Relax Gaming · tested 2026-09-19
Dead Man's Trail
Coin sums out-earned the Trail Bonus on the Dead Man's Trail demo, 2,251 stakes against 1,172, and this review measured 83.62% RTP against the 96.29% printed in the rules.
Test card
10,000 spins · FUN 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | FUN 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.29% |
| RTP measured | 83.62% (approximate 95% CI 73.5–93.7) |
| Hit frequency | 20% · every 5.04 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 36 / 5.04 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (base game) | 143.0x · spin 324 |
| Bonus games, natural | 20 · every 500 spins · mean complete bonus payout 58.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 1,724 |
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 · FUN 200 eachmean 0.93x · median 0.32× price (FUN 64.00) · 39 of 50 below price · best 13.57x · worst 0.02x
| Rolls per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10.3 / 2–29 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
- Spent
- FUN 10,00050 × FUN 200
- Returned
- FUN 9,33693.36% · approximate 95% CI 38–149%
- Net
- −FUN 664−3.3 buys
- Break-even or better
- 11 / 5022%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 5014%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~500 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 500 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 68 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 953 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2094 |
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
Dead Man's Trail runs five reels of four rows over 40 fixed lines, read from the leftmost reel. The Wild is the top symbol, 60x the stake for a full line of five, and substitutes for every symbol but the Bonus ship; the four pirates below it, Commander, Collector, Scout and One-Eye, pay 30x, 15x, 5x and 5x for five, and the royals 3x. Nothing cascades: one spin, one screen, one payout.
Gold coins land on any reel carrying a printed value, from 1x to 100x the stake in the logged series. When coins sit on at least three different reels the game adds up every coin on the screen and pays the sum on top of any line wins. That happened 92 times in 10,000 spins, once per 109, and six of the eight biggest ordinary hits of the series were coin sums rather than lines.
Three Bonus ships anywhere open the Trail Bonus, a board of 37 tiles: 25 on the main loop and two side trails of five and seven tiles. A pawn moves 1 to 9 steps per roll; a Normal tile pays the multiple printed on it and turns into an End tile, and landing on an End tile, tiles 16 and 20 at the start, closes the round with whatever was collected. Mystery chests hold one of eleven actions: Scout adds 100x to 1,000x to one tile, Commander adds 3x to 5x to every tile, One-Eye multiplies two to four tiles by 2x to 5x, Collector pays the sum of every tile, Collect & Command pays that sum and adds it to every tile, Reset and Super Reset revive the End tiles, a Coin Win pays 25x to 50x on the spot, and three persistent versions repeat their act after every roll until the round closes.
The Bonus Buy button sells the Trail Bonus at 100 times the stake, FUN 200 at FUN 2, and the rules quote 98.00% for the purchase against 96.29% for ordinary play. The round is capped at 50,000x the stake and a single Normal tile at 10,000x; stakes go from FUN 0.10 up to FUN 1,000 and there is no ante option. The build on the demo server is 2.0.3, dated 14 May 2024 on its own rules page.
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Bet range FUN 0.10 – 1000 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet FUN 2.00
Gallery
10 frames from the test
Verdict
Coins paid, the trail waitedMeasured against the 96.29% in the rules, the series returned 83.62% of stake, and the approximate 95% band runs 73.5 to 93.7%. The balance fell from FUN 5,000 to FUN 1,724.40, bottomed 1,657 stakes down on spin 9,991, and a 50-stake bankroll lasted 68 spins. Nothing paid on 8,015 of the 10,000 spins, a hit paid a 1.0x median, and 28 dry stretches reached 20 spins or more, the worst 36 from round 7,690.
Line wins made 59.1% of everything returned, coin sums 26.9% and the Trail Bonus 14.0%. The 92 coin sums averaged 24.5x with a 17x median, ten of them passed 50x, and the biggest, 118x on round 6022, was seven coins on three reels. The trail opened 20 times, once per 500 spins with a wait of up to 1,376 spins, and paid 58.6x on average with a 43x median: the ten rounds of ten rolls or more averaged 81.4x, the two four-roll rounds 6.5x, and none of the twenty met a persistent action.
Buying the trail fifty times at FUN 200 came back at 0.9336x of price on average and 0.32x in the middle, FUN 64, with 39 tickets below price. The sample leans on buy 12, FUN 2,714 or 13.57x: a Persistent Commander from the fourth roll, raised to 7x per turn by a second Commander on the sixth, lifted every Normal tile after each roll, Collect & Command on the eighth swept 629x, and the next Normal tile paid 662x. The other 49 tickets returned 0.68x of price between them.
The ordinary reels out-earned the board. Ninety-two coin sums paid 2,251 stakes where the 20 trail rounds paid 1,172, and the largest ordinary hit of the series, 143x on round 324, was fifteen Commander lines on a single screen, four of them five of a kind, with no coin and no chest in sight.
- Coin sums landed 92 times, one per 109 spins; ten of them passed 50x and the largest, 118x on round 6022, came from seven coins
- The Trail Bonus opened 20 times, one per 500 spins, and the ten rounds with ten or more rolls averaged 81.4x the stake
- Buy 12 turned a Persistent Commander and one Collect & Command into FUN 2,714, 13.57x the FUN 200 ticket
- Every roll, tile and chest action of all 70 bonus rounds is in the published log
- Measured 83.62% against a declared 96.29%; the balance closed 1,638 stakes down after bottoming at 1,657 down on spin 9,991
- Nothing landed on 8,015 of 10,000 spins; 28 dry stretches hit 20 spins or longer and the worst ran 36 from round 7,690
- Purchases at FUN 200, fifty of them, returned 0.93x of price on average and 0.32x in the middle; 39 lost, two came back with FUN 4
- Natural trail rounds waited up to 1,376 spins between triggers, and none of the 20 landed a persistent action
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
- 158xbiggest round
- 1 / 500natural bonus rate
- 0.93xmean of 50 buys
- 36longest dry streak
01run
Run 012026-09-19
10,000 rounds at FUN 2.00 · 50 buys · rig 0.6.0 · RTP profile 96.29%
measured return83.62%-12.7 pts vs declared
Run 012026-09-19
10,000 rounds at FUN 2.00 · 50 buys · rig 0.6.0 · RTP profile 96.29%
- 95% band
- 73.5–93.7%
- rounds that paid
- 20%
- biggest round
- 158x · round 3,515
- longest dry streak
- 36
- natural bonuses
- 20 · one per 500 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.93x · median 0.32x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 1,724
- deepest drawdown
- 1,806x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed FUN 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Relax Gaming demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 96.29%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-19.
The test rig recorded every round on the official demo server. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. This release has completed automated data, content and page checks; human editorial review is pending. How we test →
FAQ
7 questions · answered from the logDead Man's Trail RTP: is 96.29% what the demo paid?
This demo returned 83.62% across the logged series, FUN 2 a spin, against 96.29% printed in the rules; the approximate 95% band for the mean runs from 73.5 to 93.7%. Line wins carried 59.1% of the payout, coin sums 26.9% and the Trail Bonus 14.0%, and the balance ended FUN 3,275.60 below its start.
Is the Trail Bonus worth buying at 100x?
Fifty tickets at FUN 200 returned 0.9336x of price on average and 0.32x in the middle, FUN 64; 39 lost money, seven paid 2x or more, and one paid 13.57x. The rules quote 98.00% for the bought feature, so 93.36% over 50 tickets sits inside ordinary variance.
How rare is a natural Trail Bonus?
Twenty times in 10,000 spins, once per 500 on average, with gaps between triggers from a few hundred spins up to 1,376. Those rounds paid 58.6x the stake on average and 43x in the middle, all of them closing on an End tile after 4 to 22 rolls.
Which coins pay, and how much?
Coins on at least three different reels pay the sum of every coin on the screen; values from 1x to 100x the stake were seen in the series. The sum landed 92 times, once per 109 spins, averaged 24.47x with a 17x median, and topped out at 118x on round 6022.
How many rolls does a trail round get?
Natural rounds took 11.75 rolls on average, from 4 to 22, and bought rounds 10.34, from 2 to 29. Length is money on this board: natural rounds of ten rolls or more averaged 81.4x the stake, bought ones 142x, while the six purchases that ended within three rolls averaged 9.67x.
Buy 12 paid 1,357x: what did the board do?
Buy 12 ran ten rolls. A Coin Win tile paid 35x on the first roll, a Persistent Commander on the fourth began adding to every Normal tile after each turn and a second Commander on the sixth raised that to 7x, Collect & Command on the eighth roll paid the whole board for 629x and pushed that sum onto every tile, and the ninth roll landed on a Normal tile now worth 662x. The round closed at FUN 2,714.
How dry does the base game get?
A hit came every 5.04 spins, so 8,015 of 10,000 spins paid nothing, and the longest drought ran 36 spins from round 7,690. The deepest drawdown was 1,806 stakes, and bankrolls of 50, 100 and 200 stakes were exhausted on spins 68, 953 and 2,094.
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