Nolimit City · 2021 · measured RTP 84.4% · tested 2026-10-28
San Quentin xWays®
Enhancer Cells opened on 20.55% of first-run San Quentin xWays spins and earned 69.5% of the pay outside free spins; logged over 30,000 rounds in three demo runs, RTP was only 84.4% against 96.03%.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 84.4% against 96.03% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 34.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 270 rounds (111 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 46x the stake, mean 71.5x, trigger spin included; 150 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.93x of their price on average, 75% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 597.4x; the longest dry run was 20 spins.
San Quentin xWays® demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same San Quentin xWays® 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 · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.03% |
| RTP measured | 84.42% (approximate 95% CI 76.2–92.6) |
| Hit frequency | 34% · every 2.91 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 20 / 2.91 |
| Median hit | 0.45x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 81.4x · run 1, round 693 |
| Free spins, natural | 111 · 3.7 bHz · every 270.3 spins · mean bonus round payout 71.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 10,000 → 5,327 |
- 012026-09-2710,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓88.88%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-3010,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓87.20%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-10-2810,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓77.19%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 · EUR 100 each
mean 0.93x · median 0.531× price (EUR 53.08) · 112 of 150 below price · best 6.51x · worst 0.05x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 8.7 / 6–14 |
| Retriggered | 91% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
For Lockdown Spins the retrigger figure is the part of bought features that ran longer than the shortest one, 6 spins. The length is set before the first spin by the values in the opened cells, 6 to 13 spins among the 150 bought features of the three runs, so most of that figure is starting length rather than retriggers. A Bonus landing during the feature added spins in 4 of the 50 bought features of run one, 8 spins in total, in 1 of run two's, 4 spins, and in 6 of run three's, 14 spins; among natural features it happened 3 times in each of the first two runs, 6 spins each time, and never in run three.
- Spent
- EUR 15,000150 × EUR 100
- Returned
- EUR 13,884.2092.56% · approximate 95% CI 75–110%
- Net
- −EUR 1,115.80−11.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 38 / 15025%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 18 / 15012%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~270 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 270 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 1850 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 1917 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2278 |
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
18 rules screens from the game
Five reels of three rows pay 243 ways by default, counted from the leftmost reel across neighbouring ones. Above and below every reel sits a locked Enhancer Cell, and in the main game one or two Bonus symbols turn into Wilds and open the cells on their own reels. An opened cell reveals one of the five top-paying inmates, a Wild, a Razor Split or an xWays symbol.
Razor Split doubles every symbol on the regular positions of its reel, twice when both cells of the reel show it. xWays reveals four stacked copies of one paying symbol, and two xWays on the same reel cover it with 8 single Wilds. A Split Wild can also land in the main game and splits the regular symbols on its reel without splitting itself. Five of the top inmate pay 5x the bet; soap, lighter, shiv, handcuffs and toilet roll pay 1.5x to 2x for five.
Lockdown Spins start from three, four or five Bonus symbols with one, two or three Jumping Wilds, and the cells on the triggering reels stay open for the whole feature. The number of spins is the sum of the values shown in those cells, and a special symbol multiplier is set before the first spin. Mystery symbols on the triggering reels reveal a top inmate or a Jumping Wild, and a Bonus landing during the feature adds another Jumping Wild and extends the feature, up to three Jumping Wilds. Each Jumping Wild moves to a random position every spin and doubles its multiplier for good when it lands on a reel with a Razor Split.
The Nolimit Bonus menu sells Lockdown Spins with 3, 4 or 5 Bonus symbols for 100x, 400x and 2,000x the bet. The rules list 96.03% RTP for the game, 96.26% for the two cheaper buys and 96.95% for the 2,000x one. Psycho Manhunt caps a round at 150,000x the bet, simulated once in 2,000,000,000 rounds, and the demo stake runs from EUR 0.20 to EUR 32.
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Expanding symbol
Sticky symbol
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Bet range EUR 0.20 – 32 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.00
Gallery
10 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Every run below the one before
Tickets bought at 100x returned 0.8627x, 0.9404x and then 0.9738x of price, fifty per run, while ordinary spins at EUR 1, 10,000 per run, went the other way: 88.88%, 87.20% and 77.19%. Run three holds the largest round of the series, 597.4x on round 3668, but its 28 features brought 24.6% of its return against 31.3% for the 111 of the pool. Pooled, the 30,000 spins stand at 84.42% (approximate 95% CI 76.23%–92.62%) against the declared 96.03%, 4,673 bets down, and the 150 tickets at 0.9256x of price with a 0.531x median and 38 that covered it.
A Bonus opened the Enhancer Cells on 20.55%, 19.61% and 19.69% of spins in the three runs, and those spins earned 69.5%, 66.5% and 66.7% of what the base game paid, while the spins left at 243 ways, more than 5,100 in each run, took 7.1%, 7.2% and 6.9% of it. Wins came on 35.16%, 33.91% and 33.85% of spins at a 0.5x, 0.45x and 0.45x median. No base round in 30,000 spins went past 81.4x, round 693 of run one on 3,000 ways, and run three's 78.0x on round 579 came closest.
Natural features numbered 36, 47 and 28, 111 in 30,000 spins or one per 270.3, 3.7 bHz, and as whole rounds averaged 71.46x at a 46x median. The best of the 150 purchases is still EUR 651.30 on ticket 18 of run two and the worst EUR 4.90 on ticket 46 of the same run, with run three's best, ticket 49, at EUR 481.35. A 200-bet bankroll lasted 2,278 spins in run one, 409 in run two and 1,098 in run three.
- Bonus-opened Enhancer Cells earned between 66.5% and 69.5% of base-game money in each of the three runs
- Twenty-three Lockdown Spins features passed 100x in 30,000 spins, eight, eleven and four by run
- Fourteen spins on ticket 50 of run three, the longest of 150 bought features, returned EUR 352.15
- Bought features ran two Jumping Wilds at once in 4, 1 and 6 tickets by run, and one reached x16 in run two
- Seven of run three's 28 features ended under 20x, 9.25x on round 6233 the lowest
- Each run left 37 or 38 of its 50 tickets under the EUR 100 price
- A second Jumping Wild never appeared in run three's 28 natural features, after four in run one and five in run two
- The largest base-game win of 30,000 spins is 81.4x, on round 693 of run one
Run 01·2026-09-27·88.88%
Base-game money split 69.5% to 30.5% between the 2,055 spins in which a Bonus opened the Enhancer Cells and the 7,945 that kept them shut, EUR 4,139.35 against EUR 1,820.60. All five of the biggest base wins came from such spins, the largest 81.4x at round 693 on 3,000 ways.
Lockdown Spins arrived 36 times, once per 277.8 spins, and with their trigger spins they paid 81.38x the stake on average and 50.52x at the median. The first of them was the best round of the series: round 51 paid 501.3x, 486x of it on the first free spin. Special symbol multipliers ran from x3 to x6, 20 of the 36 features never pushed a Jumping Wild past x1 and one reached x16, and six paid under 20x. With them, the 10,000 EUR 1 spins gave back 88.88% of their stakes against the declared 96.03%.
Fifty Lockdown Spins bought at EUR 100 averaged 0.8627x the price; six reached twice the price, and the best, EUR 529.80, got EUR 512.60 of it from a single spin. The median ticket returned 0.4778x, and 37 paid back less than EUR 100.
Run 02·2026-09-30·87.20%
Not once did the balance stand above its start: spin 1 lost, the 50-bet line fell on spin 81 and the 200-bet line on spin 409, and the ledger bottomed 1,594.8 bets down on spin 9370 before closing 1,279.7 short, 87.20% of EUR 10,000 at EUR 1, with 2,000-spin blocks of 76.8%, 75.1%, 109.5%, 76.0% and 98.5%. Nothing paid on 6,609 spins, wins came on 33.91% at a 0.45x median, and the longest dry run was 18 spins from round 904; the base game's ceiling was 63.75x on round 6225, where a Bonus-opened cell pair put a Wild and three inmates on a 1,125-way board, and 62.5x on round 6031 on 3,000 ways.
Forty-seven Lockdown Spins came one per 212.8 spins, 4.7 bHz, and paid EUR 3,099.85 with their trigger spins, 35.5% of the return, 65.95x on average and 46x at the median; eleven cleared 100x and fifteen stayed under 20x, the least 3.45x on round 4822. They arrived in bunches: six features inside 280 spins, rounds 4689 to 4969, four of them over 100x, and four more between rounds 9654 and 9867, three over 100x, while the longest gap ran 776 spins after round 6571. Round 5227 was the largest at 290.35x from nine spins with a x4 special symbol, a Jumping Wild that reached x8 and a EUR 104.65 best spin; round 8190 followed at 219.55x over eleven spins. The special symbol multiplier was x3 or x4 in 37 of the 47 features and reached x7 once, a Jumping Wild stayed at x1 through 24 features and climbed to x8 in two, a second Jumping Wild appeared in five, and three features had spins added by a Bonus, six spins in all.
Fifty Lockdown Spins bought at EUR 100 returned EUR 4,701.75, 0.9404x of price, with 38 below their price and a EUR 56.53 median; ticket 18 paid EUR 651.30, 6.513x, from thirteen spins with a x3 special symbol and a EUR 231.30 best spin, five more tickets passed 2x, led by ticket 23 at EUR 477.80, and ticket 46 returned EUR 4.90. In the base game a Bonus opened the Enhancer Cells on 19.61% of spins and those spins earned 66.5% of the base-game money; boards of 1,000 ways or more, 340 spins, took 33.7% of it, two xWays cells covered a whole reel with Wilds 14 times, and the 5,266 spins that stayed at 243 ways paid 7.2%.
Run 03·2026-10-28·77.19%
Seven Lockdown Spins on round 3668 began with EUR 1.30 and ended with EUR 569.60, so nearly all of the round's 597.4x came on its last spin, with the bearded inmate as the x3 special symbol and a Jumping Wild that stayed at x1. Nothing else in the 10,000 EUR 1 spins passed 200x; round 9078 came next at 160.7x, EUR 111.20 of it on the first of ten spins. Without round 3668 the other 9,999 rounds returned 71.22% instead of 77.19%.
The feature came 28 times, one per 357.1 spins or 2.8 bHz, and as whole rounds paid EUR 1,902.20, 24.6% of the return, at a 40.275x median, with seven under 20x and the least 9.25x on round 6233. None of the 28 drew a second Jumping Wild or gained spins from a Bonus, three lifted the Jumping Wild to x4 and none higher, and the special symbol multiplier was x3 in 13, x4 in 14 and x5 once. Outside free spins a Bonus opened the Enhancer Cells on 19.69% of spins, which earned 66.7% of the base game's EUR 5,816.95, and the best base round was 78.0x on round 579, a tattooed inmate and a Wild in the opened cells on 1,875 ways.
Ticket 49 paid EUR 481.35 from ten spins with the big inmate at x4 and a Jumping Wild at x2, the best of fifty bought at EUR 100, which returned EUR 4,869.15, 0.9738x of price, at a 0.579x median with 37 below the price and none at 5x; ticket 37 followed with EUR 430.70, ticket 50 paid EUR 352.15 over fourteen spins, the longest feature of the run, and ticket 5 came back with EUR 9.40. Six bought features gained spins from a Bonus, 14 in all, and six ran with two Jumping Wilds at once. The ordinary balance closed 2,281 bets down after a low of 2,294.5, a 200-bet bankroll was gone by spin 1,098, and twenty spins in a row from round 7883 paid nothing, the longest dry stretch.
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
- 34%rounds that paid
- 597xbiggest round
- 1 / 270natural bonus rate
- 0.93xmean of 150 buys
- 20longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-27 measured return88.88%-7.2 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 73.4–104.4%
- rounds that paid
- 35%
- biggest round
- 501x · round 51
- longest dry streak
- 18
- natural bonuses
- 36 · one per 278 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.86x · median 0.478x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 8,888
- deepest drawdown
- 1,728x
02run Run 022026-09-30 lab note measured return87.20%-8.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 74.4–100.0%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 290x · round 5,227
- longest dry streak
- 18
- natural bonuses
- 47 · one per 213 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.94x · median 0.565x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 8,720
- deepest drawdown
- 1,595x
The second San Quentin run, on 30 September, returned 87.20% after 88.88% on 27 September, 88.04% pooled across 20,000 spins at EUR 1, the declared figure being 96.03%. Lockdown Spins came 47 times against 36 and averaged 65.95x against 81.38x, fifteen of them under 20x against six; the fifty tickets at 100x returned 0.9404x of price after 0.8627x, ticket 18 at 6.513x the best of the hundred, and the balance never rose above its start.
03run Run 032026-10-28 lab note measured return77.19%-18.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 63.1–91.3%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 597x · round 3,668
- longest dry streak
- 20
- natural bonuses
- 28 · one per 357 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.97x · median 0.579x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 10,000 → 7,719
- deepest drawdown
- 2,374x
Lockdown Spins thinned to 28 in this run, against 36 and 47, and their 24.6% share of the return was the smallest of the three, while the run closed at 77.19% after 88.88% and 87.20%. The tickets moved the other way, 0.9738x of price after 0.8627x and 0.9404x, though none reached 5x where runs one and two each had one.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-27, 2026-09-30, 2026-10-28): 30,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1 bet; 150 bonus buys at EUR 100 each (100x); recorded on the official Nolimit City demo server (jurisdiction DEFAULT, RTP profile 96.03%); 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
Has a third run brought San Quentin xWays any closer to 96.03%?
No. Run three returned 77.19%, under run one's 88.88% and run two's 87.20%, and the pooled ledger of 30,000 EUR 1 spins now stands at 84.42%, 4,673 bets down from its start.
How can a Lockdown Spins round reach 597.4x with its Jumping Wild at x1?
Almost entirely on the last spin, as round 3668 of run three showed: of the EUR 597.40 from seven Lockdown Spins, the seventh paid EUR 569.60 and the first EUR 1.30, with the bearded inmate as the x3 special symbol. Round 51 of run one, the second-largest of the series at 501.3x, ran the other way, with EUR 486 on its first spin.
Did buying Lockdown Spins for 100x pay back more as the runs went on?
Yes, each time: 0.8627x of price in run one, 0.9404x in run two and 0.9738x in run three, 0.9256x over the 150 tickets with a 0.531x median. Only two tickets passed 5x, EUR 529.80 on ticket 38 of run one and EUR 651.30 on ticket 18 of run two, and run three's best, ticket 49, stopped at EUR 481.35.
Can San Quentin xWays go more than 1,000 spins without Lockdown Spins?
Yes. Run one went 1,111 spins without one after round 5683 and 1,039 after round 908, while run two's longest wait was 776 spins and run three's 890, from round 3909 to round 4800. Across 30,000 spins the 111 natural features average one per 270.3, though run three managed only 28, one per 357.1.
How high do Jumping Wild multipliers climb in natural Lockdown Spins?
Mostly not past x2: the highest Jumping Wild of a feature stayed at x1 in 20, 24 and 16 features of the three runs and reached x2 in 10, 15 and 9. Run one had one feature at x16 and run two two at x8, while run three's 28 stopped at x4, three times.
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- spins30,000
- bet1.00
- result-4,673x
- RTP measured84.4%
- bonuses111
- max win, no bonus81.4x
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