666JILI Ways to win Explained — What 1024 Ways Actually Counts

Most of the confusion around Ways to win comes from the loose reading of a term that has a precise meaning.

Ways to win (including Megaways) — Instead of paylines, adjacent matching symbols pay wherever they sit.

What Ways to win actually means

Payment in a ways-to-win game comes from matching symbols landing on consecutive reels starting at the left, in any row, with no fixed paths involved. With 1,024 possible combinations, a 1024-ways game is just 4 to the power of 5, meaning four rows on each of five reels. The way-count in Megaways moves from spin to spin instead of staying fixed, because the number of symbols per reel varies each spin.

A worked example

Nothing makes it clearer than working through the arithmetic. Take 4^5 = 1,024 ways as the total for a 5x4 grid. Multiply six by itself six times for a 6x6 grid and you get 6^6 = 46,656.

What both numbers count is the symbol paths the engine evaluates, and neither says anything about generosity. Tens of thousands of ways in an advertised way-count tell you about the grid and say nothing about payouts.

Using it in practice

Lower per-combination payouts usually make up for the more frequent hits in ways-to-win games. The headline way-count only describes the grid and nothing else, so judge by RTP and volatility.

Game pages across this site use terms like Ways to win, and when the studio leaves the figure behind one unpublished, the pages state that instead of citing a comparison site’s number. For this reason, a number of the spec tables you will find here leave some cells empty.

The common misreading

People take a large way-count to mean a large advantage. Think of the count as something that goes into the RTP calculation, not something added on top of it. Forty-five times better is the wrong way to see 46,656 ways against 1,024: the game hits more often and pays less per hit, at the long-run return the studio chose.

Ways to win is neither a bonus nor a jackpot mechanic. Wins in the base game are resolved through it, and it runs on every spin without needing a trigger. The engine sets the range, so the variable count of a megaways game should not be read as random generosity.

Checking Ways to win at 666JILI

1. Pick any game at 666JILI and look for the info or help screen inside it.
2. Once you reach that page, hunt for Ways to win and interpret it through the definition given earlier.
3. Before choosing a title to play at 666JILI, look up the same entry for another game and set the two side by side.
4. Set your stake and your stop point on paper ahead of the first round at 666JILI.