Pragmatic Play: 820 Games, Published RTPs and the Lower Builds

Conditions on the Pragmatic Play shelf: crowded, with clear sight of the studio’s own figures and poor sight of which version a lobby actually runs. PHSKY lists 820 Pragmatic Play games under a single PP card, 661 in the Slots lane and 159 in Live, in the catalogue it serves to logged-out visitors. Pragmatic publishes one RTP for each title. Read that figure as the ceiling: most Pragmatic slots exist in three builds, and the casino picks which one to run.

Pragmatic Play on the PP card: reading the counts

The card face and the list behind it disagree slightly: the slot card prints 651 and the live card 156, while the game lists return 661 and 159. Go by the list, since the card figure lags behind it.

Eight titles from this shelf have their own reports on this site, each built from Pragmatic’s published numbers:

From calm to stormy by volatility label: Wolf Gold is medium, Sweet Bonanza medium to high, four titles high, and the two 1000 editions very high. For the gentler end of the range, start with Wolf Gold or the way Sweet Bonanza pays on clusters. Every other studio on the lobby is mapped in the slot games overview.

What Pragmatic publishes, and the fine print

1. One RTP per title, the highest one. Lower builds sit beneath that top figure; Gates of Olympus 1000 has two (95.51%, 94.50%), as does Sweet Bonanza 1000 (95.52%, 94.51%).
2. A wide spread on one classic. Independent records put the lowest Sweet Bonanza build at roughly 89%, so two sites quoting two figures may be running two different games.
3. Volatility and maximum win are printed for every title, and this site’s tables copy them as printed.
4. Regulators: Britain’s Gambling Commission and Malta’s gaming regulator both list the studio on their public registers. Gibraltar is its base, and 2015 its founding year.
5. Testing houses it cites: Quinel, GLI and Gaming Associates.

Pragmatic’s own catalogue runs wider than this lobby shows. Its own list of specialisms adds bingo, crash titles and virtual sports to the reels and dealer tables, while the PP card here fills just two lanes, Slots and Live. If a Pragmatic bingo or crash title is what you came for, the lane list tells you at a glance that it is absent.

The rules screen inside a Pragmatic game states the RTP of the build that loaded, and that is the only number that applies to your session. Read it once per title. The high RTP slots comparison uses the same published top figures, so the same check carries over.

Look-alike titles: read the whole name

Pragmatic sells whole families, and the numbers in the table belong to the named original only.

• Gates of Olympus: six entries, counting the plain title, the 1000 and 2500, POP, Super Scatter and an Xmas 1000.
• Sweet Bonanza: six as well: plain, 1000, 2500, Xmas, POP and Super Scatter.
• Starlight Princess: the original, 1000, Super Scatter and Pachi; Starlight Princess set against Olympus covers the original.
• The Dog House: seven entries, from Megaway to Royal Hunt and Multihold.
• Big Bass: more than 30 titles carry the name; the original Big Bass Bonanza collect round is the one reported here.

On the live side, the 159 tables include numbered Speed Baccarat rooms, Mega Wheel, Mega Roulette 3000, Sweet Bonanza Candyland and Color Game Bonanza. Those are dealer-run games, and each table’s help panel carries its own payout rules.