Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-10-15
Gates of Olympus Xmas 1000
Eight orbs fell on unpaid boards after the meter reached 13x in round 429 of the Gates of Olympus Xmas 1000 demo, and the last ten free spins added just USD 3.40.
In numbers: measured RTP 104% against 96.5% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 28.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 429 rounds (70 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 61.4x the stake, mean 99.4x, trigger spin included; 150 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.97x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 845.0x; the longest dry run was 27 spins.
Same series: Gates of Olympus, Gates of Olympus 1000, Gates of Olympus Super Scatter — each tested separately
Gates of Olympus Xmas 1000 demo
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Test card
30,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 104.04% (approximate 95% CI 91.3–116.8) |
| Hit frequency | 28% · every 3.53 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 27 / 3.52 |
| Median hit | 0.80x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 845.0x · run 1, round 7390 |
| Free spins, natural | 70 · 2.3 bHz · every 428.6 spins · mean bonus round payout 99.4x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 102,427 |
- 012026-09-1610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓105.98%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓116.38%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-10-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓89.77%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
150 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 0.97x · median 0.453× price (USD 90.55) · 105 of 150 below price · best 29.42x · worst 0.04x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 15.3 / 15–25 |
| Retriggered | 5.3% |
| Multiplier total (avg / max) | 15 / 115 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
The extension count records actual five-spin scatter awards: six natural features (one in run one, five in run two, none in run three) and eight purchased features (four in run one, one in run two, three in run three) received them. Initial 15-spin allocations are excluded.
- Spent
- USD 30,000150 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 29,197.8097.33% · approximate 95% CI 58–137%
- Net
- −USD 802.20−4.0 buys
- Break-even or better
- 45 / 15030%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 14 / 1509%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~429 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 429 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 3 runs in sequence needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 207 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 306 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 1412 |
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
Snow-covered jewels and ornaments occupy a grid of 6 columns and 5 rows. A symbol needs at least 8 copies anywhere in view to pay; groups of 10 and 12 reach the higher payout bands. Winning symbols vanish and the refill can create another payment within that same stake. The recorded build lists high volatility, a 15,000x payout limit, the bet panel runs USD 0.20–240.00, with 96.5% regular RTP and 96.49% purchase RTP.
The coloured multiplier orbs range from 2x to 1,000x. Their combined value acts on the paying tumble sequence when it settles. During free spins, an orb accompanying a symbol win contributes to the stored multiplier; a later paying sequence activates that stored amount when another orb participates. An orb on a wholly unpaid spin leaves that bonus total unchanged.
A set of at least 4 Zeus Scatters opens the 15-spin feature. Three Scatters inside the feature award 5 extra spins. The 100x purchase provides direct entry, with its triggering payment included in the complete purchased return. Ante uses twenty-five credits in place of twenty and keeps 96.5% theoretical RTP; the recorded ordinary series used Ante off.
Cascading reels
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
13 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Scatters went quiet in run three
Nineteen natural features in run three, after 26 and 25, brought the series to 70 in 30,000 USD 2 rounds, one per 429, and the 2,625-round gap between rounds 419 and 3045 of run three is the longest wait the game has produced here. Natural features, trigger spins included, now account for 22.3% of pooled payouts with a 61.38x median; the median feature went from 61.35x to 126.25x and back down to 37.2x by run. Run two's round 2522 at 529.6x remains the largest feature, and run three's largest round, 9701 at 364x, came in ordinary play, as did the series record, run one's 845x at round 7390.
The three samples returned 105.98%, 116.38% and 89.77%, 104.04% pooled (approximate 95% CI 91.26%–116.82%, a precision interval, not a forecast) against the 96.50% build. Hit rates stayed between 28.11% and 28.66%, 21,498 rounds out of 30,000 returned nothing, and run three's balance sank 1,747.1 stakes from its peak, where run two's never sat more than 20.7 stakes under its start.
After 150 tickets at USD 200 the purchase ledger shows USD 29,197.80 back, 97.33% of cost, with a USD 90.55 median and 105 tickets under their price. Run one's ticket 41 at USD 5,883 is still the only ticket past five times its price; without it the other 149 returned 78.24%, and the batches have gone 137.79%, 79.84% and 74.35%. Eight purchased features and six natural ones have retriggered, none of the natural ones in run three.
- USD 728 arrived in ordinary play at round 9701 of run three, more than any feature of that run
- Fourteen purchased features in 150 returned double their price or more, led by run one's USD 5,883
- A 24x meter built up in round 150 of run three, whose spin 13 paid USD 499.20
- No run has gone below a 28.11% hit rate across 30,000 rounds
- Only 19 scatter triggers in run three, one per 526 rounds, and none of them retriggered
- The median feature dropped to 37.2x in run three from 126.25x in run two
- Ticket 20's USD 717.40 was the best run three managed, with 39 of its fifty under USD 200
- Just 14.2% of run three's payouts came from natural features, after 17.3% and 33.1%
Run 01·2026-09-16·105.98%
Natural round 429 built its meter in stages. The first free spin combined USD 1.80 with 4x, the third combined USD 2.50 with 7x, and the fifth applied 13x to USD 7.40, returning USD 96.20. That fifth spin contained 4 winning screens before settlement.
The next 10 free spins returned only USD 3.40. Two paid at their symbol values, USD 1.30 and USD 2.10, with no new orb; the other 8 paid zero. Eight orb symbols worth a combined 20x landed on those unpaid spins and never entered the meter. All payments in this ordinary round totalled USD 130.80: USD 6.50 before the feature and USD 124.30 within it.
Across the separate purchase sample, 34 tickets finished below the USD 200.00 cost, and the median return was 0.4840x that cost, or USD 96.80. The largest, number 41, paid USD 5,883.00. Round 429 shows the condition behind the bonus meter: a paying sequence and a participating orb must meet before the saved multiplier affects the payment.
Run 02·2026-10-14·116.38%
Twenty-five natural features paid a median of 126.25 stakes, twice run one's 61.35x, and none of them paid less than 9.35x. The largest, round 2522, collected a 42x meter across 15 spins and paid USD 1,059.20 with its trigger spin, USD 513.40 of it on spin ten; round 9643 retriggered to 20 spins and paid USD 855.60.
Ten thousand rounds at USD 2 returned USD 23,276.40, a 116.38% RTP, and the balance never dipped more than 20.7 stakes below its start, so even a 50-stake bankroll survived the whole run; 7,189 rounds paid nothing and the longest blank stretch was 24 rounds. Natural features supplied USD 7,708.50, trigger spins included, 33.1% of payouts, and the best ordinary screen, round 3685, paid USD 532.90. The ticket batch brought back USD 7,983.70 for its USD 10,000, 79.84%, a USD 92.70 median, 32 tickets under price and USD 659.80 as the best ticket.
Run 03·2026-10-15·89.77%
The biggest round of the run came without free spins: round 9701 tumbled three times for USD 728, 364 stakes, more than any of the 19 natural features. The best feature, round 150, paid USD 710.40 with its trigger spin, USD 499.20 of it on spin 13, with the meter reaching 24x, and no feature retriggered. Triggers were scarce, one per 526 rounds, and after round 419 the next scatter trigger took 2,625 rounds to arrive, at round 3045; natural features supplied USD 2,541.50, trigger spins included, 14.2% of the money.
Across the 10,000 USD 2 rounds the return was 89.77%, USD 17,953.90 paid, with 7,134 blank rounds, a 27-round dry stretch from 9197 to 9223 and a slide of 1,747.1 stakes from peak to trough, the lowest point 1,213.3 stakes under the start. Run three's fifty purchases, USD 200 each, brought back USD 7,435.20, 74.35% of cost; USD 84.10 was the median ticket, 39 came in under price, five doubled it and the top three, tickets 20, 22 and 23, paid USD 717.40, USD 688.60 and USD 590.10; three purchased features retriggered.
Test record
3 runs · 30,000 rounds · 150 buys · open data · closed rig
This game has been through 3 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.
- 30,000rounds, all runs
- 28%rounds that paid
- 845xbiggest round
- 1 / 429natural bonus rate
- 0.97xmean of 150 buys
- 27longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-16 measured return105.98%+9.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 80.0–132.0%
- rounds that paid
- 28%
- biggest round
- 845x · round 7,390
- longest dry streak
- 25
- natural bonuses
- 26 · one per 385 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.38x · median 0.484x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,196
- deepest drawdown
- 730x
02run Run 022026-10-14 lab note measured return116.38%+19.9 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 93.3–139.5%
- rounds that paid
- 28%
- biggest round
- 530x · round 2,522
- longest dry streak
- 24
- natural bonuses
- 25 · one per 400 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.80x · median 0.464x · 64% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 103,276
- deepest drawdown
- 594x
Ordinary play rose from 105.98% in run one to 116.38% in run two with one fewer natural feature, 25 against 26, as the median feature doubled from 61.35x to 126.25x. Purchases fell from 137.79% to 79.84% without a ticket near run one's USD 5,883.
03run Run 032026-10-15 lab note measured return89.77%-6.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 73.6–106.0%
- rounds that paid
- 29%
- biggest round
- 364x · round 9,701
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 19 · one per 526 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.74x · median 0.421x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,954
- deepest drawdown
- 1,747x
Run three's 89.77% is the first sample of this game under the 96.50% build after 105.98% and 116.38%, with the fewest natural features, 19 against 26 and 25, the longest trigger gap of the series at 2,625 rounds and no retriggers. Purchases slipped again, 74.35% of cost after 137.79% and 79.84%, with USD 717.40 the best ticket.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-16, 2026-10-14, 2026-10-15): 30,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 150 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded 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
5 questions · answered from the log
Is Gates of Olympus Xmas 1000 still above 96.50% after three runs?
Yes. The pooled 30,000 USD 2 rounds stand at 104.04%, though run three on its own returned 89.77%, USD 17,953.90 on USD 20,000, after 105.98% and 116.38%.
When did run three go longest without a scatter trigger?
Between rounds 419 and 3045, a gap of 2,625 rounds, the longest in 30,000 rounds here after run two's 1,550; the run managed 19 triggers in all, one per 526 rounds.
Did ordinary tumbles outpay the features in run three?
Yes, for the largest rounds: round 9701 paid USD 728 from three tumble steps and round 3175 USD 450, while the best feature, round 150, paid USD 710.40, USD 704.40 of it over 15 spins. In total, natural features supplied USD 2,541.50 of the run's USD 17,953.90.
What kept run three's tickets down at 74.35%?
Because nothing big landed: the best of the fifty, ticket 20, paid USD 717.40, five tickets doubled their USD 200 price, 39 paid less than it and the median was USD 84.10, so the batch closed at USD 7,435.20. Three purchased features gained the five-spin retrigger, against one in run two.
Has the median feature payout changed with run three?
Yes, downward: run three's 19 features paid a 37.2x median against 61.35x in run one and 126.25x in run two, so the series median over 70 features is 61.38x; natural features contributed 14.2% of run three's money after 17.3% and 33.1%.
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- spins30,000
- bet2.00
- result+1,213x
- RTP measured104.0%
- bonuses70
- max win, no bonus845.0x
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