Nolimit City · 2021 · measured RTP 92.9% · tested 2026-09-30
Fire in the Hole xBomb
All fifty Lucky Wagon Spins bought at 60x in the first Fire in the Hole xBomb run opened on two coin rows and returned 0.84x; ordinary demo spins in two runs came to 92.9% RTP over 20,000.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 92.9% against 96.06% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 26.2% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 177 rounds (113 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 53x the stake, mean 61.8x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 60x returned 0.90x of their price on average, 75% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 240.8x; the longest dry run was 32 spins.
Fire in the Hole xBomb demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
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Test card
20,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.06% |
| RTP measured | 92.92% (approximate 95% CI 83.9–101.9) |
| Hit frequency | 26% · every 3.82 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 32 / 3.82 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 129.8x · run 2, round 4432 |
| Free spins, natural | 113 · 5.7 bHz · every 177 spins · mean bonus round payout 61.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 8,583 |
- 012026-09-2810,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓94.50%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-3010,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓91.34%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 × 60x · EUR 60 each
mean 0.90x · median 0.7× price (EUR 42.00) · 75 of 100 below price · best 9.08x · worst 0.27x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 15.6 / 4–30 |
| Extended | 98% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
No retrigger exists in the usual sense for Lucky Wagon Spins: the feature opens with 3 spins and every coin that lands puts the counter back to 3. Counted as bought features that ran longer than 6 spins, 49 of 50 did in run one and 47 of 50 in run two, where two tickets ended after 4 spins; natural features ran from 6 to 34 spins in both runs, 13.4 spins on average in the first and 16.2 in the second.
- Spent
- EUR 6,000100 × EUR 60
- Returned
- EUR 5,41690.27% · approximate 95% CI 72–109%
- Net
- −EUR 584−9.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 25 / 10025%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 3 / 1003%
- Price in base spins
- 60natural trigger every ~177 spins
One ticket equals 60 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 177 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 252 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 385 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 3186 |
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
16 rules screens from the game
Fire in the Hole xBomb is a six-reel mine that starts every spin with three active rows; each collapse opens one more, up to six, and the rules give the range as 64 to 46,656 ways. Wins run from the leftmost reel on adjacent reels, only the highest win per way is paid, and at a EUR 1 bet six lanterns, the top symbol, pay 7.50 per way.
A collapse follows a win, an xBomb Wild explosion when nothing paid, or Wild Mining. The xBomb Wild stands in for everything except Bonus symbols; when it explodes it clears the neighbouring positions and raises the win multiplier by one for the next collapse. Wild Mining fires when three, four or five identical symbols line up horizontally without a win and leaves one, two or three Wilds in their middle positions.
Lucky Wagon Spins need at least three Bonus symbols: three open two rows of the coin area, four open three and five open four. The feature begins with 3 spins and goes back to 3 whenever a coin lands, while the top row reveals new enhancers every spin: coin values, multipliers, dynamite, a bag, a chest or the Dwarf, each acting when a coin lands underneath. Dynamite can blast blocked positions and wake the collect chests on the bottom row, and the round ends when the area is full or the spins run out.
Ordinary play is listed at 96.06% RTP, and the three Nolimit Bonus tickets at 60x, 157x and 500x the bet at 96.07%, 96.20% and 96.96%. Beer Time closes a round at 60,000x, which the rules simulate once per 23,000,000 rounds; the client labels volatility 10.0 (Extreme), and the demo accepts bets of EUR 0.20 to EUR 50.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
Cascading reels
Hold and Win
Bonus buy
Bet range EUR 0.20 – 50 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
A 9x ticket among a hundred
One hundred Lucky Wagon tickets at 60x are the clearest result of two Fire in the Hole xBomb demo runs: they returned EUR 5,416 for EUR 6,000, 0.9027x of price, 75 of them below their price, the median at EUR 42 and the worst at EUR 16 on tickets 2 and 3 of run one; ticket 43 of run two, 23 spins from two open rows to three, paid EUR 545 on its own, 9.0833x, and only two other tickets in the hundred reached 2x. Over 20,000 EUR 1 spins the game returned 92.92%, 94.50% then 91.34%, against the listed 96.06%, 1,416.7 bets short.
Lucky Wagon Spins came naturally 113 times, once per 177 spins or 5.65 bHz, 62 in run one and 51 in run two, and their rounds paid 61.84x the stake on average, 53x at the median and 37.6% of the total return; 18 features cleared 100x, four stayed under 20x, and the two-row start dominated both runs, 54 and then 47 features against 8 and 4 that opened three rows, with the three-row starts averaging 105x and 111x in free spins. Run two's record feature, 240.8x on round 9599 across 21 spins, beat anything in run one, where no feature paid more than 199.25x, and its round 2587 ran 34 spins for 83x where run one's 34-spin feature, round 1160, had paid 20x; the longest waits were 962 spins after round 4773 and 905 after round 5036.
xBomb explosions decide the base game: rounds that reached a multiplier of x3 or more were 11.83% and then 11.15% of spins and earned 68.3% and 67.0% of base-game money, rounds that opened all six mine rows 6.55% and 6.44% for 60.7% and 62.8%, and Wild Mining rounds 8.15% and 7.68% for 50.2% and 49.6%. Wins came on 26.12% and 26.21% of spins at a 0.8x median in both runs, and the base game's ceiling moved from 96.2x on round 1694 to 129.8x on round 4432 after ten collapses. Neither run held its start for long: run one bottomed 860 bets down on spin 8476 and closed 550.4 down, run two bottomed 904.5 down on spin 9383 and closed 866.3 down, and the pooled ledger's low, 1,454.8 bets, came on the second run's spin 9383.
- Ticket 43 of run two returned EUR 545 on a EUR 60 price, 9.0833x, after 23 spins
- Natural Lucky Wagon Spins arrived every 177 spins across 20,000, 18 of 113 over 100x
- The four three-row starts of run two averaged 111x in free spins, the eight of run one 105x
- From the base game alone, round 4432 of run two paid 129.8x, the page's first base round past 100x
- Bought features returned a median EUR 42 against their EUR 60 price
- Two-row starts, 101 of the 113 natural features, averaged 48.74x and 50.36x in free spins against 105x and 111x for three-row starts
- Run two went 32 spins without a hit from round 212, and seven of its droughts reached 20
- Nothing natural passed 240.8x in 113 features, and run two's nine rounds above 100x were eight wagons and one base round
Run 01·2026-09-28·94.50%
Every round of 100x or more in the series, ten in all, came with Lucky Wagon Spins, the biggest 199.25x at round 8492. Over 10,000 EUR 1 spins the game returned 94.50% against the declared 96.06%, and only 26.12% of spins paid anything.
xBomb explosions lifted the win multiplier to x3 or more on 11.83% of spins, and those rounds returned 68.3% of base-game money; the groups overlap, but rounds that opened the mine to six rows (6.55%) took 60.7% and rounds with Wild Mining (8.15%) 50.2%. No hit outside the feature went past 96.2x.
Lucky Wagon Spins arrived 62 times, one per 161.3 spins, paying 61.91x the stake on average and 55.7x at the median; only 2 paid under 20x. The 54 wagons that opened with two rows averaged 48.74x from their free spins, the 8 that opened with three 105x. The 60x ticket buys the two-row start, and the 50 bought features averaged 50.38x the stake, 0.84x of their price; the best of them, ticket 24, paid EUR 156 after just 8 spins.
Run 02·2026-09-30·91.34%
Ticket 43 ran 23 Lucky Wagon Spins, opened a third row of the coin area along the way and came back with EUR 545, 9.0833x its EUR 60 price, and it carried the whole buy sample: fifty tickets returned EUR 2,897 for EUR 3,000, 0.9657x of price, yet 38 came back below their price, the median ticket paid EUR 40.50, and without ticket 43 the other 49 stood at 0.80x. Every ticket opened with two rows and 17 added a third before the end; ticket 1 was the only other one past 2x, EUR 123 after 27 spins, tickets 12 and 24 paid EUR 19 each, and the shortest ticket, number 26, was over after 4 spins with EUR 28.
Natural wagons came 51 times, one per 196.1 spins or 5.1 bHz, four of them inside 41 spins between rounds 333 and 373, and their rounds paid EUR 3,149.05, 34.5% of the return, 61.75x on average and 45x at the median; 47 opened with two rows and averaged 50.36x in free spins, the four that opened with three averaged 111x, and only two features paid under 20x, round 6551 among them with 16x from 23 spins. Round 9599 set the page's record at 240.8x over 21 spins, opening two rows and closing with four; rounds 2903 and 3065 paid 170.95x and 200.8x, eight wagons cleared 100x, round 2587 lasted 34 spins for 83x, the same length as run one's 20x marathon on round 1160, and the longest wait ran 905 spins after round 5036.
A hit came on 26.21% of spins, 0.8x at the median; 7,379 spins returned nothing, seven dry spells reached 20 spins, the longest of them 32 from round 212. Rounds in which xBomb explosions lifted the multiplier to x3 or more were 11.15% of the series and earned 67.0% of what the base game paid; the 6.44% of rounds that reached all six mine rows took 62.8%, the 7.68% with Wild Mining 49.6%, and round 4432 paid 129.8x after ten collapses, the first base round above 100x on this page, with 98.0x on round 1604 and 94.6x on round 3933 behind it. Spin 494 was the first with the balance above its start; it peaked 221.1 bets up on spin 4709, fell below for good after spin 5354 and bottomed 904.5 bets down on spin 9383 before closing 866.3 bets short, 91.34% of the EUR 10,000 staked at EUR 1; the 2,000-spin blocks returned 90.7%, 103.2%, 92.2%, 79.0% and 91.6%, and 200 bets lasted 2,044 spins where 50 lasted 78.
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
- 26%rounds that paid
- 241xbiggest round
- 1 / 177natural bonus rate
- 0.90xmean of 100 buys
- 32longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-28 measured return94.50%-1.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 81.8–107.2%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 199x · round 8,492
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 62 · one per 161 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.84x · median 0.7x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 9,450
- deepest drawdown
- 986x
02run Run 022026-09-30 lab note measured return91.34%-4.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.6–104.1%
- rounds that paid
- 26%
- biggest round
- 241x · round 9,599
- longest dry streak
- 32
- natural bonuses
- 51 · one per 196 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.97x · median 0.675x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 9,134
- deepest drawdown
- 1,126x
Run two, played on 30 September, returned 91.34% after 94.50% on 28 September, 92.92% pooled over 20,000 EUR 1 spins against the listed 96.06%. Lucky Wagon Spins came 51 times against 62 and averaged 61.75x against 61.91x; the tickets at 60x came back at 0.9657x of price after 0.84x, ticket 43 alone at 9.0833x, and the base game produced its first round above 100x, 129.8x on round 4432.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-28, 2026-09-30): 20000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1.0 bet; 100 bonus buys at 60.0 each (60.0x) on the official Nolimit City demo server (jurisdiction DEFAULT, RTP profile 96.06%); 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
Is 96.06% within reach for Fire in the Hole xBomb after two runs?
No, not yet: the pooled figure over 20,000 EUR 1 spins is 92.92%, 94.50% in the first run and 91.34% in the second, so both sat below the listed 96.06%. The features supplied 40.6% and 34.5% of what each run returned, the base game's best rounds were 96.2x and 129.8x, and the largest round of all, 240.8x on round 9599 of run two, is 0.4% of the 60,000x Beer Time cap.
Do three-row wagons still pay more in the second run?
Yes. On free-spin winnings, three-row starts, four of them in run two, averaged 111x with a 113x median, the 47 two-row starts 50.36x with a 38x median, and in run one the split was 105x against 48.74x. Two of the four three-row features and 14 of the 47 two-row ones opened another row before they ended, as did 17 of the 50 bought features, all of which start with two.
How did ticket 43 reach EUR 545?
It ran 23 spins, opened a third row of the coin area along the way and finished with a board worth 545x the bet, 9.0833x its EUR 60 price. The other 49 tickets of run two returned 0.80x of price between them, and across both runs 100 tickets came back at 0.9027x, 75 below price, with a EUR 42 median.
Which xBomb rounds earn the base-game money?
Each xBomb explosion adds one to the multiplier for the next collapse, and the rounds that reached x3 or more, 11.83% of run one and 11.15% of run two, paid 68.3% and 67.0% of the base-game money; x2 rounds, 23.41% and 24.74%, paid 22.1% and 23.7%, and the 64.76% and 64.11% that never left x1 paid 9.6% and 9.3%. Wild Mining fired on 8.15% and 7.68% of spins for half the base money each time, 50.2% and 49.6%.
Does a longer Lucky Wagon feature pay more?
No. Coins decide the length: three spins open the feature and every coin resets the counter to 3, so natural features ran 6 to 34 spins in both runs, 13.4 spins on average in run one and 16.2 in run two, and bought ones 4 to 29 spins in run two. Length is not value: round 2587 of run two lasted 34 spins for 83x, round 1160 of run one 34 spins for 20x, and run two's record, 240.8x on round 9599, needed 21.
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- spins20,000
- bet1.00
- result-1,417x
- RTP measured92.9%
- bonuses113
- max win, no bonus129.8x
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