Book of 99

The series returned 137.22% of stake against the 99% in the rules, and one round explains the gap: round 1956 paid FUN 10,088, 5,044x, after the explorer was drawn as the special symbol and covered all fifteen positions on the fourth free spin, ten lines of five at 500x each. Without that round the other 9,999 spins returned 86.78%. The approximate 95% band, 37.6 to 236.9%, is the widest the lab has printed, which is what a single 5,000x round does to the arithmetic.

The two roads to the feature paid differently. The 37 rounds opened by the meter came like clockwork, one per 224 to 333 spins, and averaged 52x the stake as whole rounds with a 38x median; the 36 rounds opened by three Wilds averaged 202x, or 64x without round 1956, with gaps from 7 to 1,069 spins. Five rounds on each road retriggered, the longest ran 30 spins from round 590, and 13 of the 73 rounds paid under 20x.

Ordinary play is a delivery service. Something paid on 29.6% of ordinary spins, mostly at 0.5x, no ordinary spin passed 101x, and the balance sat 178 stakes below the start before spin 1956 lifted it 5,043 stakes in one round. Expansions are the money: 736 of the 860 free spins expanded at least one reel and those pays were 59.8% of everything the series returned. Three expansions covered the whole screen, and the two that drew a royal, the 10 on round 7201 and the jack on round 9497, paid FUN 200 apiece against FUN 10,000 for the explorer.

The second series returned 89.42% of stake against the 99% in the rules, an approximate 95% band of 73.7 to 105.1% that still holds it, and closed 1,058 stakes down after a 1,820-stake drawdown that bottomed at spin 8438. Fifty stakes lasted 62 spins, a hundred 155 and two hundred 438, where the first run's two hundred survived the session. Something paid on 30.26% of spins at a 0.5x median, four droughts passed 20 spins and the longest ran 24, and no ordinary spin beat 101.5x, on round 6959.

The draw decides the round, and this time it never drew the top symbol into a good round. Sixty-three features arrived, one per 159 spins, and paid 65.97x the stake on average for the whole round with a 54.0x median, 46.5% of everything returned; the explorer came up three times and averaged 31x from its free spins, against eight draws and 666x in the first run. Round 1260 led the session at 422x on a jack, round 1430 covered the whole screen twice with queens across 30 spins for 305x, and round 8831 did it once with kings for 281.5x; the weakest round paid 5.5x, and thirteen stayed under 20x.

The two roads into the feature stayed close to their first-run rates. Three Wilds opened 27 rounds, the 99-Wild meter 36, and the meter's rounds again paid less, 45.65x the stake on average as whole rounds against 93.06x for the Wild-triggered ones. Wilds landed 3,732 times in 10,000 spins, 0.37 per spin, and 645 of the 730 free spins expanded at least one reel, 88.4% of them.

The Sorceress was drawn five times out of 66 and those five features averaged FUN 458.60, the highest of any symbol in the run: round 5573 opened from the 99-Wild meter, retriggered twice to 30 spins and paid FUN 1,233, FUN 800 of it on spin 23, and round 7713 took FUN 802 on its sixth spin after three Wilds opened it. The Explorer came up once, for FUN 101. Two expansions filled all fifteen positions, the J on spin twelve of a 20-spin feature and the Q on spin four of another, worth FUN 294 and FUN 306 as complete rounds.

The meter opened 37 features and three Wilds 29, one feature per 152 rounds in all; the Wild road averaged FUN 171.66 against FUN 116.62 for the meter, and 13 features ran past ten spins, nine to twenty, three to thirty and one to forty. Bonus rounds supplied FUN 9,293 of the FUN 19,061 returned, 48.8%, and the 10,000 FUN 2 rounds closed at 95.31%, with 6,989 blank rounds, a 28-round dry stretch from 4355 to 4382 and the balance 1,193 stakes under its start at the lowest point. Wilds landed 3,687 times, 0.37 per spin, and no ordinary spin passed 101x.