Quickspin · tested 2026-10-08
The Wild Chase
The Wild Chase demo put a Wild on all ten free spins in round 103, yet three paid nothing; this review separates their EUR 63.52 return from the EUR 3.56 trigger win.
Test card
10,000 spins · EUR 1.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | EUR 1.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.70% |
| RTP measured | 102.18% (approximate 95% CI 91.8–112.6) |
| Hit frequency | 22% · every 4.48 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 43 / 4.51 |
| Median hit | 1.44x |
| Max win (base game) | 60.0x · round 3652 |
| Free spins, natural | 80 · 8.0 bHz · every 125 spins · mean FS-only payout 39.8x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 5,218 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Play The Wild Chase demo
QUICKSPIN · official demo · same math as real play
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same The Wild Chase 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 freeFree spins on video
natural trigger · 80 in 10,000 spinsAt the recorded EUR 2.50 stake, ten natural free spins reach a 4x Wild multiplier and finish at EUR 58.60. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across the whole run the 80 natural bonuses split into 16 under 20x, 43 between 20x and 50x, 19 between 50x and 100x and 2 at 100x or more, and together they made up 31% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 2 to 567 spins. Payout figures here are FS-only, in ordinary stakes; the trigger payout is excluded.
All 80 natural bonuses completed ten free spins. A respin repeats the current free-spin board without using another free spin or adding to the ten-spin allowance; the journal records its screens separately.
- triggers 80 1 per 125 spins
- every 125 spins gaps 2 to 567
- mean 39.8x FS-only median 33.0x stake
- best 145.9x round 7993
- spins per bonus 10.0 10 to 10 observed
- 01round 799310 spins145.9x
- 02round 613310 spins119.6x
- 03round 558510 spins89.8x
- 04round 904110 spins88.0x
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 3041 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 3462 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4483 |
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
8 rules screens from the gameAcross its 5-by-3 board, The Wild Chase traces twenty-five fixed paylines. Matching symbols pay in groups of three or longer along a line starting on reel one; Wilds replace any symbol other than the Bonus Scatter. Before a multiplier, five blond-man symbols pay twice the total stake on one line, while five money clips pay 0.6x.
A winning combination holds its symbols in place and sends the other positions into a respin. Newly added winning symbols stay as well, so a line can lengthen or another line can join the payout. The sequence closes when no new winning positions appear or all fifteen positions are held; its final combinations are paid once, without paying the same held line on every intermediate screen.
Wilds increase the multiplier only when they belong to a paying line, but their boost applies to every winning line in that sequence. One participating Wild gives 2x, two give 3x, three give 4x, and four or above give 5x. The number of distinct Wild positions matters, so one Wild shared by several lines still counts once.
Collecting a third Bonus Scatter starts ten free spins, counting every Scatter that arrived in the paid round and its respins. The Bonus meter clears between paid rounds. Every free spin starts with a randomly placed Wild; a fresh spin also starts a fresh collection of held symbols and its own multiplier. A Wild that misses the winning lines supplies no boost, even during the bonus.
The tested client, version 2.4.0, lists 96.70% RTP and stakes from EUR 0.25 to EUR 100, with no feature purchase. Quickspin's older game sheet rates volatility at 2.51 out of five. The demo metadata includes a 423.36x highest-win figure but supplies no explicit rule establishing it as a payout ceiling.
Wild symbol
Respin
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Multiplier
Bet range EUR 0.25 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 1.00
Gallery
17 frames from the demo session
Verdict
The free Wild still needs a lineA Wild multiplier was absent from 358 of the 800 free spins. Of those, 337 ended at zero, while 21 paid ordinary symbol combinations without a multiplier. The ten-spin guarantee therefore left considerable room for empty results inside each bonus.
Respin collection supplied the third Scatter for 56 of the 80 natural bonuses; only 24 already had enough Scatters on their opening board. Features arrived once per 125 paid rounds in this sample, and their free-spin payouts had a median of EUR 32.98.
A completely held field ended the ordinary sequence in round 3652 after eight respins. Thirteen rings and two Wilds occupied every position, so twenty-five lines paid EUR 2.40 apiece at 3x, EUR 60 in total from a EUR 1 stake. With all fifteen positions occupied, there was nothing left to respin.
- All 5,212 ordinary respin screens ran without an extra debit beyond their round's EUR 1 stake
- Even the weakest of the 80 natural bonuses returned EUR 3.84 from its free spins
- Eight free spins reached a 5x multiplier and paid EUR 249 between them
- No Wild multiplier appeared in 358 of the 800 free spins
- EUR 1 was not fully recovered in 911 of the 2,230 paying rounds
- Every natural bonus stopped at ten free spins; none of the 80 received an extension
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
- 22%rounds that paid
- 165xbiggest round
- 1 / 125natural bonus rate
- 43longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-08 measured return102.18%+5.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 91.8–112.6%
- rounds that paid
- 22%
- biggest round
- 165x · round 9,041
- longest dry streak
- 43
- natural bonuses
- 80 · one per 125 rounds
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 5,218
- deepest drawdown
- 585x
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 1 bet; recorded on the official Quickspin demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 96.7%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-08. A fixed virtual EUR 1 stake was used for 10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally awarded free spins. The Wild Chase has no feature purchase. Screenshots and the bonus recording come from a separate EUR 2.50 browser session and do not contribute to this sample.
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
5 questions · answered from the logCan a guaranteed Wild leave a free spin unpaid?
Yes. Free spins 3, 5 and 10 of round 103 each began with their guaranteed Wild and ended at EUR 0, without any Wild multiplier. The other seven free spins returned EUR 63.52 between them, including EUR 33.60 on spin eight at 4x.
Is a held line paid again on every respin?
No. Round 103 showed seven ordinary-game screens, the opening board plus six respins, but credited its final line combinations once for EUR 3.56. The later ten free spins supplied another EUR 63.52, bringing that EUR 1 round to EUR 67.08.
Do the three Bonus Scatters have to land together?
No. Scatters accumulate during one paid round, including its respins. In the completed test, 56 of 80 features collected their third Scatter after the opening board; the other 24 already had three Scatters on that first board.
Which version lists 96.70% RTP?
The demo server identifies the tested WildChase_967 model as 96.7%. Quickspin's earlier game sheet states 96.73%, but that document also has a different maximum stake, EUR 125 instead of the current client's EUR 100; it is not the exact specification of this test session.
Is 423.36x a limit on a Wild Chase win?
The demo metadata supplies 423.36x without an explicit cap rule. Quickspin's older game sheet labels its different 405x figure as the largest win found in one billion rounds. That evidence does not justify treating 423.36x as an enforced ceiling.








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