Nolimit City · 2024 · measured RTP 94.5% · tested 2026-10-28
Fire in the Hole 2
With a seventh-reel crystal keeping beer, dynamite or the Dwarf at work, Fire in the Hole 2 free spins averaged 118x during run one; three demo runs of 30,000 rounds logged 94.5% RTP.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 94.5% against 96.07% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 25.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 188 rounds (160 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 46x the stake, mean 71.3x, trigger spin included; 150 bonus buys at 70x returned 0.94x of their price on average, 76% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,096.1x; the longest dry run was 30 spins.
Same series: Fire in the Hole 3 — tested separately
Fire in the Hole 2 demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Fire in the Hole 2 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
30,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.07% |
| RTP measured | 94.49% (approximate 95% CI 82.0–107.0) |
| Hit frequency | 25% · every 3.93 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 30 / 3.95 |
| Median hit | 0.60x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 1,096.1x · run 3, round 9012 |
| Free spins, natural | 160 · 5.3 bHz · every 187.5 spins · mean bonus round payout 71.3x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 8,348 |
- 012026-09-2910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓74.79%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-3010,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓100.26%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-10-2810,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓108.43%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
150 buys × 70x · EUR 70 each
mean 0.94x · median 0.586× price (EUR 41.00) · 114 of 150 below price · best 9.00x · worst 0.29x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.8 / 8–24 |
| Extended | 90% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Lucky Wagon Spins have no retrigger: the counter starts at 3 and goes back to 3 every time a coin lands in the wagon, so a round lasts as long as coins keep arriving. Bought rounds ran past eight spins, the shortest length seen, in 44, 45 and 46 of each run's fifty, 135 of 150, which is where the 90% figure comes from; natural rounds did the same in 44 of 47, 55 of 59 and 50 of 54.
- Spent
- EUR 10,500150 × EUR 70
- Returned
- EUR 9,91794.45% · approximate 95% CI 78–111%
- Net
- −EUR 583−8.3 buys
- Break-even or better
- 36 / 15024%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 17 / 15011%
- Price in base spins
- 70natural trigger every ~188 spins
One ticket equals 70 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 188 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 3 runs in sequence needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 201 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 277 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 425 |
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
22 rules screens from the game
Six reels form the mine of Fire in the Hole 2, but only three rows are live when a spin begins; each collapse brings one more row into play until all six are open, which takes the count of ways from 64 up to 46,656 before any xSplit adds more. Symbols pay from the leftmost reel over adjacent reels, with only the best win per way counted, and for a EUR 1 stake six lanterns pay 7.50 per way while six nines pay 1.00.
Wins, xBomb Wild explosions and Wild Mining all set off a collapse: paid symbols disappear, the rest drop and new ones fall in. The xBomb Wild replaces everything except Bonus symbols, and when it blows up it clears the positions around it and adds its own value to the win multiplier of the next collapse. Wild Mining needs three to six matching symbols in a straight line, across or down, on a spin that paid nothing; the line turns into one to four Wilds and the rest of the live area is blasted away. Dirt blocks can hide a Wild, an xSplit or a Bonus symbol, and an xSplit doubles every symbol on its row before it changes into a regular symbol itself.
With three Bonus symbols Lucky Wagon Spins open two rows of the wagon, with four they open three and with five all four. The counter starts at three spins and is topped back up to three each time a coin drops into the wagon, and on every spin a row of carts above the wagon shows a coin value from 1x to 100x, a multiplier, dynamite, beer or the Dwarf, acting on any coin that lands in its column. Dynamite adds its count to its own coin and throws as many sticks, which clear dirt, double coins and crack the Collect Chests along the bottom, and an open chest pays its column every spin; beer wakes up to five old coins so they pick up their carts again, and the Dwarf collects the whole wagon into one coin.
The seventh reel is where the round can change: it sometimes shows an Upgrade crystal on one of the wagon rows. A coin that lands on that row with a coin value or multiplier above it stays active for the next spin, and one that lands under dynamite, beer or the Dwarf makes that feature permanent, repeating every spin until the wagon closes.
Buying the wagon costs 70x the bet for three Bonus symbols, 200x for four and 600x for five; a Lucky Draw between those three (50, 40 and 10%) costs 175x, and 3,600x buys five Bonus symbols with a permanent Dwarf. xBet raises the stake to 2.5x the bet, guarantees a Bonus symbol on the last closed row and clears the dirt. Return to player is 96.07% for ordinary spins, 96.09% with xBet and between 96.10% and 96.42% for the buys. Any stake between EUR 0.20 and EUR 100 is accepted, the studio puts volatility at 10.0 (Extreme), and the 65,000x Elbeerado cap is simulated once in 17,000,000 rounds.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
Cascading reels
Hold and Win
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
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
A base spin topped 160 wagons
Spin 9012 of run three, a base round that ended with all six mine rows open, an xSplit, Wild Mining and a win multiplier of x5 or more, paid 1,096.1x and now tops the series, ahead of the 716x Lucky Wagon on round 5836 of the same run and the 482.3x and 327.95x wagons that headed runs two and one. Run by run the return went 74.79%, 100.26% and 108.43% at EUR 1, 94.49% once the 30,000 spins are pooled, and the shared balance, lowest at 3,422.8 bets under its start on spin 1690 of run three, finished 1,652 bets down at EUR 8,347.90.
The reels kept their shape in all three runs: a paying spin on 25.49%, 25.61% and 25.26% of rounds, a median hit of 0.65x, 0.65x and 0.6x, 22,364 of the 30,000 spins blank, and the six-row spins, 535, 555 and 568 per run, paying 59.6%, 66.8% and 72.2% of that run's base-game money outside the free spins. Wagons came 47, 59 and 54 times, 160 in all or 5.3 bHz on the lab's scale of natural triggers per 1,000 spins, and as whole rounds averaged 71.33x with a 45.95x median, 40.26% of all ordinary payouts, and 149 of them ran past eight spins, the shortest length any wagon had.
Purchases moved from 91.37% to 88.00% and then 103.97%, 94.45% over all 150 tickets at 70x against the studio's 96.10% for this buy, with a EUR 41 median, 0.586x of the price, and 114 tickets under it. Ticket 28 of run three is the outlier at EUR 630, 9.0x, after a permanent dynamite and an opened Collect Chest, the only one of the 150 past 5x where the next best, ticket 12 of run two, reached 3.8571x; chests took 5.0%, 18.5% and 32.6% of the bought wagons' money in runs one, two and three.
- All 160 natural wagons paid at least 20x the stake, trigger spin included
- Wagons with an opened Collect Chest averaged 119.15x, 208.61x and 206.24x in the three runs
- Thirty-eight rounds reached 100x in 30,000 spins, eighteen of them in run three
- Run three's fifty tickets returned EUR 3,639 on EUR 3,500, or 103.97%
- Four-Bonus starts stayed rare: five of 160 natural triggers opened three wagon rows, none all four
- 114 of the 150 tickets returned less than their EUR 70 price
- Lucky Wagons went 1,094 spins without a trigger in run one and 849 in run three
- Twenty-four droughts of 20 spins or longer across the series, the worst 30 spins in run one
Run 01·2026-09-29·74.79%
Seven of the 47 natural Lucky Wagon rounds had a crystal turn beer, dynamite or the Dwarf into a permanent feature, and those seven averaged 118.26x the stake against 50.11x for the other 40. Round 2371, which paid 327.95x and topped the series, shows how: a permanent beer kept waking coins that were already in the wagon, one of them picked up a 50x cart and another the Dwarf, which gathered 136 EUR from the board.
Buying fifty tickets at 70x cost 3,500 EUR and brought back 3,198 EUR, or 0.9137x the price. Ten of them got a permanent feature, eight times dynamite and twice the Dwarf, and averaged 1.43x their price, while the remaining 40 averaged 0.7846x. Ticket 16 paid the most, 211 EUR, and 190 EUR of it came from a Dwarf that a crystal left collecting every spin.
Every paying base spin also collapses the mine, so the 64.36% of the 10,000 spins that never got past the three starting rows returned nothing. The 535 spins that opened all six rows averaged 5.586x the bet, and round 9305 went furthest of all: six rows, the multiplier at x5 or higher, xSplit and Wild Mining together made 251.95 EUR in the base cascade before the round's own wagon added 57 EUR.
Run 02·2026-09-30·100.26%
Collect Chests changed the arithmetic: they opened in six of the 59 natural Lucky Wagon rounds and paid EUR 738, 19.9% of the wagons' free-spin money, against EUR 158 in two rounds of the first run, and the three largest rounds each had one. Round 6240 ran thirteen spins with a crystal keeping dynamite permanent, its chest paid EUR 360 and the dynamite EUR 97, and the round closed at 482.3x, the page record; round 1334 followed the same pattern for 322.15x over nine spins, chest EUR 144 and dynamite EUR 92, and round 738 for 209.6x with a EUR 125 chest. Seven rounds had a crystal make dynamite or beer permanent and averaged 192.32x against 59.51x for the other 52, and for the first time on this page three wagons opened on three rows from four Bonus symbols, averaging 88.42x.
Fifty-nine wagons arrived one per 169 spins, 5.9 bHz, against one per 213 in the first run, paid EUR 4,441 over their whole rounds, 44.3% of the return, 75.27x on average and 56.6x at the median, and none paid under 22x; 55 of them ran past eight spins, the longest to nineteen, and the longest wait was 610 spins after round 8775. Coin values supplied 57.5% of the wagons' free-spin money, dynamite 13.8%, the multipliers 4.5% and the Dwarf only 4.0%, EUR 148 from eight rounds where the first run's Dwarf had taken 15.8%.
Base play returned 100.26% of EUR 10,000 with the balance never more than 221.9 bets under its start, on spin 645, and peaking 972.2 bets up on spin 6240 before the last 3,760 spins gave nearly all of it back to a close of EUR 10,025.95, 26 bets ahead; the 2,000-spin blocks read 124.4%, 116.9%, 88.1%, 93.7% and 78.1%, and a 50-bet bankroll was spent by spin 95, a 100-bet one by 175 and a 200-bet one by 563. Four scatter-free rounds passed 100x, 298.3x on round 1818 with the mine fully open under xSplit and Wild Mining the largest, the 555 spins that opened all six rows paid 66.8% of the base money at 7.591x apiece, 64.41% of spins never got past three rows and paid nothing, and eight dry runs reached 20 spins, the longest 28 from round 8828. Fifty tickets at 70x cost EUR 3,500 and returned EUR 3,080, 0.88x of price with a EUR 39 median; 39 paid under the price, four passed 2x, tickets 12 and 2 at 3.8571x and 3.7571x the best, both with a permanent dynamite, and the nine tickets with a permanent feature averaged 2.1952x against 0.5913x for the other 41.
Run 03·2026-10-28·108.43%
Spin 9012 paid EUR 1,096.10 on a EUR 1 stake without starting the wagon: the mine ended it with all six rows open, an xSplit and Wild Mining were in play, the win multiplier stood at x5 or more, and the board ran ten cascade steps. No round of the 10,000 paid more, and it sits in a base game where the 568 spins that ended on six rows paid EUR 5,141.25, 72.2% of the EUR 7,124.05 base money, while the 6,473 that never opened a fourth row paid nothing. Four more base spins passed 150x, 217.1x on 1874, 212.9x on 2591, 156.3x on 3827 and 152.4x on 7310, every one of them on six rows with an xSplit.
Fifty-four wagons arrived, one per 185 spins, and as whole rounds paid EUR 4,139.25, 38.17% of everything the 10,000 spins returned, 76.65x on average and 37.8x at the median. Round 5836 made 716x in ten spins, EUR 489 of it from an opened Collect Chest and EUR 92 from a dynamite that a seventh-reel crystal had made permanent; six wagons got a permanent feature that way, five dynamite and one Dwarf, and averaged 224.83x against 58.13x for the other 48. The Dwarf collected in ten rounds for EUR 423, 11.4% of the free-spin money, EUR 120 of it inside round 4702 at 244.6x, and the two four-Bonus starts, three wagon rows open from the first spin, averaged 137.5x.
Bought at 70x, the fifty tickets cost EUR 3,500 and returned EUR 3,639, 103.97%, while the median ticket paid EUR 39.5, 0.564x, and 40 came back under the price. Ticket 28 ran sixteen spins with a permanent dynamite and an opened chest to EUR 630, nine times its price and the only ticket past 5x; chests paid EUR 1,188 of the tickets' EUR 3,639, 32.6%, and the nine tickets with a crystal-kept feature averaged 2.946x. The balance sank 927.7 bets under its start by spin 1690, then climbed to close at EUR 10,843.05, 843 bets up.
Test record
3 runs · 30,000 rounds · 150 buys · open data · closed rig
This game has been through 3 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.
- 30,000rounds, all runs
- 25%rounds that paid
- 1,096xbiggest round
- 1 / 188natural bonus rate
- 0.94xmean of 150 buys
- 30longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-29 measured return74.79%-21.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 61.3–88.2%
- rounds that paid
- 25%
- biggest round
- 328x · round 2,371
- longest dry streak
- 30
- natural bonuses
- 47 · one per 213 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.91x · median 0.643x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 7,479
- deepest drawdown
- 2,880x
02run Run 022026-09-30 lab note measured return100.26%+4.2 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 82.0–118.5%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 482x · round 6,240
- longest dry streak
- 28
- natural bonuses
- 59 · one per 170 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.88x · median 0.557x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 10,026
- deepest drawdown
- 972x
Twenty-four hours on, the second run returned 100.26% after 74.79% on 29 September, 87.52% pooled over 20,000 spins, still short of the printed 96.07%. Natural wagons came 59 times against 47 and averaged 75.27x against 60.26x, Collect Chests opened in six rounds against two and produced the 482.3x record on round 6240, and the fifty 70x tickets returned 0.88x of price after 0.9137x.
03run Run 032026-10-28 lab note measured return108.43%+12.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.5–138.4%
- rounds that paid
- 25%
- biggest round
- 1,096x · round 9,012
- longest dry streak
- 24
- natural bonuses
- 54 · one per 185 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.04x · median 0.564x · 80% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 10,843
- deepest drawdown
- 928x
Run three returned 108.43% after 74.79% and 100.26%, the highest of the three, and its largest round came from the base game for the first time: spin 9012 at 1,096.1x, where the earlier records were wagons of 327.95x and 482.3x. Its 54 wagons averaged 68.87x on free spins alone against 52.45x and 62.97x, and the fifty tickets returned 103.97% after 91.37% and 88.00%.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-29, 2026-09-30, 2026-10-28): 30,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1 bet; 150 bonus buys at EUR 70 each (70x); recorded on the official Nolimit City demo server (jurisdiction DEFAULT, RTP profile 96.07%); 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 → One test, step by step →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the log
Why is a base spin the biggest win in three runs of Fire in the Hole 2?
All six mine rows were open at the end of round 9012 in run three, the 46,656-way maximum before an xSplit doubles a row, and the spin had an xSplit, Wild Mining and a win multiplier of x5 or more over ten cascade steps, for 1,096.1x the stake. The best of the 160 Lucky Wagons, round 5836 of the same run, paid 716x, and the records of runs one and two were wagons of 327.95x and 482.3x.
Where does Fire in the Hole 2's RTP stand after 30,000 demo spins?
At 94.49% on EUR 1 stakes, pooled from three 10,000-spin runs that read 74.79%, 100.26% and 108.43%. The approximate 95% CI, 81.97% to 107.01%, now contains the printed 96.07%, and the balance closed 1,652 bets down over the 30,000 spins.
Which bought Lucky Wagons beat their 70x price?
Seventeen of the 150 reached twice the price, and only ticket 28 of run three passed 5x, at EUR 630 after a permanent dynamite and a Collect Chest that paid EUR 422 of it. Tickets in which a crystal made dynamite, beer or the Dwarf permanent averaged 1.43x, 2.1952x and 2.946x of the price in runs one, two and three, against 0.7846x, 0.5913x and 0.6213x for the others.
Does the seventh-reel crystal change what a Lucky Wagon pays?
Yes. When a coin lands on the crystal's row under dynamite, beer or the Dwarf, that feature repeats every spin until the wagon closes, and the natural rounds where that happened averaged 118.26x, 192.32x and 224.83x in the three runs against 50.11x, 59.51x and 58.13x for the rest. In run three the six such rounds, five with a permanent dynamite, paid 32.6% of the natural bonus money, round 5836 among them.
What stops a Lucky Wagon round?
It ends after three straight spins with no new coin: the counter begins at 3 spins and is refilled to 3 each time a coin lands, so the 160 natural rounds lasted between eight and 20 spins, 12.2 on average, and bought rounds 8 to 24. A longer wagon did not mean a bigger one: ticket 15 of run three lasted 24 spins for EUR 52, 0.743x, while ticket 37 paid EUR 216 in nine.
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- spins30,000
- bet1.00
- result-1,652x
- RTP measured94.5%
- bonuses160
- max win, no bonus1,096.1x
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