Nolimit City · 2022 · measured RTP 98.7% · tested 2026-11-13
Dead Canary
Dead Canary free spins paid EUR 4,017 in 58 natural bonuses and left EUR 4,232 on living canaries and in locked vaults, within 10,000 logged demo rounds that returned 98.7% RTP, 96.02% declared.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 98.7% against 96.02% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 25.7% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 172 rounds (58 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 40.1x the stake, mean 71.7x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 68x returned 1.05x of their price on average, 62% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 890.3x; the longest dry run was 24 spins.
Dead Canary demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Dead Canary 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
Test card
10,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.02% |
| RTP measured | 98.69% (approximate 95% CI 76.5–120.8) |
| Hit frequency | 26% · every 3.89 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 24 / 3.83 |
| Median hit | 0.50x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 177.3x · round 9262 |
| Free spins, natural | 58 · 5.8 bHz · every 172.4 spins · mean bonus round payout 71.7x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 9,869 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 68x · EUR 68 each
mean 1.05x · median 0.721× price (EUR 49.00) · 31 of 50 below price · best 5.44x · worst 0.19x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 14.5 / 8–26 |
| Extended | 100% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Nothing is retriggered here in the usual sense. A bonus opens with 3 spins and each bomb explosion sets the counter back to 3; that happened at least three times in every one of the 58 natural and 50 bought bonuses, so lengths of 8 to 33 spins are stretches of one round, never a second award.
- Spent
- EUR 3,40050 × EUR 68
- Returned
- EUR 3,573105.09% · approximate 95% CI 78–132%
- Net
- +EUR 173+2.5 buys
- Break-even or better
- 19 / 5038%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 6 / 5012%
- Price in base spins
- 68natural trigger every ~172 spins
One ticket equals 68 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 172 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 1768 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 1827 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2109 |
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
23 rules screens from the game
Six diagonal reels form a rhombus of 3-4-3-4-3-4 cells, and a spin begins with three rows behind barriers, which leaves a 3-3-2-2-1-1 shape and 36 ways. Ways are counted left to right, beginning on the first reel and running through neighbouring reels: six dwarfs return 7.5x the bet per way, six rats 3.75x, the compass 2.5x, the flask and the rope 2x, and the card ranks from 1.5x for six Aces down to 1x. Winning symbols explode, the remaining ones slide down and then to the left, and new symbols arrive from above. A win, an xBomb blast beside a barrier or a Wild Mining event opens one blocked row, taking the count to 432, 1,296 and finally 1,728 ways.
An xBomb Wild substitutes for every paying symbol, then explodes in a cross pattern that spares Scatters and other xBombs, and the win multiplier goes up by 1 before the following collapse. For Wild Mining a screen must hold no winning combination while three, four or five identical paying symbols align diagonally: they are removed, and one, two or three Wild bombs appear in the middle of that line. A multiplier nugget sits at the foot of each of the three barrier rows, x3, x3 and x5 on the opening screen of this test, and it is awarded when its barrier is removed and the symbol on it is destroyed, or when a Scatter is revealed there. Each paid spin starts again at x1.
Three canaries in silver or gold cages, once they stand in front of the barriers, start Canary Freespins on a 4-3-4-3-4-3-4 board with a locked vault in each corner. The canaries keep their positions, begin at 1x with three hit points, and collect coins of 1x to 100x, x2 and x3 multipliers and upgrades landing around them, a silver cage one position away in an X shape and a gold cage in an X shape across entire rows. Bombs and gas take hit points away, and what a canary has collected is paid only when it dies, after which a new bird respawns in the same cage. A dwarf picked up by a canary makes it collect from the other canaries on each spin, a rat makes it share its value with them, and either adds a hit point.
The round opens with 3 spins, and every bomb explosion puts the counter back to 3. Vaults gather coins and multipliers from their three neighbouring positions, yet only a vault that a bomb has blown open pays its content when the bonus ends. Buying Canary Freespins costs 68 bets, which was EUR 68 in this EUR 1.00 test, with a theoretical return of 96.30% against 96.02% for ordinary spins; the Golden Scatter version costs 500 bets and a Lucky Draw ticket 284.
xBet adds 40% to the stake for a guaranteed Scatter and an opened first barrier, and a spin costs between EUR 0.20 and EUR 100. The game info marks volatility as Extreme and rates the 65,000x win limit at one in 7,000,000 rounds.
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Sticky symbol
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range EUR 0.20 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.00
Gallery
7 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Natural bonuses left more than they paid
Free spins in the 58 natural bonuses paid EUR 4,017.00, and when those bonuses ended another EUR 4,232.00 was still on the board: EUR 2,633.00 on canaries that were alive and EUR 1,599.00 in vaults that had stayed locked. In 38 of the 58 the amount left behind was larger than the payout. Money moved in two ways only, a canary's death (75.0% of natural free spins money, 258 deaths) or a vault opened by a bomb (25.0%, 80 vaults), and deaths plus opened vaults equalled the server's bonus total in all 108 bonuses of the test.
Round 6779, the largest of the series at 890.25x, took EUR 853.00 from five canary deaths, one of them worth 720x, and EUR 37.00 from three opened vaults, and both a dwarf and a rat were picked up in it. A canary took one of those helpers in 28 of the 58 natural bonuses, whose free spins had a median of EUR 48.00, while the 30 bonuses without a helper had EUR 36.50.
Way wins on ordinary spins came to EUR 5,852.35, 58.52% of the stake. In 7,019 rounds no barrier opened at all, and the 410 rounds that cleared all three rows, one in 24.4, held 73.0% of that base-game money. Wins paid at x10 or higher supplied 20.0% of it, and the multiplier peaked at x22 in round 6895.
At EUR 68 each, the 50 purchases came back at 105.09% of their cost, with a median of EUR 49.00, 0.721x the price. Opened vaults supplied 40.8% of their money, where natural bonuses had 25.0%, and EUR 2,843.00 stayed on live canaries and behind locks. Across the 108 bonuses all four vaults were opened twice, and 17 bonuses ended with none open.
- The six natural bonuses that opened three vaults had a median of EUR 99.00 from their free spins, against EUR 38.00 for the 22 that opened one
- Wild Mining fired 571 times across 493 ordinary rounds, roughly one round in 20.3, each time on a screen with no winning combination
- Five ordinary rounds without free spins went past 100x, the top one 177.3x in round 9262
- All 58 natural bonus rounds paid at least 15.25x
- A canary picked up a dwarf or a rat on 24 of the 50 tickets, and those had a median of EUR 60.00 against EUR 43.00 for the other 26
- At the median a natural bonus round paid 40.05x the stake, trigger spin included, against a mean of 71.70x
- The win multiplier never left x1 in 7,550 of the 10,000 ordinary rounds
- Starting with a gold cage brought no visible gain: nine such natural bonuses took a median of EUR 36.00 from their free spins, the 49 all-silver starts EUR 40.00
- A 100x coin landed four times in 886 natural free spins
- No vault opened on six tickets, which averaged EUR 19.67 back on EUR 68
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rig
One 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
- 26%rounds that paid
- 890xbiggest round
- 1 / 172natural bonus rate
- 1.05xmean of 50 buys
- 24longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-11-13 measured return98.69%+2.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 76.5–120.8%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 890x · round 6,779
- longest dry streak
- 24
- natural bonuses
- 58 · one per 172 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.05x · median 0.721x · 62% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 9,869
- deepest drawdown
- 1,329x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1 bet; 50 bonus buys at EUR 68 each (68x); recorded on the official Nolimit City demo server (jurisdiction DEFAULT, RTP profile 96.02%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-11-13.
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 → One test, step by step →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the log
Why does Dead Canary pay so little of the numbers shown on its canaries?
A canary's collected value is awarded only if the bird dies, and a vault's only if a bomb opens it. At the end of the 50 purchased bonuses, EUR 1,727.00 was sitting on living canaries and EUR 1,116.00 in locked vaults, against EUR 3,573.00 actually paid. In 23 of those 50 bonuses the unpaid part was the larger one.
Does Dead Canary really return 98.69% to the player?
No, 98.69% belongs to this test alone: it is the return of one series of 10,000 demo rounds at EUR 1.00, and the theoretical RTP in the game rules is 96.02%. Of the EUR 9,869.35 paid out, EUR 890.25 came from round 6779 alone, and the 58 natural bonus rounds together supplied 42.14%.
What separated a good EUR 68 Canary Freespins purchase from a poor one?
Mostly the vaults. The 30 tickets that opened two or more vaults had a median return of EUR 73.50, and the 20 that opened one or none EUR 27.50. Ticket 8, the best at 5.441x, combined four canary deaths worth EUR 314.00 with two opened vaults worth EUR 56.00. Golden Canary Freespins at 500x, the Lucky Draw at 284x and the Nolimit Booster were not bought.
How common are Canary Freespins without a purchase?
Fifty-eight triggers came in 10,000 ordinary rounds, 5.8 per 1,000. Only 14 of them started straight from the first drop of a spin, and the other 44 came after at least one collapse. In 24 of those all three canaries were on the first drop with at least one still behind a barrier, in 15 fewer than three had landed yet, and in 5 the canaries were already in front and winning collapses simply played out first.
Do Canary Freespins last longer than their 3 starting spins?
Yes. Every natural bonus ran at least 10 spins and the longest 33, with a median of 15, since each bomb explosion resets the counter to 3. The counter returned to 3 at least three times in each of the 58 bonuses and seven times in the median one. Bought bonuses were similar, 8 to 26 spins with a median of 14.
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- spins10,000
- bet1.00
- result-131x
- RTP measured98.7%
- bonuses58
- max win, no bonus177.3x
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