Max win 5,000x: what the number really means, studio by studio
Two slots both say "max win 5,000". On the first one, that is 5,000 times your bet. On the second, it is 5,000 times the bet on a single line, which comes to 250 times your bet if you play 20 lines. Nothing on the game page warns you. We went back through how each studio publishes its figure and counted what our database of 5,031 slots contains.
By the BetsRank team · data as of 14 November 2026
5,031
published slots in our database, 3,985 of them with a max win stated as a multiple of the total bet
506
games at exactly 5,000x, the second most common value after 10,000x (578 games)
0 of 165
Amusnet games whose "per line" figure reaches 5,000x once brought back to the total bet
27
PG Soft games sharing the same 100,000x cap in the studio's official catalogue
One number, three different quantities
A max win is almost always given as a multiple of the bet: "5,000x" means the best possible spin pays 5,000 times what you staked. The catch is the word "bet". Some studios mean the total bet for the spin. Others mean the bet on one line. Others give an amount in euros, worked out for a specific stake that is not always printed next to it.
Sites that copy these figures put them all in the same column. Ours did too until autumn 2026. The result: an Amusnet game listed at "5,000x" next to a Hacksaw "5,000x", when the first is worth ten times less on ten lines. We corrected our database game by game. This is what we learned.
What a "5,000" is worth, depending on how it is published
| How the figure is published | Studio | 5,000 as a multiple of the total bet |
|---|---|---|
| x total bet | Hacksaw, Pragmatic, Play'n GO, ELK (Max Win) | 5,000x |
| x bet per line, 10 lines | Amusnet | 500x |
| x bet per line, 20 lines | Amusnet | 250x |
| x bet per line, 40 lines | Amusnet | 125x |
| €5,000 for a €75 bet | Evoplay | about 67x |
| €5,000 at a €125 max bet | Yggdrasil | 40x |
| €5,000 at a €6 max bet | Yggdrasil | about 833x |
| 5,000x contractual cap | PG Soft | 5,000x at most |
For Amusnet, the division gives the equivalent of the stated figure for one winning line. When several lines pay on the same spin, the screen can pay more, but the studio does not publish that total.
Studio by studio: where to read the right number
The rule is not to convert everything. It is to know where each studio keeps its figure, and which bet it is based on.
Amusnet: x bet per line
The official game page gives the max win as a multiple of the bet per line. Across the 165 games where we have that figure and a fixed number of lines, the median is 3,000x per line, or 125x the total bet. 133 of those games (81%) stay at 500x or below, and none reaches 5,000x. The 28 games advertised at "5,000 times the bet per line" are worth between 125x and 1,000x the total bet; 500x for the 13 that have 10 lines. In our database the max win field for these games stays empty, and the game page quotes the per-line value as it is.
Evoplay: an amount in euros, for a €75 bet
The product sheet (a PDF) gives the max win in euros, calculated for a €75 bet. Temple of Dead states €755,100, which is 10,068x. Hot Triple Sevens states €230,850, which is 3,078x. 155 of the 167 Evoplay games in our database have a €75 max bet. When the amount does not match any published multiple, as on Clash of Pirates or Forest Dreams, we do not record a cap.
Yggdrasil: an amount in euros, at the game's max bet
Yggdrasil also publishes in euros, but the reference stake is each game's maximum bet, which ranges from €6 to €125 on the titles we checked. Dividing by 100 out of habit is wrong most of the time. Vikings Go to Hell: €687,500 at €125, so 5,500x. Vikings Go Berzerk Reloaded: €1,250,000 at €50, so 25,000x. Without the max bet of the same game, the amount tells you nothing.
PG Soft: a contractual cap
PG Soft publishes a maximum exposure for each game: the most a single spin can pay, as a multiple of the total bet. It is a limit, not an observed win. In the official catalogue we reviewed in October 2026 (175 games), 27 games share the same 100,000x and 35 the same 5,000x. Lucky Neko and Mahjong Ways 2 sit at 100,000x, Fortune Tiger at 2,500x.
ELK Studios: "Max Win", never "Max exposure"
ELK's Game Data Sheet (a PDF) has two neighbouring lines. "Max Win" is the maximum win as a multiple of the bet. "Max exposure" is the most the studio will pay out, in euros. On Bompers, Max Win is 5,000x and the exposure is €500,000: reading the wrong line produces "500,000x", a hundred times too much. Older sheets give the Max Win in euros at a €100 bet: Wild Toro, €225,000, which is 2,250x.
Play'n GO: the press release, not the paytable
The game page gives no cap, and the paytable is per line. On Book of Dead, five explorer symbols pay 5,000 coins per line, which is 500x the total bet on ten lines. The real cap, 5,000x the total bet, is in the launch press release. 187 of the 463 Play'n GO games in our database have a figure; for the rest, we found no press release that states one.
Pragmatic Play: the press release
The Gates of Olympus product page gives the RTP but no max win (checked on 14 November 2026). The figure, 5,000x, is in the launch press release and the game rules. 236 of the 685 Pragmatic games with a figure sit at exactly 5,000x. The studio does use that cap a lot, but a round value shared by hundreds of games should always be checked again before you rely on it.
Hacksaw Gaming: the "Game Data" block
Every game page has a Game Data block where the max win is already a multiple of the bet: "Max win: 12,500x" for Wanted Dead or a Wild. This is the easy case: the number you see is the right one.
Elsewhere: Nolimit City writes "Max payout" as N x bet, Big Time Gaming prints "x Stake" on its max win badge, and Relax Gaming only gives its cap in marketing copy. Push Gaming publishes a "highest observed win", which changes over time. InOut Games mixes amounts and multipliers: we convert none of them without reading the original sentence.
Fifteen real games: published figure and total-bet equivalent
The published figure is the studio's. The last column is the value in our database or, for Amusnet, the per-line figure divided by the number of lines.
| Game | Studio | Published figure | Basis | Multiple of the total bet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shining Crown | Amusnet | 5,000x | x bet per line, 10 lines | 500x |
| Greek Fortune | Amusnet | 10,000x | x bet per line, 15 lines | 667x |
| 100 Super Hot | Amusnet | 1,000x | x bet per line, 100 lines | 10x |
| Temple of Dead | Evoplay | €755,100 | € for a €75 bet | 10,068x |
| Hot Triple Sevens | Evoplay | €230,850 | € for a €75 bet | 3,078x |
| Vikings Go to Hell | Yggdrasil | €687,500 | € for a €125 bet | 5,500x |
| Rainbow Ryan | Yggdrasil | €510,000 | € for a €100 bet | 5,100x |
| Vikings Go Berzerk Reloaded | Yggdrasil | €1,250,000 | € for a €50 bet | 25,000x |
| Bompers | ELK Studios | 5,000x | x total bet | 5,000x |
| Wild Toro | ELK Studios | €225,000 | € for a €100 bet | 2,250x |
| Lucky Neko | PG Soft | 100,000x | x total bet | 100,000x |
| Fortune Tiger | PG Soft | 2,500x | x total bet | 2,500x |
| Book of Dead | Play'n GO | 5,000x | x total bet | 5,000x |
| Gates of Olympus | Pragmatic Play | 5,000x | x total bet | 5,000x |
| Wanted Dead or a Wild | Hacksaw Gaming | 12,500x | x total bet | 12,500x |
Our database, studio by studio
Studios with at least 10 max win values, ordered by number of published games. The median only counts games that have a figure.
| Studio | Published games | With a max win | Median | 10,000x or more | Exactly 5,000x | How the studio publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pragmatic Play | 730 | 685 | 5,000x | 242 | 236 | launch press release |
| Play'n GO | 463 | 187 | 5,083x | 68 | 44 | launch press release |
| Red Tiger | 351 | 345 | 5,000x | 112 | 5 | — |
| Amusnet | 284 | 20 | 10,000x | 13 | 5 | x bet per line |
| BGaming | 257 | 256 | 5,000x | 73 | 56 | — |
| Betsoft | 213 | 137 | 4,860x | 50 | 8 | — |
| NetEnt | 208 | 204 | 2,200x | 38 | 6 | — |
| Endorphina | 200 | 191 | 1,800x | 12 | 2 | — |
| Wazdan | 197 | 197 | 1,500x | 3 | 7 | — |
| Hacksaw Gaming | 186 | 178 | 10,000x | 145 | 12 | "Game Data" block |
| PG Soft | 186 | 139 | 10,000x | 72 | 22 | contractual cap |
| Evoplay | 167 | 158 | 4,162x | 23 | 5 | € for a €75 bet |
| Blueprint | 161 | 112 | 10,000x | 67 | 6 | — |
| Booming | 156 | 109 | 5,000x | 26 | 22 | — |
| Yggdrasil | 148 | 130 | 6,000x | 56 | 5 | € at the game's max bet |
| Nolimit City | 141 | 140 | 20,000x | 105 | 1 | "Max payout", x bet |
| Habanero | 135 | 135 | 3,177x | 34 | 0 | — |
| Relax Gaming | 131 | 109 | 10,000x | 80 | 14 | marketing copy |
| ELK Studios | 129 | 129 | 10,000x | 108 | 11 | "Max Win", not "Max exposure" |
| Quickspin | 129 | 102 | 8,000x | 45 | 3 | — |
| Thunderkick | 99 | 97 | 7,500x | 43 | 14 | — |
| Push Gaming | 90 | 74 | 10,000x | 46 | 3 | highest observed win |
| InOut Games | 71 | 13 | 1,000x | 2 | 0 | no single convention |
| Big Time Gaming | 53 | 46 | 49,920x | 46 | 0 | "x Stake" on the badge |
| Gamebeat | 37 | 37 | 5,000x | 5 | 15 | — |
| Onlyplay | 26 | 24 | 6,842x | 10 | 3 | — |
| Playson | 23 | 23 | 1,782x | 3 | 1 | — |
10,000x and 5,000x are the two most common values, with 578 and 506 games. 1,530 of 3,985 games (38%) sit at 10,000x or more. A big number has become the norm, which makes it say less.
Medians run from 1,500x at Wazdan to 49,920x at Big Time Gaming. They describe each studio's style, not the player's odds.
1,046 of 5,031 games have no figure. That is deliberate: an empty cell is better than a guessed cap. For Amusnet, only 20 of 284 games have a total-bet figure, because the rest are published per line.
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Method
Source: BetsRank's slot table, read on 14 November 2026, read-only. 5,031 published slots from 32 studios. Live games are excluded: their odds apply to one betting spot, not to the total bet.
Measured field: the max win as a multiple of the total bet. Values come from the studios' official sources, converted with each studio's own rule. Part of them were checked one by one during our October and November 2026 reviews, which corrected gaps of up to a factor of 100.
Amusnet: the per-line figure comes from the text of our published game pages, taken from the studio's official page, then divided by the game's fixed number of lines. PG Soft: count made on the official catalogue of 175 games reviewed in October 2026.
Limits: the database changes, and these figures are frozen at 14 November 2026. A studio may publish several versions of the same game for different markets. A max win is a rare ceiling: it says nothing about hit frequency or return to player.
What this means for you
- Before comparing two max wins, check which bet they are based on. If the page talks about lines or euros, convert first.
- A cap is not a target. 5,000x is the best possible spin, and most sessions never come close. RTP and volatility tell you more about what to expect.
- Set your stake and your budget before you start the game, not after a run of spins.
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How to cite this study
BetsRank, "Max win 5,000x: what the number really means, studio by studio", 14 November 2026, https://www.betsrank.com/en/slot-max-win-study
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