7 Monkeys

Q: What is the RTP of 7 Monkeys?

92.71%, the figure Pragmatic Play publishes on the official game page and which SlotCatalog confirms. That sits far below the 96.5% the studio applies to most of its titles, and many sites still copy that 96.5% across in error. On a 1 € stake, the difference amounts to roughly 3.8 cents of additional theoretical loss on every spin.

Q: What stakes does 7 Monkeys accept?

From 0.07 € to 35 € per spin. The seven-cent floor corresponds to one coin per line and lets a small balance last a very long time. The 35 € ceiling, on the other hand, is low for today's market: players used to going up to 100 € or 125 € per spin on the supplier's recent titles will find the door closed.

Q: Why do so many sites quote a 92.71% RTP for 7 Monkeys?

Because 96.5% is Pragmatic Play's house value, applied across a large part of its catalogue, and many databases fall back on it when they have not checked the game page. On 7 Monkeys the studio's own page reads 92.71%. When in doubt, the real figure is always available in the game rules, reachable from the machine's menu.

5.5/10

Release June 2015· Updated September 2026

The jungle classic Pragmatic Play released in June 2015: seven fixed lines, an official 92.71% RTP well under the house standard, and up to a hundred and fifty free spins carrying an x3 multiplier.

RTP

92.71%

Volatility

Medium

Max Win

5 000x

Grid

5x3 grid

Bonus Buy

7 lignes fixesWild singeScatter bananeJusqu’à 150 tours gratuitsMultiplicateur x1/x2/x3Pas d’achat de bonus

5.5

BetsRank Verdict

Our read of the game, based on the data the studio publishes

One number on 7 Monkeys has to be dealt with before anything else: 92.71%. That is not a transcription error, it is the figure Pragmatic Play prints on its own game page. The studio built its name on 96.5% machines, and plenty of databases still copy that 96.5% onto this title out of habit. It is wrong. The gap is not cosmetic either: on a 1 € stake, the theoretical loss per spin goes from roughly 3.5 cents to nearly 7.3 cents. That is double, spin after spin. Part of the explanation is the date. 7 Monkeys came out in June 2015, in the studio's earliest batch, back when a slot was still sold on a free spin count rather than on a win cap. The build is correspondingly plain: five reels, three rows, seven fixed lines, a monkey that substitutes for everything but the banana, and a banana that opens the bonus. No tumbles, no climbing multiplier, no expanding grid. None of what became the supplier's signature three years later. The hook is the free spin counter, and on paper it is startling: three bananas pay fifty spins, four pay a hundred, five pay a hundred and fifty, with multipliers of x1, x2 and x3 respectively. A hundred and fifty free spins is a figure you will struggle to find anywhere else. The catch is that it has to be measured against seven lines. A single free spin on this grid is worth very little on its own, and the round plays out as attrition, over a sequence that can take a solid quarter of an hour on screen. This is not the same product as a short high-variance bonus: it is long, slow accumulation, and you have to enjoy that. The honest counterweight is that the game does not lie about its rhythm. Low-to-medium volatility, a 0.07 € floor stake, frequent modest line wins: a session of 7 Monkeys does not collapse, it wears down gently. For a player looking to stretch a small balance while watching combinations land, the mechanic works. For anyone chasing a ceiling there is nothing here — and nobody knows exactly where that ceiling sits, since databases publish anything from 4,500x to 7,500x and Pragmatic Play has never settled the question. What remains is a 2015 machine sitting in the same lobbies as 2025 releases, with a return figure that belongs to another era. The jungle artwork is tidy, the soundtrack is not irritating, and that is close to the full list of things in its favour.

Strengths

+Up to 150 free spins with an x3 multiplier: no other Pragmatic Play title reaches that counter
+Low-to-medium volatility means line wins land often and the balance erodes slowly
+A 0.07 € floor stake, which lets a small bankroll last a very long time
+Free spins retrigger from inside the round, with no limit published by the studio
+Seven fixed lines and only two special symbols: the rules read in thirty seconds

To consider

−An official RTP of 92.71%, close to four points under Pragmatic Play's house standard
−Those hundred and fifty free spins run on seven lines, so each one returns very little
−No modern mechanic at all — no tumbles, no progressive multiplier, no bonus buy
−The maximum win is published nowhere: databases range from 4,500x to 7,500x with no agreement
−The stake ceiling is stuck at 35 € per spin, closing the game to larger bets
−2015 presentation that shows its age next to the supplier's current catalogue

7 Monkeys: seven lines, a hundred and fifty spins and an RTP of its own

7 Monkeys was released in June 2015 and belongs to the very first wave of the Pragmatic Play catalogue, a period when the Maltese studio still built its range on classic machines rather than the tumbling grids that would make its name. The theme is a stylised jungle, with differently coloured monkeys as high symbols, bananas, and a saturated green foliage backdrop. The grid fits in one sentence: five reels, three rows, seven fixed paylines. The number seven runs through everything, right down to the title, and it dictates the rest. Seven lines is not many: base wins arrive often but stay small, and no combination can form outside those seven tracks. The stake range runs from 0.07 € to 35 € per spin, set through the coin value and the number of coins committed to each line. Two special symbols cover the entire mechanic. The monkey wild substitutes for any symbol except the scatter and pays its own combinations when it lines up. The banana acts as the scatter: it counts wherever it lands on the grid, with no line requirement, and it is what opens the game's only feature. That feature is the real selling point of 7 Monkeys. Three bananas trigger fifty free spins, played with an x1 multiplier applied to wins. Four bananas push the counter to a hundred spins and the multiplier to x2. Five bananas, the maximum the grid allows, award a hundred and fifty free spins with an x3 multiplier on every win in the round. Scatters landed during the free spins retrigger a fresh series that adds to the running counter, with no limit announced by the supplier. The thing that sets this game apart from most of the Pragmatic Play catalogue is its return figure: 92.71%, as published by the studio on its own page. Almost every machine in the range runs around 96.5%, and a gap of nearly four points genuinely changes what a session costs. Many sites still copy 96.5% onto this title by reflex; the value shown in the game rules is what counts, and it does read 92.71%. There is no bonus buy: the option did not yet exist at the supplier in 2015. Nor is there an official win cap, which was standard practice at the time, and databases publish contradictory values on that point, ranging from 4,500x to 7,500x the stake. 7 Monkeys therefore stays a niche game: a simple machine, slow to burn through a balance, built for long sessions at small stakes, whose main claim to fame is a free spin counter no other game in the studio's range has matched since.

How 7 Monkeys works

▸A 5x3 grid with seven fixed paylines: the stake spreads across seven tracks only, which mechanically caps how large any single win can be.
▸Monkey wild: it substitutes for every symbol except the banana scatter and forms its own paying combinations on a line.
▸Banana scatter: three bananas anywhere on the grid open the free spins round, with no line requirement.
▸Three bonus tiers: 3 scatters award 50 spins at an x1 multiplier, 4 scatters award 100 spins at x2, 5 scatters award 150 spins at x3.
▸Retrigger: fresh scatters landed during the free spins add another series to the running counter.
▸A stake range of 0.07 € to 35 € per spin, set by the coin value and the number of coins staked per line.
▸No bonus buy: the title dates from 2015, before Pragmatic Play added that option to its catalogue.

The game in pictures

Screenshots of the actual game, not promotional art — every screen is described from what it shows.

7 Monkeys — The base game — The base game runs on 5 reels across 3 rows, filled with nothing but monkey faces. The WILD mandrills here hold reels 1 and 5 top to bottom, at a displayed bet of $2.10.

7 Monkeys — Game rules — Paytable at a $2.10 bet: five golden monkeys pay $45.00, the green and blue ones $15.00, the orange and pink ones $4.50. The banana SCATTER awards 50, 100 or 150 Free Spins for 3, 4 or 5 symbols.

7 Monkeys — How to play — The HOW TO PLAY page describes the interface: the chevron button cycles through normal speed, quick spin and turbo spin, and clicking the CREDIT and BET labels switches the display between coins view and cash view.

7 Monkeys — Settings menu — The SETTINGS MENU is limited to four entries — INTRO SCREEN, AMBIENT, SOUND FX and GAME HISTORY — and the bet menu is adjusted through the COINS PER LINE and COIN VALUE fields.

7 Monkeys — Autoplay — The AUTOPLAY page, last of the five, explains that automatic spins start by clicking their number and that the SKIP SCREENS option skips the feature introduction and end screens.

❓Frequently asked questions about 7 Monkeys

What is the RTP of 7 Monkeys?▾

92.

71%, the figure Pragmatic Play publishes on the official game page and which SlotCatalog confirms. That sits far below the 96. 5% the studio applies to most of its titles, and many sites still copy that 96. 5% across in error. On a 1 € stake, the difference amounts to roughly 3. 8 cents of additional theoretical loss on every spin.

How many free spins can 7 Monkeys award?▾

Three banana scatters award fifty free spins with an x1 multiplier, four bananas award a hundred with x2, and five bananas award a hundred and fifty with x3.

Fresh scatters landed during the round retrigger an additional series. It is the most generous free spin counter in the whole Pragmatic Play catalogue.

Does a hundred and fifty free spins mean a big win?▾

Not mechanically.

The grid carries only seven paylines, so each free spin taken on its own returns little. The round builds its result through accumulation, over a sequence that can run a good fifteen minutes. A short ten-spin bonus on a high-variance game produces far more scattered outcomes than these hundred and fifty spins.

What is the maximum win on 7 Monkeys?▾

Pragmatic Play publishes no official cap for this title, which was common on 2015 releases.

Databases diverge sharply: some quote 4,500x the stake, others 7,500x, and several print "150x" by mistake, confusing the cap with the free spin count. BetsRank flags this value as unresolved.

What is the volatility of 7 Monkeys?▾

Low to medium.

Line combinations land regularly, the amounts stay small, and the balance erodes gradually rather than dropping. That fits the structure: seven fixed lines, no multiplier in the base game, and a bonus that pays through volume rather than through peaks.

What stakes does 7 Monkeys accept?▾

From 0.

07 € to 35 € per spin. The seven-cent floor corresponds to one coin per line and lets a small balance last a very long time. The 35 € ceiling, on the other hand, is low for today's market: players used to going up to 100 € or 125 € per spin on the supplier's recent titles will find the door closed.

Does 7 Monkeys offer a bonus buy?▾

No.

The game came out in June 2015, several years before Pragmatic Play made the feature buy a standard option. Free spins can only be obtained by landing three or more bananas on the grid, at whatever pace chance allows.

Why do so many sites quote a 92.71% RTP for 7 Monkeys?▾

Because 96.

5% is Pragmatic Play's house value, applied across a large part of its catalogue, and many databases fall back on it when they have not checked the game page. On 7 Monkeys the studio's own page reads 92. 71%. When in doubt, the real figure is always available in the game rules, reachable from the machine's menu.