Everything You Need to Know About the Lucky Wheel Glitch, the Podium Car, and the Mystery Item
The Lucky Wheel is the large prize wheel just inside the Diamond Casino and Resort. Every real-world day you get one free spin, or two if you are a GTA+ member, with rewards ranging from cash, RP, and chips to clothing, a vehicle discount, the weekly podium car, and a random Mystery prize. This guide covers how the wheel works, how to line up the weekly podium car, how the re-spin trick works, and what the Mystery reward can give you. Accurate as of July 2026.
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How the Lucky Wheel Works
You need to be a casino member to use the Lucky Wheel, and you get one free spin per real-world day. GTA+ members get a second spin each day, though the second spin is lost if you do not use it before the day resets. The wheel is split into equal segments covering cash, RP, casino chips, clothing, a one-time discount on a featured vehicle, the weekly podium car, and a Mystery reward. Whatever the pointer lands on is yours, and your spin normally counts the moment the wheel stops.
How to Win the Podium Car
The weekly podium car sits on its own segment, and with practice you can steer the wheel onto it rather than leaving it to chance. The idea is to control how far the wheel travels so it makes a single slow rotation and stops on the vehicle segment. A couple of things need to be true first:
Play in a solo or private session so nothing in the lobby interferes with your timing, since lag or other players can throw off the input.
Use a controller. The method relies on precise movement of the left analog stick and is unreliable on keyboard and mouse.
From the default resting position, the most commonly shared method right now is:
Walk up to the wheel and hold the interact button until the spin prompt appears.
Count to about four.
Move the left stick up, then bring it back down.
Done right, the wheel makes one slow turn and settles on the vehicle segment. The exact timing and motion people describe vary a little. Some count closer to two seconds and roll the stick from the left around to the bottom, so if you overshoot or stop short, adjust your count and the speed of the movement on your next attempt. It is not guaranteed, and because you only get one spin per day, or two with GTA+, dialing in the timing can take several days.
Pro tip: if you own the Casino Penthouse, set it as your spawn location in the Interaction Menu so you start right next to the wheel.
How to Re-Spin the Wheel
There is also a long-standing trick for re-spinning the wheel when you do not like your result. The idea is to fully close the game, through your console dashboard or by quitting to the desktop, before the spin saves. If you force-close the application the instant you see a reward you do not want, the game does not record the spin, so you can reload and try again. A few caveats. It only works if you close the app quickly, before the game writes your result. Using the in-game Quit option saves the spin as normal. Players have reported this working for a long time, but results are not consistent and Rockstar can change how the wheel saves at any point, so treat it as unofficial and use it at your own risk.
The Mystery Reward
One segment of the wheel is the Mystery reward. Landing on it gives you a random prize from a large pool that includes cash, RP, chips, clothing, snacks, ammo, armor, business resupplies, and even vehicles. The prize most players are chasing is the Lost Slamvan, which you can only win from this segment, and at very long odds of roughly one in twenty thousand. There is no way to steer the wheel onto a specific Mystery prize, so landing the Slamvan comes down to luck, or to patiently using the re-spin trick above until it appears.