Pragmatic Play · 2021 · tested 2026-09-10
5 Lions Megaways
Every logged 5 Lions Megaways feature used the 25-spin lion, while ordinary demo play returned 94.84% RTP over 10,000 rounds and paid its 450x top hit with no free spins.
- RTP measured / declared 94.8% 96.5%
- Hit frequency 29%
- Max win · no bonus 450x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 1.01x
- Free spins, natural 19 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 1.9 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 94.8% against 96.5% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 29.4% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 526 rounds (19 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 69x the stake, mean 99x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.01x of their price on average, 66% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 450.0x; the longest dry run was 23 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 94.84% (approximate 95% CI 78.5–111.2) |
| Hit frequency | 29% · every 3.4 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 23 / 3.4 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 450.0x · round 5742 |
| Free spins, natural | 19 · 1.9 bHz · every 526.3 spins · mean bonus round payout 99.0x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,969 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.01x · median 0.793× price (USD 158.50) · 33 of 50 below price · best 3.98x · worst 0.18x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 28 / 25–75 |
| Retriggered | 10% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
A retrigger means three more yin-yang symbols awarded another 25 spins under the tested first-lion choice. Five of the 50 purchases extended beyond their initial 25 spins.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 10,125.80101.26% · approximate 95% CI 82–120%
- Net
- +USD 125.80+0.6 buys
- Break-even or better
- 17 / 5034%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 3 / 506%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~526 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 526 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 138 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 284 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 436 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
8 rules screens from the game
A yin-yang bonus screen offers seven routes into free spins. This test used only the first: 25 spins with wild multipliers of 2x, 3x and 5x. The other fixed routes pair fewer spins with higher multiplier bands, and a mystery route picks from those bands. Three more yin-yang symbols during the feature add another 25 spins when that first route is the one already chosen.
Yin-yang symbols can land on all six reels and stay put while other symbols tumble. Three or more open the choice screen. Three, four, five and six also pay 3x, 5x, 25x and 100x the stake. A purchase costs 100 ordinary stakes (USD 200 here) and still opens the same choice screen.
Lion wilds occupy reels 2 to 5 and stand in for regular symbols. When a wild is part of a paying combination, a random multiplier is applied to combinations that use wilds. In ordinary play that set is 1x, 2x and 3x, then 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 30x and 40x. Under the 25-spin choice the set is 2x, 3x and 5x, and a later tumble does not raise the factor on its own.
Each of the six reels can show as many as seven symbols, which is how 117,649 ways appear. Adjacent matches pay from the left; a gap on a middle reel ends that route. After a win the scoring symbols vanish and new ones drop in, and the check repeats until nothing pays.
The Ante toggle adds a 25-unit charge in place of the 20-unit stake. Help screens describe a doubled natural-feature rate on that surcharge and switch the buy button off while it is active. Both statistical series left Ante off. This build quotes 96.50% RTP for ordinary play, Ante and purchases, high volatility, stakes from USD 0.20 to USD 300, and a 5,000x round cap that cancels leftover feature spins if hit; this sample did not reach it.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
5 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Same lion, different payoutsPurchase 35 ran 75 spins after two extensions and paid USD 384.30. Purchase 2 never left the original 25 spins and paid USD 795.40. Both tickets cost USD 200 and used the same lion. Length of the feature and size of the payout did not travel together in this sample.
Five of fifty purchases went past 25 spins. Those five paid between USD 135.10 and USD 432.30, so an extension could still finish under the USD 200 price. Median cash back across all fifty was USD 158.50. Combined they returned USD 10,125.80 from USD 10,000 spent; three tickets reached 2x and none reached 5x.
The ordinary-series high arrived with no feature: round 5742 paid USD 900, 450x, in two steps. That beat the largest natural-feature round, 9455, which paid USD 801.40 including its trigger award and 25 free spins. Nineteen natural features occurred in the 10,000-spin series, all on the 25-spin lion. Only round 5454 retriggered, reaching 50 spins and USD 98.40 for the complete round.
Balance closed at USD 98,968.80 after USD 20,000 of ordinary stakes, 94.84% measured, and an approximate 95% interval from 78.48% to 111.2% still contains 96.50%. Drawdown from peak to trough was 1,414.4 stakes, bottoming at spin 9028. The 450x on round 5742 remains the single result that defines this log: no lion, no feature, two steps.
- The 25-spin lion posted its spin count and 2x/3x/5x range before every logged feature
- 450x arrived on round 5742 with no free spins
- Purchase 2 returned 3.977x without a retrigger
- Thirty-three tickets in the buy series paid under the USD 200 price even though the combined series was USD 125.80 ahead
- Purchase 1 doubled to 50 spins and still paid USD 135.10
- Only one of the 19 natural features retriggered; round 5454 reached 50 spins for USD 98.40
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 29%rounds that paid
- 450xbiggest round
- 1 / 526natural bonus rate
- 1.01xmean of 50 buys
- 23longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-10 measured return94.84%-1.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.5–111.2%
- rounds that paid
- 29%
- biggest round
- 450x · round 5,742
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 19 · one per 526 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.01x · median 0.793x · 66% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,969
- deepest drawdown
- 1,414x
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-10.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
4 questions · answered from the logWhich lion is actually in these logs?
The first choice only: 25 starting free spins and wild multipliers of 2x, 3x or 5x. That covers 19 natural features and 50 purchases. The other five fixed choices and the mystery choice are described from the help screens, but have no separate measured return here.
Purchase 35 ran 75 spins. Why did it pay less than purchase 2?
Purchase 35 retriggered twice and paid USD 384.30. Purchase 2 never left the original 25 spins and paid USD 795.40. Both began with the same lion and cost USD 200. Extra awarded spins did not rank the payout in this sample.
The buy series shows 101.26%. Did most tickets profit?
No. The 50 purchases cost USD 10,000 and paid USD 10,125.80, which is USD 125.80 above the combined price. Median payout was USD 158.50, and 33 tickets failed to recover the individual USD 200 cost. The combined surplus does not describe a typical ticket.
Was the recorded 450x a free-spins round?
No. Round 5742 paid USD 900 at a USD 2 stake with no feature. The largest complete round that did include a natural feature was 9455 at USD 801.40, or 400.7x. Both remain below the 5,000x cap in this build.
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