Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-09-15
Wild West Duels
When the 100x side lost its duel in round 1502, the Wild West Duels demo kept a 2x wild reel and paid USD 9.60, while fifty bought Beer Game free spins rounds had a USD 38.10 median.
In numbers: measured RTP 91.1% against 96% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 27.9% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 357 rounds (28 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 81x the stake, mean 137.4x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.62x of their price on average, 82% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 860.0x; the longest dry run was 23 spins.
Wild West Duels demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Wild West Duels 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 · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.00% |
| RTP measured | 91.07% (approximate 95% CI 65.0–117.1) |
| Hit frequency | 28% · every 3.59 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 23 / 3.57 |
| Median hit | 0.60x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 287.0x · round 6362 |
| Free spins, natural | 28 · 2.8 bHz · every 357.1 spins · mean bonus round payout 137.4x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,214 |
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
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 0.62x · median 0.191× price (USD 38.10) · 41 of 50 below price · best 4.56x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10 / 10–10 |
| Extended | 0.0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 4% |
This ledger contains 50 Beer Game purchases only. Each began and ended with ten free spins; the rules exclude retriggers in all three bonus modes.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 6,166.7061.67% · approximate 95% CI 35–88%
- Net
- −USD 3,833.30−19.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 9 / 5018%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 4 / 508%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~357 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 357 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 this run needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 71 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 175 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 338 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
Fifteen fixed paylines cross a board five symbols high and five reels wide. Matching combinations begin on the left and continue through adjacent reels; each line pays its highest qualifying combination, and separate line awards accumulate. The sheriff is the highest-paying regular portrait. Money-bag wilds substitute for regular symbols and can also pay their own combinations.
An expanding wild can fill its reel with a multiplier between 2x and 100x during ordinary play or Duel free spins. That value affects winning lines which use the reel; multiple participating wild multipliers add together. Three or more Duel scatters award ten spins, each with at least one wild somewhere on the board and a possibility of expansion. The resulting reel multiplier is the value used for payment after the duel.
Beer Game starts with at least three matching beer scatters and grants ten spins. Its wilds receive 2x or 3x, then stay in their cells throughout the feature. When several of those wilds join one winning line, their values are added for that line. Expanding reels are disabled in this mode.
Lost Relics grants three spins after at least three of its own scatters appear. Before those spins, nine picks from a field of 25 shovels build a guaranteed wild count and a multiplier; individual finds have values of 1, 2, 3 or 5. Each subsequent spin receives the collected number of wilds in random positions, and every win uses the collected total multiplier. None of the three free-spin modes can retrigger.
Instant entry costs 100 ordinary stakes for Beer Game, 200 for Duel and 400 for Lost Relics. This high-volatility build declares 96.00% RTP for ordinary play and for each purchase option. An ordinary wager can be USD 0.20–240. A complete round is capped at 20,000x the ordinary stake; reaching that ceiling settles the capped amount and ends remaining feature play.
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Free spins
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
5 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Resolve the duel before reading the multiplier
Three advertised bonus formats produced only two natural modes in this journal: 21 Beer Game entries and seven Duels, with no Lost Relics trigger. Together their complete rounds returned USD 7,696.20, or 42.26% of the ordinary series' USD 18,213.50 payout. The complete series returned 91.0675% of USD 20,000 wagered. Those observations describe one set of demo outcomes and do not establish a trigger rate for an unobserved mode.
Buying Beer Game gave a mean return of 0.61667x the ticket price and a median of 0.1905x, or USD 38.10. Forty-one of the fifty USD 200 tickets finished below their price, including two that paid zero. The best ticket returned USD 911.70. This purchase sample covers the sticky-wild feature only; it offers no measured purchase comparison with Duel or Lost Relics.
Round 1502 makes the duel distinction tangible. Its first reel retained 2x after the opposing 100x value lost: four USD 0.20 symbol awards became USD 0.40 each, and two USD 2 awards became USD 4 each. All six lines used that winning reel, producing USD 9.60 in total. The discarded 100x value contributed nothing to those payments.
- Three feature formats give wilds distinctly different roles.
- Fifteen visible lines make the contributing symbols easy to follow.
- Separate RTP figures are disclosed for all three purchase options.
- A large duel value can lose before the payout is calculated.
- Two of fifty tested Beer Game purchases returned nothing.
- The natural sample provides no observed Lost Relics result.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rig
One 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
- 28%rounds that paid
- 860xbiggest round
- 1 / 357natural bonus rate
- 0.62xmean of 50 buys
- 23longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-15 measured return91.07%-4.9 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 65.0–117.1%
- rounds that paid
- 28%
- biggest round
- 860x · round 631
- longest dry streak
- 23
- natural bonuses
- 28 · one per 357 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.62x · median 0.191x · 82% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,214
- deepest drawdown
- 2,046x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.0%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-15.
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 →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the log
What happened to the 100x multiplier in Wild West Duels?
In ordinary round 1502, the duel's 100x side lost and the first reel retained 2x. Six lines used that reel and paid USD 9.60 in total on a USD 2 stake. The losing value was not a multiplier of the round's payout.
Which Wild West Duels bonus did the lab buy?
All 50 statistical purchases were Beer Game at 100 ordinary stakes, or USD 200 per ticket. They returned a mean 0.61667x the price and a median 0.1905x, equivalent to USD 38.10; 41 finished below their price. Duel and Lost Relics were excluded from that purchase sample.
Which spin counts apply to Wild West Duels bonuses?
Beer Game and Duel each award 10 spins. Lost Relics awards 3 after 9 shovel picks establish its wild count and multiplier. The captured rules do not allow any of these modes to retrigger.
When did bonuses appear in the Wild West Duels test?
The ordinary test recorded 28 entries in 10,000 USD 2 spins, averaging about 357 paid spins per trigger. There were 21 Beer Game entries and seven Duels. The longest internal wait contained 1,193 non-triggering rounds, between triggers at 5526 and 6720.
Do all Wild West Duels modes share one RTP?
Yes, every mode is listed at 96.00% in the recorded build: ordinary play, Beer Game purchases, Duel purchases and Lost Relics purchases. The ordinary sample measured 91.0675%, while the Beer Game purchase sample returned 61.667%. These sample outcomes do not replace the declared theoretical percentages.
Which payout topped the Wild West Duels journal?
The largest complete ordinary round paid USD 1,720 at round 631. It combined a USD 0.20 entry award with USD 1,719.80 from ten Duel free spins. The biggest individual screen was its seventh free spin at USD 996.80; the largest ordinary round without free spins paid USD 574.
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