28 Feb 2012 - Spin and Win on the Squeal of Fortune!

Pfkninenines · Global Moderator 12/4/08

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Feeling lucky? We're proud to present the Squeal of Fortune: a game of chance available to free players once daily, and members twice per day. There are some fantastic prizes on offer: some exclusive; some powerful; and some...well...nutritious, at least. Everyone's a winner, and it's quick and easy to play every day!

As soon as you log in, you’ll be greeted by Yelps, the host of Squeal of Fortune. Interact with him to start things spinning, and then hit the big, red button see what you’ve won.

Each time you play, you'll see a selection of items to win, randomly chosen from Yelps's huge stash of loot. There’ll always be a grand prize, such as a godsword, some dragon equipment, a hefty XP lamp or an eye-watering number of GP, so there’s a chance to win big every time.

There's also a range of exclusive items that can only be obtained through Squeal of Fortune, including a goblin hat, demonic horns and some amazing head tattoos.

There are many practical prizes on offer to help you on your adventures too, including gems, coins, arrows and magic runes. Even if you don’t get that shiny swag you had your eye on, there'll always be tomorrow – and you can never have too many cabbages.

Good luck, and have fun!

Further Details

To play, log into the game, and click the interface icon that appears on-screen. You can drag this anywhere on the screen, and it will appear in that position whenever you log in. The button will disappear for the day once you used your available spins.
Members can spin twice per day, and free players once. This resets at midnight, GMT/BST.
Please note that many of the more illustrious items to be won in Squeal of Fortune are non-tradable.
Take a look at our forum FAQ if you have further questions.

Mod Nexus

In Other News

We’ve added voice overs to NPCs in the Troll Warzone area, including two voiced by the winners of our recent competition. Pump up the volume and take a tour of the town!

There are now server-wide announcements, broadcast when a player achieves something particularly outstanding. You can stop these being broadcast from yourself by switching off your private chat. Please note – if you have private chat off at the time of the update and wish to block announcements, you’ll need to switch private chat on and then off again. You can also filter out announcements from other players through the "Game" filter options in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 1:20 pm

Ranging God · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 1:25 pm

I like it. It gives average players a chance to get awesome items! I also like that it is non tradeable, meaning the economy should not be that effected by it.

Lord Rickles · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 2:19 pm

I mean...I guess it's technically an update... =\

Bonsai99 · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 3:27 pm

The only worries I have about this is if they set the drop rate for claws, armady, dragon etc. a bit high, we don't need combat gear crashing any further :/
Other than that possibility, pretty cool update although it is an obvious attempt to get players to log in on a daily basis =P

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

It's just an appeal to get people to log on. Not a fan of giving out random rewards everyday.

blethorskite · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 3:39 pm

I got two xp lamps, a small mining and medium herb lamp. So a bit of xp for nothing. But to be honest what was the point of this daily give-away.

Adbot · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 3:39 pm

Estor · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 4:43 pm

I hate it it's stupid. Either your given complete crap and are just being taunted, or you get something like an ags which makes the game extremely unfair. Hey Jagex why don't you start handing out phats? -.-

Warren · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 9:23 pm

Yeah, I don't get it. It's like someone on the suggestions forum said to give out free items and MMG was like "ok" (if anyone remembers him answering "Bring back wildy" with "ok" in his first q&a). Like I don't get how anyone at Jagex thought this was a good idea, but it's like that with every update I guess. Nice communism.
And how does it not affect the economy? If you get a lucky item you're eliminated from ever needing to buy that item again. If you already have the real version, now you can sell it off. Unless items of any sort of value are only given out like to one person a month.

But rewarding people for making the effort to log in? You have to wonder where your game is when you start doing that. I don't play games to get rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.

zant · **Posted:** February 28th, 2012, 9:35 pm

I thought this was a stupid idea at first, but when I realized the high value items you get from it are untradeable versions, that makes it better. Makes it so the economy doesn't go out of whack and it makes it so this cannot be used for pure money.

Duke Juker · RSBandB Donor since 07/01/2010

Does untradeable also mean "unalchable," too? Otherwise, it still is a problem.

Warren · **Posted:** February 29th, 2012, 2:48 pm

Considering most items have really low alch values compared to their sell value, I don't think it really matters if it does. It's worse that you can get up to 10M real coins in it apparently

blethorskite · **Posted:** February 29th, 2012, 3:45 pm

Warren wrote:

But rewarding people for making the effort to log in? You have to wonder where your game is when you start doing that. I don't play games to get rewarded for doing absolutely nothing.

About sums my feelings up. If it had been for a couple of days then maybe an interesting idea but to have this indefinately.....