Pragmatic Play · 2018 · tested 2026-09-29
Wolf Gold
Moons never paid below 21x across the fifty Money Respins of the first Wolf Gold demo run, a 98.42% RTP session where nearly every free spins round stopped at the basic five.
- RTP measured / declared 100.1% 96%
- Hit frequency 42%
- Max win · no bonus 135x
- Free spins, natural 159 / 30,000
- Bonus frequency 5.3 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 100.1% against 96% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 42.0% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 189 rounds (159 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 21.4x the stake, mean 32.6x, trigger spin included; the biggest round paid 266.6x; the longest dry run was 21 spins.
Test card
30,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.00% |
| RTP measured | 100.09% (approximate 95% CI 93.7–106.5) |
| Hit frequency | 42% · every 2.38 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 21 / 2.37 |
| Median hit | 0.60x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 135.0x · run 3, round 360 |
| Free spins, natural | 159 · 5.3 bHz · every 188.7 spins · mean bonus round payout 32.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 100,057 |
- 012026-09-0410,000 rounds · 0 buysfiles & checksums ↓98.42%RTP4 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2110,000 rounds · 0 buysfiles & checksums ↓102.30%RTP4 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2910,000 rounds · 0 buysfiles & checksums ↓99.56%RTP4 files · SHA-256 ↓
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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Free spins on video
natural trigger · 159 in 30,000 spinsThree canyon scatters start the free spins, the middle reels turn into one giant 3×3 block, and the round closes at USD 64.8. Recorded in a separate browser session, outside the statistical samples.
Across all 3 runs the 159 natural bonuses split into 77 under 20x, 58 between 20x and 50x, 14 between 50x and 100x and 10 at 100x or more, and together they made up 17% of everything the game returned. The wait between two triggers ran from 1 to 903 spins. Payout figures here cover the whole bonus round in ordinary stakes, the trigger spin included: its scatter pays and line wins count towards the bonus.
- triggers 159 1 per 189 spins
- every 189 spins gaps 1 to 903
- mean 32.6x bonus round median 21.4x stake
- best 266.6x run 3 · round 3698
- spins per bonus 5.1 5 to 8 observed
- 01run 3 · round 36985 spins266.6x
- 02run 2 · round 12048 spins196.4x
- 03run 1 · round 60045 spins195.4x
- 04run 2 · round 11375 spins195.4x
Risk profile
how much bankroll the 3 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 95 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 268 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 4786 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, 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
Five reels, three rows and 25 fixed lines, scoring left to right on neighbouring reels. The buffalo tops the regular paytable at 20x the bet for five of a kind, followed by the eagle at 16x, the horse at 12x and the puma at 8x; the four card symbols pay 2x for a full line. The wolf is the wild, worth the same 20x as the buffalo on its own line, and it stands in for everything except the scatter and the moon.
The canyon scatter appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5. Three of them pay 1x the bet and open five free spins in which reels 2, 3 and 4 spin as one giant 3×3 symbol. Every further trio of scatters inside the round adds three spins with no cap. In the first run 44 of the 46 natural rounds ended after the basic five spins; rounds 6349 and 8931 collected the extra three.
The moon is the money symbol and lands on every reel with a value from 1x to 100x, or the Mini or Major jackpot tag. Six or more moons on one screen start the Money Respin: the regular symbols vanish, the moons lock, and three respins run on reels that hold only moons and blanks. Each new moon resets the counter to three, and when the respins run out the values on screen are summed and paid; filling all 15 positions adds the Mega jackpot of 1,000x, Mini is 30x and Major 100x. Across the first run's 50 respins the pot ranged from 21x to 69x and no jackpot tag ever paid.
The game advertises a 2,500x ceiling, exposes a single RTP profile of 96.0%, and this demo build offers neither a feature purchase nor an ante option.
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Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
The moons finally paid a jackpotThis Wolf Gold demo has now returned 98.42%, 102.30% and 99.56% across three sessions of 10,000 spins each, 100.09% pooled over 30,000 rounds, and its approximate 95% CI of 93.74 to 106.45% lies entirely above the 96.0% profile; the combined balance closed 28 stakes up. The rhythm is the same every time: a paying spin on 42.3%, 41.22% and 42.6% of rounds at a 0.6x median, blank stretches of 21, 15 and 14 spins at the longest, and a 200-stake bankroll that lasted 4,786 spins, 5,493 spins and then the whole of run three.
The moons remain the dependable part: 156 Money Respins in 30,000 spins, one per 192, paid 43.99x on average and 43x at the median, 22.9% of everything returned, never below 18x, and in run three one of them finally carried a jackpot tag, the 100x Major inside a 135x pot on round 360; the Mega and a filled 15-moon screen have still not appeared. Free spins are the lottery: 159 triggers, one per 189 spins, 5.3 bHz, meaning natural features per 1,000 ordinary rounds, averaged 32.61x a round with a 21.4x median, 15 drew nothing from their free spins and 77 stayed under 20x, while ten cleared 100x, led by 266.6x on round 3698 of run three; seven of the 159 retriggered.
Ordinary line wins and scatter pays outside the free spins carried the rest, 62.5%, 58.1% and 61.4% of each run's return, and peaked at 103.8x on a single spin of run three, round 6263. Without a purchase or an ante on this build, the pace is fixed by the reels: a respin about every 190 spins, a free-spin round about every 190, and a jackpot tag once in 156 respins so far.
- Pooled 100.09% over 30,000 spins, with every run inside 98.42% to 102.30%
- Money Respins came 156 times, one per 192 spins, and never paid under 18x
- The Major jackpot paid at last, 100x inside a 135x pot on round 360 of run three
- Forty-two percent of spins paid in every run, and the 200-stake bankroll survived run three
- No purchase button and no ante toggle in this build; both features wait on the reels
- Fifteen of 159 free-spin rounds drew nothing from the free spins and 77 stayed under 20x
- The Mega jackpot and a 15-moon screen are still unseen after 156 respins; the best pot was 135x
- Free spins waited up to 902 spins between triggers, in run two
Run 01·2026-09-04·98.42%
The rhythm matters more than the ceiling. Something paid on 42% of spins, the longest empty stretch was 21 spins (rounds 7518 to 7538), and the 2,000-spin blocks returned between 78% and 116% while the hit rate barely moved. The balance topped out at 100,925 on round 7238, dipped to 99,500 at spin 9820 and closed at 99,684, 158 bets down. A 200-bet bankroll lasted until spin 4786; the 50-bet and 100-bet stakes were gone by spins 95 and 268.
The Money Respin is the dependable feature. Fifty respins across the run, roughly every 200 spins, paid a mean of 42x and a median of 41x, and 41 of them cleared 30x. The biggest pot was 69x on round 2040, the smallest 21x, and together the respins supplied 21% of everything the game returned. What the respins never delivered was a jackpot: no Major, no Mega, no 15-moon screen.
Free spins are the lottery half. Forty-six triggers averaged 36x with a median of 20x; four rounds passed 100x, led by 195x on round 6004 and 179x on round 1775, while 23 stayed under 20x and six drew nothing from their free spins. The giant symbol on reels 2 to 4 either lines up with reels 1 and 5 or it does not, and five spins leave little room to recover.
Run 02·2026-09-21·102.30%
The second series returned 102.30% of stake against the 96.0% profile, with an approximate 95% band of 90.7 to 113.9%, and closed 230 stakes up; the deepest trough was 253 stakes below the start, fifty stakes lasted 110 spins, a hundred 834, two hundred 5,493. Something paid on 41.22% of spins at a 0.6x median, the longest empty run was 15, and ordinary line wins made 57.1% of the return with a 90.8x best on round 1791.
The Money Respin fired 55 times, one per 182 spins, and paid 45.18x the stake on average with a 45x median, between 22x and 75x, 24.3% of everything returned; no Major, no Mega, no jackpot tag. Free spins landed 52 times, one per 192, at 36.68x on average and 22.2x in the middle: three rounds paid nothing in free spins, 21 stayed under 20x, and the four above 100x, 196.4x on round 1204, 195.4x on 1137, 194.6x on 6986 and 112.8x on 1783, came from the giant symbol lining up with reel 1, only 1204 mostly as five of a kind.
Run 03·2026-09-29·99.56%
Round 360 was the first Money Respin on this page to pay a jackpot tag: ten moons locked, one of them the Major worth 100x, and the pot closed at USD 270, 135 stakes. The 51 Money Respins of the run came one per 196 spins, paid 44.55x on average with a 43x median, 18x on round 8448 at the bottom, and returned USD 4,544, 22.8% of everything the run paid.
Sixty-one free-spin rounds came one per 164 spins, 6.1 bHz, and paid USD 3,276 in all, 16.5% of the return, 26.85x on average and 15.8x at the median, with USD 3,134.80, 15.7%, from the free spins themselves: six paid nothing in free spins, 33 stayed under 20x, one round retriggered to eight spins, and two cleared 100x, 266.6x on round 3698 and 107.4x on round 6854. Line wins and scatter pays outside the free spins made up the rest, 61.4% of the return, topped by 103.8x on round 6263 from a single spin; hits landed on 42.6% of spins, 0.6x the median one, 5,740 rounds paid nothing, and no blank stretch reached 15 spins.
Never further than 351 stakes up or 119.4 down, the balance peaked on spin 3970, bottomed on spin 6256 and closed at USD 99,912.80, 43.6 stakes short of the start, 99.56% of the USD 20,000 staked, and a 200-stake bankroll would have survived the full 10,000 spins, while the fifty- and hundred-stake bankrolls were spent by spins 5609 and 6226. The 2,000-round blocks read 104.7%, 112.0%, 82.0%, 104.4% and 94.8%.
Test record
3 runs · 30,000 rounds · 0 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 3 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 30,000rounds, all runs
- 42%rounds that paid
- 267xbiggest round
- 1 / 189natural bonus rate
- 21longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-04 measured return98.42%+2.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 87.8–109.1%
- rounds that paid
- 42%
- biggest round
- 195x · round 6,004
- longest dry streak
- 21
- natural bonuses
- 46 · one per 217 rounds
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,684
- deepest drawdown
- 713x
02run Run 022026-09-21 lab note measured return102.30%+6.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 90.7–113.9%
- rounds that paid
- 41%
- biggest round
- 196x · round 1,204
- longest dry streak
- 15
- natural bonuses
- 52 · one per 192 rounds
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 100,460
- deepest drawdown
- 855x
Second run, seventeen days after the first: the return went from 98.42% to 102.30%, both above the 96.0% profile, and the 90.7–113.9% band holds it. Money Respins came slightly more often, 55 against 50, and paid more, 45x against 42x on average; free spins arrived 52 times against 46, averaging 37x a round against 36x, with four retriggers against two; still no jackpot in 105 respins.
03run Run 032026-09-29 lab note measured return99.56%+3.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 88.9–110.3%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 267x · round 3,698
- longest dry streak
- 14
- natural bonuses
- 61 · one per 164 rounds
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,913
- deepest drawdown
- 470x
Run number three, on 29 September, returned 99.56% after 98.42% on 4 September and 102.30% on 21 September; the three-run total is 100.09% over 30,000 spins, above the 96.0% profile. Money Respins came 51 times against 50 and 55 and, for the first time in 156 of them, one carried the 100x Major tag, on round 360; free spins came more often, 61 against 46 and 52, but paid less, 26.85x on average against 35.65x and 36.68x, with six rounds of empty free spins against six and three.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-04, 2026-09-21, 2026-09-29): 30000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.0%); every request and response logged.
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
5 questions · answered from the logWhich pays more in Wolf Gold, the respins or the free spins?
Per trigger the respins, 43.99x on average against 32.61x for a free-spin round, and with a far tighter spread: 18x to 135x against 1x to 266.6x. Over 30,000 spins the respins returned 22.9% of all winnings and the free-spin rounds 17.3%; ordinary line wins and scatter pays carried the rest.
Has the Major jackpot ever paid in these runs?
Yes. Ten moons locked on round 360 of run three, the only time the Major paid: one of them was the Major tag worth 100x, and the pot closed at USD 270, 135 stakes, the largest respin in 156. The Mega needs all 15 positions filled and has not appeared; the best pots before round 360 were 69x in run one and 75x in run two.
Can the Wolf Gold features be bought?
No: no purchase button and no ante toggle, so both features arrive only from the reels. Over three runs a respin came about every 192 spins and a free-spin round every 189, and the longest waits for a trigger were 734, 902 and 681 spins.
Why would five free spins pay zero?
Reels 2, 3 and 4 spin as one 3×3 block, and if it never matches reel 1 across the five spins the free spins credit nothing: that happened 15 times in 159 rounds over three runs, six of them in run three. When the block lines up, the same five spins paid 264.8x on round 3698 of run three, 266.6x with the trigger spin.
What did run three add to the Wolf Gold series?
A jackpot and a lower feature average: 61 free-spin rounds against 46 and 52 paid 26.85x on average against 35.65x and 36.68x, while 51 Money Respins paid 44.55x on average with the 135x Major pot at the top. The return, 99.56%, sat between the first two runs' 98.42% and 102.30%, and the pooled figure moved from 100.36% to 100.09%.
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