Session Report FDS-20260809-01: One Floating Dragon Run, Checkpoints and Bonus Rounds
A cold session is worth publishing, because it shows what the maths actually hands a player on an ordinary evening. Below sits the checkpoint record of FDS-20260809-01, the run behind our Floating Dragon: Year of the Snake review: 1,739 spins, the checkpoints read from the ledger, every completed Free Spins round, five frames from the archive, and the arithmetic that ties the 65.16% return to a closing balance anyone can check.
This one finished a long way down, and that is exactly why it belongs on the record, printed in order.
What these numbers are, and what they are not
Session passport
The arithmetic that has to close
The publishing test does not care how the session felt: the start, minus everything staked, plus everything returned, must equal the final balance on the screen.
It closes to the cent, which is the standard every session on this site has to meet before a single number leaves it.
Balance curve, read from the ledger
The curve traces the recorded balance at every thirtieth spin plus the start and the close; it does not interpolate between readings. The dotted line marks the 100,000.00 start. The run peaked early and never recovered the ground it gave back.
Checkpoint table, in full
Every logged checkpoint of the session, each read from the ledger at the listed spin: the first spin, all thirteen round openings, three scheduled midpoints, the peak and the close. A round row shows the balance once the triggering spin's stake had left it, before the round paid; the first row shows the balance once the first stake had left it; every other row shows the balance once the listed spin had settled.
| # | Spin | Balance | Net vs start | Moment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 99,998.00 | −2.00 | Spin 1, after its stake |
| 2 | 348 | 99,523.40 | −476.60 | Round 1 opens |
| 3 | 408 | 99,494.00 | −506.00 | Round 2 opens |
| 4 | 443 | 99,537.20 | −462.80 | Round 3 opens |
| 5 | 443 | 100,014.60 | +14.60 | Scheduled midpoint |
| 6 | 489 | 99,944.00 | −56.00 | Round 4 opens |
| 7 | 489 | 100,110.00 | +110.00 | Session peak |
| 8 | 709 | 99,821.80 | −178.20 | Round 5 opens |
| 9 | 746 | 99,835.60 | −164.40 | Round 6 opens |
| 10 | 747 | 99,872.40 | −127.60 | Round 7 opens |
| 11 | 841 | 99,788.80 | −211.20 | Scheduled midpoint |
| 12 | 859 | 99,754.80 | −245.20 | Round 8 opens |
| 13 | 877 | 99,833.80 | −166.20 | Round 9 opens |
| 14 | 911 | 99,851.00 | −149.00 | Round 10 opens |
| 15 | 1,133 | 99,576.60 | −423.40 | Round 11 opens |
| 16 | 1,280 | 99,404.60 | −595.40 | Scheduled midpoint |
| 17 | 1,520 | 99,087.80 | −912.20 | Round 12 opens |
| 18 | 1,739 | 98,788.40 | −1,211.60 | Round 13 opens, left open at the close |
| 19 | 1,739 | 98,788.40 | −1,211.60 | Final checkpoint |
The session peak of 100,110.00 arrived early, around spin 489, and stood for the rest of the run.
Bonus registry, the 12 completed rounds
Every Free Spins round that played to a finish, in order, all triggered by scatters and none bought. This session logged a thirteenth trigger on its final spin, and the log closed after two of that round's ten free spins, with 14.00 on the round meter and nothing credited to the balance; it is not in the table, and its 14.00 is in no figure on this site. Round payouts are measured as the balance change banked when each round settled. The twelve figures reconcile against the session ledger, and together with the base-game wins they sum to the session's total return.
| Round | Trigger spin | Round payout | Payout ×bet |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 348 | 70.80 | 35.4x |
| 2 | 408 | 88.80 | 44.4x |
| 3 | 443 | 477.40 | 238.7x |
| 4 | 489 | 166.00 | 83.0x |
| 5 | 709 | 78.40 | 39.2x |
| 6 | 746 | 38.80 | 19.4x |
| 7 | 747 | 27.20 | 13.6x |
| 8 | 859 | 106.00 | 53.0x |
| 9 | 877 | 64.40 | 32.2x |
| 10 | 911 | 117.80 | 58.9x |
| 11 | 1,133 | 30.00 | 15.0x |
| 12 | 1,520 | 68.00 | 34.0x |
| 12 rounds | 1,333.60 | collected in Free Spins | |
Free Spins collections total 1,333.60. Base-game line wins add 932.80, and 1,333.60 + 932.80 = 2,266.40, the session's total return that closes the invariant above.
Round 3 carried what little the session had: 477.40 credits, 238.7x the bet, and the largest complete bonus round in the entire three-session pool behind the review. It ran on the second multiplier level at x2, and the collection never climbed higher in any round we logged.
Five frames from the archive
The archive behind this session holds 9,315 timestamped frames. The five below sit at the moments the tables describe.
How this was logged
One sitting on 9 August 2026, launched from the same in-page link the demo shelf uses. The balance was recorded continuously, a timestamped frame of the screen was kept throughout, and after the close the totals were rebuilt from the recorded spins and set against the on-screen final; the invariant section shows the result. The stake held flat at 2.00 for the whole run, so every figure here is a clean read at one bet size. The full protocol lives on the methodology page.
The spin-by-spin log behind this page is not printed here; it is retained, and it is available on request through the contact form, as is the log of any other published session: name the game and the session ID, say where the figures will appear, and link back to the report when you publish them.
Relabelled 16 September 2026: the title and the opening of this page used to say "published in full" and "complete record". They now say what the page holds, the checkpoint record and the bonus register, and where the rest is. No figure changed.
Where these numbers live
The Floating Dragon review is built on this log and two sister sessions: the 65.16% return here, the once-per-134 trigger rate, the round table and the 238.7x best all come from the entries above. The build's rulebook sits on the Floating Dragon rules page.
The tables on this page are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence: reuse the numbers freely, with a link back to this report as the source.
Corrections and updates
- 17 September 2026. Hit frequency and the longest no-win run. The first version of this report printed 15.12%, 263 of 1,739, and a longest run of 33 spins. The 263 counted every settlement the log recorded, and 31 of them settled at 0.00, after a base-game modifier that added nothing to the spin. Counted the way our methodology page defines the figure, paid spins that returned anything, a triggered round included, it is 232 of 1,739, or 13.34%. The empty settlements had also been breaking the runs, and without them the longest run of paid spins that returned nothing is 47. The return, the checkpoints and the round register are unchanged.
- 18 September 2026. The round left open at the close. The last spin of the log opened a Free Spins round that never played out, and this page had said only that it was cut off and paid nothing. The passport, the note at the top, the checkpoint row and the register now say what the log holds: two of ten free spins played, 14.00 on the round meter, nothing credited, and none of it in the 65.16%. The first row is labelled by what it shows, the balance once the first stake had left it. The scheduled midpoint at spin 443, which coincides with the opening of round 3, now shows the balance once that spin had settled, 100,014.60 instead of 99,537.20, the reading the other midpoints use. No total changed.
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