Pragmatic Play · 2019 · tested 2026-10-28
Buffalo King
Wilds in Buffalo King's free spins multiply each other along a way, and in a demo test one free spin of a bought bonus, with x5, x5 and x2 Wilds, paid six ways at x50, USD 3,600 in total.
- RTP measured / declared 81.8% 96.06%
- Hit frequency 20%
- Max win · no bonus 135x
- Bonus buy · mean result 75x · 1.04x
- Free spins, natural 61 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 6.1 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 81.8% against 96.06% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 20.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 164 rounds (61 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 19x the stake, mean 44.3x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 75x returned 1.04x of their price on average, 80% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 421.0x; 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 | 96.06% |
| RTP measured | 81.79% (approximate 95% CI 67.8–95.8) |
| Hit frequency | 20% · every 4.88 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 31 / 4.89 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 135.0x · round 9917 |
| Free spins, natural | 61 · 6.1 bHz · every 163.9 spins · mean bonus round payout 44.3x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 96,359 |
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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Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Buffalo King 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
Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 75x · USD 150 eachmean 1.04x · median 0.307× price (USD 46.00) · 40 of 50 below price · best 24.29x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 20.2 / 8–125 |
| Retriggered | 50% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 6% |
Inside the feature two BONUS coins add 5 spins, three add 8, four add 15 and so on up to 100 for six; opening awards of 15 or 25 spins from four or five coins on the trigger spin are not counted as extensions. Eighteen of the 61 natural bonuses gained spins this way, 64 times by five and six times by eight, and so did 25 of the 50 tickets.
- Spent
- USD 7,50050 × USD 150
- Returned
- USD 7,786103.81% · approximate 95% CI 10–198%
- Net
- +USD 286+1.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 10 / 5020%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 4 / 508%
- Price in base spins
- 75natural trigger every ~164 spins
One ticket equals 75 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 164 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 239 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 299 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 479 |
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
6 rules screens from the game
Buffalo King is the 2019 original: six reels of four rows and 4,096 ways, so a win needs the same symbol, in any row, on reel 1 and on every following reel without a gap, three reels at least. Each way pays only its highest combination, all paying ways are added together, and nothing cascades, so a spin is settled in one evaluation. At a USD 2.00 bet six buffalos pay USD 15, or 7.5x the stake, the eagle and the cougar 6.25x, the wolf and the moose 5x, while A and K top out at 3x, Q and J at 2.5x, and 10 and 9 at 2x.
Only reels 2 to 6 carry the canyon Wild, which replaces any symbol except the BONUS coin, and that coin can appear on all six reels. Three, four, five or six coins start 8, 15, 25 or 100 free spins, played on their own reel set. Inside the feature two coins already add five spins, and three to six coins add the same 8 to 100 as in the base game.
Wilds carry no multiplier in ordinary play. During free spins each Wild arrives with x2, x3 or x5, and a winning combination that runs through several of them is multiplied by their product, so a way through x2 and x5 Wilds pays at x10. Ways that contain no Wild pay their face value.
A purchase costs 75x the bet, USD 150 at the USD 2.00 used for both series, and the bought spin lands a random number of coins, which sets the number of starting spins. The game's own pages give a theoretical return of 96.06% and medium volatility with bets from USD 0.40 to USD 60.00, and the intro slide advertises wins of up to 93,750x the bet.
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.40 – 60 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
8 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Wild products on buffalo waysOn its 30th free spin, ticket 30 had Wilds at x2 on reel 2 and x5 on reels 4 and 5, and four six-buffalo ways plus two six-king ways ran through all three at x50. That spin paid USD 3,600, 98.81% of the ticket's USD 3,643.50 and 46.24% of all the money the fifty USD 150 purchases returned. The same ticket had opened on 25 free spins from five BONUS coins, the only one of the fifty to start that high.
Round 6875, the best natural bonus at 421x, ran to 71 spins after twelve extensions, and most of its money came on spin 33: Wilds at x2, x3 and x3 across the top row of reels 2 to 4 paid three four-buffalo ways and a way of nines at x18, USD 558 of the round's USD 842. Over all 61 natural bonuses, ways through two or more Wilds earned 43.56% of the free spins money, against 16.83% for ways with no Wild at all.
Eighteen natural bonuses gained extra spins and averaged 81.31x the stake, against 28.84x for the 43 that kept their opening award. Single tickets did not follow that order: ticket 50 ran 125 free spins and returned USD 136.50, under its price, while ticket 16 stopped at eight and paid USD 495, every cent of it from one spin in which x3 and x5 Wilds lined up wolf ways.
- Sixty-one free spins in round 5833 paid 233.75x the stake
- Extended natural bonuses averaged 81.31x the stake
- Ways through two or more Wilds earned 63.40% of the bought free spins money
- Without any bonus, round 9917 paid 135x on one base spin
- Ticket 50 ran 125 free spins and still came back under USD 150
- Seven natural bonuses finished without a cent
- On 7,952 of the 10,000 ordinary rounds the reels paid nothing
- Four BONUS coins opened just three natural bonuses, and no natural trigger had five or six
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
- 20%rounds that paid
- 421xbiggest round
- 1 / 164natural bonus rate
- 1.04xmean of 50 buys
- 31longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-28 measured return81.79%-14.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 67.8–95.8%
- rounds that paid
- 20%
- biggest round
- 421x · round 6,875
- longest dry streak
- 31
- natural bonuses
- 61 · one per 164 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.04x · median 0.307x · 80% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 96,359
- deepest drawdown
- 1,905x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 50 bonus buys at USD 150 each (75x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.06%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-28.
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 logWhen two multiplier Wilds share a way in Buffalo King free spins, what is the win multiplied by?
By the product of the two values, so x2 and x3 give x6 and two x5 Wilds give x25, and a third Wild multiplies again. In round 5481 three x2 Wilds made x8 on four six-buffalo ways, USD 480 in one spin and 99.38% of that bonus, while Wilds in the base game carry no multiplier.
Fifty Buffalo King bonus buys cost USD 7,500; how much of it came back?
USD 7,786, or 103.81% of the price, and the money sat in very few tickets: four reached twice their cost, and only ticket 30 went past five times it, at 24.29x. The ticket in the middle of the fifty paid USD 46.00, 0.31x its price.
What does it take to trigger Buffalo King free spins, and how many came in the test?
Three BONUS coins anywhere on the six reels start 8 free spins, and four, five or six start 15, 25 or 100. The 10,000 ordinary spins brought 61 natural triggers, one per 163.9 spins on average: 58 from three coins and three from four.
Measured over 10,000 spins, how far is Buffalo King from its 96.06% RTP?
81.79% of the USD 20,000 staked came back, and the mean's approximate 95% confidence interval, 67.84% to 95.75%, stops just below the declared figure. Natural bonuses supplied 33.05% of all payouts, and without round 6875, the best at 421x, the other 9,999 spins returned 77.59% of their stake.
Which Buffalo King was tested here, the 2019 original or a Megaways version?
The 2019 original, game code vs4096bufking: six reels of four rows with a fixed 4,096 ways, no cascades, 8 to 100 opening free spins and a 75x buy. Buffalo King Megaways and Buffalo King Untamed Megaways change reel heights on every spin and use different bonus rules, and each has its own review on the site.
Can the Buffalo King base game pay 100x without free spins?
Yes, twice: round 9917 paid 135x and round 4193 104x on single base spins, while the other seven rounds of the series above 100x all contained free spins.
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