Play'n GO · 2022 · measured RTP 84.9% · tested 2026-11-13
Secret of Dead
Shai, the one symbol paid double when expanded, got there five times in 435 natural free spins of the Secret of Dead demo, which gave back 84.8% RTP over 10,000 logged rounds with 96.2% declared.
In numbers: the lab's RTP test on the official demo server measured 84.9% against 96.2% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 33.3% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 222 rounds (45 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 50.9x the stake, mean 90x, trigger spin included; the biggest round paid 521.2x; the longest dry run was 18 spins.
Secret of Dead demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Secret of Dead 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
10,000 spins · DEMO 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | DEMO 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.20% |
| RTP measured | 84.85% (approximate 95% CI 66.4–103.3) |
| Hit frequency | 33% · every 3 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 18 / 3.03 |
| Median hit | 0.50x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 81.0x · round 8996 |
| Free spins, natural | 45 · 4.5 bHz · every 222.2 spins · mean bonus round payout 90.0x stake |
| Balance start → end | 25,000 → 21,970 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Free spins on video
natural trigger · 45 in 10,000 spins
A DEMO 1.00 spin with three Ankhs pays 1150 coins, 1000 of them for a line of six Ks completed by Ankhs, and a scroll draws the 10 as expanding symbol for 8 free spins; the 10 spreads over three or four reels on six of them, the seventh lifts the meter from 2725 to 3475 coins, and the TOTAL WIN scroll closes on 3475 coins, DEMO 69.50. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across the whole run the 45 natural bonuses split into 7 under 20x, 15 between 20x and 50x, 10 between 50x and 100x and 13 at 100x or more, and together they made up 48% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 1 to 738 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.
A free spin that lands three or more Ankhs adds 5 spins to the bonus and puts one more symbol into the expanding stack. Ten of the 45 natural bonuses did this at least once, 15 times in all, and the longest reached 28 spins with five symbols.
- triggers 45 1 per 222 spins
- every 222 spins gaps 1 to 738
- mean 90.0x bonus round median 50.9x stake
- best 521.2x round 1420
- spins per bonus 9.7 8 to 28 observed
- 01round 142028 spins521.2x
- 02round 27558 spins465.0x
- 03round 94888 spins283.9x
- 04round 34528 spins211.3x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 77 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 212 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 361 |
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
4 rules screens from the game
Secret of Dead spins six reels of three symbols under ten lines, and wins are read along a line starting at the first reel, longest match only. Two matching Shai, Bastet, Winged scarabs or Cobras already make a win, while the five card ranks need three. Six Shai on one line return 500x the total stake, six Bastet 200x, six Winged scarabs or Cobras 100x, six Aces 25x and six of any lower card 20x. In the first run ten base lines ran the full six symbols and brought DEMO 420.00, 4.6% of base line money.
The Ankh is Wild and Scatter in one. As a Wild it stands in for any symbol and by itself pays on Shai's scale. Counted anywhere on the reels, three Ankhs paid 1x the stake on each of the 45 triggers of the first run and four paid 10x on two free spins; the same table goes on to 50x for five and 250x for six.
With three or more Ankhs on the screen the game awards 8 free spins, and a scroll draws one expanding symbol before the first of them. On a free spin where that symbol shows on enough reels for a win, two for the pictures and three for the cards, it covers those reels and is paid on all ten lines whether the reels are adjacent or not. Three more Ankhs during the feature add 5 spins and bring in another expanding symbol until all nine are active; Shai is paid twice over when she is the one expanding.
The coin can be set between 0.01 and 2.00 and one to five of them ride on each line, so the demo takes DEMO 0.01 to DEMO 100.00 a spin; the series staked five 0.04 coins on each of ten lines, DEMO 2.00. Play'n GO states 96.2% RTP for this build and prints WIN UP TO 500000 COINS over a 50-coin bet, 10,000x the stake, which is ten lines of six Shai at double pay. A GAMBLE button appears after a win, the lab always collected, and the studio sells no feature purchase.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Expanding symbol
Retrigger
Gamble feature
Bet range DEMO 0.01 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet DEMO 2.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Five doubled pays, two reels each
Shai sat in the expanding stack for 61 of the 435 natural free spins, across six bonuses, and showed on two reels five times and on three never. Each of those five expansions paid DEMO 80.00, 40x the stake, so the doubling advertised on the opening card added DEMO 200.00, 2.60% of the DEMO 7,696.40 that free spins alone paid. Two of the five bonuses that drew Shai first, rounds 8353 and 9460, never expanded her and closed at 2.3x and 6.0x, the two lowest bonus rounds of the test.
Expansions of all nine symbols paid 240 times on 215 free spins and supplied 93.2% of free spins money, most often from three reels, 112 pays, or from two, 76. Just one reached all six reels: Aces in round 9488, DEMO 500.00 in a single spin. The largest pay came from Cobras on five reels in round 2755, DEMO 800.00 or 400x.
Ten of the 45 bonuses retriggered, each time for 5 spins and one more symbol, and those ten averaged 164.94x per whole round against 68.53x for the 35 that stayed on a single symbol. Round 1420 retriggered four times, stacked Q, 10, Winged scarab, A and Shai over 28 spins and paid 521.2x, more than any other round of the test. Bonuses arrived once per 222.2 rounds and, trigger spins included, returned 47.7% of all the money paid out across the series.
As Wilds, Ankhs sat in 2,032 of the 4,799 paying base lines, and those lines held 56.7% of base line money. Round 8996, the best without a bonus, paid 81.0x through five Bastet completed by a Wild. Shai lines brought DEMO 936.00 in the base game, 2.34 times the DEMO 400.00 her expansions paid in free spins.
- Every one of the ten retriggered bonuses paid at least 65.1x as a whole round
- A single expanding symbol, the 10, was enough for 211.3x in round 3452, without a retrigger
- Thirteen bonuses reached 100x or more, eight of them after a retrigger
- Pictures pay from two of a kind, and two-symbol lines returned DEMO 2,966.00, 32.3% of base line money
- Q expanded 35 times in free spins and never paid more than DEMO 30.00 at once
- Five bonuses opened on K as the expanding symbol, and the best of them closed at 67.0x
- A one-symbol bonus finished under 50x more often than not, 22 times in 35
- Line wins outside the expansions supplied 6.0% of free spins money, DEMO 458.40, and none of them ran the full six symbols
Test record
10,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rig
One 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
- 33%rounds that paid
- 521xbiggest round
- 1 / 222natural bonus rate
- 18longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-11-13 measured return84.85%-11.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 66.4–103.3%
- rounds that paid
- 33%
- biggest round
- 521x · round 1,420
- longest dry streak
- 18
- natural bonuses
- 45 · one per 222 rounds
- balance start → end
- 25,000 → 21,970
- deepest drawdown
- 1,907x
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 96.2%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-11-13.
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
Did Shai ever pay double in the Secret of Dead test?
Yes, on five free spins out of 435. Shai came up 6 times in the 60 expanding-symbol draws of 45 natural bonuses, and in the 61 free spins played with her in the stack she landed on two reels 5 times and on one reel 17 times, which pays nothing extra. A two-reel Shai expansion returned DEMO 80.00 at a DEMO 2.00 stake; without the doubling it would have been DEMO 40.00.
Is Secret of Dead's listed 96.2% RTP wrong if the demo returned 84.85%?
No. The measurement does not show that: around 84.85% the approximate 95% CI spans 66.35% to 103.34%, and the listed 96.2% lies within that range. The series paid DEMO 16,969.80 on DEMO 20,000 staked, and its best round, 1420, paid DEMO 1,042.40 of that.
What do three more Ankhs add during Secret of Dead free spins?
Five spins and one more expanding symbol. Each of the 15 retriggers in the log added 5 spins to the opening 8, so bonuses ran for 8, 13, 18 or 28 spins: 35 stayed at 8, seven reached 13, two reached 18 and one 28. Across all 435 natural free spins that is one retrigger per 29.0 spins.
How many reels does an expanding symbol usually cover in Secret of Dead?
Three reels most often, 112 of 240 expansion pays, then two reels with 76, four with 45, five with 6 and all six once. The count depends on the symbol: Cobras, which need two reels, stopped at two in 27 of their 39 pays, while the 10, which needs three, took three 23 times, four 10 times and five 3 times.
How likely are three Ankhs on a Secret of Dead spin?
Three Ankhs landed on 45 of 10,000 first screens and started free spins each time, one trigger per 222.2 rounds on average, and there is no purchase to shorten the wait. Two Ankhs without a third stopped on 542 first screens, 5.42% of the series.
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- spins10,000
- bet2.00
- result-1,515x
- RTP measured84.9%
- bonuses45
- max win, no bonus81.0x
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