Relax Gaming · tested 2026-09-19
Top Dawg$
One round of free spins returned 18,146x the stake in this Top Dawg$ review and lifted the demo to 274.27% RTP; without it the other 9,999 spins paid 92.82%.
Test card
10,000 spins · FUN 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | FUN 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.10% |
| RTP measured | 274.27% (approximate 95% CI -81.6–630.2) |
| Hit frequency | 23% · every 4.44 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 27 / 4.44 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (base game) | 153.0x · spin 5585 |
| Free spins, natural | 24 · every 416.7 spins · mean FS-only payout 838.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 39,855 |
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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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 90x · FUN 180 eachmean 0.64x · median 0.53888889× price (FUN 97.00) · 46 of 50 below price · best 2.83x · worst 0.26x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.3 / 8–20 |
| Retriggered | 96% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Extra spins come one at a time: every further Bonus symbol during the feature adds one spin and raises the multiplier on every Wild already locked. The share counts bonuses that ran past their 8, 10 or 12 starting spins.
- Spent
- FUN 9,00050 × FUN 180
- Returned
- FUN 5,78764.30% · approximate 95% CI 51–77%
- Net
- −FUN 3,213−17.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 4 / 508%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 2 / 504%
- Price in base spins
- 90natural trigger every ~417 spins
One ticket equals 90 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 417 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 89 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 170 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 451 |
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
25 rules screens from the game
Top Dawg$ lines up five reels of three rows under a string of lights, with 15 fixed lines paid from the left. Four dogs top the table: the crowned Bulldog at 30x the stake for five, the Poodle at 25x, the Basset hound at 20x and the pup in the beanie at 15x; the four royals pay 0.5x, 1x and 2x for three, four and five. The Wild pays like the Bulldog and stands in for every paying symbol.
A Mystery symbol on the fifth reel starts the Mystery respins: it stays in place, each respin that lands another Mystery earns one more respin, and when a respin lands none, every Mystery on the screen turns into the same symbol and the lines are paid. In the logged series the feature fired 255 times, once per 39 spins, ran 2 to 10 respins and revealed 2 to 14 symbols; 168 of the 255 reveals were royals.
Bonus cars on three, four or five reels open 8, 10 or 12 free spins, during which every Wild sticks. Each further Bonus symbol adds one spin and raises the multiplier on every Wild already locked by one, up to 7x per Wild, and Wilds with multipliers on the same line multiply each other. The round is capped: once the free spins reach 25,000x the stake the feature pays 25,000x and ends.
A Buy Feature sign beside the reels sells the free spins at 90 times the stake, FUN 180 when playing FUN 2, and the rules give the bought feature 96.71% against 96.10% for ordinary play. Stakes go from FUN 0.10 to FUN 40, there is no ante option, and the demo build is 2.0.7, dated 12 June 2024 on its rules page.
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Sticky symbol
Multiplier
Retrigger
Respin
Bonus buy
Bet range FUN 0.10 – 40 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet FUN 2.00
Gallery
8 frames from the test
Verdict
Multipliers that multiply each otherWhere the rules print 96.10%, the series returned 274.27% of stake; its approximate 95% band stretches from below zero to 630%, which is what a single 18,146x round does to the arithmetic. The balance rose from FUN 5,000 to FUN 39,855, 17,428 stakes up, but before round 3655 it sat 928 stakes down on spin 3,562, and bankrolls of 50, 100 and 200 stakes were gone by spins 89, 170 and 451. A hit came every 4.44 spins at a 1.0x median, 7,748 of the 10,000 rounds paid nothing, and thirteen droughts reached 20 spins, the longest 27.
Take round 3655 out and the other 9,999 rounds returned 92.82%. The free spins opened 24 times, once per 417 spins with waits of up to 1,435, and the other 23 features averaged 86.04x the stake with a 56.5x median. Free spins delivered 73.4% of everything the game paid, ordinary line wins 19.6% and the Mystery reveals 7.0%; the biggest of the 255 reveals, twelve Bulldogs on round 5585, paid 153x through eleven three-of-a-kind lines and four full lines.
Buying the feature fifty times at FUN 180 returned 0.643x of price on average and 0.5389x in the middle, FUN 97; 46 tickets lost, the best, buy 39, paid 2.83x and the worst FUN 47. That is 64.30% over the sample against the 96.71% quoted for the purchase, and with buy 39 left aside the remaining 49 came to 0.598x of price. The meter drew the line: the 26 bought features that topped out at x2 or x3 averaged 53.15x, the 18 that reached x4 or more 73.44x, the six that stayed at x1 30.67x.
The record round is the game's arithmetic laid bare. Round 3655 ran twelve spins with six sticky Wilds, five of them carrying multipliers of 2, 4, 5, 5 and 5, and on the last spin two Basset hound lines crossed several of them at once: their multipliers combined to 200 and 500, the lines paid 4,000x and 10,000x, and the spin alone returned 14,398x the stake, FUN 28,796. Fourteen natural features whose meter peaked at x2 or x3 averaged 64.71x; the nine that reached x4 or higher had a 68.5x median and averaged 130.38x without that round.
- An 18,146x round, number 3655, paid 14,398x of it on one spin where two lines crossed Wilds worth 200x and 500x combined
- Twenty-four natural features, one per 417 spins, and 23 of them earned at least one extra spin from a further Bonus symbol
- Mystery respins fired 255 times, once per 39 spins, and twelve revealed Bulldogs on round 5585 paid 153x
- Every respin, locked Wild and multiplier step of all 74 recorded features is in the published log
- Round 3655 aside, the demo returned 92.82%, and the balance had sunk 928 stakes on spin 3,562 before that round landed
- Fifty tickets at FUN 180 came back at 0.643x of price on average; 46 lost and the best paid 2.83x
- Seven spins in ten paid nothing, 7,748 of 10,000, with thirteen dry runs of 20 spins or more and four of 27
- 88 of the 255 Mystery reveals paid nothing, and the symbol was a royal 168 times against 87 dogs
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
- 23%rounds that paid
- 18,146xbiggest round
- 1 / 417natural bonus rate
- 0.64xmean of 50 buys
- 27longest dry streak
01run
Run 012026-09-19
10,000 rounds at FUN 2.00 · 50 buys · rig 0.6.0 · RTP profile 96.10%
measured return274.27%+178.2 pts vs declared
Run 012026-09-19
10,000 rounds at FUN 2.00 · 50 buys · rig 0.6.0 · RTP profile 96.10%
- 95% band
- -81.6–630.2%
- rounds that paid
- 23%
- biggest round
- 18,146x · round 3,655
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 24 · one per 417 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.64x · median 0.54x · 92% below price
- balance start → end
- 5,000 → 39,855
- deepest drawdown
- 928x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed FUN 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 180.0 each (90.0x) on the official Relax Gaming demo server (jurisdiction MT, RTP profile 96.1%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-19.
The test rig recorded every round on the official demo server. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. This release has completed automated data, content and page checks; human editorial review is pending. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logTop Dawg$ RTP: what did the demo return?
At FUN 2 the series returned 274.27% against the 96.10% printed in the rules, because round 3655 alone paid FUN 36,292, 18,146x the stake. Leave that round out and the other 9,999 rounds returned 92.82%; the approximate 95% band of the mean, below zero to 630%, is the arithmetic of one outlier.
How can one free spin pay 14,398x?
Sticky Wilds carry multipliers that grow by one with every further Bonus symbol, and Wilds on the same line multiply each other. On the twelfth spin of round 3655 the board held six Wilds, five of them at 2x, 4x, 5x, 5x and 5x; two Basset hound lines crossed several of them for combined multipliers of 200 and 500 and paid 4,000x and 10,000x, so the spin returned FUN 28,796.
Ninety stakes for the free spins: was it money well spent?
Over 50 purchases at FUN 180 the tickets returned 0.643x of price on average and 0.5389x in the middle, FUN 97; 46 lost money, two paid 2x or more and the best paid 2.83x. The rules quote 96.71% for the bought feature, and the 50 tickets came to 64.30%.
How long is the wait for natural free spins?
Twenty-four triggers over the 10,000-spin series, one per 417 on average, and the longest wait between two of them was 1,435 spins. The features started with 8 or 10 spins and ran to 19, paid 56.75x the stake in the middle, and averaged 86.04x once the 18,146x round is left aside.
Mystery respins: what do they actually pay?
A Mystery symbol on reel five fired the respins 255 times, once per 39 spins; they ran 2 to 10 respins and revealed 2 to 14 symbols. The reveal paid 7.52x the stake on average and 2x in the middle, 88 reveals paid nothing, and the symbol decided the rest: Bulldog reveals averaged 18.23x, royals 2.58x to 4.35x, and the top reveal was 153x on round 5585.
Does the Wild multiplier decide the feature?
Largely. Of the 24 natural features, the one whose Wilds never left x1 paid 30x, the fourteen that peaked at x2 or x3 averaged 64.71x, and the nine that reached x4 or higher had a 68.5x median and a 130.38x mean without the record round. Bought features told the same story: 30.67x at x1, 53.15x at x2 to x3, 73.44x at x4 and above.
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