Spin the Wheel: one free spin a day
One free spin a day. Each spin lands on one of five prizes with the same chance, and the picture of the wheel has nothing to do with the result.
How to spin
Open Rotom's Spin the Wheel from the Games Corner and press Spin the Wheel. You get one spin per account per day, and it comes back after the daily reset. If you spin twice in a day, the game says you already spun and tells you to come back tomorrow.
- The intro. It says you can win Pokémon, items, money or coins.
- The wheel. It is for show only.
- Spin the Wheel: uses up today's spin.
What the wheel pays
The game rolls a number from 1 to 5 and each result is equally likely, so every prize comes up about one spin in five.
| Prize | What you get |
|---|---|
| Coins (big roll) | 30 to 70 coins |
| Coins (small roll) | 15 to 45 coins |
| An item | One item picked at random from a list of 30: Poke Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball and Master Ball, ten stones (Thunderstone, Fire Stone, Water Stone, Leaf Stone, Moon Stone, Sun Stone, Shiny Stone, Dusk Stone, Dawn Stone and Everstone), and sixteen evolution items such as King's Rock, Razor Claw, Dragon Scale, Up-Grade and Dubious Disc. |
| A Pokémon | A random Pokémon from the game's swap pool. |
| Cash | $1,000 to $84,000 |
Every item on that list has the same chance, so any one item, the Master Ball included, comes up about once in 150 spins. Averaged over many spins, the coin results add up to about 16 coins per spin and the cash result to about $8,500 per spin, before counting the items and the Pokémon.
The wheel picture does not matter
The wheel turns by a random amount, but the game has already picked your prize on the server. Where the pointer seems to stop on the picture is decoration, so there is no timing or trick involved.
Active VIP bonus
Players with Active VIP get 100 extra coins on every spin, on top of the prize. The game shows it as its own message before the prize message.
Where a prize Pokémon goes
It is added like any other new Pokémon: to the first free slot on your team, or to your Box if your team of six is full. Players still working through the opening Trainer Journey get it in their Box.
If the spin does not work
| Message | What it means |
|---|---|
| "You've already spin the wheel today. Come back tomorrow!" | You used today's spin. It resets after the daily reset. |
| "Too many people with your IP address have spin the wheel today." | Several accounts on your connection have already spun today. Try again tomorrow. |
The wheel is one of the quickest items on the daily checklist.