Mascot Gaming · measured RTP 95.3% · tested 2026-11-06
Rice & Riches: Hold and Win
No Hold and Win board filled for the 1000x Grand in three Rice & Riches: Hold and Win demo runs, whose 30,000 rounds measured 95.3% RTP against a declared 95.57%.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 95.3% against 95.57% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 38.1% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 263 rounds (114 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 57.1x the stake, mean 74.2x, trigger spin included; 150 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.13x of their price on average, 65% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 249.5x; the longest dry run was 20 spins.
Rice & Riches: Hold and Win demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Rice & Riches: Hold and Win with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays free
Test card
30,000 spins · FUN 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | FUN 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 95.57% |
| RTP measured | 95.27% (approximate 95% CI 88.4–102.2) |
| Hit frequency | 38% · every 2.62 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 20 / 2.63 |
| Median hit | 0.70x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 95.0x · run 1, round 7736 |
| Free spins, natural | 114 · 3.8 bHz · every 263.2 spins · mean bonus round payout 74.2x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 8,580 |
- 012026-11-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓90.30%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-11-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓93.24%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-11-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓102.27%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 · FUN 100 each
mean 1.13x · median 0.769× price (FUN 76.85) · 97 of 150 below price · best 8.15x · worst 0.05x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10.9 / 10–30 |
| Retriggered | 8.7% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Another three or more Fortune Cookie Scatters during the feature add 10 spins each time, beyond the 10 a bonus opens with. In all, 12 of 114 natural bonuses (5, 3 and 4 by run) and 13 of 150 purchases (4, 7 and 2) were lengthened this way, two natural ones reaching 30 spins.
- Spent
- FUN 15,000150 × FUN 100
- Returned
- FUN 16,971.90113.15% · approximate 95% CI 93–133%
- Net
- +FUN 1,971.90+19.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 53 / 15035%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 15 / 15010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~263 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 263 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 113 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 210 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4800 |
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
20 rules screens from the game
On the 5x3 grid of Rice & Riches: Hold and Win all 10 paylines stay active on every spin. A line counts matching symbols wherever they stand on it, so a four-of-a-kind can skip a reel, and only its highest win is paid. Blue Teapots top the table at 500x the total bet for five, Rice Bowls give 200x and Maki Rolls 100x, while Wasabi and the Soy Sauce Bowl share the smallest pay, 2.5x for five.
Coins never pay on lines. A coin carries a cash value, a Collect mark or a Mini or Major jackpot; when a Collect coin lands on the same spin as value coins their total goes straight into the win, on ordinary spins and during free spins alike, and a jackpot coin on the board with a Collect pays its prize too. The bar above the reels shows Mini at 10x, Major at 50x and Grand at 1000x the bet.
Six coins or more start Hold and Win. The coins lock, only the empty positions spin, and every new coin puts the counter back to three respins; jackpot coins add their Mini or Major at the end, and a board with all 15 positions covered awards the Grand. Hold and Win can begin on an ordinary spin or during free spins, which carry on once it ends.
A Fortune Cookie Scatter pays wherever it lands: three of them are worth 5x the bet and open 10 free spins, four 25x and five 200x, and another trio during the feature adds 10 spins. Through Risk'n'Buy the 10 free spins are priced at 100 bets and a Hold and Win that opens with six locked coins at 50, while the Risk Wheel can stake any win for up to x1000; all 50 purchases in this test were free spins, and the wheel was never spun.
On plain spins the declared RTP is 95.57%, and 95.19% with Risk'n'Buy in play. The smallest stake is FUN 0.10 and the largest FUN 50, wins stop at x1000, and Mascot's own page rates the volatility High.
Free spins
Retrigger
Scatter symbol
Hold and Win
Jackpot
Bonus buy
Gamble feature
Bet range FUN 0.10 – 50 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet FUN 1.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Each ticket set returned less
Ordinary play climbed from 90.3% in the first run to 93.24% in the second and 102.27% in the third, while the FUN 100 purchases went the opposite way, 124.3%, 113.43% and then 101.71% of their cost. Pooled, the 30,000 rounds measured 95.27% and the 150 tickets 113.15%.
Hit rates of 37.5%, 38.21% and 38.58% sat close together, and the median natural bonus round read 55.6x, 58.0x and 57.2x. Coins opened Hold and Win from the base game 38, 49 and 52 times, and that money made 8.64%, 9.64% and 10.98% of ordinary payouts.
When a Hold and Win started inside free spins, the free spins resumed after it. The 19 natural bonuses that held one averaged 82.83x against 72.51x for the other 95, and the 21 such purchases 186.39x against 101.22x; ticket 15 of the first run, FUN 815.20, remains the top payout of the test.
- FUN 815.20 came back on ticket 15 of the first run, 8.152x its FUN 100 price
- Third-run free spins came 43 times, one per 232.6 rounds, the most of the three
- A Hold and Win started in the base game paid 78.8x in round 4885 of the third run, the highest of 139
- Of 150 purchases, the 21 that ran into a Hold and Win had a median of 116.60x, against 67.90x without one
- Major coins appeared in 7, 6 and 7 ordinary rounds by run, and none of those rounds paid more than 3.00x
- The median of the 150 tickets was FUN 76.85 against a FUN 100 price
- Natural bonuses were rarest in the second run, 31 of them, one per 322.6 rounds
Run 01·2026-11-06·90.30%
A payline of five Blue Teapots, the 500x top line, turned up on one free spin of each purchase that passed five times its FUN 100 price: FUN 587.50 on the fourth spin of ticket 15, FUN 582.50 on the 15th of ticket 27, FUN 500.00 on the second of ticket 46 and FUN 516.00 on the ninth of ticket 48. With those four the 50 tickets brought back FUN 6,214.90 for FUN 5,000, 124.30% of the cost, though the median ticket returned 0.627x / FUN 62.70.
Ordinary play never reached that line. Round 7079, the best of 40 natural bonuses, paid 249.5x the FUN 1.00 stake over 10 free spins, and round 7736, the best without free spins, paid 95.0x. Natural bonuses came once per 250 rounds on average and added up to 32.1% of ordinary payouts, at a median of 55.6x.
Coins opened Hold and Win 38 times from the base game, and those features paid FUN 780.10, 8.64% of ordinary payouts; the top one, round 9740, reached 67.8x with a Collect coin on the board. Major coins turned up in 7 ordinary rounds, but none of those rounds paid more than 1.70x, so the 50x prize was never collected and no board was ever covered for the Grand.
Run 02·2026-11-06·93.24%
Round 1140 ran to 30 free spins and paid 246.5x the FUN 1.00 stake, its largest spin being the first at 85.0x; the rest came in pieces of 37.5x and less, the closing spin adding 15.0x.
Scatters triggered just 31 natural bonuses in 10,000 rounds, one per 322.6, and after round 6308 the base game went 993 rounds without one. That wait ended at round 7302, which paid 183.9x over 20 spins, a 35.2x Hold and Win on its fourth. Ordinary play measured 93.24%, leaving the balance FUN 676.50 below where it began.
Base-game coins triggered Hold and Win 49 times, at a median of 17.8x, and none of those boards went past round 2486's 35.4x. Fifty FUN 100 purchases came back at 113.43% of their cost, the median ticket at 0.9x, FUN 90.00; ticket 2 paid FUN 639.00, FUN 582.50 of it on the fifth spin.
Run 03·2026-11-06·102.27%
The balance ended FUN 227.00 above its FUN 10,000 start, a measured 102.27%, and leaving out round 8032, the best at 219.8x, the remaining 9,999 rounds still came to 100.08%. Round 8032 got there over 20 free spins: 152.7x on the twelfth, then a 31.6x Hold and Win on the fourteenth, after which the free spins carried on to the last.
Scatters triggered free spins 43 times, one per 232.6 rounds, and 8 of those bonuses held a Hold and Win; their whole-round median was 67.80x, against 49.90x for the other 35. Started from the base game, Hold and Win came 52 times, 13 of them opening with seven coins, and round 4885 took the top one to 78.8x with a Collect coin among its coins.
Purchases returned 101.71% of what they cost, with a median ticket of FUN 73.15 and 33 of 50 below the FUN 100 price. Ticket 36 paid FUN 579.00, FUN 517.50 of it on the second spin, and ticket 41 followed at FUN 284.80.
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
- 38%rounds that paid
- 250xbiggest round
- 1 / 263natural bonus rate
- 1.13xmean of 150 buys
- 20longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-11-06 measured return90.30%-5.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.7–101.9%
- rounds that paid
- 38%
- biggest round
- 250x · round 7,079
- longest dry streak
- 19
- natural bonuses
- 40 · one per 250 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.24x · median 0.627x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 9,030
- deepest drawdown
- 1,222x
02run Run 022026-11-06 lab note measured return93.24%-2.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 81.2–105.3%
- rounds that paid
- 38%
- biggest round
- 247x · round 1,140
- longest dry streak
- 15
- natural bonuses
- 31 · one per 323 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.13x · median 0.9x · 60% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 9,324
- deepest drawdown
- 922x
Natural free spins were fewer than before, 31 against 40, yet RTP rose to 93.24% from 90.3%. The purchase set lost ground, 113.43% of its cost after 124.3%, and base-game Hold and Win came more often, 49 times instead of 38, with a lower top of 35.4x against 67.8x.
03run Run 032026-11-06 lab note measured return102.27%+6.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 90.0–114.6%
- rounds that paid
- 39%
- biggest round
- 220x · round 8,032
- longest dry streak
- 20
- natural bonuses
- 43 · one per 233 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.02x · median 0.732x · 66% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 10,227
- deepest drawdown
- 412x
RTP reached 102.27%, above the 90.3% and 93.24% measured before, and natural free spins were the most frequent so far, 43 against 40 and 31. Each set of fifty tickets has done worse than the one before it: 124.3%, 113.43% and now 101.71%.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-11-06, 2026-11-06, 2026-11-06): 30,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed FUN 1 bet; 150 bonus buys at FUN 100 each (100x); recorded on the official Mascot Gaming demo server (jurisdiction DEMO, RTP profile 95.57%); 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 → One test, step by step →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the log
Was the Rice & Riches: Hold and Win demo RTP close to the declared 95.57%?
Yes. It measured 95.27% pooled over 30,000 rounds, with an approximate 95% CI from 88.36% to 102.18% that holds 95.57%; one by one the runs read 90.3%, 93.24% and 102.27%.
Did a Grand jackpot of 1000x come up in 30,000 rounds and 150 purchases?
No. Winning it takes coins on all 15 positions of a Hold and Win, and the largest payout of the test, ticket 15 of the first run, came to FUN 815.20, 815.2x the FUN 1.00 stake; the best ordinary round paid 249.5x.
After a Hold and Win inside free spins, do the free spins continue?
Yes. Respins play out first, then the bonus goes on with its unused free spins; 19 of the 114 natural bonuses and 21 of the 150 purchases included one, and those natural rounds had a median of 64.60x against 56.00x for the rest.
From ordinary spins, how often did coins start Hold and Win?
Base-game spins started it 139 times in 30,000 rounds, 38, 49 and 52 by run, and 111 of those boards opened with six coins. The median feature paid 18.3x the stake and the mean 20.16x.
Is buying 100x free spins in Rice & Riches worth the price?
Yes. All 150 purchases together returned 113.15%, and with the best ticket set aside the other 149 still averaged 1.0843x the price. Single tickets usually fell short, 97 of them below FUN 100 and the median at FUN 76.85.
Comments and reviews
Leave a comment or your own test of this slot
- spins30,000
- bet1.00
- result-1,420x
- RTP measured95.3%
- bonuses114
- max win, no bonus95.0x
Also tested
4 more slots on the same rig-
Riot: Urban Wilds
Mascot Gaming · 20,000 spins
2026-11-06
RTP
97.2% 96.3%
hit30%
max135x
buy—
-
Tessa Hunt and the Warrior Tomb
Mascot Gaming · 20,000 spins
2026-11-06
RTP
90.8% 95.2%
hit22%
max107x
buy0.87x
-
Karen Maneater
Nolimit City · 10,000 spins
2026-10-15
RTP
102.8% 96.0%
hit24%
max4,608x
buy1.02x
-
Money Cart
Relax Gaming · 10,000 spins
2026-09-19
RTP
109.7% 98.0%
hit12%
max0x
buy—