Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-09-26
Gates of Olympus 1000
Orbs lifted a 14x tumble to 799x without free spins during the first Gates of Olympus 1000 demo run, which finished 1,594 bets ahead at a measured 115.94% RTP over 10,000 spins.
- RTP measured / declared 100.3% 96.5%
- Hit frequency 28%
- Max win · no bonus 799x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.94x
- Free spins, natural 91 / 40,000
- Bonus frequency 2.3 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 100.3% against 96.5% declared over 40,000 logged rounds in 4 runs; 28.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 440 rounds (91 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 55.3x the stake, mean 113.5x, trigger spin included; 200 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.94x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,850.6x; the longest dry run was 27 spins.
Test card
40,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 40,000 · 4 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 100.34% (approximate 95% CI 86.4–114.3) |
| Hit frequency | 28% · every 3.53 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 27 / 3.52 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 799.3x · run 1, round 7311 |
| Free spins, natural | 91 · 2.3 bHz · every 439.6 spins · mean bonus round payout 113.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 100,274 |
- 012026-09-0410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓115.94%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓106.48%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓101.05%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 042026-09-2610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓77.91%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
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Bonus buy lab
200 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.94x · median 0.555× price (USD 110.90) · 139 of 200 below price · best 6.98x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 15.3 / 15–20 |
| Retriggered | 6.0% |
| Multiplier total (avg / max) | 16 / 46 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Five spins are added whenever three scatters land inside the feature; every purchase in these runs opened with 15.
- Spent
- USD 40,000200 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 37,669.6094.17% · approximate 95% CI 79–109%
- Net
- −USD 2,330.40−11.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 61 / 20031%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 24 / 20012%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~440 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 440 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 4 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 70 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 138 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 300 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
Same grid, same rule, bigger orbs. Gates of Olympus 1000 pays whenever at least eight copies of one symbol sit anywhere on the 6×5 screen, removes them and drops new ones until nothing connects. The crown leads the paytable at 50x for twelve or more, the hourglass, ring and chalice follow, and five gems fill the lower half down to 2x for a screen of blue. Zeus is the scatter: four pay 3x, six pay 100x.
The difference from the original sits in the multiplier orbs. They still land on any reel during spins and tumbles, but their values now run from 2x up to 1,000x in fifteen steps, and once the tumbling stops the orbs on screen are added up and the total multiplies the whole sequence. That is how round 7311 of the first run turned seven small tumbles worth 14 into 799x on the eighth, and how rounds 8534 and 3657 reached 765x and 625x in two and three steps.
Four scatters start fifteen free spins. Inside the round each orb landing on a paying spin joins a running total, and that total multiplies each later winning spin; three scatters add five spins. Of the first run's 34 natural rounds, 31 ran the basic fifteen spins and three (rounds 1235, 2650 and 9150) reached twenty. The largest accumulated multiplier of that run was 37x on round 3764.
Two paid options exist. Ante play costs 25% more per spin, puts extra scatters on the reels for twice the natural trigger rate, and switches the purchase off. The buy costs 100x the stake, guarantees four scatters on the triggering spin and is unavailable with ante on. Wins are capped at 15,000x, and the server lists 96.5% for regular and ante play and 96.49% for purchases.
Cascading reels
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Free spins
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Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
8 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Three hot runs, one coldFour runs of 10,000 spins returned 115.94%, 106.48%, 101.05% and 77.91%, 100.34% pooled over 40,000 rounds, approximate 95% CI 86.39 to 114.29%, and the fourth was the first whose own band sat entirely below the printed 96.5%. The pooled balance still finished 137 stakes ahead, because the 1,594 from the first run outweighed the 2,209 the fourth gave back; hit rates ran 27.4 to 29.34% by run, the median hit stayed 0.8x, and 71.7% of all rounds paid nothing.
The orbs explain both halves. Twenty-eight base rounds cleared 100x across the four runs and four passed 500x, all finished by big orbs: 799.25x on round 7311 of the first run from a 115x total, 765x and 625x there from a 250x and a 500x orb, and 587.5x on round 7548 of the fourth, a lone 250x orb over USD 4.70 of tumbles while that run stood 2,056 stakes down. A 1,000x orb never landed in 40,000 spins or 200 buys; inside features the biggest orb was 100x on round 5154 of the second run, the total multiplier peaked at 131x there, and no ticket's total passed 46x. Pooled, 91 natural features arrived one per 440 spins, 2.3 bHz, averaged 113.53x a round with a 55.25x median, USD 110.50, and made 25.7% of the return; 30 cleared 100x, 23 stayed under 20x, and the fourth run's 10 triggers, one per 1,000 spins with a 2,181-spin wait, were the fewest by far.
Two hundred tickets bought at USD 200 returned 0.9417x of price, 94.17%, USD 37,669.60 for USD 40,000, by run 1.0505x, 0.874x, 0.9064x and 0.9361x; the median ticket paid 0.5545x, USD 110.90, 139 of 200 lost money, 85 returned under half, 24 doubled and four passed 5x, buy 46 of the first run at 6.9765x the best and buys 50 and 30 of the fourth, 6.047x and 5.649x, the newest. Take round 5154 out and the other 39,999 spins returned 95.72%; take the best ticket out and the other 199 averaged 0.9114x. Four runs measured the same game at 115.94% and at 77.91%: the reels did not change, only which run the big orbs chose, and the printed 96.5% now sits near the middle of the pooled band.
- 100.34% pooled over four runs, with three sessions above the printed 96.5% before the fourth fell to 77.91%
- Twenty-eight base rounds cleared 100x in 40,000 spins and four passed 500x, one of them in the cold fourth run
- Thirty natural features paid 100x or more, topped by 1,850.55x on round 5154 of the second run
- Four runs, 40,000 rounds and 200 tickets in the logs with checksums, every orb value included
- The fourth run returned 77.91% and never stood above its start, closing 2,209 stakes down with 10 bonuses in 10,000 spins
- Most tickets lost money, 139 of 200, and 85 returned under half; the median ticket across four runs paid 0.5545x
- Natural triggers went one per 294, 435, 417 and then 1,000 spins, with a 2,181-spin wait in the fourth run
- Across 40,000 spins 71.7% of rounds paid nothing, and twelve dry stretches reached 20 spins or more
Run 01·2026-09-04·115.94%
Read the 115.94% for what it is: one hot sample. The run sat at 85.8% after 2,000 spins, jumped to 149.9% in the next block on the back of rounds 2550 and 3657, and stayed above 100% in three of the five blocks. The low point came early, 571 bets down at spin 1196, and all three fixed bankrolls were gone before spin 300; from there the balance climbed to 103,239 at spin 9972 and closed at 103,189.
Base spins made the money here. Eight base rounds beat 100x and three beat 600x, each one a short tumble sequence finished by a large orb: 799x on round 7311, 765x on round 8534, 625x on round 3657. Between those moments the game is sparse, with 72% of spins paying nothing and five separate droughts of exactly 19 spins.
Natural bonuses were solid rather than spectacular: 34 triggers, one per 294 spins, a mean of 76x and a median of 52x, eight rounds above 100x topped by 291x on round 2550 and 266x on round 1335. The purchases came out at 1.05x over fifty tries, but 31 lost money, 17 returned less than half the price, and the average hid one 6.98x round on buy 46 and a 0.045x round on buy 23.
Run 02·2026-09-21·106.48%
The second series returned 106.48% of stake against the printed 96.5%, with an approximate 95% band of 65.8 to 147.1%, the widest of any run on this page, and closed 648 stakes up; the road there went through a 1,422-stake trough at spin 3866 and busted fifty, a hundred and two hundred stakes by spins 90, 222 and 517. A hit landed on 28.4% of spins at a 0.8x median, six empty runs passed 20 spins, the longest 27, and the ordinary reels topped out at 323.75x on round 5600, a seven-step chain closed by an orb-multiplied USD 621.60.
Twenty-three natural features, one per 435 spins with an 1,802-spin wait at the longest, paid 191.98x the stake on average and 97.2x in the middle, 41.5% of everything returned, and eleven cleared 100x. Round 5154 did the heavy lifting: a 100x orb landed on its second spin, the total multiplier reached 131x, its twelfth spin paid USD 2,082.90 and the 20-spin round closed at USD 3,701.10, 1,850.55x; without that round the other 9,999 returned 87.98%. Fifty purchases at USD 200 came back at 0.874x of price, 87.40%, with a 0.646x median, USD 129.20, 34 tickets below price and the best at 2.788x.
Run 03·2026-09-26·101.05%
Third series, 10,000 spins at USD 2: 101.05% of stake came back, approximate 95% CI 82.58 to 119.51%, the narrowest band this page has produced, and the balance closed 105 stakes up. Spin 32 set the tone: a 50x orb and an 8x orb multiplied four small tumbles worth USD 7.30 into USD 423.40, 211.7x, and after fifty spins the counter read 449%. The five blocks of 2,000 spins returned 116.1%, 112.8%, 89.4%, 75.8% and 111.0%; the high point was 693 stakes up at spin 4696, the low 169 stakes down at spin 9709, and a 200-stake bankroll survived all 10,000 spins while 50 and 100 stakes lasted until spins 7815 and 7885.
Three 250x orbs dropped in the ordinary game, none in a feature. Round 9989 turned a two-step chain worth USD 1.60 into USD 408 through a 250x and a 5x orb, round 3553 multiplied USD 0.80 by 250 into a flat USD 200, and on round 7820 a 250x orb shared a screen with an 8x orb and nothing paid, so both were wasted. Eight base rounds cleared 100x, yet the largest was still that 211.7x from spin 32; a hit landed on 29.34% of spins at a 0.8x median, 7,066 rounds paid nothing, and the longest empty stretch ran 22 spins from round 8654.
Twenty-four natural features arrived one per 417 spins, 2.4 bHz (natural features per 1,000 rounds), with a 1,936-spin wait between rounds 6122 and 8059. They averaged 106.87x a round, median 51.825x, USD 103.65, and made 25.4% of everything paid; eight cleared 100x and five stayed under 20x, including a retriggered 20-spin round 4354 that paid USD 18.50 because no orb ever sat on a paying spin. The best, round 8138, ran its total multiplier to 46x without the 20x orb that landed on its blank twelfth spin, and paid USD 340 on its fourteenth spin, USD 926.30 in all, 463.15x. Fifty tickets at USD 200 returned 0.9064x of price, 90.64%, but the median was 0.4175x, USD 83.50, 36 lost money and 28 returned under half; buy 34 reached 5.83x, USD 1,166, with USD 914.50 on its thirteenth spin, and the other 49 averaged 0.8059x.
Run 04·2026-09-26·77.91%
Fourth series, 10,000 spins at USD 2: 77.91% of stake came back, approximate 95% CI 62.02 to 93.79%, the first band on this page to sit entirely below the printed 96.5%, and the balance never once stood above its starting point. The five blocks of 2,000 spins returned 74.6%, 73.5%, 78.6%, 91.3% and 71.5%; fifty, a hundred and two hundred stakes were gone by spins 64, 129 and 300, the low of 2,217 stakes down came at spin 9912, and the close was 2,209 down. A hit landed on 27.4% of spins at a 0.8x median, 7,260 rounds paid nothing, and five dry stretches passed 20 spins, two of them 23 long, from rounds 912 and 2099.
Ten natural features in 10,000 spins, 1.0 bHz (natural features per 1,000 rounds), the fewest of any run here: the first waited until round 832 and the longest gap ran 2,181 spins between rounds 5347 and 7529. They averaged 77.84x a round, median 49.95x, USD 99.90, and made only 10.0% of everything paid; three cleared 100x, four stayed under 20x, and three retriggered to 20 spins. Round 832 paid 213.85x without a single orb above 3x, its total multiplier reaching 19x, while round 1459 ran 20 spins to 215.55x on a 24x total and a top orb of 5x; round 5347 saw no orb on a paying spin at all and closed at 13.7x. The base game did the heavy lifting instead: a lone 250x orb on round 7548 multiplied USD 4.70 of tumbles into USD 1,175, 587.5x, and lifted the balance from 2,056 stakes down to 1,470, a 100x orb on round 6262 turned USD 3.70 into 185x, and eight ordinary rounds cleared 100x, the same count as runs one and three.
Fifty tickets at USD 200 returned 0.9361x of price, 93.61%, better than the reels did, with a 0.57575x median, USD 115.15; 38 lost money, 20 returned under half, six doubled and two passed 5x. Buy 50 took 6.047x, USD 1,209.40, the only ticket to retrigger, with a 43x total multiplier and USD 304 on its nineteenth spin, and buy 30 took 5.649x with USD 455.40 on its seventh spin; the worst, buy 18, paid 0.089x, and without buy 50 the other 49 averaged 0.8318x.
Test record
4 runs · 40,000 rounds · 200 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 4 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.
- 40,000rounds, all runs
- 28%rounds that paid
- 1,851xbiggest round
- 1 / 440natural bonus rate
- 0.94xmean of 200 buys
- 27longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-04 measured return115.94%+19.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 86.5–145.4%
- rounds that paid
- 28%
- biggest round
- 799x · round 7,311
- longest dry streak
- 19
- natural bonuses
- 34 · one per 294 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.05x · median 0.621x · 62% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 103,189
- deepest drawdown
- 571x
02run Run 022026-09-21 lab note measured return106.48%+10.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 65.8–147.1%
- rounds that paid
- 28%
- biggest round
- 1,851x · round 5,154
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 23 · one per 435 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.87x · median 0.646x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,295
- deepest drawdown
- 1,422x
Second run, seventeen days after the first: the return fell from 115.94% to 106.48%, still above the printed 96.5%, but the 65.8–147.1% band is the widest yet. The base game lost its three 600x rounds and peaked at 323.75x; the natural features, 23 triggers against 34, paid 192x the stake on average against 76x, with a 1,850.55x round on spin 5154 where a 100x orb pushed the total multiplier to 131x; the 50 buys slipped from 1.05x to 0.87x of price.
03run Run 032026-09-26 lab note measured return101.05%+4.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 82.6–119.5%
- rounds that paid
- 29%
- biggest round
- 463x · round 8,138
- longest dry streak
- 22
- natural bonuses
- 24 · one per 417 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.91x · median 0.418x · 72% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 100,209
- deepest drawdown
- 862x
Five days after the second series the third came in at 101.05%, against 106.48% and 115.94% before it: still above the printed 96.5%, closer to it each time, and with the narrowest band yet, 82.6 to 119.5%. The ordinary game produced three 250x orbs and eight rounds over 100x but nothing above 211.7x; the 24 features averaged 106.87x against 191.98x last time, and the buys held near price at 0.906x with the lowest median of the series, 0.4175x.
04run Run 042026-09-26 lab note measured return77.91%-18.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 62.0–93.8%
- rounds that paid
- 27%
- biggest round
- 588x · round 7,548
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 10 · one per 1,000 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.94x · median 0.576x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 95,581
- deepest drawdown
- 2,217x
Hours after the third series, the fourth came in at 77.91%, the first run on this page below the printed 96.5% and the first whose band excludes it: 10 natural features against 24, 10.0% of the return from natural features against 25.4%, and a 2,209-stake loss after three profitable runs. The tickets held up better, 0.9361x against 0.9064x, with two of them above 5x.
4 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-04, 2026-09-21, 2026-09-26, 2026-09-26): 40000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 200 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); 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
6 questions · answered from the logFourth run at 77.91%: what went missing?
Ten natural features in 10,000 spins, one per 1,000 against one per 294 to 435 in the earlier runs, and those ten paid 10.0% of the return against 22.2 to 41.5% before. The base game still produced eight rounds over 100x, including 587.5x from a 250x orb on round 7548, but the balance never rose above its start and closed 2,209 stakes down.
Biggest orb seen in 40,000 spins?
500x, once, on round 3657 of the first run, turning USD 2.50 of tumbles into 625x. The 250x tier landed six times, two in the first run, three in the third and one in the fourth, where it made 587.5x on round 7548; the 1,000x orb has not appeared in 40,000 spins or 200 buys, and inside free spins nothing above 100x has landed.
What did 200 bonus buys at 100x return?
USD 37,669.60 for USD 40,000, 0.9417x of price; the median ticket paid 0.5545x, USD 110.90, 139 lost money, 85 returned under half, 24 doubled and four passed 5x, the best buy 46 of the first run at 6.9765x. By run the tickets averaged 1.0505x, 0.874x, 0.9064x and 0.9361x, so even the cold fourth session bought its features at a better rate than it spun them.
Free spins share of the return across four runs?
25.7% over four runs, from 91 natural features averaging 113.53x a round with a 55.25x median; by run the share was 22.2%, 41.5%, 25.4% and 10.0%. Thirty features cleared 100x and 23 stayed under 20x; round 5347 of the fourth run saw no orb on a paying spin and closed at 13.7x, while round 832 of the same run reached 213.85x with no orb above 3x.
Highest total multiplier so far?
The record stands at 131x, on round 5154 of the second run, where a 100x orb landed on the second spin and the twelfth spin paid USD 2,082.90. The other runs peaked at 37x on round 3764, 46x on round 8138 and 24x on round 1459; among tickets the record is 46x, twice in the first run, and the fourth run's best ticket, buy 50, reached 43x on its way to 6.047x.
How deep did the balance go in each run?
Lowest points: 571 stakes down at spin 1196 in the first run, 1,422 down at spin 3866 in the second, 169 down at spin 9709 in the third and 2,217 down at spin 9912 in the fourth, which never stood above its start. The 50, 100 and 200-stake bankrolls busted by spins 70, 138 and 300, then 90, 222 and 517, then 7815 and 7885 with the 200 surviving, and finally 64, 129 and 300.
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