Squeal of Fortune

The Squeal of Fortune is a daily activity available to both members and free players. Free players get one spin a day while members get two spins a day. The introductory task system must be completed or turned off for the button of Yelps to appear. The Squeal of Fortune resets every midnight UTC. Rewards include armour, weapons, xp lamps, coins, and other items, some as illustrious as godswords. Lucky equipment is untradeable and will be destroyed if you die and choose not to keep hold of it. The "lucky" is determined by the item's rarity and not the value. Spins can also be bought for members.

When a player logs in, there is a small interface somewhere on the game screen; this can be moved to wherever the player wishes to keep it. Click on the button of Yelps, the host, on the left side of the interface, to begin the activity.

Not all items are available in every draw; it appears that players get a selection of 13 items, which always consists of one super rare item, two rare items, four uncommon items and six common items. The selection of items changes from spin to spin, but logging out and back in results in no change. The list of items is shown in a line of boxes at the bottom of the screen, with the "Current" item's box glowing slightly. Click the big red button at the right of the screen to stop the wheel. When the glow stops moving, the player receives that item. Players then get the option to send the reward to their bank, inventory (for exp lamps) or money pouch (if it was a prize of coins) or to discard it. If the inventory is full and a lamp is won just exit the activity and deposit or drop items. Then resume the activity and claim your lamp.

The wheel graphic does not indicate the chance of the wheel stopping on a particular slot. That is to say the chance of obtaining a super-rare item is significantly less than the 1 in 13 the wheel suggests.

When a rare or super-rare item is won, a message is broadcast amongst all worlds. It displays the name of the player and the item won in a short one sentence dialogue under "News:".

'''The time at which a player presses the button does not determine the loot gained. As soon as the button is pressed, the item will be chosen randomly and the glow stops on that item.'''

Due to an initially unannounced update on 2 April 2012, Squeal of Fortune spins can be bought with JCoins, Jagex's microtransaction currency and real-life money.



Rewards
This is a list of the possible rewards. Items marked with (m) are members items - they may not be claimed on free-to-play worlds, if you wish to claim them, you must subscribe.

XP lamps

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Note: The skill may be fixed, if you are free-to-play and recieve a lamp in a member skill, you will need to subscribe to claim the xp or you will have to discard it.

Cash prizes

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Cosmetic clothing (m)

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Pay-to-play



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Free-to-play

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Pay-to-play

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Free-to-play

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Runes

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Arrows

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Ores

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Gems

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Fish

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Logs

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Miscellaneous items

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Trivia

 * The update was not included in the February 2012 Behind the Scenes; a similar event took place in February 2011 with the Wildywyrm.
 * The name is a play on words of the game show Wheel of Fortune.
 * When the update was released, an interactive wheel appeared on the RuneScape homepage.
 * For the first couple hours after release there was a minor glitch where players could click the red 'spin' button for a second time to instantly stop the wheel. This was abused by small amounts of players and was not very well known. Jagex patched this glitch around two hours after the release. Jagex did not roll back any players as a result of this.
 * All of the Squeal of Fortune "lucky" items are greyed out when compared to the real item, this is to distinguish between the two.
 * Following the release of the Squeal of Fortune, the items listed as "Lucky" were believed to be tradable and this caused quite a bit of panic amongst players who had already owned the original versions of the prizes. It has since been confirmed that the items are NOT tradable and do NOT degrade.
 * The icon does not appear in the Duel Arena nor within Daemonheim's floors, but it does appear on the exit balcony when you leave a dungeon.
 * It is possible to have two of the same rare items on the wheel at one time. (i.e. two Lucky Armadyl godswords in two different spots)
 * An odd thing can occur when closing the interface in which the Squeal of Fortune button stays in the top left corner and upon clicking it, you get the message: Nothing happens, as if something has gone wrong.
 * If a player's bank is full and you receive an item to be sent to the bank, a message will display over the Claim Item option saying, "Your bank doesn't have room for your prize at the moment."
 * All items found in the Rare section can be found in the Very Rare section as well.
 * In a controversial update on the 1st of April, 2012, players were given the opportunity to "buy spins" for real-world money. This in turn led to a wide questioning in regards to Jagex's stance on microtransactions in which they had previously condemned.