Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-09-15
Wild West Duels
See why a 100x duel value lost in this Wild West Duels review, with a playable demo, three free spins modes and results from fifty Beer Game bonus buys.
The 100x side lost the duel on round 1502, leaving a 2x wild reel. Six winning lines then paid USD 9.60 on the USD 2 stake.
measured over 10,000 spins · 50 buys
Is Wild West Duels worth playing?
quick answerWild West Duels applies the multiplier of the winning side after resolving a duel. Round 1502 kept 2x and discarded 100x, paying USD 9.60 across six lines. Its three bonus formats also need separate treatment: all fifty purchases in this test were Beer Game tickets, whose median payout was USD 38.10 against a USD 200 price.
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 (base game) | 287.0x · spin 6362 |
| Free spins, natural | 28 · every 357.1 spins · mean FS-only payout 137.3x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,214 |
Play Wild West Duels demo
same math as real play · demo balance
Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.62x · median 0.1905× price (USD 38.10) · 41 of 50 below price · best 4.56x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10 / 10–10 |
| Retriggered | 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 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 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 test
Verdict
Resolve the duel before reading the multiplierThree 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 free-spin portions returned USD 7,690.90, or 42.23% 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.
- Round 6362 supplied the largest ordinary payout without free spins: USD 574, equal to 287x the USD 2 stake.
- Round 631 returned USD 1,720 overall: USD 0.20 on entry and USD 1,719.80 from Duel free spins. Its seventh free spin alone paid USD 996.80.
- The longest stretch without a payout lasted 23 spins, from rounds 6415 to 6437.
- No natural Lost Relics feature appeared among 10,000 paid spins; the 28 observed entries split into 21 Beer Game and seven Duel bonuses.
Method & data
open data · closed rig10000 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 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 →
| 2026-09-15 | 10,000 spins · RTP 91.1% |
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logWhat 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?
The recorded build lists 96.00% for ordinary play, Beer Game purchases, Duel purchases and Lost Relics purchases. The ordinary sample measured 91.0675%, while the separate 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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