Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-09-07
Buffalo King Untamed Megaways
Buffalo King Untamed Megaways paid its two biggest demo rounds, 517.65x and 415.5x, only when free spins retriggered to thirty and forty spins in a ten-thousand-spin log.
- RTP measured / declared 90.6% 96.02%
- Hit frequency 23%
- Max win · no bonus 78x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 1.13x
- Free spins, natural 24 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 2.4 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 90.6% against 96.02% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 23.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 417 rounds (24 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 44.1x the stake, mean 93.5x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.13x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 517.7x; the longest dry run was 31 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.02% |
| RTP measured | 90.60% (approximate 95% CI 74.6–106.6) |
| Hit frequency | 23% · every 4.3 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 31 / 4.31 |
| Median hit | 1.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 78.0x · round 3930 |
| Free spins, natural | 24 · 2.4 bHz · every 416.7 spins · mean bonus round payout 93.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,121 |
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
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.13x · median 0.387× price (USD 77.40) · 35 of 50 below price · best 10.34x · worst 0.07x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 13.1 / 10–25 |
| Retriggered | 44% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Three to six bonus coins during the feature add 5, 10, 15 or 20 spins. All tested purchases began with ten spins.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 11,319.20113.19% · approximate 95% CI 60–166%
- Net
- +USD 1,319.20+6.6 buys
- Break-even or better
- 15 / 5030%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 8 / 5016%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~417 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 417 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 317 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 378 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 547 |
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
Six reels with two to six symbols on the outer ones and two to seven on the middle four, 86,436 ways at the most. The buffalo tops the table and pays from two of a kind, 5x for a full six-reel way; the nine and ten sit at the bottom at 0.5x. A way needs the same symbol on consecutive reels starting at the first, and nothing cascades: one spin, one payout. The 78x on round 3930, the best base spin of the run, was a single evaluation.
The canyon wild appears on reels two to five and can carry 2x, 3x or 5x. Its multiplier applies to every win on the screen, and two multiplied wilds multiply each other. Three random modifiers can fire on any base spin: a floor of 10,000 ways, the full 86,436 ways, or a hundred buffalo symbols pressed onto the reel strips. None of these are separately logged; they show up in the results as the spins they produce.
Ten, fifteen or twenty free spins follow four, five or six bonus coins. Inside the round the wilds begin with no multiplier and gain 1x each time a winning combination is formed while a wild is on the screen, so a long round accumulates value. Three or more coins during the round add 5, 10, 15 or 20 spins with no limit. Of the 24 natural rounds, 16 ended at ten spins, three at fifteen, three at twenty, one at thirty (round 6378) and one at forty (round 8720); the last two are the two largest results of the run.
For 100x the bet the feature starts at once with four to six coins; the ante bet at 30 units instead of 20 makes the natural trigger three times as frequent and greys out the button. The rules put the return at 96.02% in every mode, call the game medium volatility, cap wins at 10,000x and set the stake between 0.20 and 360.
Megaways
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Free spins
Retrigger
Scatter symbol
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 360 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
14 frames from the demo session
Verdict
who it suits, who should skip itThe balance never got above 64 bets up, and that was on round 152, the first bonus of the run. From there it went one way: 449 bets down at spin 2,000, 979 at 6,000, a low of 1,268 down at spin 8635, and a close at 98,120.90, 940 bets under the start. The two big rounds, 517.65x on 6378 and 415.5x on 8720, are worth about nine points of the logged return between them; without those two spins the figure would read close to 81.3%. The 50-bet bankroll lasted 317 spins, 100 bets 378 and 200 bets 547.
There is not much to the base game. Three quarters of spins paid nothing, eleven blank stretches of 20 spins or more, the longest 31 (rounds 7936 to 7966). Only 38 base rounds reached 20x and none passed 78x; every one of the five rounds above 100x was a free-spin round. The median hit of 1.8x is higher than in the tumbling games, because a Megaways way-win on a tall reel set pays several ways at once, but the hits are too rare to carry the session.
Free spins arrived naturally once per 417 spins with a 1,563-spin gap between rounds 4023 and 5586. Their median was 44.1x, their mean 93.5x, trigger spins included; five of 24 finished under 20x, the smallest 7.6x on round 3954, while four of the five above 100x ran longer than ten spins. Length is everything in this feature, because the wild multiplier only climbs while the round lasts.
Purchases at 200 a round returned 11,319 for the 10,000 spent, but in a very uneven way: 35 losing purchases, a median of 0.387x, and two rounds, buy 8 at 10.3x and buy 26 at 8.4x, that between them account for more than the whole profit. Twenty-two of the fifty bought rounds received extra spins after their ten-spin starts, and the eight rounds above 2x all came from that group. Take away buy 8 and the average is 0.94x.
- Two natural rounds above 400x, both from retriggered free spins
- Eight of fifty purchases came back above 2x, the average 1.132x
- A 1.8x median hit, the highest of the lab's Megaways tests so far
- Three spins in four paid nothing, and eleven blank stretches lasted 20 spins or longer
- Base play never passed 78x in ten thousand spins
- Under 20x in five of 24 natural bonuses, the lowest 7.6x
- The median purchase returned 0.387x, well under half of its 100x price
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
- 23%rounds that paid
- 518xbiggest round
- 1 / 417natural bonus rate
- 1.13xmean of 50 buys
- 31longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-07 measured return90.60%-5.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 74.6–106.6%
- rounds that paid
- 23%
- biggest round
- 518x · round 6,378
- longest dry streak
- 31
- natural bonuses
- 24 · one per 417 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.13x · median 0.387x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,121
- deepest drawdown
- 1,332x
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.02%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-07.
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
6 questions · answered from the logWhy did the free spins pay so unevenly?
Because the wild multiplier inside the feature starts at zero and climbs by one for every win formed while a wild is on the screen. A ten-spin round rarely gets far; the two rounds that ran to thirty and forty spins reached 517.65x and 415.5x. Of the 24 natural rounds, the sixteen that ended at ten spins had a median of about 27x.
Bonus coins inside the feature add spins; how often did that happen?
Three or more bonus coins during the feature add spins. Eight of the 24 natural rounds received such an extension, including rounds 6378 and 8720, which reached thirty and forty spins. All fifty purchases began with ten spins; 22 later received extra spins, and all eight purchases above 2x were in that extended group.
On Buffalo King Untamed, does the 100x purchase pay off?
The average says yes at 1.132x, the median says no at 0.387x, and both are true of the same fifty rounds. Two purchases returned 10.3x and 8.4x; 35 returned less than their price and five returned less than a tenth of it. A player buying once or twice is far more likely to see the median than the average.
Which random modifiers can hit a base spin, and were they seen?
Three things can happen on any base spin: the ways count is forced to at least 10,000, or to the full 86,436, or a hundred extra buffalo symbols are added to the strips. The server does not flag them in its responses, so the lab cannot count them; their effect is inside the base-game figures, which came to 38 rounds at 20x or more and a top of 78x.
Ante bet at 30 units: sensible?
It costs 30 units per spin instead of 20 and triples the natural trigger rate, at the price of losing the buy button. Regular play produced one trigger per 417 spins here, so the ante version would be expected to trigger about once per 140 spins at a 50% higher cost per spin. The lab did not measure it.
How does this compare with the original Buffalo King Megaways?
The original now has its own 10,000-spin and 50-buy review. It starts with 12, 17 or 22 free spins and has a 5,000x ordinary-play cap. Untamed adds random modifiers and has a 10,000x cap, so the two versions do not share every bonus rule. Both use 2x, 3x and 5x wild values; compare each review against its own captured rules and RTP profile.
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