Pragmatic Play · 2022 · tested 2026-09-11
Extra Juicy Megaways
USD 9,183 in Extra Juicy Megaways wins bypassed reel one on the demo, and this review records how diamond multipliers treated those free spins.
Watermelons on reels 3–6 paid USD 57.60 in round 1226. Wins starting beyond reel one supplied 64.82% of ordinary symbol payouts.
measured over 10,000 spins · 50 buys
Is Extra Juicy Megaways worth playing?
quick answerExtra Juicy Megaways produced USD 9,183 in ordinary symbol wins that did not involve the first reel. Overall RTP measured 90.55%, with 29 natural bonuses, while the separately funded purchases returned USD 10,585.80 against USD 10,000 spent. Buying finished ahead in this sample, although 31 tickets failed to recover their USD 200 cost.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.42% |
| RTP measured | 90.55% (95% CI 78.9–102.2) |
| Hit frequency | 27% · every 3.66 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 25 / 3.71 |
| Median hit | 1.40x |
| Max win (base game) | 64.8x · spin 2752 |
| Free spins, natural | 29 · every 344.8 spins · mean 68.0x |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,110 |
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.06x · median 0.66x · 31 of 50 below price · best 6.38x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 12.2 / 12–16 |
| Retriggered | 0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 6% |
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 10,585.80105.86% · CI95 72–140%
- Net
- +USD 585.80+2.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 19 / 5038%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 8 / 5016%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~345 spins
One buy costs the same as 100 base spins. Natural bonuses arrived once per 345 spins in this run and paid an average of 68.0x the bet; bought bonuses averaged 106x the bet. These are different entry costs, not a prediction of which route will pay more.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 287 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 530 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4395 |
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 can each display up to seven symbols, allowing as many as 117,649 ways. Matching symbols need three consecutive reels, but their starting reel can be anywhere on the board. After a win, every ordinary symbol on the participating reels is removed, including symbols outside the paid combination. Scatter and multiplier diamonds stay, while the cleared positions refill at their original sizes.
Four scatters open twelve free spins; five award sixteen, and six award twenty, with another four spins per additional scatter. Awards of twelve to twenty spins can enter a gamble wheel before play begins. A winning wheel result moves the award up one step, while a loss moves it down; an initial award of twenty-four or more bypasses this option. Collecting starts the feature at its current award, which was the choice throughout this test.
Inside free spins, diamonds carry values of 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x or 15x. They remain through that spin's tumbles, then their values are added and applied to the sequence's combined symbol win. The next free spin begins a separate calculation, so a diamond has nothing to multiply if its spin never produces a symbol payout. These diamonds cannot add further free spins.
The usual stake uses twenty credits; Ante uses twenty-five and adds scatters to the reels. Direct entry is available in the normal mode for 100x the spin stake. All statistical purchases took the offered free spins without a wheel gamble.
The loaded rules label volatility low and specify RTP of 96.42% for ordinary play, 96.43% with Ante and 96.48% for purchases. Stakes run from USD 0.20 to USD 240 normally, reaching USD 300 with Ante. In the tested normal mode, the 5,000x win ceiling ends the round even if feature play remains.
Megaways
Cascading reels
Free spins
Multiplier
Gamble feature
Extra bet
Bonus buy
Bet range 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet 2.00
Gallery
5 frames from the test
Verdict
Most ordinary payouts bypassed reel oneA first-reel miss is not the end of a paying route here. Of USD 14,166.90 awarded by ordinary symbols, USD 9,183 came from combinations beginning farther across the board. Yet that broad coverage did not translate into a profitable ordinary session: the final balance was USD 1,890.50 below its starting point.
Paying for entry produced a USD 585.80 surplus. The median payout of USD 132.50 remained below the USD 200 charge, and purchases 5, 13 and 21 each paid nothing. Diamond boosts added USD 9,385.50 beyond the purchased features' unmultiplied symbol wins, accounting for 88.66% of their returns.
Round 1226 gives the unusual pay direction a concrete shape. Forty-eight watermelon ways connected reels three through six for USD 57.60, without requiring a watermelon on either of the first two reels. The complete ordinary round paid USD 64.80; most of it came from that one connection across the right-hand part of the screen.
- Combinations can miss reel one entirely: those ordinary payouts contributed USD 9,183 to the series.
- An eligible symbol win gives even a small diamond a substantial base to multiply: round 2409 paid USD 371.20 from 4x.
- Collecting the initial award avoided the gamble wheel in all 79 logged features, including five that started with sixteen spins.
- The longest wait contained 1,002 ordinary spins without a bonus, between triggers at 7492 and 8495.
- Five diamonds totalling 31x paid nothing on free spin eight of purchase 19 because there was no symbol win.
- Thirty-one purchased features returned less than USD 200, and three finished at zero despite receiving twelve spins.
- A single 4x diamond produced the largest multiplied natural sequence: USD 92.80 became USD 371.20 on free spin five of round 2409. The largest summed natural multiplier, 27x in round 6820, paid less at USD 307.80.
- Purchase 32 combined six diamonds into 37x on its first free spin. They turned USD 18.40 into USD 680.80; the full twelve-spin feature settled at USD 1,275.20.
- The three sixteen-spin purchases, 33, 45 and 47, began with that award. None of the 79 logged features retriggered; longer starting awards must not be counted as extensions.
Method & data
open data · closed rig10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x); mode: Take the offered free spins; no gamble; Ante off on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.42%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-11.
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 →
| 2026-09-11 | 10,000 spins · RTP 90.6% |
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the logWhy did Extra Juicy Megaways return 90.55%?
The ordinary session paid USD 18,109.50 on USD 20,000 in stakes, producing 90.55% measured RTP. Its configured theoretical rate was 96.42%, which lies within the 95% confidence interval of 78.89%–102.20% for this sample. The purchase profile is different at 96.48%; its measured return was 105.86% across fifty entries.
Is an Extra Juicy Megaways bonus worth buying?
Fifty USD 200 purchases returned USD 10,585.80, a USD 585.80 surplus, with the initial free-spin award collected each time. That profit coexisted with a USD 132.50 median, 31 returns below the entry price and three zero-paying features. The largest ticket paid USD 1,275.20; these results describe buying without the gamble wheel.
How long did Extra Juicy Megaways take to trigger free spins?
The test recorded 29 triggers in 10,000 ordinary spins, or one per 344.83 spins on average. Between rounds 7492 and 8495, the gap reached 1,002 spins with no feature. Twenty-seven natural bonuses started with twelve spins and two with sixteen; none retriggered.
Can a blank first reel still leave a winning combination?
Yes: Extra Juicy Megaways needs adjacent matching reels, not a connection to reel one. In round 1226, watermelons on reels 3–6 formed 48 ways paying USD 57.60. Across the ordinary series, awards beginning after the first reel supplied USD 9,183, or 64.82% of ordinary symbol winnings.
Why did five multiplier diamonds pay zero?
On free spin eight of purchase 19, five diamonds added to 31x, but no symbol combination paid. Their factor therefore had no winning amount to multiply. The feature eventually returned USD 13.20 from its other spins; the diamonds on that empty spin did not carry their 31x forward.
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