Pragmatic Play · 2021 · tested 2026-09-29
Buffalo King Megaways
Buffalo King Megaways demo review, run one: 28 bonuses, 116.52% RTP, and a 484.7x hit on round 1020 arrived 247 spins before the first natural feature.
- RTP measured / declared 107.7% 96.52%
- Hit frequency 26%
- Max win · no bonus 485x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 1.16x
- Free spins, natural 49 / 20,000
- Bonus frequency 2.5 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 107.7% against 96.52% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 25.6% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 408 rounds (49 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 57.6x the stake, mean 104.5x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.16x of their price on average, 64% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,249.6x; the longest dry run was 31 spins.
Test card
20,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.52% |
| RTP measured | 107.71% (approximate 95% CI 91.6–123.9) |
| Hit frequency | 26% · every 3.9 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 31 / 3.89 |
| Median hit | 1.10x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 484.7x · run 1, round 1020 |
| Free spins, natural | 49 · 2.5 bHz · every 408.2 spins · mean bonus round payout 104.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 103,086 |
- 012026-09-1010,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓116.52%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓98.91%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
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Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.16x · median 0.68× price (USD 136.00) · 64 of 100 below price · best 14.66x · worst 0.07x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 13.4 / 12–22 |
| Retriggered | 18% |
| Multiplier total (avg / max) | 5 / 72 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Counts five-spin awards from three or more BONUS coins during free spins. Ten of 50 purchases extended; opening awards of 12, 17 or 22 spins are separate.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 23,178.30115.89% · approximate 95% CI 80–151%
- Net
- +USD 3,178.30+15.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 36 / 10036%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 12 / 10012%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~408 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 408 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 168 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 251 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 450 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
Four, five or six BONUS coins pay 5x, 20x or 100x and start 12, 17 or 22 free spins. Three extra coins inside the feature add five spins. Buying the feature is priced at 100 ordinary stakes, so USD 200 on the USD 2 setting used in both series, and the opening length can be 12, 17 or 22 spins. A 5,000x round cap ends the spin and any remaining feature play.
Canyon wilds substitute on the four inner reels and carry no extra factor in ordinary play. Inside free spins they arrive with 2x, 3x or 5x. Those factors accumulate across one tumble sequence and multiply together, after which the product is applied to that sequence's total. A later free spin does not inherit the previous sequence's product.
Ways are rebuilt on every spin from six main reels, with a ceiling of 200,704. The two edge reels stop at seven symbols; the four centre reels can add an eighth from a separate top strip. That strip travels on its own axis, opposite to the left-to-right pay direction. Matches must occupy neighbouring reels starting at the left-hand main reel.
A paying evaluation removes the symbols that scored and drops replacements into the empty positions, then checks again without charging a new stake. The chain stops when a layout produces no further combination. Credits for the chain are posted together.
Ante Bet bills 25 units in place of 20. Help screens attach a doubled natural-entry rate to that surcharge and lock the purchase button for as long as it stays on. This test kept Ante off for the 10,000-spin series and for the fifty purchases. Quoted figures in this build are 96.52% ordinary RTP, 96.49% with Ante, 96.50% on a purchase, high volatility, stakes USD 0.20 to USD 300.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
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
8 frames from the demo session
Verdict
The second run landed near parRun two of Buffalo King Megaways settled at 98.91% after the 116.52% of run one, and the two demo sessions pool to 107.71% over 20,000 spins, USD 3,085.60 or 1,543 stakes ahead of the USD 40,000 staked and still above the 96.52% profile. The reels kept their pace: paying spins on 25.71% and then 25.57% of rounds, 14,872 of the 20,000 empty, 1.1x the median hit, and blank stretches of 26 and 31 spins at the longest.
The big rounds are what thinned out: round 4715 of run one paid 1,249.6x over the whole round and round 1020 484.7x with no feature, while run two peaked at 309.5x on round 2414 and 160.0x on the scatter-free round 407. The 49 natural features, one per 408 spins or 2.45 bHz, that is natural triggers per thousand base spins, paid 104.50x on average and 57.6x at the median, 23.8% of the pooled return: 16 cleared 100x, six stayed under 20x, 48 opened on 12 spins and one, round 1536 of run two, on 17, and six collected a retrigger. The waits stretched to 776 spins in run one and 1,312 in run two, and stitched together the two logs show no natural trigger from round 8128 of run one to round 551 of run two, 2,422 spins.
The ticket has now returned USD 23,178.30 on 100 purchases at USD 200, 1.159x of price or 115.89%, with USD 136 as the median payout, 64 tickets under the price, 36 above it, twelve past 2x and two past 5x: the first run's buy 21 at 14.662x and the second run's buy 17 at 9.643x, whose twelfth spin alone paid 936 stakes under a 72x wild tally. Eighteen of the hundred retriggered, 92 opened on 12 spins and eight on 17, and the average bought feature ran 13.4 spins.
- Both runs finished above the 96.52% profile, pooling to 107.71% over 20,000 spins
- Sixteen natural features out of 49 paid over 100x, led by 1,249.6x on round 4715
- One hundred tickets returned 1.159x of price, two of them past 9x
- Ten scatter-free rounds over 100x in 20,000 spins, topped by 484.7x on round 1020
- Sixty-four of the 100 tickets paid less than their USD 200 cost
- Droughts of 776 and 1,312 spins between features, plus 2,422 spins without a trigger across the end of run one and the start of run two
- Six of 49 features paid under 20x, the weakest 12.1x on round 8482
- Run two's best feature, 309.5x, was a quarter of run one's 1,249.6x
Run 01·2026-09-10·116.52%
Buy 21 returned USD 2,932.40 from a USD 200 ticket and stopped on its original 12 spins. That single payout is larger than the USD 2,418 profit of all fifty purchases combined. Strip out buy 21's cost and its return, and the other 49 tickets lose USD 314.40. The 124.18% headline for the buy series is that one result sitting on a 96.79% remainder.
Round 1020 paid 484.7x with no feature, 247 spins before the first natural bonus on 1267. Four more ordinary hits cleared 120x: 227.7x on 5189, 159.9x on 6789, 120.4x on 4753 and 120.0x on 5193. Take rounds 1020 and 4715 out of the ledger and the remaining return is 99.19%. The 116.52% close is those two rounds sitting on an otherwise near-par sample.
Measured ordinary RTP was 116.52% on USD 20,000 staked, with an approximate 95% interval of 87.24% to 145.80% that still contains the 96.52% profile. 7,429 rounds paid nothing. After the last natural bonus on 8128, the remaining 1,872 spins produced no further feature. Peak-to-trough drawdown reached 647.2 stakes, with the trough at spin 9981.
Forty-five purchases opened on 12 spins; five opened on 17; none opened on 22. Ten of the fifty later added spins, and four of those finished at 22. Median cash back was USD 155.20, and 29 tickets paid under the USD 200 price. Four tickets reached 2x or more; only buy 21 reached 5x.
Run 02·2026-09-29·98.91%
The top round of the run was 2414: 12 free spins retriggered to 17, its third spin paying 265.5 stakes through five cascades, and the feature closing at USD 619.00 with the trigger spin, 309.5x, or 303.7x from the free spins alone. Six more natural rounds cleared 100x, round 950 at 230.9x, 7253 at 165.2x, 551 at 153.35x, 3190 at 148.55x, 6387 at 138.1x and 5894 at 120.7x, the last two also retriggered, 5894 all the way to 22 spins. The 21 features arrived at one per 476 spins, 2.1 bHz, and their full rounds were worth USD 3,342.00, 16.9% of the run's total return, a 79.57x mean against a 35.9x median, five of them under 20x and round 8482 at the bottom with 12.1x; twenty opened on 12 spins and round 1536 on 17, and the longest droughts were 1,312 spins between rounds 8482 and 9795 and 1,082 between 3190 and 4273.
Scatter-free reels topped out at 160.0x on round 407, with rounds 5088, 3022, 1085 and 6414 behind it at 155.2x, 145.4x, 128.0x and 112.0x, five rounds over 100x without a feature. Paying spins came on 25.57% of rounds, the median one worth 1.1x, 7,443 rounds returned nothing, six blank stretches reached 20 spins and the longest, 31 spins, ran from round 1183 to 1213. The balance stood 549.4 stakes up on spin 1085 and never higher, was last above its start on spin 8601, bottomed 237.4 stakes down on spin 9395 and closed at USD 99,782.00, 109 stakes short, 98.91% of USD 20,000; the 50- and 100-stake bankrolls went on spins 290 and 363, the 200-stake bankroll held until spin 9320, and each 2,000-round block returned 110.9%, 106.3%, 79.7%, 103.6% and 94.0% in turn.
Ten thousand dollars went across the buy counter for fifty tickets and USD 10,760.30 came back, 1.076x of price or 107.60%, the median ticket paying USD 114.80: 35 paid under the price, 15 above it, eight past 2x and one past 5x, buy 17, whose twelfth free spin paid USD 1,872, 936 stakes, under a 72x wild tally, for USD 1,928.60 and 9.643x in all. Buys 42, 47, 34 and 19 followed at 3.618x, 3.479x, 3.058x and 3.05x, the worst, buy 43, returned USD 13.20, and eight tickets retriggered, so the bought feature averaged 13.1 spins: 47 opened on 12, three on 17, and buy 20 was the only one to reach 22.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rigThis 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
- 26%rounds that paid
- 1,250xbiggest round
- 1 / 408natural bonus rate
- 1.16xmean of 100 buys
- 31longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-10 measured return116.52%+20.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 87.2–145.8%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 1,250x · round 4,715
- longest dry streak
- 26
- natural bonuses
- 28 · one per 357 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.24x · median 0.776x · 58% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 103,304
- deepest drawdown
- 647x
02run Run 022026-09-29 lab note measured return98.91%+2.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 85.3–112.6%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 310x · round 2,414
- longest dry streak
- 31
- natural bonuses
- 21 · one per 476 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.08x · median 0.574x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,782
- deepest drawdown
- 787x
Logged on 29 September, the second run returned 98.91% after 116.52% on 10 September, taking the pooled figure to 107.71% over 20,000 rounds, still above the 96.52% profile. Free spins came 21 times against 28 and paid 79.57x on average against 123.19x, with nothing near the 1,249.6x feature of run one; the fifty tickets returned 1.076x of price after 1.2418x, buy 17 at 9.643x the best of the new batch.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-10, 2026-09-29): 20000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 100 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.52%); 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 →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the logHas a second run moved the Buffalo King Megaways verdict?
Yes, downward: the return fell from 116.52% to 98.91%, taking the pooled figure to 107.71% over 20,000 spins, still above the printed 96.52%; the reels paid on 25.57% of spins against 25.71%, so the gap came from the top end: 21 features at 79.57x on average against 28 at 123.19x, and no round near run one's 1,249.6x.
After 100 tickets, does buying the Buffalo King Megaways feature still pay?
Yes, at 1.159x of price: USD 23,178.30 back on USD 20,000, though 64 of the 100 tickets paid under USD 200 and the median was USD 136. Run two's batch returned 1.076x, with buy 17 at 9.643x from a 936-stake twelfth spin, and eight tickets past 2x against four in run one.
At worst, how far apart were the free spins?
1,312 spins in run two, from round 8482 to 9795, after 776 in run one; stitched together, the two logs show 2,422 spins without a natural trigger from round 8128 of run one to round 551 of run two. On average a feature came every 408 spins, 2.45 per thousand.
Do the free spins usually stay at 12 in Buffalo King Megaways?
Yes, mostly: forty-eight of the 49 natural rounds opened on 12 spins and one, round 1536 of run two, on 17; six of the 49 collected the five-spin retrigger, three per run, and the longest natural feature ran 22 spins on round 5894. Among purchases, 18 of 100 retriggered and the average bought round ran 13.4 spins.
Which spin made round 2414 the top round of run two?
Its third free spin: five cascades under the wild product paid 265.5 stakes, and the round, retriggered from 12 to 17 spins, closed at USD 619.00 with the trigger spin, 309.5x, of which the free spins alone paid USD 607.40, 303.7x. The next best natural rounds of run two were 230.9x on round 950 and 165.2x on round 7253.
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