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Pragmatic Play · 2021 · tested 2026-09-26

Fishin' Reels

Fishin' Reels closed its demo at 97.31% RTP with the fisherman hauling 92.1% of all free spins money, a review of 56 features played in Reel It In mode.

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10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
Spins10,000
BetUSD 2.00
RTP declared96.50%
RTP measured97.30% (approximate 95% CI 83.8–110.8)
Hit frequency27% · every 3.66
Dead streak max / avg21 / 3.7
Median hit1.00x
Max win (base game)100.5x · spin 7986
Free spins, natural56 · 5.6 bHz · every 178.6 spins · mean FS-only payout 64.8x stake
Balance start → end100,000 → 99,461
Balance in bets over the base series
Win distribution, x bet
test logs · 1 run · every request loggedtest record ↓
  1. 012026-09-2610,000 rounds · 0 buysfiles & checksums ↓97.30%RTP4 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

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Free spins on video

natural trigger · 56 in 10,000 spins
REC · NATURAL TRIGGER

Natural trigger with Reel It In chosen: ten spins, USD 8, no fisherman on reel five. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.

Across the whole run the 56 natural bonuses split into 7 under 20x, 22 between 20x and 50x, 19 between 50x and 100x and 8 at 100x or more, and together they made up 37% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 4 to 721 spins. Payout figures here are FS-only, in ordinary stakes; the trigger payout is excluded.

Extra spins in Reel It In come from fish carrying an extra-spins tag, two per fish the fisherman collects; the opening award of 10, 12 or 15 spins is excluded. In this journal 32 of 56 features were extended, 120 spins in total.

  • triggers 56 1 per 179 spins
  • every 179 spins gaps 4 to 721
  • mean 64.8x FS-only median 48.3x stake
  • best 311.5x round 39
  • spins per bonus 12.3 10 to 18 observed
Trigger mapevery natural bonus of the run · height = result, log scale · amber = top 4
Best bonuses
  1. 01round 3916 spins311.5x
  2. 02round 804212 spins177.0x
  3. 03round 872212 spins166.0x
  4. 04round 297914 spins147.5x

Risk profile

how much bankroll this run needed
954xmax drawdown, in bets (by spin 7985)
-453xlowest point vs start
21longest dead streak, spins
Bankroll survival in this run
50 betsbust at spin 4279
100 betsbust at spin 4524
200 betsbust at spin 4827

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
RULES · FROM THE GAME
Fishin' Reels rules, page 1
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The reels are 5x3 with ten lines, and every line pays on adjacent reels from the leftmost one. The orange fish tops the paytable, USD 200 for five of a kind at USD 2 and USD 1 for just two; frog, shrimp and starfish follow at USD 100, 80 and 60, the mask and flipper at USD 40, spade and heart at USD 30, club and diamond at USD 20. Wilds appear on the middle three reels only and stand in for everything except the Bonus, Fisherman and fish money symbols.

Free spins need three Bonus symbols for ten spins, four for twelve or five for fifteen, and before the round begins one of two modes is picked. Reel It In fills the reels with fish money symbols worth 0.5x to 250x the bet or an extra-spins tag, and the Fisherman lands on reel five only; each time he appears he pays the sum of every fish value on screen, and every extra-spins fish he collects adds two spins. The Big Catch swaps the fish for overlay symbols and a fishing mini-game with eight fish worth 0.2x to 1,000x; three overlays also add two spins.

The lab plays Reel It In on every trigger, so nothing on this page measures The Big Catch. There is no purchase button, RTP is declared at 96.5%, volatility is marked medium on the info page, wins stop at 1,200x the bet, and bets start at USD 0.10 and cap at USD 250 per spin.

Mechanics4 from the rules screens
  • Free spins
  • Wild symbol
  • Scatter symbol
  • Retrigger
Paytable
x total bet · bar = top payout on a log scale
symbol 2345+
Orange fish 0.5x 5x 20x 100x
Frog — 2.5x 15x 50x
Shrimp — 2x 12.5x 40x
Starfish — 1.5x 10x 30x
Diving mask — 1x 5x 20x
Flipper — 1x 5x 20x
Spade — 0.5x 2x 15x
Heart — 0.5x 2x 15x
Club — 0.5x 2x 10x
Diamond — 0.5x 2x 10x

Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00

Verdict

Fisherman first, paylines second

The series closed at 97.31% against a declared 96.5%, and an approximate 95% CI puts the mean between 83.8% and 110.8%. The base game pays often and small: 27.34% of spins hit, the median paying spin returned 1.0x and the largest base win was 100.5x at round 7986. Fifty-six features supplied 37.3% of all money at a mean of 64.8x; without the 311.5x opener at round 39 the other 55 averaged 60.3x with a median of 48x.

Extra spins came from the fish, not from Bonus symbols: 32 of 56 features were extended, 120 spins in total, and the seven features that reached sixteen spins averaged 128.8x against 40.7x for the 22 that stayed at ten. The fisherman landed 218 times, 3.9 per feature, and the one feature he skipped paid 3.0x.

The fisherman is the feature. 92.1% of the USD 7,253 paid inside free spins came through his collections and 7.9% through lines; the single largest haul, USD 430 on spin six of round 39, was a 200x fish with USD 30 of smaller fish beside it. The 250x fish printed in the rules never appeared on the reels in the whole series, while the 200x value showed seven times.

Measured upsides
  • Features landed 56 times, one per 179 spins (5.6 bHz), the first of them at spin 39
  • Base hit rate of 27.34%, so the balance moves on roughly every fourth spin
  • Sixteen-spin features averaged 128.8x, and the best of them reached 311.5x
  • Two feature modes are offered on every trigger, Reel It In or The Big Catch
Measured downsides
  • Nothing to buy, and the longest wait between features was 721 spins
  • 92.1% of feature money depends on the fisherman landing on reel five
  • The 250x fish never appeared; the biggest value seen was 200x, seven times
  • Peak-to-trough drawdown of 954 bets, bottoming out at round 7985

Test record

10,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rig

One test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.

result of this run2026-09-26
Measured return 97.30% 95% band 83.8–110.8% · declared 96.50%
  • 10,000rounds logged
  • 27%rounds that paid
  • 312xbiggest round
  • 1 / 179natural bonus rate
  • 21longest dry streak
return of this run with its 95% banddeclared 96.50%
Run 1 · 2026-09-2610,000 rounds
97.30%95% band 83.8–110.8%
80%90%100%110%declared 96.50%
dot = measured return · whisker = the range the long-run value is likely to sit in, given this many rounds
how the return settled, round by round10,000 rounds
97.30% after 10,000 roundsdeclared 96.50%
line = return measured up to that round · the line swings early and calms as rounds pile up
The run · tap to open
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Run 012026-09-26

10,000 rounds at USD 2.00 · 0 buys · rig 0.6.0 · RTP profile 96.50%

measured return97.30%+0.8 pts vs declared
95% band83.8–110.8%
natural bonuses56 · 1 / 179
biggest round312x
95% band
83.8–110.8%
rounds that paid
27%
biggest round
312x · round 39
longest dry streak
21
natural bonuses
56 · one per 179 rounds
balance start → end
100,000 → 99,461
deepest drawdown
954x
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10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-26.

The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, cascade steps, 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 →

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FAQ

7 questions · answered from the log
Fishin' Reels RTP: is the demo close to 96.5%?
Lab answer

Measured at 97.31% over the series at USD 2 per spin, above the declared 96.5%; the approximate 95% interval on the average runs 83.8% to 110.8%, and once the best feature (USD 623 at round 39) is removed the rest returned 94.20%.

Reel It In or The Big Catch: which one did the lab test?
Lab answer

Reel It In on all 56 triggers; the mode is chosen before every feature, so The Big Catch has no numbers on this page. In Reel It In the fisherman collected 92.1% of the USD 7,253 paid inside free spins.

Average wait for a feature?
Lab answer

179 on average (5.6 bHz), with the first trigger at spin 39 and the longest wait 721 spins between rounds 57 and 778; at USD 2 that wait cost USD 1,442 in turnover.

Two more spins: what triggers them?
Lab answer

From fish carrying an extra-spins tag: each one the fisherman collects adds two spins. 32 of 56 features were extended, 120 spins in total, and the seven features that reached sixteen spins averaged 128.8x.

Biggest fish value: 250x on paper, what did the reels show?
Lab answer

On paper 250x the bet, but that value never appeared in the series; 200x showed seven times, and the largest single haul was USD 430 on spin six of round 39 when a 200x fish was collected together with USD 30 of smaller fish.

Does the build sell the free spins?
Lab answer

No purchase exists in this build; every one of the 56 features came from three or more Bonus symbols, 45 of them from exactly three (ten spins) and 11 from four (twelve spins).

Is Fishin' Reels a volatile slot?
Lab answer

The rules label it medium and the log agrees: 27.34% of base spins paid, the deepest dip under the running peak was 954 bets, and the best base win was 100.5x at round 7986.

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Slotester Labmeasured run · every request logged measured
  • spins10,000
  • bet2.00
  • result-270x
  • RTP measured97.3%
  • bonuses56
  • max win100.5x

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