Pragmatic Play · 2025 · measured RTP 85.5% · tested 2026-11-13
Gates of Hades
Winning blocks in the natural free spins of Gates of Hades, whose RTP test came out at 85.5% over 10,000 demo rounds against 96.52% declared, got 46.83% of the multipliers stacked above the reels.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 85.5% against 96.52% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 29.0% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 370 rounds (27 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 68.5x the stake, mean 89.2x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.11x of their price on average, 60% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 386.7x; the longest dry run was 23 spins.
Gates of Hades demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
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Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.52% |
| RTP measured | 85.50% (approximate 95% CI 70.7–100.3) |
| Hit frequency | 29% · every 3.45 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 23 / 3.41 |
| Median hit | 0.35x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 201.0x · round 2205 |
| Free spins, natural | 27 · 2.7 bHz · every 370.4 spins · mean bonus round payout 89.2x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,100 |
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
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 1.11x · median 0.769× price (USD 153.85) · 30 of 50 below price · best 5.43x · worst 0.09x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10.3 / 10–15 |
| Retriggered | 2.0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Extra spins need three or more Scatters inside the round, and that happened once: ticket 38 added 5 spins to its 10. Openings of 12 spins from four Scatters, one natural and four bought, are starting awards and are left out of the extension count.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 11,145.80111.46% · approximate 95% CI 80–143%
- Net
- +USD 1,145.80+5.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 20 / 5040%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 5014%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~370 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 370 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 this run needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 78 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 237 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 487 |
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
Five gems, a crown, a ring and a potion fill a 6x6 grid, and a payout needs five or more identical symbols that touch horizontally or vertically as one block. The crown pays 1.5x the bet for five and 150x for a block of 15 or more, the ring up to 120x, the potion up to 60x and the red gem up to 45x, while five blue gems return 0.05x. Winning symbols disappear, the rest drop down, replacements fall in, and the tumbling goes on until no block forms.
WILD symbols drop on every reel and carry a value of 1x to 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 30x, 50x or 100x. That value moves into a meter above the reel where the WILD landed, and a winning block is paid at the total of the meters above the reels it has symbols on, so a meter over any other reel adds nothing to it. In the base game all six meters are wiped before the next paid spin.
Scatters on three or more positions start the bonus: three give 10 free spins, four 12, five 15 and six 20, and Scatters landing inside the round add 5, 7, 10 or 12. Meters stay lit through the whole round, and the WILD values gain 200x and 500x at the top. A trigger by six Scatters plays as Super Free Spins, where no WILD carries less than 10x.
At 100x the bet, USD 200 in this test, BUY FREE SPINS starts the round with anywhere from three to six Scatters, and BUY SUPER FREE SPINS is 500x. The information pages give a theoretical RTP of 96.52% for normal play, 96.50% for the buy and 96.47% for the super buy, mark the game as medium volatility and end any round at 10,000x the bet. A spin costs between USD 0.20 and USD 240.00.
Cluster pays
Cascading reels
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
On narrow screens, swipe or use arrow keys to view all payouts.
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Under half of the lit meters reached a block
Winning blocks in the 27 natural bonuses were paid 574 times while something sat on the meters, and the six meters then held 26.88 between them on average, yet the multiplier a block received averaged x12.59, 46.83% of what was lit. A paid block covered 2.62 reels on average, six of the 599 reached five reels and none reached all six. Forty-six blocks collected the full total, and 69 were paid at x1 with multipliers standing over reels they did not touch.
A 200x WILD landed on reel 6 during the third free spin of round 5870, and eight blocks that touched that reel were paid at x211 to x218 for USD 709.30 of the round's USD 773.40, which at 386.7x made it the largest of the 10,000 ordinary rounds. On its tenth spin both winning blocks sat to the left of reel 6 and went out at x12 and x21, USD 10.80 together.
On base spins, blocks multiplied above x1 brought 88.89% of base-spin money, and the 7,071 base spins without a WILD never paid more than 4.25x. A WILD showed on 2,929 base spins, one in 3.41, and 1,160 of those spins still paid nothing. The best base hit, 201.0x in round 2205, opened with a 100x WILD on reel 4 and ended on a USD 303.00 block at x101.
Bought rounds drew WILDs at the pace of natural ones, 1.425 per free spin against 1.430, and finished with a median of 39 across the six meters against 36. Their 50 tickets at USD 200 came back at 111.46% of the cost. Ticket 28 ended with only 36 on its meters and still returned USD 544.50, because a single block stretched across five reels and took x22 on USD 440.00.
- Seven 100x and eight 50x WILDs landed on ordinary spins, outside any bonus
- The six meters held at least 17 at the end of every natural bonus, and in 12 of the 27 all six reels had one lit
- A USD 200 ticket at least doubled its price seven times in 50
- Bought bonuses that finished with the largest meter totals, 46 to 203, returned 2.101x their price on average across 16 tickets
- The opening free spin supplied 1.39% of natural free spins money, with 0.78 on the meters on average as it began
- The 389 WILDs that landed in natural free spins included 334 worth 1x, 2x or 3x
- A 50x WILD reached reel 1 on the ninth spin of round 9540, and that bonus closed at 58.65x
- Meter totals of 17 to 32 at the end of a natural bonus meant USD 70.25 on average, across ten rounds
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 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.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 29%rounds that paid
- 387xbiggest round
- 1 / 370natural bonus rate
- 1.11xmean of 50 buys
- 23longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-11-13 measured return85.50%-11.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 70.7–100.3%
- rounds that paid
- 29%
- biggest round
- 387x · round 5,870
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 27 · one per 370 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.11x · median 0.769x · 60% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,100
- deepest drawdown
- 1,764x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 50 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.52%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-11-13.
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
8 questions · answered from the log
Does a multiplier above one reel in Gates of Hades boost wins on the other reels?
No. A block takes only the meters above the reels it has symbols on, added together, and the others are ignored. In the 50 bought bonuses of the test, 974 blocks were paid while meters were lit: the meters held 28.37 in total on average, the block received x13.86, 102 blocks collected everything and 106 were paid at x1.
What explains 85.50% in the Gates of Hades demo when the rules show 96.52% RTP?
The demo paid back USD 17,100.10 of the USD 20,000 staked over 10,000 rounds at USD 2.00. Base spins supplied 71.85% of that money and the free spins of 27 natural bonuses the other 28.15%. Half of those bonuses paid 68.45x the stake or less, and the series held only 27 of them, one per 370.4 rounds.
How many Gates of Hades bonus buys paid for themselves at USD 200 each?
Twenty tickets returned USD 200 or more and 30 came back short; the median was 0.769x the price, USD 153.85. Ticket 50 brought USD 1,086.90 after two 30x WILDs landed on reels 1 and 3 during its fifth free spin, and the other 49 tickets averaged 1.0264x the price. The weakest, ticket 41, returned USD 18.80.
How long a dry spell can Gates of Hades have between free spins?
The longest dry stretch of the series was 1,349 rounds, after the bonus of round 1148 and before that of round 2498, while 27 bonuses arrived in the 10,000 rounds overall.
Do four Scatters give more free spins than three in Gates of Hades?
Yes. Four Scatters open with 12 free spins and three with 10. One of 27 natural triggers and four of 50 purchased ones showed four Scatters, and none showed five or six. The four 12-spin tickets returned 2.2855x their price on average against 1.0128x for the 46 ten-spin tickets, a comparison that rests on four tickets.
Is the multiplier from the trigger spin still there when the free spins begin?
Yes. Although the rules say the multipliers are cleared once the tumbles of a spin end, all 14 bonuses whose triggering spin had landed a WILD, seven natural and seven bought, began their first free spin with that meter in place; the other 63 had nothing to carry. Round 8075 started with 9x above reel 1, and ticket 11 with 2x and 9x above reels 2 and 4.
Which WILD multiplier was the largest to land in the Gates of Hades test?
A 200x WILD, on reel 6 in the third free spin of round 5870; the 500x value from the free spins list never appeared. Bought free spins peaked at one 100x WILD, on ticket 2, and the base game, where the list stops at 100x, produced seven of those in 10,000 spins.
Which Gates of Hades spins passed 100x without any free spins?
Two of them, 201.0x in round 2205 and 161.55x in round 9260, among ten base spins that paid 50x or more. Round 9260 needed no large WILD: across 14 tumble steps it built meters of 13, 26 and 12 over reels 1 to 3, and its largest single WILD carried 15x.
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- spins10,000
- bet2.00
- result-1,450x
- RTP measured85.5%
- bonuses27
- max win, no bonus201.0x
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