The Ice Fishing game is a live game show made by Evolution, the live casino supplier behind Crazy Time. A host stands in an arctic set, a 53-segment money wheel spins, and you bet on where it stops. Two “Leaf” spots pay out straight away; three fish spots (Lil’ Blues, Big Oranges and Huge Reds) send the round into a bonus game where the host reels in a fish carrying a multiplier. Evolution calls it a speed game show, and its own pitch compares the format to short videos: you bet, the wheel spins, and the result is in before you have reached for a drink.
We built this guide from Evolution’s own game page and its press releases. Where a number only comes from tracker sites, we say so.
The Ice Fishing wheel: Leaf spots and fish spots
The wheel is virtual. The studio and host are live, but the 53 segments are computer graphics, and a flapper at the top marks the winner. Evolution’s page lists these bet spots:
| Bet spot | What happens if the wheel lands on it |
|---|---|
| Leaf 1 | Instant payout |
| Leaf 2 | Instant payout |
| Lil’ Blues | Bonus game, fish worth 3x to 100x |
| Big Oranges | Bonus game, fish worth 4x to 200x |
| Huge Reds | Bonus game, fish worth 10x to 500x |
| All Bonuses | One bet that covers every fish segment |
Evolution gives the total (53) but not how many segments each spot gets. Stats trackers count 23 for each Leaf and 4, 2 and 1 for the three fish, so seven bonus segments in all. That fits the 53 total, but we couldn’t confirm the split in an Evolution source, so take it as a strong hint rather than fact. If the count is right, a Huge Reds result turns up roughly once in 53 spins.
Three fish, three bonus games
When the flapper stops on a fish, the round moves to an icy lake. Fish wait under the ice, each with a multiplier, and the host slowly winches one out. You see only part of it at first. The final number shows once the fish clears the water, and your payout is worked out from that multiplier and what you staked on the fish spot.
Two rules catch newcomers out:
- Everyone in the room watches the bonus game, but only players with a chip on that fish’s spot get paid from it.
- A bonus game always pays something to those players. Evolution calls the rewards “guaranteed”, so the minimum is the bottom of the range (3x, 4x or 10x), before any boost.
Want to know what each step looks like in practice? The how-to-play walkthrough takes one round from betting to payout.
Multipliers and the 5,000x ceiling
Boosts land after betting closes and before the wheel spins. Evolution describes two kinds:
- Leaf boost. One random segment may get 3x, 4x, 5x, 7x or 10x, which raises the Leaf payout if the wheel stops right there.
- Fish boost. Every segment of one fish type may get 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x or 10x. If that fish then wins, every multiplier in its bonus game is raised by the boost before the fishing starts.
That’s where the headline number comes from. A 500x Huge Reds fish times a 10x boost is 5,000x, Evolution’s stated maximum. It is possible, not likely: the rarest fish, its top value and the top boost all have to land on the same spin. Evolution doesn’t publish how often each fish value turns up.
Ice Fishing game RTP: the figure Evolution keeps in the game
Evolution’s public page for Ice Fishing has no return-to-player figure. Tracker sites widely quote about 97.1% for the Leaf bets and roughly 95% to 96% for the fish bets, which would make the bonus spots the more expensive way to play. We could not check those numbers against Evolution, so we don’t present them as official. Open the help screen inside the game, where Evolution keeps the full rules. If it shows a return figure, that is the one that applies at your casino.
Where the show streams, and who can play for money
Evolution launched Ice Fishing worldwide on 6 August 2025, after a first showing at ICE Barcelona in January 2025. A Brazilian version, Ice Fishing Brasil, followed in June 2026 from Evolution’s São Paulo studio. On 2 November 2026 the show reached the United States: New Jersey (from a new Atlantic City studio), Michigan (from Grand Rapids) and Delaware. In the same announcement Evolution said more than 26 million players had tried it.
Evolution doesn’t take bets from players. It supplies the stream to licensed casino operators, and a casino may only offer it where its licence and local law allow. In practice that means:
- United Kingdom: casinos licensed by the Gambling Commission.
- United States: online casinos in the states where they are legal and the show has launched.
- New Zealand: a transition period runs until 1 December 2026; after it, only operators picked in the government’s licensing round may serve NZ players.
- Australia and India: offering online casino games to people there is against the law.
The where-to-play page has the country detail and the checks to run on a casino before you deposit.
Not the frozen-lake kind of ice fishing
A lot of searches for “ice fishing” are about augers, tip-ups and shelters, and some are about the Roblox simulator or mobile fishing games with similar names. This site covers none of those. Everything here is about Evolution’s casino show, which is real-money gambling for adults only. Every bet carries a house edge.
How we checked this page
- Evolution’s game page for Ice Fishing on games.evolution.com: bet spots, boost values, fish ranges, bonus rules.
- Evolution press releases: global launch, 6 August 2025; Ice Fishing Brasil, June 2026; US debut, 2 November 2026.
- Not verified from Evolution: segment split per spot, RTP per bet, Leaf payout ratio, per-round win caps and table limits. Those vary by casino or sit in the in-game help.
The guide in its current shape dates from November 2026; a claim stayed only if a source stood behind it.