24Karot Launches X Wheel Deal, Second Slot in Yggdrasil's YGG Champions Program

24Karot Games, a studio in Yggdrasil's YGG Champions program, released its slot X Wheel Deal on 3 November 2026, following the October debut of Buffalo Horizon.

The new title is a compact 3x3 slot built around full-board multipliers of up to 10x. It is the second game from the studio in under a month, and 24Karot's own schedule shows two more releases before the end of the year.

What X Wheel Deal offers

X Wheel Deal runs on a 3x3 reel grid. Filling the board with matching symbols delivers multipliers of up to 10x, according to the studio's own promotion of the game. NEXT.io reports that the layout has five fixed paylines and that the full-board result leads into a Wheel feature.

The jackpot layer sits on top of that. According to NEXT.io, collecting golden Jackpot Card symbols triggers a Jackpot Bonus Game where players reveal cards to match three and win a Mini, Midi or Maxi prize, with a ceiling of 500x the bet. A countdown picks a card automatically if the player does not choose in time.

The design is deliberately simple. A small grid, few paylines and a single multiplier mechanic point at a classic, quick-play format rather than a feature-heavy video slot. Details such as return-to-player (RTP) percentage, volatility and maximum win have not been published in the material available, so operators wanting those figures will need to request them from Yggdrasil.

24Karot's place in YGG Champions

YGG Champions is Yggdrasil's program for partner studios. 24Karot describes itself as part of the Yggdrasil Champions program, and account management for the studio is handled by Yggdrasil Gaming.

Tomasz Kowalik, who leads YGG Champions, has said in a Gaming Intelligence interview that the program uses Game in a Box technology, a route for getting third-party studio content into operators' lobbies. Yggdrasil has used partnership structures before to widen its reach, as seen when it partnered with CoinCasino for the crypto gaming market and when it struck an exclusive US and Ontario deal with Aristocrat.

The studio-program model is a familiar one in the supplier sector. Games Global, for example, built out its own roster when it welcomed Barstruck to its exclusive studio line-up. In these arrangements the studio builds the game while the platform provider handles distribution and operator relationships.

Release schedule

24Karot's games page lays out a quick cadence for the final quarter of 2026.

If the dates hold, the studio will have put out four titles in roughly eight weeks. That is a heavy pace for a new developer, and it suggests Yggdrasil is using the program to build a catalog quickly rather than a few titles at a time.

What operators should watch

The release date is confirmed, but the list of operators carrying the game has not been published. The demo and full game details sit in Yggdrasil's operator portal, which requires a login, so commercial teams should go through their Yggdrasil account manager for certification status, RTP variants and market availability.

Supplier content distribution is also moving on the live side of the market, where Imagine Live recently entered Belgium and the Netherlands through a deal with Gaming1. For slots, the question for X Wheel Deal is less about novelty than about whether a simple multiplier-and-jackpot format earns lobby placement against heavier feature slots.

Status reviewed on 3 November 2026. Release dates and the upcoming schedule come from 24Karot's own games page, while the feature details are as reported by NEXT.io. More slots news and EMEA coverage.