Pragmatic Play · 2019 · tested 2026-10-29
Fire Strike
Fire Strike has no free spins, and the largest round of its first demo series was a pure count of eight Firestrike symbols and four Firestrike Wilds, twelve in all, worth 500x without one line win.
In numbers: measured RTP 97.3% against 96.5% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 19.7% of rounds paid; no natural bonus landed; the biggest round paid 500.0x; the longest dry run was 42 spins.
Fire Strike demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Fire Strike 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
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 97.28% (approximate 95% CI 83.3–111.3) |
| Hit frequency | 20% · every 5.07 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 42 / 5.15 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 500.0x · round 2226 |
| Free spins, natural | 0 |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 99,455 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 80 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 171 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 1112 |
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
6 rules screens from the game
Fire Strike is a 5x3 slot with 10 paylines, where a combination has to start on the first reel and run on through neighbouring reels, and each line pays only its highest combination. At the USD 2.00 bet used here, five red 7s pay USD 200.00, five purple 7s USD 100.00, five blue 7s USD 60.00 and five green gems USD 50.00, while cash, chips, cards and dice run from USD 40.00 down to USD 20.00 for five. Triple BAR pays USD 20.00 for five, and double BAR, single BAR and a mixed line of any 7s each stop at USD 10.00. The Firestrike Wild stands in for any symbol on a line and has its own pays of USD 50.00, USD 100.00 and USD 400.00 for three, four and five.
Firestrike symbols never form lines. They pay by count anywhere on the 15 positions, the Firestrike Wild counting with them, and the prize is a multiple of the total bet added on the same spin as any line wins: 1x for six, 2x for seven, 8x for eight, 25x for nine, 50x for ten and 150x for eleven. Beyond that the table leaps to 500x for twelve, 1,000x for thirteen, 2,500x for fourteen and 5,000x for fifteen.
Exactly fifteen Firestrike Wilds, a screen with nothing else on it, win the Firestrike Wild Jackpot, 25,000x the bet, shown on the board above the reels as USD 50,000.00 at a USD 2.00 stake. On the reel strips sent by the demo server, both the Wild and the Firestrike symbol sit in stacks of three on all five reels.
Nothing else is layered on top: the game has no free spins, no respins, no multipliers and no feature to buy. Its rules give a 96.5% theoretical RTP and a low volatility rating, and the total bet goes from USD 0.10 to USD 250.00 through coins per line and coin value; the series ran at USD 2.00, a USD 0.20 coin per line across all 10.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Jackpot
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
7 frames from the demo session
Verdict
The top round needed no payline
Round 2226 paid USD 1,000.00, 500x the stake, without a single line win: twelve Firestrike and Firestrike Wild symbols were spread over the reels, and the count table paid them as one prize. Rounds 6784 and 7872 did the same a rung lower, eleven symbols each for 150x and nothing on the lines. Across the 9,624 rounds with no Firestrike Bonus, the best result was 69x, in round 494.
Six-symbol hits accounted for 243 Firestrike Bonus rounds, and that rung returns 1x, the USD 2.00 stake and nothing more; 489 other spins stopped on exactly five symbols and got no prize for them. Nine or more symbols came together in just 22 rounds, yet their prizes came to USD 2,900.00, 14.91% of everything the series paid out. One Firestrike Bonus every 26.60 rounds added up to 21.72% of the money paid, and paylines supplied the other 78.28%.
No screen held more than twelve of the symbols, so the 1,000x, 2,500x and 5,000x rungs went unpaid, and the 15-Wild jackpot at 25,000x the bet stayed far off, with at most eight Wilds among the counted symbols. Lines still brought in most of the money, but each of the series' four biggest rounds held eleven or twelve Firestrike and Firestrike Wild symbols.
- Round 9687 paired an eleven-symbol prize of USD 300.00 with USD 157.00 of line wins for 228.5x
- Round 1476 lined up three Wild-only lines at USD 50.00 each, and its seven Wilds added a USD 4.00 count prize for 112.5x in all
- Sixteen nine-symbol counts paid 25x apiece, USD 800.00 together
- Six-symbol counts, 243 of the 376 Firestrike prizes, paid the stake back and no more
- 489 spins stopped on exactly five Firestrike or Firestrike Wild symbols, one short of any prize
- The Wilds paid as a Wild line only nine times, each a three-Wild USD 50.00 line
Test record
10,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rig
One test run so far: a single session of the base game on the official demo server, every request and response logged; the game offers no bonus purchase, so every feature in the sample came from ordinary spins. 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
- 500xbiggest round
- —natural bonus rate
- 42longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-29 measured return97.28%+0.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 83.3–111.3%
- rounds that paid
- 20%
- biggest round
- 500x · round 2,226
- longest dry streak
- 42
- natural bonuses
- 0
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,455
- deepest drawdown
- 1,085x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-29.
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
Does Fire Strike have free spins or a bonus buy?
No. Besides the Wild, Fire Strike's rules list only the Firestrike Bonus, a cash prize for six or more Firestrike or Firestrike Wild symbols anywhere on the screen, and the jackpot for fifteen Wilds; there are no free spins and nothing to purchase. Across 10,000 paid spins the server never sent a free spins trigger, while the Firestrike Bonus brought 21.72% of all payouts.
How many Firestrike symbols do you need, and what does each count pay?
Six is the minimum and pays 1x the total bet; nine pay 25x, eleven 150x and twelve 500x, up to 5,000x for all fifteen. In 10,000 rounds at USD 2.00 the counts landed 243 times at six, 78 at seven, 33 at eight, 16 at nine, twice at ten, three times at eleven and once at twelve, and nothing higher appeared.
Between two Firestrike Bonus prizes, how many spins go by?
Firestrike prizes came on 376 of the 10,000 spins, 3.76% of them, or one per 26.60 rounds on average, and half of them arrived within 18 rounds of the previous one. The rarer prizes of 25x and up, nine or more symbols, came 22 times.
Without a Firestrike Bonus, how much can one Fire Strike spin pay?
69x, USD 138.00 on a USD 2.00 bet, in round 494, where four red 7 lines of USD 30.00 each made up USD 120.00 of the total; no other spin without a Firestrike Bonus paid more. Five Wilds on one line, worth USD 400.00 or 200x, never lined up in the 10,000 rounds.
Has the Firestrike Wild Jackpot ever landed in testing?
No. It needs a Firestrike Wild on every one of the 15 positions and pays 25,000x the bet, USD 50,000.00 at USD 2.00; no screen in the series showed more than eight Wilds, which happened in four rounds, and only 37 rounds stacked three Wilds on two or more reels.
Which round moved Fire Strike's 97.28% demo return the most?
Round 2226, worth USD 1,000.00 of the USD 19,455.00 returned on USD 20,000 staked, 5.14% of all payouts, and the remaining 9,999 rounds paid back 92.28% of their stake. For this single sample, the approximate 95% CI on the mean is 83.26% to 111.29%, and the game's stated 96.5% falls inside that band.
Is a typical Fire Strike win bigger than the bet?
Yes. 2.0x the USD 2.00 bet, USD 4.00, was the median of the 1,971 paying spins, though only 219 of them reached 10x; 8,029 of the 10,000 spins returned nothing, and no dry spell lasted beyond 42 spins, rounds 17 to 58.
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