Pragmatic Play · 2021 · tested 2026-10-04
Book of the Fallen
John Hunter covered reels 1, 4 and 5 for USD 200 in the Book of the Fallen demo, where free spins can pay an expansion across gaps that would break an ordinary line.
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 | 81.70% (approximate 95% CI 59.0–104.4) |
| Hit frequency | 31% · every 3.18 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 24 / 3.15 |
| Median hit | 0.50x |
| Max win (base game) | 101.0x · spin 5036 |
| Free spins, natural | 55 · 5.5 bHz · every 181.8 spins · mean FS-only payout 57.9x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 96,339 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Play Book of the Fallen demo
PRAGMATIC PLAY · official demo · same math as real play
United States
Book of the Fallen available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Book of the Fallen 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 freeBonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.49x · median 0.293× price (USD 58.50) · 40 of 50 below price · best 3.16x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10.8 / 10–30 |
| Retriggered | 6% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Every feature opens with ten spins. A retrigger here means three or more Books during free spins adding another ten; the chosen expanding symbol stays unchanged.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 4,86348.63% · approximate 95% CI 33–64%
- Net
- −USD 5,137−25.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 10 / 5020%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 1 / 502%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~182 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 182 paid 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 440 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 528 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 753 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
Before each feature, the open book offers nine expanding-symbol choices, from John Hunter to the playing cards; that selection also applies to any extra spins. Regular line wins are settled first. If the chosen icon occupies enough reels for its own award, those reels fill vertically and pay across all ten lines, even with gaps between them. Two occupied reels suffice for Hunter, Pharaoh, Anubis and Ankh; the cards require three.
Outside that expansion, line symbols must meet without gaps, beginning on reel one of the five-by-three field. Books substitute along these ten fixed paths and also pay as Scatters: three return 2x the underlying stake, four return 20x and five return 200x. At least three Books open a ten-spin feature; three or more Books during it award ten additional spins. Extensions have no numerical limit, but a round reaching the 5,000x ceiling stops immediately and forfeits any unplayed feature spins.
Two optional controls have different costs. Ten opening free spins can be purchased for a 100x fee; Super Spin instead charges a 10x fee per paid spin and activates the chosen expansion outside the bonus. Its symbol awards still use the underlying stake.
The tested panel lists theoretical RTPs of 96.50% for regular play, 96.49% for Super Spin and 96.48% for the purchase. Ordinary virtual USD stakes run from 0.10 to 250; the displayed 2,500 maximum includes the tenfold Super Spin charge. The rules label volatility medium, while the selection screen warns that choosing higher-paying symbols increases volatility.
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Wild symbol
Expanding symbol
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
11 frames from the test
Verdict
The missing reels did not cancel the awardRound 3430 separates an expansion from a conventional line. Free spin eight placed John Hunter on reels 1, 4 and 5: it produced no ordinary line award, yet the three expanded columns paid USD 200. Ten-spin entry later became twenty when three Books landed on spin ten. The finished round returned USD 312, made up of USD 43 at entry and USD 269 during the feature.
Four expanded columns took the same mechanism further in round 4223. Its third free spin paid USD 2,000 from expansion plus USD 4 on the original field; the entire round finished at USD 2,038. Across all natural features, expansion contributed USD 5,440 to their USD 6,367 in free-spin payouts. 56 of the 83 paying expansion screens used separated columns, so the non-adjacent rule was visible repeatedly.
The purchase experiment used the same John Hunter selection on every ticket. USD 4,863 was returned against a combined USD 10,000 cost, with 40 tickets below their USD 200 price and a median payout of USD 58.50. The figures describe this fixed setup; the other eight symbol choices remain unmeasured. Neither this run nor the purchase comparison establishes which symbol offers the best result.
The film shows another USD 200 ticket from the independent browser recording. Its USD 54 display includes USD 5 from entry and USD 49 earned over ten free spins. The gallery also contains a different, naturally triggered recording with a ten-spin extension; those captured events contribute nothing to the statistics above.
- Non-adjacent expansion appeared on 56 paying screens in the natural features.
- A single three-reel expansion in round 3430 paid USD 200 without an ordinary line win.
- Three naturally triggered features gained additional ten-spin awards.
- The fifty purchased entries left 40 tickets below their USD 200 cost.
- An uninterrupted stretch of 24 ordinary rounds paid nothing.
- All measured bonuses used John Hunter; the other eight choices and Super Spin remain untested.
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
- 31%rounds that paid
- 1,019xbiggest round
- 1 / 182natural bonus rate
- 0.49xmean of 50 buys
- 24longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-04 measured return81.70%-14.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 59.0–104.4%
- rounds that paid
- 31%
- biggest round
- 1,019x · round 4,223
- longest dry streak
- 24
- natural bonuses
- 55 · one per 182 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.49x · median 0.29x · 80% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 96,339
- deepest drawdown
- 1,975x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x); mode: Ordinary play; John Hunter expanding symbol in free spins; Super Spin off on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-04.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, cascade steps, 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
6 questions · answered from the logMust expanding Hunters occupy consecutive reels?
No. In round 3430, the eighth free spin expanded Hunter on reels numbered 1, 4 and 5; that expansion alone returned USD 200. There was no regular line win on that spin. The expanded symbol is evaluated across its occupied reels even when intervening reels contain something else.
Which expanding symbol was used throughout this test?
John Hunter was selected for every naturally triggered feature and each of the fifty purchases. His two-reel award is USD 2 per line at the USD 2 total stake, becoming USD 20 across ten lines after expansion. The selection screen associates higher symbol values with higher volatility; this single-choice sample cannot compare the nine available options.
Are 96.50%, 96.49% and 96.48% interchangeable RTP settings?
The client distinguishes regular play at 96.50%, Super Spin at 96.49% and buying at 96.48%. With Super Spin disabled, the ordinary sample measured 81.70%; its approximate 95% CI was 58.97%–104.42%. This normal-approximation interval describes uncertainty around a finite-sample mean, not the range of a future session or evidence that a game is fair.
Did the median purchase repay its USD 200 price?
The median was USD 58.50, equivalent to 0.293x the ticket cost. Total payouts of USD 4,863 gave a measured return of 48.63%, and 40 of fifty tickets finished below cost. These purchases form a small, separate sample; the USD 54 filmed result is excluded.
How many ordinary spins opened the Book feature?
Those 55 entries among 10,000 ordinary rounds work out to an entry frequency of 1 in 181.82. They completed 580 free spins, with three ten-spin extensions in total. The average is a description of this run and does not create a schedule for the next trigger.
Does Super Spin multiply the normal symbol prizes by ten?
It multiplies the charge, not the underlying prize scale. At an ordinary USD 2 setting, a Super Spin costs USD 20 and gives the selected expansion mechanic on that paid spin; symbol payouts are still calculated from USD 2. This mode is described from the client rules and was switched off for the measured run.
Also tested
4 more slots on the same rig-
Big Bass Halloween 2
Pragmatic Play · 10,000 spins
2026-10-03
2026-10-04
RTP
92.5% 96.7%
hit14%
max143x
buy0.42x
-
Sword of Ares
Pragmatic Play · 10,000 spins
2026-09-20
RTP
105.1% 96.4%
hit26%
max112x
buy1.35x
-
Fire Portals
Pragmatic Play · 10,000 spins
2026-09-10
RTP
96.3% 96.1%
hit25%
max366x
buy0.57x
-
Gates of Olympus
Pragmatic Play · 50,000 spins
2026-09-03
2026-09-21
RTP
94.4% 96.5%
hit29%
max402x
buy0.98x
Field notes
0 notes