Play'n GO · 2020 · tested 2026-10-16
Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena
Medusa Re-spins decided the Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena demo free spins: the 11 rounds that collected 20 or more re-spins averaged 150.09x the stake, while 16 with fewer than ten paid 19.94x.
Test card
10,000 spins · DEMO 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | DEMO 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.25% |
| RTP measured | 93.78% (approximate 95% CI 76.8–110.8) |
| Hit frequency | 27% · every 3.71 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 26 / 3.7 |
| Median hit | 0.50x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 207.0x · round 3862 |
| Free spins, natural | 59 · 5.9 bHz · every 169.5 spins · mean FS-only payout 61.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 25,000 → 23,756 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Play Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena demo
PLAY'N GO · official demo · same math as real play
United States
Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena 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
Free spins on video
natural trigger · 59 in 10,000 spinsThree Cat Wilde Scatters award 10 natural free spins at DEMO 2.00, Medusa Re-spin stays active, and the round ends on a total of 5. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across the whole run the 59 natural bonuses split into 11 under 20x, 28 between 20x and 50x, 12 between 50x and 100x and 8 at 100x or more, and together they made up 39% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 1 to 1,135 spins. Payout figures here are FS-only, in ordinary stakes; the trigger payout is excluded.
Cat Wilde Scatters landing in groups of three or more during Medusa's Gaze add another 10, 12 or 15 free spins, with no limit. Six of the 59 natural bonuses were extended this way: four reached 20 awarded spins, one 22 and round 499 42. Medusa Re-spins inside the bonus do not count toward these numbers.
- triggers 59 1 per 170 spins
- every 170 spins gaps 1 to 1,135
- mean 61.8x FS-only median 36.5x stake
- best 370.5x round 4472
- spins per bonus 11.5 10 to 42 observed
- 01round 447210 spins370.5x
- 02round 640210 spins341.0x
- 03round 759412 spins268.0x
- 04round 415822 spins180.0x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 82 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 408 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 970 |
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
Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena has ten paylines on five reels of three rows; the test bet DEMO 2.00 a spin, one coin of 0.20 per line. Rich Wilde is the Wild and pays 1,000x the bet for five, the Medusa shield 500x, the helmet 100x, the ring 40x, the medallion 20x and the owl 10x, while the royals pay from 10x for five aces down to 3x for five tens.
Any Medusa shield can turn Wild, lock in place and award a Medusa Re-spin. Wilds and new winning symbols give further re-spins, and Rich Wilde lands as another shield while they run. Cat Wilde, the Scatter, cannot appear during re-spins.
Medusa's Gaze free spins begin with 10, 12 or 15 spins for three, four or five Cat Wilde Scatters, and the same Scatter counts inside the bonus extend it without a limit. In the free spins the Medusa Re-spin is always active.
Play'n GO lists 96.25% RTP for this demo and a top win of 10,000x the bet; bets range from DEMO 0.10 to DEMO 100, and free spins cannot be bought.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Respin
Sticky symbol
Retrigger
Bet range DEMO 0.01 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet DEMO 2.00
Gallery
7 frames from the demo session
Verdict
More re-spins, bigger bonusBonus results in the series lined up with the number of Medusa Re-spins inside. Sixteen of the 59 natural bonuses got fewer than ten and averaged 19.94x the stake, 32 got ten to 19 and averaged 52.33x, and the 11 that reached 20 or more averaged 150.09x, 45.3% of all free spins money. Round 4472 had 26 re-spins inside its ten free spins and paid 370.5x, more than any other round.
Base spins met the same feature once every 40.49 rounds. Those 247 re-spin rounds paid 21.6% of the money, from 0.4x on average when a single re-spin ran to 39.61x when six or more followed; round 6839 reached 142x that way.
Only six of the 59 bonuses were extended by more Cat Wilde Scatters, round 499 reaching 42 awarded spins; the bonus as a whole, arriving once per 169.49 rounds, brought 38.9% of what the 10,000 rounds returned.
- Twenty or more Medusa Re-spins took 11 bonuses to 150.09x on average
- Six or more re-spins in a base round averaged 39.61x
- Round 4472 turned ten free spins into 370.5x
- Fewer than ten re-spins left 16 bonuses at 19.94x on average
- A single base re-spin was worth 0.4x on average over 79 rounds
- Cat Wilde free spins took 169.49 rounds to arrive on average
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
- 27%rounds that paid
- 371xbiggest round
- 1 / 169natural bonus rate
- 26longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-16 measured return93.78%-2.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 76.8–110.8%
- rounds that paid
- 27%
- biggest round
- 371x · round 4,472
- longest dry streak
- 26
- natural bonuses
- 59 · one per 170 rounds
- balance start → end
- 25,000 → 23,756
- deepest drawdown
- 990x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed DEMO 2 bet; recorded on the official Play'n GO demo server (jurisdiction ZZ, RTP profile 96.25%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-16.
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
4 questions · answered from the logHow do Medusa Re-spins work in Rich Wilde and the Shield of Athena?
A Medusa shield turns Wild, locks and gives one re-spin, and every new Wild or winning symbol adds another. In the base game 247 rounds triggered them, worth 21.6% of all money paid; inside free spins the Medusa Re-spin is always active, and about half of the free spins led to re-spins.
What separated the big Shield of Athena bonuses from the small ones?
The number of Medusa Re-spins. Bonuses with 20 or more averaged 150.09x the stake, those with ten to 19 averaged 52.33x and those with fewer than ten 19.94x.
How many Medusa's Gaze bonuses came in 10,000 rounds?
Fifty-nine natural bonuses came in 10,000 rounds, once per 169.49 rounds or 5.9 bHz. Fifty-seven opened with three Cat Wilde Scatters and 10 spins, two with four and 12 spins, and six were extended by more Scatters.
Did the Shield of Athena demo match its listed 96.25% RTP?
No, it came in lower: 93.78% at a DEMO 2.00 stake. The approximate 95% CI around that result, 76.8% to 110.76%, still includes the listed figure.
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