Pragmatic Play · 2023 · tested 2026-10-15
Zeus vs Hades - Gods of War
In the opening run of the Zeus vs Hades demo, one final free spin paid USD 4,270 after three sticky Olympus reels locked, and the review logged that feature at 3,231.3x.
- RTP measured / declared 104.8% 96.05%
- Hit frequency 15%
- Max win · no bonus 2,400x
- Bonus buy · mean result 75x · 1.15x
- Free spins, natural 241 / 50,000
- Bonus frequency 4.8 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 104.8% against 96.05% declared over 50,000 logged rounds in 5 runs; 14.5% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 207 rounds (241 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 3.1x the stake, mean 95.4x, trigger spin included; 250 bonus buys at 75x returned 1.15x of their price on average, 78% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 5,293.0x; the longest dry run was 55 spins.
Test card
50,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 50,000 · 5 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.05% |
| RTP measured | 104.77% (approximate 95% CI 71.9–137.6) |
| Hit frequency | 15% · every 6.9 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 55 / 6.86 |
| Median hit | 0.60x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 2,400.0x · run 2, round 5148 |
| Free spins, natural | 241 · 4.8 bHz · every 207.5 spins · mean bonus round payout 95.4x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 104,770 |
- 012026-09-1110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓107.08%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓190.54%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-10-0510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓80.02%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 042026-10-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓67.66%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 052026-10-1510,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓78.56%RTP5 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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Bonus buy lab
250 buys × 75x · USD 150 eachmean 1.15x · median 0.264× price (USD 39.60) · 195 of 250 below price · best 26.73x · worst 0.00x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10 / 10–10 |
| Extended | 0.0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 8% |
Olympus has ten fixed free spins, with no temple Scatters on its bonus reels. All 241 natural features and 250 standard purchases across five runs ran exactly ten spins; none was extended.
- Spent
- USD 37,500250 × USD 150
- Returned
- USD 43,081.40114.88% · approximate 95% CI 78–151%
- Net
- +USD 5,581.40+37.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 55 / 25022%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 38 / 25015%
- Price in base spins
- 75natural trigger every ~208 spins
One ticket equals 75 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 208 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 the 5 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 57 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 138 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 381 |
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
Olympus is the blue, high-volatility side of Zeus vs Hades; the red Hades setting raises the stated volatility to very high and changes the standard purchase price. Olympus stayed selected throughout every test run, including the standard purchases, so the results describe one mode rather than a comparison of the two.
The board is unusually tall for a fixed-line game: five reels show five symbols apiece, crossed by fifteen paylines, and winning symbols must connect along a line from the leftmost reel. Zeus heads the ordinary symbols, then Pegasus and the eagle, followed by helmets, goblets and card ranks. The WILD word can substitute in those combinations; the lightning emblem has a separate expansion effect.
In ordinary play, a lightning emblem fills its reel when that expansion would produce a win. The resulting wild reel receives a factor from 2x to 10x, or 20x, 25x, 50x or 100x. Each paying line uses the factors on the wilds it passes through, adding them when it crosses several. A 4x reel beside a 10x reel would therefore give that line 14x, provided both belong to its winning combination; multipliers elsewhere on the screen contribute nothing to that line.
Three temples open ten free spins; they must occupy the first, third and fifth reels. Lightning emblems arriving during the feature expand and stay for the remaining spins, with their assigned multipliers. A reel that locks early can help on several later spins, although the other positions still have to complete a paying line. The temples do not appear on the feature reels, and the ten-spin award cannot be extended.
At the USD 2 setting, normal Olympus entry cost USD 150, or 75 ordinary stakes; its Super option costs 300 stakes and guarantees an expanding wild on the first free spin. Hades lists 150 stakes for standard entry and 300 for Super, and neither Super option nor any Hades purchase entered the statistical sample. Page four of the help lists 96.05% theoretical RTP for ordinary Olympus play, 96.04% for its standard purchases and 96.01% for Olympus Super; Hades lists 96.07%, 96.14% and 96.08% for those three routes. Stakes range from USD 0.10 to USD 250 in this demo, and a round stops at 15,000x the ordinary stake with any remaining free spins cancelled.
Wild symbol
Expanding symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
6 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Three consecutive runs below 96.05%Olympus free spins have triggered 241 times in 50,000 USD 2 rounds, one per 207, and their full rounds supplied 43.9% of all pooled payouts, from 61.4% of run two's money down to 23.2% of run five's. Half of the 241 features paid 3.1 stakes or less, and twelve paid nothing, three of them in run five. The largest rounds remain run two's 5,293x and run one's 3,231.3x; run five's best screen was an ordinary one, round 2154 at USD 927, ahead of its top feature at USD 910.
Five samples of 10,000 rounds now stand at 107.08%, 190.54%, 80.02%, 67.66% and 78.56%; pooled, the 50,000 rounds returned USD 104,770.40, 104.77% (approximate 95% CI 71.90%–137.64%, a statement about the precision of this mean) against Pragmatic's 96.05%. Runs three to five together came back at 75.41%, and the pooled figure above the declared value rests on run two's round 1927, USD 10,586 from one feature: the other 49,999 rounds returned 94.19% of stake. Paying rounds held between 14.04% and 14.96% in every run, 42,751 of 50,000 rounds paid nothing, and run five set the series' longest blank stretch at 55 rounds.
Two hundred and fifty USD 150 Olympus tickets have paid USD 43,081.40, 114.88% of cost, with a USD 39.60 median, 195 tickets under their price and 19 blanks. Thirty-eight tickets doubled their price and fifteen reached five times it; the top three are run three's ticket 24 at USD 4,009, run five's ticket 7 at USD 2,420 and run two's ticket 41 at USD 1,750. Run five's batch returned 130.67%, second only to run three's 173.75%.
- Run five produced five USD 150 tickets worth USD 750 or more, the most in any batch
- One ordinary screen, round 2154 of run five, paid USD 927, 463.5 stakes with no feature
- Fifteen of 250 Olympus tickets returned five times their price, USD 4,009 the largest
- Olympus landed 56 times in run five, the highest count of the five runs
- Three straight runs stayed under 81%: 80.02%, 67.66% and 78.56%
- Twelve of 241 natural Olympus features finished at zero, three of them in run five
- Nineteen of the 250 Olympus tickets paid nothing at all
- The smallest bonus-round share of any run, 23.2%, came in run five
Run 01·2026-09-11·107.08%
Round 5632 began quietly. Its first three free spins paid USD 0.60 combined; a 25x wild reel then arrived on the fourth. A second reel joined on spin six and a third on spin nine. Going into the last spin, the feature had paid USD 2,192.60, and that final screen added USD 4,270, taking the total to USD 6,462.60, or 3,231.3 ordinary stakes.
The three locked reels carried 25x, 4x and 6x. Lines crossing all three used their sum, 35x, rather than multiplying those values together. Several such lines paid USD 700 each on the final spin. This was the decisive feature in a run that finished USD 1,415.40 ahead: it alone accounted for 30.18% of the USD 21,415.40 returned, and the other forty-two natural bonuses did not produce anything close to that amount.
Purchasing entry produced a different spread. Each of the fifty standard Olympus features cost USD 150, with a median payout of USD 41.50; twelve covered their price. Purchase two was the strongest at USD 1,056.20, while three purchases paid zero, two of them despite acquiring a sticky wild reel. Nine purchases went through all ten spins without an expanding wild at all.
The blue setting still left 8,541 ordinary rounds blank, with a longest uninterrupted run of forty zero payments. The measured 107.08% ordinary return has a broad approximate 95% interval, from 39.73% to 174.42%, around the configured 96.05%. That spread is the other face of round 5632: one final free spin supplied 19.94% of everything the ordinary series returned.
Run 02·2026-09-29·190.54%
Two features made the run: round 816 paid USD 8,360, 4,180 stakes, from its ten free spins, and round 1927 paid USD 10,586, 5,293 stakes, the biggest round of either run, out of USD 38,107.80 that the 10,000 ordinary rounds returned. Across the 51 natural features, five paid nothing, 40 finished under 20x, the median was 1.7x and only five passed 100x. Three temples arrived once per 196 spins, 5.1 bHz, with 1,364 spins between rounds 8399 and 9764 as the longest wait.
Base play added a 2,400-stake spin on round 5148, USD 4,800 from one screen, and 877.5 stakes on round 5541; 8,504 rounds paid nothing, the longest blank run lasted 43 spins from round 8429, and the 200-stake test bankroll was exhausted by spin 287, after the 50- and 100-stake ones on spins 83 and 137. The balance stood 515 stakes down on spin 746 before round 816 turned it, peaked at 11,117.6 stakes up on spin 6683 after round 6682 paid 938.6x, and the run closed at USD 118,107.80, 9,053.9 stakes ahead, 190.54% of the USD 20,000 staked, with 14.96% of spins paying and a 0.6x median hit.
The fifty standard tickets, USD 150 each in Olympus, brought back USD 8,292.60, 1.106x of price, 110.57%, on a 0.282x median, USD 42.30: 38 tickets came back below their price, 12 above it, six past 2x and four past 5x, with purchase 41 at USD 1,750, 11.667x, and purchase 6 at USD 1,008.80 at the top, while five purchases, number 14 among them, paid nothing at all.
Run 03·2026-10-05·80.02%
A late pair of Wild reels changed natural feature 3253 from USD 2.20 after nine spins to USD 2,837.20 at completion. Reel three had locked at 6x on the ninth spin; the last added reels one and four at 50x and 7x, producing USD 2,835 on that spin alone. Even with this 1,418.6x feature, the 10,000 USD 2 rounds paid USD 16,004.40, a measured return of 80.02%, with forty natural entries.
Purchase 24 finished at USD 4,009 after its last two spins paid USD 2,656 and USD 1,248. Ticket 43 returned USD 3,703.40, including USD 3,455.60 on the final spin. The fifty USD 150 purchases returned USD 13,031.60, or 173.75%, but their median was USD 49.70 and 38 failed to recover the entry price.
Run 04·2026-10-14·67.66%
Round 1746 was the only feature of this run above 300x: its last three free spins paid USD 338.40, USD 360 and USD 242.40 and lifted the feature to USD 942, 471 times the stake. Without free spins, round 6974 paid USD 935 on a single screen (467.5x), so the two largest rounds of the run finished within USD 7 of each other.
The 10,000 USD 2 rounds returned USD 13,531.80, a 67.66% RTP and the lowest of the four Zeus vs Hades runs. Fifty-one natural features arrived, one per 196 rounds, but their median was 3.1x the stake and one paid nothing; their full rounds supplied USD 3,253.20, 24.0% of payouts. Blank stretches reached 49 rounds, from 1247 to 1295, the longest in the series. The fifty USD 150 Olympus tickets returned USD 4,026.60, 53.69% of their cost: five paid nothing, 42 fell under their price, USD 26.10 was the median and ticket 16 led at USD 1,102.80.
Run 05·2026-10-15·78.56%
Round 2154 paid USD 927 on a single ordinary screen, 463.5 stakes, and none of the 56 Olympus features matched it: the best of them, round 430, reached USD 910 with USD 378 arriving on its sixth free spin. A second ordinary screen, round 4230, added USD 833. Over 10,000 USD 2 rounds the sample returned USD 15,711, a 78.56% RTP, with 8,566 blank rounds and a 55-round stretch without a payout between rounds 4465 and 4519.
Olympus triggered once per 179 rounds, 56 times, and its bonus rounds supplied USD 3,638.80, 23.2% of the money; the median feature paid 3.55 stakes, three paid nothing (rounds 7280, 7889 and 9134), and the longest wait between triggers ran 1,020 rounds, from 3958 to 4979. The fifty USD 150 tickets came back at 130.67% of cost, USD 9,800.20, with five tickets at five times their price or more. Ticket 7 alone paid USD 2,420, USD 2,060 of that on the second free spin; without it the other 49 tickets returned 100.41%, and the median ticket came to USD 28.60.
Test record
5 runs · 50,000 rounds · 250 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 5 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.
- 50,000rounds, all runs
- 15%rounds that paid
- 5,293xbiggest round
- 1 / 207natural bonus rate
- 1.15xmean of 250 buys
- 55longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-11 measured return107.08%+11.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 39.7–174.4%
- rounds that paid
- 15%
- biggest round
- 3,231x · round 5,632
- longest dry streak
- 40
- natural bonuses
- 43 · one per 233 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.06x · median 0.277x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,415
- deepest drawdown
- 1,893x
02run Run 022026-09-29 lab note measured return190.54%+94.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 47.3–333.8%
- rounds that paid
- 15%
- biggest round
- 5,293x · round 1,927
- longest dry streak
- 43
- natural bonuses
- 51 · one per 196 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.11x · median 0.282x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 118,108
- deepest drawdown
- 2,064x
Run two, on 29 September, returned 190.54% against 107.08% on 11 September, for 148.81% across both runs. The features grew at the top and thinned below: 51 triggers against 43 with an average of 229.54x against 108.85x, a median of 1.7x against 8.7x and five empty features against one, while the purchases moved from 1.057x to 1.106x of price.
03run Run 032026-10-05 lab note measured return80.02%-16.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 45.2–114.9%
- rounds that paid
- 14%
- biggest round
- 1,419x · round 3,253
- longest dry streak
- 48
- natural bonuses
- 40 · one per 250 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.74x · median 0.331x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 96,004
- deepest drawdown
- 3,079x
This Olympus sample returned 80.02% in ordinary play and added forty natural features. Its two largest purchase payouts exceeded the previous ticket record, lifting the fifty-ticket return to 173.75%.
04run Run 042026-10-14 lab note measured return67.66%-28.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 49.8–85.5%
- rounds that paid
- 15%
- biggest round
- 471x · round 1,746
- longest dry streak
- 49
- natural bonuses
- 51 · one per 196 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.54x · median 0.174x · 84% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 93,532
- deepest drawdown
- 3,234x
Ordinary-play RTP fell from 80.02% in run three to 67.66% in run four even though natural features rose from 40 to 51; their bonus rounds paid USD 3,253.20 against USD 6,303.80. Purchases returned 53.69% against 173.75%, with 42 rather than 38 tickets below price.
05run Run 052026-10-15 lab note measured return78.56%-17.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 57.8–99.3%
- rounds that paid
- 14%
- biggest round
- 464x · round 2,154
- longest dry streak
- 55
- natural bonuses
- 56 · one per 179 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.31x · median 0.191x · 78% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 95,711
- deepest drawdown
- 2,545x
Run five's ordinary play returned 78.56%, the third run in a row under 96.05% after 80.02% and 67.66%, with 56 Olympus features, the most of any run, paying a 32.49-stake mean, the second-lowest of the five. Purchases recovered to 130.67% of cost from run four's 53.69%, and ticket 7's USD 2,420 is the second-largest ticket of the five batches.
5 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-11, 2026-09-29, 2026-10-05, 2026-10-14, 2026-10-15): 50,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 250 bonus buys at USD 150 each (75x); mode: Olympus (high volatility), standard free spins; recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.05%); 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
6 questions · answered from the logWhere does Zeus vs Hades's measured RTP stand after run five?
The pooled figure is 104.77% over 50,000 USD 2 rounds, USD 104,770.40 paid on USD 100,000, against Pragmatic's 96.05%. Three of the five runs finished under 81%, run three at 80.02%, run four at 67.66% and run five at 78.56%; run two's 190.54% keeps the pooled figure above the declared value.
Did an ordinary spin really beat every Olympus feature in run five?
Yes. Round 2154 paid USD 927 from one screen with no free spins, and round 4230 another USD 833; the best of the 56 features, round 430, finished at USD 910, USD 378 of it on its sixth spin.
Which batch of Olympus tickets paid more, run four or run five?
The fifth batch: fifty USD 150 tickets paid USD 9,800.20, 130.67% of cost, against run four's USD 4,026.60 and 53.69%. Ticket 7 brought USD 2,420, with USD 2,060 on its second free spin, and four more tickets passed USD 750; the median stayed low at USD 28.60.
How many Olympus features have paid nothing across the five runs?
Twelve of 241. Run five added three, at rounds 7280, 7889 and 9134, to the nine logged in runs one to four; the median feature across all 241 paid 3.1 stakes.
Is the trigger rate changing from run to run?
No. The counts ran 43, 51, 40, 51 and 56 features per 10,000 rounds, one per 207 rounds overall; run five's 56 is the highest, yet its bonus rounds paid USD 3,638.80, 23.2% of that run's money, the smallest share of the five.
At its driest, how long did run five go without a payout?
Fifty-five rounds, from round 4465 to 4519, the longest blank stretch of all five runs; between Olympus triggers the longest wait was 1,020 rounds, from 3958 to 4979, while the series record stays at run two's 1,364.
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