Relax Gaming · measured RTP 86.2% · tested 2026-10-15
Dead Man's Trail
Coin sums out-earned the Trail Bonus almost two to one in Dead Man's Trail's first demo run, where the board gave 14.0% of the return; two runs now log 86.2% RTP from 20,000 rounds.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 86.2% against 96.29% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 19.7% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 444 rounds (45 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 37x the stake, mean 69.4x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.91x of their price on average, 81% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 316.0x; the longest dry run was 36 spins.
Dead Man's Trail demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
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Test card
20,000 spins · FUN 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | FUN 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.29% |
| RTP measured | 86.17% (approximate 95% CI 77.7–94.6) |
| Hit frequency | 20% · every 5.08 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 36 / 5.03 |
| Median hit | 1.10x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 167.5x · run 2, round 3596 |
| Bonus games, natural | 45 · 2.3 bHz · every 444.4 spins · mean complete bonus payout 69.4x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → -534 |
- 012026-09-1910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓83.62%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓88.71%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
Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · FUN 200 each
mean 0.91x · median 0.34× price (FUN 68.00) · 81 of 100 below price · best 14.24x · worst 0.02x
| Rolls per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.5 / 2–49 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
- Spent
- FUN 20,000100 × FUN 200
- Returned
- FUN 18,10490.52% · approximate 95% CI 51–130%
- Net
- −FUN 1,896−9.5 buys
- Break-even or better
- 19 / 10019%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 11 / 10011%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~444 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 444 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 68 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 953 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2094 |
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
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.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Bonus game
Bonus buy
Multiplier
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 demo session
Verdict
A Collect All worth 1,138 stakes
The trail has now paid a four-figure stake multiple: Collect All on the 37th roll of ticket 27 in run two swept 1,138 stakes, FUN 2,276, in a 49-roll bonus worth FUN 2,848, where run one's best tile had been Collect & Command at 629 stakes on ticket 12. Natural trails remain rarer and smaller, 45 in 20,000 FUN 2 rounds, one per 444, at a 37-stake median, with run two's round 420 at 316 stakes the largest; three natural boards in run two met a persistent action after none in run one.
Two samples returned 83.62% and 88.71%, 86.17% pooled (approximate 95% CI 77.70%–94.63%, which bounds this mean's precision and no more) against the printed 96.29%. Hits came on 19.85% and 19.54% of rounds, 16,061 rounds of the 20,000 returned nothing, the dry stretches peaked at 36 and 31 rounds, and both balances bottomed out more than 1,400 stakes under their start.
The hundred FUN 200 tickets have paid FUN 18,104, 90.52% of cost, with a FUN 68 median, 81 under price, eleven at double their price or better and two past five times, FUN 2,714 and FUN 2,848; the batches returned 93.36% and 87.68%. Bought trails ran 12.68 rolls on average in run two against 10.34 in run one, and the Trail Bonus supplied 18.1% of pooled ordinary payouts, 14.0% in run one and 22.0% in run two.
- Collect All on roll 37 of ticket 27 in run two paid 1,138 stakes, the largest single roll of the series
- Twenty-two rolls in round 420 of run two paid FUN 632, 316 stakes, the biggest natural trail of 20,000 rounds
- Three natural trails in run two met a persistent action, the first in 45 natural rounds
- Natural trails came once per 400 rounds in run two, against once per 500 in run one
- The median FUN 200 ticket has paid FUN 68 over 100 purchases
- Without ticket 27, run two's other 49 purchases returned 60.41% of their price
- Nothing landed on 8,046 of run two's 10,000 rounds, and dry stretches reached 31
- The Trail Bonus still supplies under a quarter of the money, 22.0% in run two
Run 01·2026-09-19·83.62%
Measured 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.
Run 02·2026-10-15·88.71%
Ticket 27 rolled 49 times, the longest trail of the series, and on its 37th roll a Collect All tile swept the whole board for 1,138 stakes, FUN 2,276 of the ticket's FUN 2,848; at 14.24 times its price it is the largest purchase of the series, ahead of run one's ticket 12 at FUN 2,714. The other 49 tickets returned 60.41% of their price between them, so the batch closed at 87.68% of cost, with a FUN 77 median, 42 tickets under FUN 200 and tickets 17 and 4 next at FUN 714 and FUN 688 over 25 rolls each. Five purchased trails met a persistent action, and the median bought trail ran 11.5 rolls.
Natural trails opened 25 times over the run's 10,000 FUN 2 rounds, one per 400, and paid FUN 3,900, 22.0% of the money, at a 31-stake median: round 420 ran 22 rolls for FUN 632, 316 stakes, the biggest natural round of both runs, and round 8507's thirteenth roll landed a Normal tile worth 201 stakes, FUN 402, the best single natural roll so far. Three natural trails met a persistent action, where run one's twenty met none, and ten visited the side trail. The run returned 88.71%, FUN 17,742, with 8,046 blank rounds, a 31-round dry stretch from 5303 to 5333 and a low point 1,422.3 stakes under the start; the best ordinary screen, round 3596, paid FUN 335.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rig
This 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
- 20%rounds that paid
- 316xbiggest round
- 1 / 444natural bonus rate
- 0.91xmean of 100 buys
- 36longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-19 measured return83.62%-12.7 pts vs declared
- 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
02run Run 022026-10-15 lab note measured return88.71%-7.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 75.2–102.3%
- rounds that paid
- 20%
- biggest round
- 316x · round 420
- longest dry streak
- 31
- natural bonuses
- 25 · one per 400 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.88x · median 0.385x · 84% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 2,742
- deepest drawdown
- 1,774x
Run two returned 88.71% after 83.62%, with 25 natural trails against 20, the first three persistent actions on natural boards and a 316-stake natural round where run one topped out at 158. Purchases came back at 87.68% of cost after 93.36%, and ticket 27's FUN 2,848 over 49 rolls replaced ticket 12 as the record.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-19, 2026-10-15): 20,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed FUN 2 bet; 100 bonus buys at FUN 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Relax Gaming demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 96.29%); 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
7 questions · answered from the log
Has Dead Man's Trail closed the gap to its 96.29% after two runs?
No, only part of it: run two returned 88.71% after 83.62%, FUN 17,742 on FUN 20,000, and the pooled 20,000 FUN 2 rounds stand at 86.17%, about ten points under the printed figure.
Which tile gave ticket 27 its 1,138 stakes?
Collect All, at position 21 on the 37th of its 49 rolls: it paid the whole board's accumulated value, FUN 2,276, and the ticket closed at FUN 2,848, 14.24 times its FUN 200 price. Run one's record ticket, number 12, had closed at FUN 2,714.
Are natural trails still rarer than one per 400 rounds?
No. The second run produced 25 in 10,000 rounds, exactly one per 400, after 20 in run one, and one gap stretched to 1,221 rounds, from 6906 to 8128; the 25 paid FUN 3,900, 22.0% of that run's payouts, with a 31-stake median.
How many rolls did a natural trail take in run two?
Between 3 and 34, 11.76 on average and 10 at the median; round 420 took 22 rolls for FUN 632, the largest natural trail of both runs, and round 1458 ran 34 rolls for FUN 332. Bought trails averaged 12.68 rolls, ticket 27's 49 the longest.
Was a persistent action ever reached on a natural board?
Yes, and for the first time: three of run two's 25 natural trails did, after none of run one's twenty; ten natural trails also visited the side trail. Among purchases, five of fifty met a persistent action, and Big Win tiles paid between 25 and 50 stakes on 22 purchased rolls.
Did the FUN 200 tickets hold their value in run two?
No: FUN 8,768 from fifty tickets, 87.68% of cost, after 93.36% in run one, with a FUN 77 median and 42 under price; ticket 27's FUN 2,848 and tickets 17 and 4 at FUN 714 and FUN 688 were the only ones past 3.4 times the price.
Which was run two's best single natural roll?
A Normal tile at position 23 on the thirteenth roll of round 8507, worth 201 stakes, FUN 402, in a trail that finished at FUN 442. Among purchases the record is Collect All's 1,138 stakes on ticket 27.
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- spins20,000
- bet2.00
- result-2,767x
- RTP measured86.2%
- bonuses45
- max win, no bonus167.5x
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