Nolimit City · 2023 · measured RTP 110.1% · tested 2026-11-05
Blood & Shadow
Blood & Shadow's Ritual bar reached level 3 in only 107 of 10,000 logged demo rounds, and those rounds made 59.19% of the payouts behind a measured RTP of 110.1%.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 110.1% against 96.13% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 26.4% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 13 rounds (765 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 2.7x the stake, mean 11.8x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 66x returned 1.42x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 454.4x; the longest dry run was 25 spins.
In the lab’s research: Slot volatility, measured · Declared vs measured RTP · How often slots trigger the bonus — this test is part of their data
Blood & Shadow demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Blood & Shadow 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
10,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.13% |
| RTP measured | 110.10% (approximate 95% CI 89.3–130.9) |
| Hit frequency | 26% · every 3.79 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 25 / 3.77 |
| Median hit | 0.85x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 12.7x · round 7687 |
| Free spins, natural | 765 · 76.5 bHz · every 13.1 spins · mean bonus round payout 11.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 11,010 |
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
50 buys × 66x · EUR 66 each
mean 1.42x · median 0.586× price (EUR 38.70) · 35 of 50 below price · best 17.64x · worst 0.02x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 6.8 / 6–17 |
| Extended | 14% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Every extra spin is tied to the Ritual bar or, inside Cursed Spins, to a Scatter: Candle Spins grow by two each time the bar reaches a new level up to level 4, entering Cursed Spins adds 6, and each Scatter there adds one. Seven of the 50 bought rounds ran past their 6 opening spins: three reached level 4 and played 8, four reached Cursed Spins and played 14 to 17.
- Spent
- EUR 3,30050 × EUR 66
- Returned
- EUR 4,695.90142.30% · approximate 95% CI 70–215%
- Net
- +EUR 1,395.90+21.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 15 / 5030%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 5014%
- Price in base spins
- 66natural trigger every ~13 spins
One ticket equals 66 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 13 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 84 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 1794 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2156 |
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
19 rules screens from the game
Four symbols sit on each of the five reels, for 1,024 ways, and a winning run has to start on reel 1 and carry on through the reels next to it. Winning symbols are destroyed and the others tumble down to make room for new ones. Five of the possessed woman pay 8x the bet, the six-eyed hound 6x, the horned demon 5x, the reptile 4x and the bird skull 3x; below them the hooded corpse pays 1.5x, the wolf and the goat 1.2x, the snake and the raven 0.9x, and the five sigils between 0.6x and 0.15x. Apart from the pentagram Scatter, any symbol can be covered by the Wild.
Under the reels sits the Ritual bar, which counts 1 point for every winning medium symbol, 2 for every winning high symbol and 10 for each Scatter. Level 1 needs 20 points and the next ones 30, 40, 60 and 80, with any surplus carried over after a level-up. Each new level strips the lowest sigil left from the reels and converts a medium symbol into a high one, and the bar goes back to zero when a new paid round starts.
Levels 1 to 4 each add 2 Candle Spins, played without a stake while the bar keeps counting, so one paid spin can climb several levels. In Candle Spins a Wild, which never lands on reel 1, drops to the bottom of its reel and stays there as a sticky Wild until it is part of a win.
Level 5 opens Cursed Spins with 6 free spins. The bar is removed, the grid grows to five by five, 3,125 ways, and holds only high symbols; every Scatter adds a spin, and xSplit symbols cut the symbols of a row or a reel in two.
Buying Baphomet Rite for 66x the stake moves a round straight to level 3 with 6 Candle Spins and swaps three low and medium symbols for high ones; the buy menu also lists Cursed Spins with 10 free spins for 500x and Lucky Draw tickets for level 1 to 5 at 55x or level 3 to 5 at 166x. Regular play is listed at 96.13% RTP and the four buys between 96.01% and 96.18%. A round stops at 6,666x the bet, a win simulated once in 97,000,000 rounds; a EUR 0.20 minimum sits under a EUR 280 top bet, and volatility is rated 7.7, Extreme.
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Sticky symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Bonus buy
Bet range EUR 0.20 – 280 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Real money began at level three
Without ever entering Cursed Spins, round 8535 paid 454.35x, the top payout of the 10,000, after its Candle Spins climbed to level 4 and ran to 8 spins. Fifteen ordinary rounds reached 100x, and every one of them had climbed to level 3 or higher; just three, rounds 629, 2701 and 7612, went on to the free spins proper and paid between 341.35x and 417.3x each.
Baphomet Rite starts a ticket at level 3, and 43 of the 50 EUR 66 tickets never moved past it, with a median of 0.503x the price. The seven that climbed on to level 4 or 5 supplied 51.34% of the EUR 4,695.90 the buys returned. Ticket 31 earned EUR 1,004.50 inside Cursed Spins alone and finished on EUR 1,164.05, 17.637x.
Of the 765 rounds that filled the first 20 points, 442 went no further than level 1, where two Candle Spins plus the spin that started them had a 1.6x median. Rounds that stopped at level 3, 102 of them, had a 35.5x median and paid 43.78% of all the money the 10,000 paid rounds produced. With the five that went higher, those 107 rounds made up 59.19% of all payouts, while the 9,235 rounds that never reached level 1 gave 18.08%.
- Eight Candle Spins at level 4 lifted round 8535 to 454.35x, the best ordinary round
- EUR 4,695.90 came back from fifty EUR 66 Baphomet Rite tickets, 142.3% of the outlay
- Each of the four bought rounds that reached Cursed Spins came back above its EUR 66 price
- Candle Spins began in 765 of 10,000 ordinary rounds, one per 13.07
- Cursed Spins opened on only 3 of the 10,000 ordinary rounds
- A first level gives just two Candle Spins, and the 442 rounds that went no further had a 1.6x median
- The 8x possessed woman formed no winning combination outside Cursed Spins in the whole test
- Most purchases, 43 of 50, never rose above the level 3 they started on
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rig
One 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
- 26%rounds that paid
- 454xbiggest round
- 1 / 13natural bonus rate
- 1.42xmean of 50 buys
- 25longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-11-05 measured return110.10%+14.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 89.3–130.9%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 454x · round 8,535
- longest dry streak
- 25
- natural bonuses
- 765 · one per 13 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.42x · median 0.586x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 11,010
- deepest drawdown
- 625x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1 bet; 50 bonus buys at EUR 66 each (66x); mode: Ordinary EUR 1 play; purchases are EUR 66 Baphomet Rite tickets; recorded on the official Nolimit City demo server (jurisdiction DEFAULT, RTP profile 96.13%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-11-05.
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
Are Candle Spins in Blood & Shadow the same thing as its free spins?
No. Candle Spins are pairs of spins added each time the Ritual bar reaches a level from 1 to 4, while Cursed Spins, the five-by-five spins with high symbols only, open at level 5 with 6 spins and are the only ones the rules call free spins. Of the 10,000 paid rounds at a EUR 1.00 bet, 765 got Candle Spins, the figure the Test card lists under natural free spins, and 3 of them went on to Cursed Spins.
Do Cursed Spins ever come in Blood & Shadow without the buy?
Yes. Three of the 10,000 paid rounds got there: 629, 2701 and 7612. Each had to pass levels 1 to 4 inside a single paid round, because the bar resets on the next stake, and they played 15, 17 and 15 spins in total. Their whole rounds paid 348x, 417.3x and 341.35x the bet, 10.05% of all payouts together.
The rules give 96.13%; how did the Blood & Shadow demo reach 110%?
A EUR 1.00 stake over 10,000 paid rounds brought back EUR 11,010.30, or 110.10%, and 96.13% still falls within a 95% CI running from about 89.28% to 130.92%. The series ran as four lanes of 2,500 rounds, which returned between 94.65% and 127.42%. Leaving out round 8535 and its 454.35x, the remaining 9,999 rounds gave back 105.57%.
For EUR 66, what does a typical Baphomet Rite ticket return?
At the median the 50 tickets paid EUR 38.70, 0.586x the price, and 35 of them fell short of EUR 66. The average was pulled up to 1.423x by a few rounds that kept climbing, above all ticket 31 at EUR 1,164.05; leave it out and the remaining 49 tickets averaged 1.0921x.
What changes on the reels each time the Ritual bar levels up?
One sigil leaves the reels and one medium symbol turns into a high one, starting with the lowest of each, so by level 3 three sigils and the raven, snake and goat are gone. Medians rose with each level reached: rounds that stopped at level 1 had a 1.6x median, those stopping at level 2 3.475x and those stopping at level 3 35.5x.
Can the 8x possessed woman pay in the Blood & Shadow base game?
No. She never appeared on the base grid, turned up in Candle Spins only once a round had reached level 4, and all 13 of her winning combinations came inside Cursed Spins, 5 in natural rounds and 8 in bought ones. Five of her pay 8x the bet.
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- spins10,000
- bet1.00
- result+1,010x
- RTP measured110.1%
- bonuses765
- max win, no bonus12.7x
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