Pragmatic Play · 2020 · tested 2026-09-06
Floating Dragon
Three separate engines share the return almost evenly: line wins, the Hold & Spin coin board, and free spins with fish money. None of the three is big on its own, and 88% of spins pay nothing while you wait for one of them to fire.
measured over 10,000 spins
Is Floating Dragon worth playing?
quick answerFloating Dragon Hold & Spin paid back 95.07% across ten thousand demo spins at 2.00 each (95% interval 78.4 to 111.7%), against a declared 96.71%. Wins landed on 11.9% of spins, with a median hit of 2x. The coin board opened 44 times for a median of 55x, and 43 natural free-spin rounds returned a median of 38.5x; the biggest round of the run was 284x. This build has no buy button.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.71% |
| RTP measured | 95.07% (95% CI 78.4–111.7) |
| Hit frequency | 12% · every 8.42 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 57 / 8.35 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (base game) | 167.0x · spin 2330 |
| Free spins, natural | 43 · every 232.6 spins · mean 75.1x |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 99,014 |
Play Floating Dragon demo
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Free spins on video
natural trigger · 43 in 10,000 spinsThis is the bonus from media spin 424, recorded as it happened on the demo server: it paid 94.00, 47.0x the bet, below the run average of 75.1x. Out of the 43 natural bonuses in the 10,000-spin series it beats 51%. Captured from the game tab with sound; the strongest rounds of the run are in the Best bonuses list.
Across the whole run the 43 natural bonuses split into 0 under 20x, 23 between 20x and 50x, 11 between 50x and 100x and 9 above 100x, and together they made up 34% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 8 to 814 spins. 21 of them ran longer than the basic 10 spins.
- triggers 43 1 per 233 spins
- every 233 spins gaps 8 to 814
- mean 75.1x median 38.5x
- best 284.0x round 3549
- spins per bonus 15.9 10 base, up to 30
- 01round 354930 spins284.0x
- 02round 553920 spins254.0x
- 03round 609730 spins233.0x
- 04round 421530 spins176.0x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 61 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 118 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 902 |
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
Ten fixed lines across five reels and three rows, paying left to right, with the ship at the top of the paytable with 200x for five and the card royals at the bottom with 10x. That is the plain part of the game, and in this log it produced 1,100 winning spins, the largest 100x on round 8996. Two other mechanisms sit on top of it.
The gold coin appears only on the middle reel and carries a random value from 1x to 20x the bet. Three coins on that reel at once start Hold & Spin: the middle reel freezes, the other four clear, and you get three respins. Every new money symbol that lands resets the count to three and adds its value to the round. On reels one, two, four and five a diamond can drop worth 100x, 200x, 300x, 400x or 4,993x; the rules guarantee at least 20x for any Hold & Spin round and hand out three more respins if the board has not reached it. The round ends when the respins run out and everything on the board is paid together. Our 44 rounds lasted between five and thirteen respins and never showed a diamond above the small values: the best board was 167x on round 2330.
Dragon scatters open the free spins: ten of them for three scatters, fifteen for four, twenty for five. During the feature the koi fish carry money values from 0.2x to 500x, and a wild that lands collects every fish value on the screen. Wilds are also counted: each fourth wild collected retriggers the feature for ten more spins and raises the money multiplier to 2x, then 3x, then 10x for the third and final retrigger. Of the 43 natural rounds in the log, 22 ran the basic ten spins, 15 earned one retrigger, five earned two, and one opened with four scatters for fifteen. In round 390 the fish supplied 308 of the 312 won, collected by six wilds.
The win cap is 5,000x the bet in either feature. The rules screen declares 96.71%, calls the game high volatility and sets the stake between 0.10 and 250. The game is built by Reel Kingdom and distributed by Pragmatic Play; the build has neither an ante bet nor a purchase button, which means all bonus data on this page comes from natural triggers.
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Gallery
10 frames from the test
Verdict
who it suits, who should skip itThis is a session of long silences. Wins arrived on one spin in 8.4, the longest empty stretch ran 57 spins (twice: rounds 2904 to 2960 and 6528 to 6584), ten stretches reached 40 spins and 97 reached 20. The balance never strayed far from its starting line in either direction until late: 235 bets down at spin 1,000, 241 up at 4,000, a peak of 294 up at round 4223, then a slide through 6,000 and 8,000 to a low of 618 bets down at spin 8991 and a close 493 down at 99,014. The 50- and 100-bet bankrolls were gone inside 120 spins; 200 bets survived to spin 902.
The money was split three ways. Plain line wins made up 36% of everything the game returned, the Hold & Spin board 30% and the free spins 34%. The board opened 44 times, once per 227 spins, and behaved like a fixed-price ticket: never below 22x, a median of 55x, a mean of 64.6x, and five rounds above 100x (167x on round 2330, 154x on 6936, 153x on 9511, 126x on 9488, 112x on 1712). The 4,993x diamond did not appear in any of them.
Free spins carried the larger numbers. Forty-three triggers, one per 233 spins, averaged 75.1x with a median of 38.5x; the floor was 20x on round 2770 and the ceiling 284x on round 3549, a thirty-spin round with two retriggers. Nine rounds cleared 100x and all nine had at least one retrigger; nine others finished under 25x. Rounds 2762 and 2770 triggered eight spins apart, and the longest wait ran 814 spins from round 4725 to 5539.
With no buy button the game sets its own pace, and that pace is slow: about one feature of either kind every 115 spins, with nothing to do in between except watch the middle reel for a third coin. Players who want the collect-and-respin loop without buying into it get a fair version here; players used to a 30% hit rate will find the 88% blank rate hard to sit through.
- Hold & Spin never paid below 22x in 44 rounds and sat at a 55x median
- Nine of 43 free-spin rounds cleared 100x, the largest 284x
- Three win sources split the return almost evenly, so no single feature carries the game
- No buy button: every result here is what a base-game player would see
- Wins on 11.9% of spins, ten dead runs of 40 spins or more and two of 57
- A 95.07% return against 96.71% declared, 618 bets down at the low point
- The 4,993x diamond and the 500x fish never appeared in 87 feature rounds
- No retrigger in 22 of 43 free-spin rounds, and none of those passed 87x
- Round 3549 was the largest of the run at 284x: thirty free spins after two retriggers, the fish money multiplier at 3x by the end.
- Round 7624 ran the longest Hold & Spin sequence, thirteen respins, and paid only 23x; round 2330 needed six for 167x.
- Line wins alone produced 1,100 paying spins, six of them 50x or more, topped by 100x on round 8996 in a single evaluation.
- Two free-spin rounds eight spins apart, 2762 and 2770, paid 48.5x and 20x, the smallest bonus of the run right after a middling one.
- Every one of the nine bonuses above 100x had at least one retrigger; no ten-spin round passed 87x.
Method & data
open data · closed rig10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.71%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-06.
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 come from a real browser session. A human editor checks the numbers and the text before publication. How we test →
| 2026-09-06 | 10,000 spins · RTP 95.1% |
FAQ
7 questions · answered from the logHow many times did the coin board open?
Forty-four times in ten thousand spins, once per 227. Three gold coins have to land on the middle reel together, and the reel shows the coins with their values, so you can see how close a spin came. Once open, a board ran five to thirteen respins in our log.
Hold & Spin: what is one round actually worth?
Between 22x and 167x here, median 55x, mean 64.6x. The rules guarantee 20x, which is why the floor is so firm, and the diamond symbol on the outer reels is where the big values live: 100x to 400x normally and 4,993x at the top. Five of the 44 rounds passed 100x; none showed the 4,993x diamond.
Do the fish matter in the base game?
No. The koi are ordinary paying symbols outside the feature. Their money values, 0.2x to 500x, only count during free spins, and only when a wild lands to collect them. In round 390 the fish supplied 308 of the 312 won, collected by six wilds over thirty spins.
Retriggers: how do they work and how often did they happen?
Every fourth wild collected during the feature adds ten spins and raises the money multiplier: 2x after the first retrigger, 3x after the second, 10x after the third. In our 43 natural rounds 15 got one retrigger and five got two; nobody reached the third. All nine rounds above 100x had at least one.
Is there a bonus buy?
No. This demo build sells nothing, neither a feature purchase nor an ante bet, so the lab measured only what the base game produces on its own: 44 coin boards and 43 free-spin rounds in ten thousand spins. The bonus video on this page is a natural trigger recorded during the media session.
Is the hit rate really that low compared with other Pragmatic slots?
Ten fixed lines on a 5×3 grid and no cascades: 88% of spins paid nothing, against 65 to 77% for the other games tested this week. The trade is the size of what does land, a median hit of 2x rather than 0.75x, plus the coin board and the fish money doing the heavy lifting.
Which part of the game paid the most?
Free spins, but only just: 34% of the total return, with the coin board at 30% and plain line wins at 36%. The largest single round, 284x on round 3549, came from the free spins; the largest board was 167x; the largest line win 100x.
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