Quickspin · measured RTP 88.1% · tested 2026-09-30
Big Bad Wolf MEGAWAYS
The game sheet gives Big Bad Wolf Megaways free spins 21.35 points of RTP, but the first 10,000 demo spins got 12.21% from them, and two runs measured 88.1% over 20,000 rounds.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 88.1% against 96.05% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 37.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 571 rounds (35 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 44.9x the stake, mean 74.1x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 90x returned 0.98x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 323.8x; the longest dry run was 17 spins.
Same series: Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf Christmas Special — each tested separately
Big Bad Wolf MEGAWAYS demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Big Bad Wolf MEGAWAYS with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays free
Test card
20,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.05% |
| RTP measured | 88.13% (approximate 95% CI 80.1–96.2) |
| Hit frequency | 37% · every 2.68 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 17 / 2.71 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 227.4x · run 2, round 5380 |
| Free spins, natural | 35 · 1.8 bHz · every 571.4 spins · mean bonus round payout 74.1x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 2,625 |
- 012026-09-2710,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓87.58%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-3010,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓88.67%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 90x · EUR 90 each
mean 0.98x · median 0.621× price (EUR 55.85) · 70 of 100 below price · best 8.67x · worst 0.12x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 12.1 / 11–22 |
| Retriggered | 32% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
The bonus opens with 11 free spins; collected Moon Bonus scatters blow down the houses for more, 3 spins and +5 multiplier at three scatters, 3 spins and +10 at six, then one spin per extra scatter. Thirteen of the 50 bought features in run one ran past the opening 11 spins, twelve to 14 and one to 19; in run two 19 of 50 did, seventeen to 14, one to 17 and one to 22, and those tickets make up the retrigger share on this page. Among the natural features 4 of 17 and then 7 of 18 reached 14 spins, and none went further.
- Spent
- EUR 9,000100 × EUR 90
- Returned
- EUR 8,864.6098.50% · approximate 95% CI 73–124%
- Net
- −EUR 135.40−1.5 buys
- Break-even or better
- 30 / 10030%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 6 / 1006%
- Price in base spins
- 90natural trigger every ~571 spins
One ticket equals 90 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 571 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 the 2 runs in sequence needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 169 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 318 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 681 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
13 rules screens from the game
Reel heights change on every spin: the outer reels show two to seven symbols and the four middle reels two to six plus one from the horizontal reel above them, for up to 117,649 Megaways, and a win needs matching symbols on consecutive reels starting from the leftmost one. Winning symbols are removed and the empty positions refill from above, with any new win added to the round. Six Wolves pay 50x the bet, and a pair of Wolves already pays 2x, something no other symbol does.
Three pigs sit among the regular symbols, and every second win in a chain turns one more of them into a Piggy Wild: the first after the second win, the next after the fourth and the last after the sixth. A Piggy Wild substitutes for everything except the Wild and the Moon Bonus scatter, and the plain Wild covers all symbols except Piggy Wilds and scatters.
Three Moon Bonus scatters in the base game start the Blow Down the House bonus with 11 free spins. The win multiplier starts at x1 and climbs with every win, and collected Moon scatters blow down the houses: three add 3 spins and +5 to the multiplier, six add another 3 spins and +10, and every scatter past six adds one spin.
Skipping the wait costs 90x the bet through the Buy Feature, which opens the same bonus. The demo runs the 96.05% model; the official game sheet also lists 94.11% and 90.19% versions, rates volatility 5 out of 5 and records a top payout of 30,540.35x in 100 billion simulated spins. The demo stake goes from EUR 0.20 to EUR 20.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Multiplier
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Gallery
10 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Thin triggers, fatter tickets
Two runs in, Big Bad Wolf Megaways has returned 87.58% and 88.67% at EUR 1, 88.13% pooled over 20,000 spins and 2,374.9 bets short of the declared 96.05%, and the shortfall sits where it sat before: the game sheet gives free spins 21.35 points of the RTP, the two runs measured 12.21% and 13.14%, while everything outside them returned 75.37% and 75.53% against 74.70 on paper. Natural triggers stayed scarce, 17 and then 18, one per 571.4 spins over the two runs, with a 1,366-spin wait in run one and three consecutive waits of 1,678, 1,473 and 1,299 spins in run two.
The 35 features paid 74.11x the stake on average over their whole rounds, 44.9x at the median, 14.7% of everything returned, and the multiplier ladder explains them: it starts at x1, climbs only with wins, and spins that began at x5 or higher took 86.5% and then 85.5% of the free spins money, with the last spin averaging x10.35 and x10.94. Run one's record stands, 323.75x on round 4341 from a thirteenth spin at x12 worth EUR 293.40; run two's best was 266.5x on round 307, EUR 181 of it on the ninth spin at x9, and 24 of the 35 features stopped at the opening 11 spins, 13 in run one and 11 in run two.
One hundred EUR 90 tickets returned EUR 8,864.60, 0.985x of price, but the two halves differ sharply: run one's fifty came back at 0.6461x with no ticket past 1.43x, run two's at 1.3238x with four past 5x, led by ticket 25 at EUR 780.30 with EUR 747.50 on a single spin at x4; 70 of the hundred finished short of their price and the median ticket paid EUR 55.85. In the base game chains of six wins or more, where all three pigs are Wild, took 17.1% and then 21.6% of the money, hits came on 37.62% and 37.06% of spins and no dry stretch passed 17, and the best base rounds moved from 167.35x on round 6226 to 227.35x on round 5380, EUR 218 of it on one collapse.
- Four of run two's fifty tickets passed 5x, ticket 25 at EUR 780.30 on a EUR 90 price
- Three base rounds above 100x in run two, 227.35x on round 5380 the largest
- Spins that opened at x5 or higher earned 86.5% and 85.5% of the free spins money
- Eighteen natural features in run two averaged 74.12x with a 57.6x median, against 36x in run one
- Thirty-five natural triggers in 20,000 spins, one per 571.4, with waits of 1,366 and 1,678 spins
- Free spins returned 12.21% and 13.14% of the stake against the sheet's 21.35 points
- Seventy tickets in a hundred finished under their 90x price, the worst EUR 11 in run one
- Of 35 natural features, 24 ended at the opening 11 spins
Run 01·2026-09-27·87.58%
Quickspin's game sheet splits the 96.05% into 74.70 points from the base game and its features and 21.35 from free spins. This series came close on the first part, 75.37% of the stake outside free spins, but the free spins brought back only 12.21%. Seventeen triggers in 10,000 spins, one per 588.2, is a thin sample, and 13 of the 17 stopped at the opening 11 spins. Together that made 87.58% at EUR 1 a spin.
Across the 17 natural features the multiplier averaged x1.00 on the first free spin and x10.35 on the last, and spins that started at x5 or higher collected 86.5% of the free spins money; it begins at x1 and climbs only with wins. The best feature, 323.75x at round 4341, took EUR 293.40 on its 13th spin of 14, which started at x12 and pushed the multiplier to x16 inside one chain.
None of the fifty EUR 90 purchases reached twice the price: the best paid EUR 128.35, 1.4261x, and the worst EUR 11.00. On average they returned 0.6461x with a median of 0.5242x, and 39 of 50 came back short; thirteen ran past 11 spins, one of them to 19.
Run 02·2026-09-30·88.67%
Four of the fifty EUR 90 tickets passed 5x and turned the buy sample around: ticket 25 paid EUR 780.30, 8.67x, with EUR 747.50 of it on its fifth spin at x4, ticket 15 EUR 582.30, ticket 5 EUR 533.40 and ticket 9 EUR 467.20 over 22 spins with the multiplier pushed to x35, and the fifty returned EUR 5,956.95 for EUR 4,500, 1.3238x of price, where the first run's fifty had returned 0.6461x. The spread stayed wide: 31 tickets fell short of their price, the median paid EUR 64.75, ticket 38 EUR 15.45, and the 49 tickets other than the best still averaged 1.1738x; 19 ran past the opening 11 spins, and the 18 bought spins played at x20 or higher paid EUR 377.30, 6.3% of the ticket money.
Eighteen natural features came one per 555.6 spins, 1.8 bHz, the first on round 307, with three waits in succession of 1,678, then 1,473, then 1,299 spins between rounds 2669 and 7122; their rounds paid EUR 1,334.25, 15.0% of the return, 74.12x on average and 57.6x at the median, and their free spins alone returned 13.14% of the stake against the 21.35 points the game sheet assigns to them. Round 307 was the largest at 266.5x, its ninth spin at x9 worth EUR 181, and round 2311 followed at 245.35x over 14 spins; eleven features ended at their opening 11 spins and seven reached 14, the multiplier finished at x10.94 on average and at x17 twice, and spins opening at x5 or higher earned 85.5% of the free spins money.
Outside the features the reels returned 75.53% of the stake against the sheet's 74.70 points, and three base rounds passed 100x where run one had one: round 5380 paid 227.35x with EUR 218 on the seventh step of an eleven-step chain, round 5548 192.85x with EUR 154.80 on its seventh, and round 9759 109.4x spread over ten. Rounds with six or more wins in the chain, 47 of them, took 21.6% of base-game money, EUR 1,632.05, and single-win rounds 32.5%; a hit came on 37.06% of spins with the median at 0.8x, the longest dry stretch was 17 spins, and the balance was in profit on 3,233 of the first 3,491 spins, peaking 261.1 bets up on spin 342, before sliding to 1,142.7 bets down on spin 9995 and closing 1,132.8 short, 88.67% of the EUR 10,000 staked; the 200-bet bankroll lasted 3,874 spins.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rig
This game has been through 2 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 20,000rounds, all runs
- 37%rounds that paid
- 324xbiggest round
- 1 / 571natural bonus rate
- 0.98xmean of 100 buys
- 17longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-27 lab note measured return87.58%-8.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 76.5–98.7%
- rounds that paid
- 38%
- biggest round
- 324x · round 4,341
- longest dry streak
- 17
- natural bonuses
- 17 · one per 588 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.65x · median 0.524x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 3,758
- deepest drawdown
- 1,280x
Corrected 28 September 2026: the free spins figures were recomputed after a fix in how the rig reads tumbles inside Quickspin free spins. In rounds 4663 and 8886 the tumbles of the last free spin had been booked to the base game, so free spins money in those rounds rises from EUR 17.80 to EUR 25.30 and from EUR 21.55 to EUR 34.45, and the mean natural feature from 70.62x to 71.82x the stake in free spins money, 74.09x for the whole bonus round. Round wins, the RTP, the 17 triggers and all 50 purchases are unchanged, and the published spin log keeps the split as first recorded.
02run Run 022026-09-30 lab note measured return88.67%-7.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 77.1–100.3%
- rounds that paid
- 37%
- biggest round
- 267x · round 307
- longest dry streak
- 17
- natural bonuses
- 18 · one per 556 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.32x · median 0.719x · 62% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 3,867
- deepest drawdown
- 1,404x
This Megaways second run, on 30 September, came back at 88.67% after 87.58% on 27 September, 88.13% pooled, 20,000 spins of EUR 1, with the sheet at 96.05%. Natural features came 18 times against 17, still one per 555.6 spins, and free spins returned 13.14% of the stake against 21.35 on paper; the EUR 90 tickets came back at 1.3238x of price after 0.6461x, four of them past 5x, and the base game produced three rounds above 100x, 227.35x on round 5380 the largest.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-27, 2026-09-30): 20000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1.0 bet; 100 bonus buys at 90.0 each (90.0x) on the official Quickspin demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 96.05%); every request and response logged.
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 → One test, step by step →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the log
Any closer to 96.05% after a second run?
Barely: 88.67% after 87.58%, 88.13% pooled from 20,000 spins at EUR 1. The gap is the same one both times, free spins at 12.21% and 13.14% of the stake against the 21.35 points on the game sheet, while the base game and its features came in at 75.37% and 75.53% against 74.70.
Just how scarce are the natural free spins?
Scarce enough for one trigger per 571.4 spins across 20,000, 1.75 bHz: 17 in run one and 18 in run two. Run one waited 1,366 spins between rounds 2838 and 4205; run two waited 1,678 spins after round 2669, then 1,473 and 1,299 more, so rounds 2669 to 7122 held only three features in 4,453 spins.
What changed in the 90x buy between the runs?
Luck at the top: run one's fifty tickets returned 0.6461x with a best of EUR 128.35, run two's 1.3238x with four tickets past 5x, EUR 780.30, EUR 582.30, EUR 533.40 and EUR 467.20. The hundred together returned 0.985x of price, the median EUR 55.85, and 70 tickets ended under their price; the 99 tickets other than the best averaged 0.9073x.
Which multiplier levels hold the free spins money?
At the top: spins that began at x5 or higher paid 86.5% of the feature money in run one and 85.5% in run two, spins at x10 or higher 33.0% in run two, and the final multiplier averaged x10.35 and then x10.94, reaching x17 twice in run two. Among the bought features ticket 9 pushed it to x35 over 22 spins and ticket 12 to x32.
Is 227.35x on round 5380 really a base-game win?
Yes: an eleven-step chain in which the seventh collapse alone paid EUR 218 with all three pigs Wild, no Moon Bonus involved. Run two had two more base rounds past 100x, 192.85x on round 5548 and 109.4x on round 9759, where run one's best was 167.35x on round 6226; chains of six wins or more took 21.6% of run two's base-game money.
How far off is the 30,540x top payout?
Very: the largest round in 20,000 spins paid 323.75x, round 4341 of run one, and the largest in run two 266.5x on round 307. Quickspin's game sheet records 30,540.35x as the top payout in 100 billion simulated spins for the 96.05% model, and only eight rounds of 20,000 passed 100x.
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- spins20,000
- bet1.00
- result-2,375x
- RTP measured88.1%
- bonuses35
- max win, no bonus227.4x
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