Pragmatic Play Slots, Tested on Our Own Logs

What we learned

• Lava Balls holds the top rating. An 8.1/10, a 708.92x best round closed by an 85-ball drop, and the third busiest feature clock of the shelf at one round per 120 spins.
• Juicy Fruits holds the record round. A crown four cells square in the free spins paid 1,373.56 bets on the thirteenth spin of our log, the largest complete round on this portal, and the other 2,671 spins of that log returned 102.15% on their own stakes.
• Alien Invaders had the liveliest base game. Between 33.75% and 35.67% of spins paid something in all three logged runs, an unusually high contact rate for this volatility class.
• Sweet Rush Bonanza ran the longest silence. One log waited 1,927 spins between features, and the game's best base-game single, a 341.4x chain, outpaid its best complete bonus round.
• Floating Dragon's top rung stayed empty. The multiplier trail climbs to x10, and across 44 finished rounds in three logs the pool never saw it. The best round, 238.7x, came at x2.
• Big Bass Bonanza 1000 collected its thousand once. A 1,000x money fish reached the board on nine of 880 pooled free spins and a wild was there for one, in a sister log, and the round it sat in paid 1,141.8 bets; the x10 badge of its bar never lit.
• Rabbit Garden's ladder stopped one rung short. Eleven rounds across three logs reached level 4 once and level 5 never, and the game's own paytable priced most base-game hits below the stake.
• Running Sushi showed its money and served a sliver of it. The conveyor under its reels displayed 25.6 bets a spin in our log and paid on one spin in 138, every one of its eleven portal rounds closed with a sum on the free spins meter and only one paid it out, and no plate above 300x reached the belt in 5,938 pooled spins.
• Big Bass Halloween 2 drew its cards and kept its fish. Its pool of three logs closed at 79.69%, the coldest on this page, its 36 rounds came one per 137 spins and eleven of them started on x2 by the draw, no round reached the x10 rung, and five base-game boards across the three logs showed the 5,000x fish, which no symbol collects there.
• Printed figures, nine different endings. All nine games print their RTP in the rules, 96.50% on three of them, 96.71% on Floating Dragon and Big Bass Halloween 2, 96.05% on Rabbit Garden, 96.51% on two and 96.00% on Running Sushi, and the headline figures of their nine reviews, seven pools of three ledgers, one two-ledger pool and one single session, run from 79.69% to 143.47%. A spread that wide is the finding, not a verdict on the maths.

The ledger so far

Pooled return is the arithmetic on each pool's stakes and returns. For Lava Balls the sessions ran at different stakes, so its pool is weighted by money rather than by spins. Sweet Rush Bonanza's best single hit was a 341.4x base-game chain, larger than its best complete feature round. The table lists complete rounds only, with singles noted in the reviews. Sources and per-session figures sit in each linked review, next to the screenshots that anchor them. The Floating Dragon portal log closed with one round open, so its 65.16% and the 90.96% pool are the returns credited by the close of each log, as that review explains.

* Rabbit Garden is listed on the portal session only. Of its two sister logs, one mixed two stakes and rounds its balances, and the other prints no return percentage, so a pooled figure would be invented rather than measured. Both logs, 961 and 1,024 spins with three rounds between them, are quoted in the review beside ours, and the 250x best is the best complete round across all three.

** Juicy Fruits pools two ledgers, ours and the juicyfruitscasino.com log, 4,401 paid spins between them. The network's second site publishes a 1,711-spin session that matches no ledger on file with the team, so its 77.79% is quoted in the review as published and left out of the pool. The 1,373.56x best is the first round of the portal session.

*** Running Sushi pools three ledgers, ours, the runningsushislot.net log and a second June log of the SlotLab testing team that no network site publishes, 5,938 paid spins between them. The network's second site publishes a 1,440-spin session that matches no ledger on file with the team, so its figures are quoted in the review as published and left out of the pool. The 276.9x best is the second round of the portal session.

Big Bass Halloween 2 lists its 36 completed rounds; the portal log left its tenth round open on its final paid spin, taking the pool to 37 triggers, so the clock counts the 36. Floating Dragon's 45 counts triggers, one of them left open at the close of its portal log, as its review explains.

Ratings come from the review rubric, not from the results. Seven criteria cover mechanics, provider transparency, marketing honesty, base-game liveliness, bonus structure, feature behaviour confirmed by the logs, and the readability of ante and buy prices. How much a session happened to win or lose is not one of them.

What four pools can and cannot say

Three of the four pooled games print the same stated figure, 96.50%, the fourth prints 96.71%, and the four pools came back at 88.85%, 90.96%, 94.63% and 113.98%. The spread between those four endings is the honest headline of this page. A few thousand spins per game is enough to describe temperament, trigger spacing and the shape of the paytable in motion. It is nowhere near enough to audit a long-run average, whichever direction it leans. The twelve sessions behind these pools returned everything from 65.16% to 121.29%, and every one of those endings is an ordinary outcome at this sample size.

The chart is the original four-game comparison, twelve sessions; the games added since are not plotted.

Twelve sessions of 1,170 to 2,975 spins each, plotted against the 96.50% that three of the four games print; Floating Dragon prints 96.71%. Samples this short are supposed to scatter, and the chart makes the width of that scatter visible. Green dots closed above the printed figure, red dots below, and the black bars mark each game's pooled return.

The table therefore answers a narrower question than the one most players ask. It doesn't tell you whether Pragmatic Play's maths sheets are truthful; certified test labs handle that. It tells you what three real sittings of each game looked like under one fixed protocol: flat stakes, natural triggers, every spin logged, the arithmetic published next to its source. My reading of the four pools together: one ran hot, one ran mildly cold, two ran properly cold, which is an ordinary spread for samples of this length.

Juicy Fruits joined in September 2026 with two ledgers, 152.84% here and 131.75% on the sister log, 143.47% by money, and the chart above predates it and is left as drawn. One round on the thirteenth spin of our log paid 1,373.56 bets, and the other 2,671 spins of that log returned 102.15% on their own stakes.

Big Bass Bonanza 1000 joined in October 2026 with three ledgers, 79.18% here and 149.16% and 129.02% on the sister logs, 111.84% by money, and it too is left off the chart. One sister round collected the title's 1,000x fish and paid 1,141.8 bets; without it that log returned 84.26% on its other 1,757 spins.

Running Sushi joined in October 2026 with three ledgers, 85.02% here, 122.34% on the published sister log and 66.20% on a second log of the team, 90.32% by money, and it too is left off the chart. One Take All collection on the fifth free spin of its second portal round paid 434.00 of that round's 553.80, and all eleven of its portal rounds closed with a meter nobody emptied, since only one Take All came in the log.

Big Bass Halloween 2 joined in November 2026 with three ledgers, 91.47% here and 81.26% and 67.07% on the sister logs, 79.69% by money, the coldest pool on the page, and it too is left off the chart. The 274.6x round of the portal session opened on x2 by the card draw and retriggered once; without it the pool returned 74.15% on its other 4,941 spins.

The house style, as the logs read it

Nine games are a small shelf, but the same habits kept surfacing in the logs, and they're worth naming.

The frequency story has no printed number to lean on in this studio's rules. None of the nine games prints an expected feature rate anywhere in its rules. Alien Invaders was quoted here at one per 207 spins, a figure we could not trace to its build or to the studio's page. Across its pool of 6,196 spins the feature arrived at one trigger per 167. Where a studio does publish its expectations, we will always quote them next to ours.

Five rows now tell a second story, about the top of a ladder. Floating Dragon's trail has four rungs, Rabbit Garden's meter has five levels, Juicy Fruits' crown has four sizes above the first, Big Bass Bonanza 1000's bar has three badges and Big Bass Halloween 2 carries the same three behind a card draw, and in all five the top rung is the one the logs never reached. Across 44 finished Floating Dragon rounds the x10 rung never arrived, across eleven Rabbit Garden rounds the 10x level never arrived, across 22 Juicy Fruits rounds the crown reached its fourth size once and its fifth never, and across 61 Big Bass Bonanza 1000 rounds the x3 badge lit five times and the x10 badge never, and across 36 Big Bass Halloween 2 rounds the x3 rung came four times, eleven rounds began on x2 by a card, and x10 never arrived. The rungs a round actually reaches decide far more than the top rung ever did in our logs. Expect that pattern from this studio's ladder games until a log says otherwise.

Ante bets and bonus buys

All nine games sell shortcuts, and the price list reads like a menu. Alien Invaders offers an Ante Bet at plus 25% per spin and a buy menu topped by a Super option. Sweet Rush Bonanza prices its Ante Bet at triple the stake and its buys at 100x and 500x, while Lava Balls sells its feature at a flat 100x. Floating Dragon runs an ante at 15x the base bet with the buy switched off, or a buy at 100x with the ante off. Rabbit Garden sells its free spins at 100x, with four to seven scatters on the entry spin, and Juicy Fruits sells the same round at 100x beside an ante at a fifth over the stake that doubles the chance of a natural trigger, in the rules' words, the two switches never on together. Big Bass Bonanza 1000 prices its ante at half a stake above the base bet, its Free Spins at 100x and a Super Free Spins at 450x that raises the chance of its 1,000x fish by an amount the rules never state, and there too the ante and the buys exclude each other. Running Sushi prices its ante at a quarter over the stake, a bet multiplier of 25 against 20 that doubles the natural trigger chance in the rules' words, and its buy at 85x, the cheapest buy on this page, with the two switches exclusive as well. Big Bass Halloween 2 has the shortest menu here, one buy at 100x and no ante bet at all. None of the 298 feature triggers in our logs was bought, and none will be. Every trigger arrived naturally at a flat stake, because a purchased feature answers a different question than the one our protocol asks. The buy menus are documented in each review with their prices; what they cost is printed on screen, and what they return is exactly as unsettled as the game they skip.

Where to try the games

All nine titles run as playable provider demos on our demo hub, launched from the same public addresses our sessions ran on, with a virtual balance. The full session tables, rules breakdowns and screenshots sit in the reviews: Lava Balls, Alien Invaders, Sweet Rush Bonanza, Floating Dragon: Year of the Snake, Rabbit Garden, Juicy Fruits, Big Bass Bonanza 1000, Running Sushi and Big Bass Halloween 2, the newest of the nine, with its own demo page and rules page. The protocol behind every number here, stake rules and source order included, lives on the methodology page. Age limits don't move for free play, and 18+ applies everywhere on this site. Three of the nine run cascades and six run free spins ladders, and each family has a page of its own, cascade slots and free spins ladders.