Pragmatic Play · 2019 · tested 2026-10-28
John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen
John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen gets Cash Patrol's reel strips from the demo server, yet its 43 free spins rounds reached a 65.4x median over 10,000 spins.
- RTP measured / declared 106.1% 96.5%
- Hit frequency 41%
- Max win · no bonus 100x
- Free spins, natural 43 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 4.3 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 106.1% against 96.5% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 40.9% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 233 rounds (43 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 65.4x the stake, mean 69.9x, trigger spin included; the biggest round paid 204.2x; the longest dry run was 16 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 106.10% (approximate 95% CI 93.4–118.9) |
| Hit frequency | 41% · every 2.45 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 16 / 2.44 |
| Median hit | 0.40x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 100.0x · round 3169 |
| Free spins, natural | 43 · 4.3 bHz · every 232.6 spins · mean bonus round payout 69.9x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 101,220 |
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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Cafe Casino runs the same John Hunter and the Tomb of the Scarab Queen with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
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Free spins on video
natural trigger · 43 in 10,000 spinsA USD 2.00 spin lands three pyramid Scatters for 8 free spins; a COLLECT on the fifth free spin takes USD 14.00 of scarabs of scarabs, the Super Respin pot reaches 90.00, reel 5 stops without a COLLECT and the card reads USD 19.20. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across the whole run the 43 natural bonuses split into 7 under 20x, 9 between 20x and 50x, 16 between 50x and 100x and 11 at 100x or more, and together they made up 28% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 2 to 965 spins. Payout figures here cover the whole bonus round in ordinary stakes, the trigger spin included: its scatter pays and line wins count towards the bonus.
Landing three pyramid Scatters again during the free spins extends the feature by 8 spins, as many times as they appear. Two of the 43 natural bonuses got one such addition each and ran 16 spins, rounds 4429 and 5094; the opening award of 8 is not counted as a retrigger.
- triggers 43 1 per 233 spins
- every 233 spins gaps 2 to 965
- mean 69.9x bonus round median 65.4x stake
- best 204.2x round 7232
- spins per bonus 8.4 8 to 16 observed
- 01round 72328 spins204.2x
- 02round 51918 spins198.4x
- 03round 15618 spins134.6x
- 04round 52678 spins129.8x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 165 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 593 |
| 200 bets | survived all 10000 spins |
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
Line wins on the 5x3 grid follow 25 paylines and have to start on reel 1. At the USD 2.00 stake used here, five John Hunter symbols pay USD 64, five Anubis USD 14, the holster USD 12 and the satchel USD 10, and five of A, K, Q or J give USD 8. The Scarab Queen is the Wild, lands on reels 2 to 5 and can replace anything but the Scatter, the scarab and the five collect symbols.
Gold scarabs act as money symbols on reels 1 to 4, each showing 1x to 35x the total bet, and they pay only when one of the collect symbols lands on reel 5. A plain COLLECT pays the sum of the scarabs on screen. Extra Credit Collect raises every scarab by 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x before that sum, Multiplier Collect applies 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x or 25x to all of them, Expanding Collect turns each reel that shows a scarab into a full reel of them, the added ones with new values, and Respin Collect keeps the scarabs in place and spins the other positions once.
Reels one and five never carry the pyramid Scatter; a set of three returns 1x the stake and opens 8 free spins on special reels, and inside the feature the same three add 8 more, with no limit set in the rules. Scarabs pay in the free spins whenever a collect symbol meets them, and each one's value is also stored in a pot above the reels. When the last free spin is over, the pot becomes a single giant scarab across reels 1 to 4 for one Super Respin, which pays it only if a COLLECT stops on reel 5.
Theoretical RTP is 96.5% and the volatility medium, the base screen promises up to 10,500x the total bet, and stakes run between USD 0.25 and USD 250. The demo has neither a feature buy nor an Ante option; the series used a 0.08 coin on 25 lines, USD 2.00 a spin.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Multiplier
Expanding symbol
Respin
Bet range USD 0.25 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Collects paid USD 4,664 inside 43 bonusesThe demo server deals this game the same reel strips as Cash Patrol for the base game, the free spins and the Super Respin, along with the same paytable and scarab values. This series returned 106.1%; Cash Patrol's two runs returned 99.18% and 99.93%. Here, rounds without free spins gave back 76.03% of the stake and bonus rounds 30.07%; in Cash Patrol's runs the base share was higher, 79.09% and 77.96%, and the bonus share lower, 20.10% and 21.97%. Measured against Cash Patrol's first run, the 6.92-point difference splits into +9.98 from bonus rounds and -3.06 from everything else.
A COLLECT reached reel 5 on 8 of the 43 Super Respins here, cashing USD 932 of pots, and on 7 of 35 in Cash Patrol's first run, so the end-of-bonus pot paid at a similar rate in both games. Pots left uncashed in this series came to USD 6,628; round 7896 is the sharpest case, USD 244 sitting on the giant scarab of a bonus that paid USD 6.00.
Inside the free spins, scarab collects paid USD 4,664 over 43 bonuses, 78.99% of the free spins money; Cash Patrol's first run got USD 2,562 from them over 35 bonuses, while paylines gave the two series similar sums, USD 294.40 there and USD 308.40 here. The USD 2,102 that collects added over that run is more than the whole USD 1,958 by which free spins money here topped it, and the median bonus round reflects it: 65.4x the stake, against 39.0x and 33.8x in the two Cash Patrol runs. Seven bonuses here stayed under 20x, as in Cash Patrol's first run, while its second had 18.
- Scarab collects on 265 base rounds paid USD 7,318, 34.49% of all payouts
- Eleven bonuses reached 100x, against six and nine in Cash Patrol's runs
- Two bonuses came close to 200x: 204.2x on round 7232 and 198.4x on round 5191
- A Multiplier Collect turned round 3169 into a 100x base win
- Rounds without free spins returned 76.03% of the stake, below both Cash Patrol runs
- Paylines inside the free spins earned just USD 308.40 of USD 5,904.40
- The longest bonus drought lasted 964 rounds, after round 5646
- Only two of 43 bonuses retriggered, rounds 4429 and 5094
Test record
10,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game on the official demo server, every request and response logged; the game offers no bonus purchase, so every feature in the sample came from ordinary spins. 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
- 41%rounds that paid
- 204xbiggest round
- 1 / 233natural bonus rate
- 16longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-28 measured return106.10%+9.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 93.4–118.9%
- rounds that paid
- 41%
- biggest round
- 204x · round 7,232
- longest dry streak
- 16
- natural bonuses
- 43 · one per 233 rounds
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,220
- deepest drawdown
- 389x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-28.
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
8 questions · answered from the logWhat becomes of the Scarab Queen bonus pot if no COLLECT lands on the Super Respin?
Nothing is paid for it. The pot holds the value of every scarab that landed during the free spins, and only a COLLECT on reel 5 during the final Super Respin cashes it; the largest pot left that way in the test was USD 328, 164x the stake, in round 4429, a bonus of 16 spins.
How should the 106.1% RTP of the Scarab Queen demo be read against the listed 96.5%?
As one short sample: around the measured 106.1%, the approximate 95% CI covers 93.35% to 118.85% and includes 96.5%. The balance finished USD 1,220.40 up, 610 stakes, and once round 7232 at 204.2x is set aside the other 9,999 rounds returned 104.07%.
In 10,000 spins, how many Scarab Queen bonuses came, and how far apart?
Forty-three natural bonuses, about one per 232.6 spins. The spacing was uneven, since rounds 9802 and 9804 both triggered, while 964 rounds went by without a bonus between rounds 5646 and 6611.
Does the Scarab Queen demo sell its free spins?
No. Nothing is for sale in the demo and there is no Ante bet, so every one of the 43 bonuses came from ordinary USD 2.00 spins and averaged 69.93x the stake as a whole round.
Which collect symbol paid the most outside the free spins?
The plain COLLECT by total, 178 of the 265 base-game collects and USD 4,124 of USD 7,318. Per hit the Multiplier Collect led, 31.82x the stake on average over 11 hits, and it made the best round without free spins, 100x on round 3169.
Does this John Hunter game play like Book of Tut?
No. Book of Tut runs 10 paylines, starts 10 free spins with one randomly chosen expanding symbol and sells its bonus for 100x, while the Tomb of the Scarab Queen has 25 lines, gold scarabs with five collect symbols on reel 5, no feature buy, and 8 free spins that end with a Super Respin for the pot.
Which parts of Cash Patrol does the Scarab Queen demo share, according to the server?
The reel strips of all three reel sets, for the base game, the free spins and the Super Respin, arrive identical in the opening data, together with the paytable, the 13 scarab values from 1x to 35x, the Scatter and Wild settings, 25 lines and the coin list; only the way each game declares its 96.50% RTP differs. The weights that pick scarab values and collect types are not in that data, so identical maths beyond the reels cannot be confirmed.
Which Scarab Queen bonus was the biggest of the test?
Round 7232 reached USD 408.40, 204.2x the USD 2.00 stake: USD 2.00 from three Scatters, USD 206.40 from the free spins and a USD 200 pot cashed on the Super Respin. Nothing came near the advertised 10,500x, and no round outside free spins went past 100x.
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