Quickspin · tested 2026-10-05
Sticky Bandits 3: Most Wanted
Six Sticky Bandit Wilds covered four reels in the largest purchased bonus of the Sticky Bandits 3: Most Wanted demo, leaving its EUR 768 result at 12 free spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · EUR 1.08 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | EUR 1.08 |
| RTP declared | 95.82% |
| RTP measured | 87.47% (approximate 95% CI 69.3–105.6) |
| Hit frequency | 29% · every 3.4 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 27 / 3.36 |
| Median hit | 1.33x |
| Max win (base game) | 83.3x · spin 5494 |
| Free spins, natural | 49 · 4.9 bHz · every 204.1 spins · mean FS-only payout 45.4x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 3,647 |
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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300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeBonus buy lab
50 buys × 60x · EUR 65 eachmean 1.12x · median 0.37× price (EUR 24.00) · 42 of 50 below price · best 11.85x · worst 0.08x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 12.4 / 12–17 |
| Retriggered | 8% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
A first Sticky Bandit on the remaining uncovered reel grants five additional spins, once per feature. This happened in 2 of 49 natural features and 4 of 50 purchases; the twelve spins awarded at entry are excluded.
- Spent
- EUR 3,24050 × EUR 64.80
- Returned
- EUR 3,636112.22% · approximate 95% CI 53–171%
- Net
- +EUR 396+6.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 8 / 5016%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 7 / 5014%
- Price in base spins
- 60natural trigger every ~204 spins
One ticket equals 60 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 204 paid 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 this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 173 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 295 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 709 |
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
28 rules screens from the game
Nine fixed paylines cross five reels, each three positions high. Line awards require consecutive matching symbols beginning on reel 1, and only the highest award on each line is paid. The bull-skull Wild and the five Bandit Wilds share a paytable and substitute for line symbols, excluding Bonus safes. Two, three, four or five Bonus safes anywhere pay 2x, 4x, 25x or 2,500x the total stake.
An entry with at least three Bonus safes starts 12 free spins. Each free-spin win receives a fixed 2x multiplier. Bandit Wilds remain in their positions until the feature ends. Once all five reels contain a Bandit Wild, five additional spins are awarded; this extension can occur only once in that feature.
The purchase button charges 60 ordinary stakes, EUR 64.80 at the tested EUR 1.08 bet. Its entry round chooses three to five Bonus safes, pays their Scatter award and awards no line wins. Stake controls in this client range from EUR 0.27 to EUR 36. The theoretical RTP is 95.82% for ordinary play and 96.25% for purchased free spins.
Wild symbol
Sticky symbol
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
Retrigger
Bonus buy
On narrow screens, swipe or use arrow keys to view all payouts.
Bet range EUR 0.27 – 36 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.08
Gallery
8 frames from the test
Verdict
Reel one never lockedPurchased entry 47 never placed a Sticky Bandit on reel 1. Six Wild cells were already fixed across reels 2 to 5 by free spin 6, and the last reel was completely Wild, but no fifth reel joined the collection. Free spins 10 and 12 paid EUR 252 and EUR 252.48; the ticket closed after its original twelve spins at EUR 768, comprising EUR 763.68 from free spins and EUR 4.32 from entry Scatters. It was the largest purchased payout of the series.
For a EUR 64.80 ticket, the median return was EUR 24, or 0.370x the price. The mean reached EUR 72.72 across fifty purchases, while 42 returned less than their price. The largest ticket's twelve-spin result illustrates why the extension count alone cannot describe the payout.
Extensions appeared in two of the 49 naturally triggered features and four of the 50 purchases. The earned feature in ordinary round 3545 gained its missing reel-2 Wild on free spin 12, after five fixed cells had occupied reels 1, 3, 4 and 5. That last scheduled spin added five more; those five returned EUR 296.88 of the EUR 395.52 paid by the free-spins stage.
- Locked Bandit positions remain available on every later free spin
- The fixed 2x free-spin multiplier applies even before any Bandit lands
- The final initially allotted spin can still complete all five reels and extend the feature
- Another Wild on an occupied reel adds no new reel toward the five-reel collection
- The smallest completed purchase returned EUR 5.28 from a EUR 64.80 ticket
- A purchased entry pays its Scatters but cannot collect ordinary line awards
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. 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
- 29%rounds that paid
- 747xbiggest round
- 1 / 204natural bonus rate
- 1.12xmean of 50 buys
- 27longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-05 measured return87.47%-8.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 69.3–105.6%
- rounds that paid
- 29%
- biggest round
- 747x · round 4,487
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 49 · one per 204 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.12x · median 0.37x · 84% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 3,647
- deepest drawdown
- 1,479x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1.08 bet; 50 bonus buys at 64.8 each (60x) on the official Quickspin demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 95.82%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-05.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, cascade steps, 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 logCan several Sticky Wilds on one reel unlock the extra spins?
They occupy separate cells, but the extension requires coverage of all five reels. Ordinary round 1229 finished with five fixed Wild cells spread over reels 1, 3 and 5, so its feature stayed at twelve spins. Completing the missing reels would award five additional spins, with at most one such award per feature.
Did buying fifty bonuses finish in profit?
The purchase account spent EUR 3,240 and received EUR 3,636, a EUR 396 surplus and 112.22% return across 50 entries. Eight tickets covered their own EUR 64.80 price. Those totals include each entry award as well as its free spins; this single profitable sample does not establish a profitable buying strategy.
Is 87.47% the game's RTP setting?
No. That percentage is the return recorded by 10,000 ordinary rounds at EUR 1.08, including their natural bonuses. The tested model specifies 95.82% for ordinary play and 96.25% for a purchased entry. There were 49 natural triggers in the ordinary series, equivalent to one per 204.1 paid rounds in this sample.
What does Quickspin's 22,468x figure measure?
A simulation of 1.9 trillion spins produced that maximum, according to Quickspin's game sheet. The captured client rules do not establish that figure as a hard stopping limit. In the completed ordinary sample, the largest whole round was 747.111x the EUR 1.08 stake, at round 4487, including both its triggering award and free spins.
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