How we score
The slot index

The same game does not pay the same everywhere.

A studio ships each game in several return configurations and the casino chooses one. We line up every configuration the sources list, show where they disagree, and tell you how to check yours.

6 games read 11 configurations listed 12 source readings updated 09·27
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Big Bass Bonanza Medium-high volatility · 5×3, 10 lines · max 2,100× 96.71% top configuration 2 configurations, down to 95.67% 2 sources Pragmatic Play 96.71 top RTP % Read the review The Dog House High volatility · 5×3, 20 lines · max 6,750× 96.51% top configuration 2 configurations, down to 95.51% 2 sources · they disagree Pragmatic Play 96.51 top RTP % Read the review Sweet Bonanza Medium-high volatility · 6×5, pays anywhere · max 21,100× 96.51% top configuration 1 configuration listed 2 sources · they disagree Pragmatic Play 96.51 top RTP % Read the review Sugar Rush High volatility · 7×7, cluster pays · max 5,000× 96.50% top configuration 3 configurations, down to 94.50% 1 source Pragmatic Play 96.50 top RTP % Read the review Gates of Olympus High volatility · 6×5, pays anywhere · max 5,000× 96.50% top configuration 2 configurations, down to 95.51% 3 sources Pragmatic Play 96.50 top RTP % Read the review Wolf Gold Medium volatility · 5×3, 25 lines · max 2,500× 96.01% top configuration 1 configuration listed 2 sources Pragmatic Play 96.01 top RTP % Read the review

ORDERED BY THE HIGHEST RETURN ANY SOURCE LISTS — THE CONFIGURATION YOU GET IS THE CASINO'S CHOICE

The scale

What a point of RTP is worth.

The arithmetic
96.5% AND ABOVETop configuration

What Pragmatic Play promotes. €0.50 a spin at 500 spins an hour is expected to cost about €8.75.

95.5% TO 96.4%One step down

About €2.50 more per hour at the same pace — the same game, returning less.

94.5% TO 95.4%Two steps down

About €5 more per hour than the top. Nothing on screen tells you which one you opened.

BELOW 94.5%Deep cut

Possible on some titles — SlotCatalog notes Sweet Bonanza can be set as low as 89%.

Questions

How these games were read.

Studios supply several configurations of a game and the casino chooses which to run. The artwork, features and name are identical, so nothing on screen tells a player which version they opened.

From the studio's own pages and from SlotCatalog and Casino.guru, each read on 09·27 and linked on the game's page. Where they disagree, we show every reading.

Open the game, then its rules or information screen. Pragmatic Play prints the theoretical return there. Each game page walks you through it.

The sources list 96.50%, 95.50%, 94.50% for it — 2.00 points between the top and the lowest.

The evidence

Every figure, with its source.

Each game page links every reading to where it was published, and shows how to check the return at your own casino in thirty seconds.