Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-10-14
Forge of Olympus
A hammer that paid nothing still lifted the Forge of Olympus free spins to level 2 in round 493, one of 23 natural bonus entries logged across the 10,000-round demo.
In numbers: measured RTP 94.7% against 96.25% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 24.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 377 rounds (53 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 29.1x the stake, mean 100.8x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.82x of their price on average, 61% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,219.2x; the longest dry run was 26 spins.
Forge of Olympus demo
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Test card
20,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.25% |
| RTP measured | 94.73% (approximate 95% CI 76.9–112.6) |
| Hit frequency | 24% · every 4.08 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 26 / 4.04 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 257.4x · run 1, round 9076 |
| Free spins, natural | 53 · 2.7 bHz · every 377.4 spins · mean bonus round payout 100.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,893 |
- 012026-09-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓79.69%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓109.77%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 × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 0.82x · median 0.403× price (USD 80.65) · 61 of 100 below price · best 3.98x · worst 0.04x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 18 / 10–35 |
| Retriggered | 40% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Three or more scatters inside an active feature add five spins. Thirteen of run two's 30 natural features and 26 of its 50 purchases received such additions; ten, fifteen or twenty spins granted at entry are initial awards.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 16,377.7081.89% · approximate 95% CI 65–99%
- Net
- −USD 3,622.30−18.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 39 / 10039%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 1007%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~377 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 377 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 131 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 273 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 779 |
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
8 rules screens from the game
Forge of Olympus uses a 6-by-5 field with payments determined by matching-symbol counts, beginning at eight; there are no fixed paylines. A paid combination disappears, allowing the board to produce further awards in the same tumble sequence. The gold medallion pays 50x the ordinary stake at twelve or more, while four, five or six scatters have their own cash awards.
Hammers carry values between 2x and 100x in ordinary play. Their values are added when the tumble sequence finishes, and the resulting multiplier applies to that sequence's combined payout. Round 9076 illustrates the calculation: USD 9.90 of symbol awards met 50x and 2x hammers, producing USD 514.80 altogether. A hammer with no underlying cash award cannot create a payout by multiplication.
Initial free spins number 10, 15 or 20 for four, five or six scatters respectively; landing at least three scatters during the feature adds five. The bonus starts at level 1, then reaches levels 2, 3 and 4 after collecting six, eleven and fifteen hammers in total. Those levels raise the minimum hammer value from 2x to 8x, 15x and 50x, while the upper value remains 100x. Buying a start at those respective levels costs 100x, 200x, 400x or 500x the ordinary stake; this test used only the 100x option.
Ante uses 25 stake credits instead of 20 for twice the regular chance of triggering free spins; purchase access uses the 20-credit setting. Theoretical RTP is 96.25% for regular play, 96.23% with Ante and 96.42% for the tested level-1 purchase. The captured rules classify volatility as high, show USD 0.20 to 300 stakes and set a 5,000x round ceiling. All dollar amounts in the demo are virtual credits.
Free spins
Retrigger
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
Cascading reels
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
7 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Thirty RTP points between runs
Both runs were 10,000 rounds at USD 2: they returned 79.69% and 109.77%, 94.73% combined over 20,000 rounds (approximate 95% CI 76.88%–112.59%, a precision figure rather than a forecast). Hit rates were 24.77% and 24.2%, and 15,103 rounds, three-quarters of the sample, paid nothing, so the 30-point gap came from the features: natural features supplied 15.0% of run one's payouts and 37.7% of run two's.
Fifty-three natural features arrived, one per 377 rounds; the largest, round 1475 of run two, paid USD 2,438.30, and the median feature across both runs paid 29.05x the stake. The best result without free spins remained run one's round 9076 at USD 514.80 (257.4x); run two's best ordinary screen was USD 180 at round 3234.
Level-1 purchases, 100 of them at USD 200 across both runs, paid USD 16,377.70, 81.89% of their cost, with a USD 80.65 median and 61 tickets below price. Seven tickets reached twice their price and none five times; the best, ticket 33 of run two, returned USD 796.40. Levels 2 to 4 at 200x, 400x and 500x the stake remained untested.
- Spin 27 of round 1475's feature in run two paid USD 1,597.50, more than any complete round in run one
- Natural features in run two paid USD 8,281.70 across 30 rounds, 37.7% of that run's payouts
- Hammer multipliers also worked in ordinary play: round 9076 of run one paid 257.4x without free spins
- Seven of 100 purchases returned at least twice their USD 200 price
- No payout arrived in 15,103 of 20,000 ordinary rounds
- Sixty-one tickets out of 100 finished under the USD 200 they cost
- Run one waited 1,687 paid rounds between natural features at rounds 1449 and 3137
- Fifteen of run two's 30 natural features ended after their ten starting spins
Run 01·2026-09-14·79.69%
A level change need not mean money has been won. In natural round 493, the first eight free spins had added USD 8.60 to the USD 10.80 entry payout, with five hammers collected. Free spin nine showed a 25x hammer on a non-paying board: the meter reached six and moved to level 2, but the USD 19.40 running payout did not change. The completed round eventually returned USD 102, comprising USD 91.20 from free spins and the USD 10.80 entry.
Entry payouts also matter when reading the purchase results. The 50 purchases cost USD 200 apiece and paid USD 7,668.20 altogether, of which USD 3,670 came from the entry scatters and USD 3,998.20 from the subsequent free spins. The full-payout mean was 0.76682x the ticket price and the median 0.3885x, equivalent to USD 77.70; thirty tickets failed to cover USD 200. These figures describe the tested level-1 option, without measuring the three dearer entries.
Among 10,000 paid rounds, 23 opened natural features; their complete rounds supplied 15.05% of the series' total payout. Hammer multipliers also operated outside those features: round 9076 converted USD 9.90 into USD 514.80 through a combined 52x. Round 493 exposes the other side of that mechanism: a collected hammer may improve the bonus level while adding nothing to the current cash total.
Run 02·2026-10-14·109.77%
Free spin 27 of round 1475 paid USD 1,597.50, lifting that feature from USD 836.80 to USD 2,434.30 in one screen; spin 26 had added USD 340 just before. The feature opened with ten spins and was extended to 30. With its entry payout, the round returned USD 2,438.30, 1,219.15 times the USD 2 stake and the largest complete round in either Forge of Olympus run.
Round 2494 followed with 35 free spins and USD 2,021.80, 1,010.9x, its tumble chain running to 73 steps. Together the 30 natural features paid USD 8,281.70 as complete rounds, 37.7% of the run's USD 21,954.90 in payouts, which gave the 10,000 rounds a 109.77% RTP. Purchases went less smoothly: the 50 USD 200 tickets came back with USD 8,709.50, 87.09% of their cost, with ticket 33 leading at USD 796.40 after 30 spins from a 20-spin start, 31 tickets finishing under their price and the median one paying USD 82.70.
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
- 24%rounds that paid
- 1,219xbiggest round
- 1 / 377natural bonus rate
- 0.82xmean of 100 buys
- 26longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-14 measured return79.69%-16.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 69.4–90.0%
- rounds that paid
- 25%
- biggest round
- 272x · round 1,449
- longest dry streak
- 24
- natural bonuses
- 23 · one per 435 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.77x · median 0.389x · 60% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 95,938
- deepest drawdown
- 2,333x
02run Run 022026-10-14 lab note measured return109.77%+13.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 75.6–144.0%
- rounds that paid
- 24%
- biggest round
- 1,219x · round 1,475
- longest dry streak
- 26
- natural bonuses
- 30 · one per 333 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.87x · median 0.414x · 62% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,955
- deepest drawdown
- 1,017x
Ordinary-play RTP moved from 79.69% in run one to 109.77% in run two, with natural features rising from 23 to 30 and their share from 15.0% to 37.7% of payouts. Purchases returned 87.09% against 76.68% before, with a USD 82.70 median against USD 77.70.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-14, 2026-10-14): 20,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 100 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.25%); 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 →
FAQ
7 questions · answered from the log
Has run two altered the measured RTP of Forge of Olympus?
Yes. Run two returned 109.77% on 10,000 rounds after 79.69% in run one, and the pooled 20,000 rounds returned 94.73%, USD 37,893 on USD 40,000 staked. The build lists 96.25% theoretical RTP for ordinary play.
By what route did round 1475 reach 1,219 times the stake?
Free spin 27 paid USD 1,597.50 and spin 26 USD 340 inside a feature extended from ten spins to 30. The free spins paid USD 2,422.60 and the entry screen USD 15.70, USD 2,438.30 in total.
Did the new batch of Forge of Olympus purchases pay better?
Yes, slightly. Fifty USD 200 tickets returned 87.09% against 76.68% in run one, with the median rising from USD 77.70 to USD 82.70; 31 tickets fell short of their price, one more than in run one.
Up to how many spins did a Forge of Olympus feature run?
Thirty-five in these runs: round 2494 of run two started with ten spins and finished with 35, paying USD 2,021.80. Among run two's purchases, 26 of 50 were extended, five reached 30 spins and one reached 35.
Does Forge of Olympus pay large amounts without free spins?
Yes. Round 9076 of run one paid USD 514.80, 257.4x, from a tumble sequence with hammers and no feature; run two's best ordinary screen, round 3234, paid USD 180. Across 20,000 rounds, 12 complete rounds exceeded 100x, features included, eight of them in run two.
Per how many rounds did Forge of Olympus trigger over 20,000 rounds?
Fifty-three times, one per 377 rounds: 23 in run one and 30 in run two. The longest wait was 1,687 rounds in run one; run two's longest was 940 rounds, between rounds 8980 and 9921.
Which Forge of Olympus purchase level was tested?
Only level 1 at USD 200, 100 times the stake: 100 tickets over two runs paid USD 16,377.70, 81.89% of cost. Levels 2, 3 and 4 cost 200x, 400x and 500x and were not purchased.
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