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 from an 85-ball drop, and the second 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.
• 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.
• Printed figures, six different endings. All six games print their RTP in the rules, 96.50% on three of them, 96.71%, 96.05% and 96.51% on the other three, and the headline figures of their six reviews, four three-log pools, one two-ledger pool and one single session, run from 88.85% 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.

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 for a high-volatility model at this sample size.

The chart is the original four-game comparison, twelve sessions; Rabbit Garden and Juicy Fruits 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.

The house style, as the logs read it

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

The frequency story deserves one number more than the cards above give it. Alien Invaders publishes an expected feature rate near one per 207 spins, and its pool ran hotter at one per 167. None of the other five games prints an expected rate anywhere in its rules. Where a studio does publish its expectations, we will always quote them next to ours.

Three 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 and Juicy Fruits' crown has four sizes above the first, and in all three 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, and across 22 Juicy Fruits rounds the crown reached its fourth size once and its fifth never. 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 six 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. None of the 179 rounds 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 six 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 and Juicy Fruits, the newest of the six, 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 six run cascades and three run free spins ladders, and each family has a page of its own, cascade slots and free spins ladders.