet, a single variance figure would mean very little in any case.

What The Bet Changes

Everything is a straight multiple of the stake, in all four machines and on the plaques. Our screenshots were taken at 3.00, where the Grand is 7,500 and the wheel’s x12 pays 36. At a smaller stake every figure falls proportionally; the multiples – 2,500x on the Grand, 12x on the best wheel tile, 40x on the prize wheel’s top segment – never move.

More From GameArt

GameArt builds mostly conventional slots alongside occasional formats like this one. Santa’s Sleigh Workshop shows the studio’s standard twenty-line design, Halloween Farm stays in a similar cartoon register, and Lucky Loser is another of its odder ideas.

Who It Is For

Carnival X is for players who are bored of pressing spin on the same grid. Four genuinely different games – a multiplier wheel, a high-low dice bet, a crystal ball of revealed multipliers and a full prize wheel that awards the jackpots – run one after another on the same balance, under the same four plaques, in the same fairground. Every price is printed before you commit, and the arithmetic checks out: an x12 on a 3.00 stake paid us exactly 36.00. What you give up is depth. Each individual machine is a single decision with no strategy behind it, the 96.04% return is below average, and no volatility figure is published for any of it. All six casinos we checked carry it.

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