About 10 Santa's Reindeers
10 Santa's Reindeers was released by Push Gaming on 26 November 2025, alongside Santa Hopper. It is, without dressing it up, a Christmas variant of 10 Flaming Bisons: same paytables, same engine, same jackpots. The bison become reindeer, the Wild West becomes a snowbound village, and the maths does not shift by a millimetre.
The base grid is 5 reels by 3 rows. It extends during free spins up to 5x7, for a maximum of 60 paylines. The exact payline count at the intermediate tiers is not published for this title, unlike its predecessor, and we are not inferring it by analogy.
The Push-Up feature lets you add rows before the spin for a surcharge: 5x4 for 2.5 times the stake, 5x5 for 5 times the stake. And this is where the game becomes worth documenting, because Push Gaming publishes four distinct return rates for a single title:
— 96.26% in the base configuration;
— 96.46% with the 5x4 Push-Up;
— 96.31% with the 5x5 Push-Up;
— 96.28% on a bonus buy.
That last figure deserves a pause. Almost no developer discloses the RTP of its bonus buy, even though that is precisely the mode in which players commit the largest sums. Push Gaming does, and the rate turns out to be marginally higher than the base game: 96.28% against 96.26%. The gap is derisory — two cents per 100 wagered — and obviously does not turn the bonus buy into a good idea. But it contradicts the received wisdom that a feature buy is always the worse deal, and it puts this studio in the minority of suppliers willing to be checked on the point.
The bonus buy costs 75x the stake. The best of the four RTPs remains the 5x4 Push-Up at 96.46%, but it is paid for in risk: every spin costs two and a half times the base stake.
On the symbols side, the reindeer carry values and pay as soon as 4 of them land. The ladder is readable: 4 reindeer pay 2x the stake, rising to 1,000x for 10 reindeer on the grid. Four special reindeer carry fixed jackpots: Mini 15x, Minor 50x, Major 500x and Mega 5,000x.
Free spins trigger with 3 bells or more: 3 award 8, 4 award 10, 5 award 12. During the feature, extra bells collected unlock rows, and each opened row adds spins, up to +3 for the first.
The framing numbers, finally. The maximum win is 5,602x, identical to 10 Flaming Bisons — logically enough, it is the same maths. At a 100 base stake that is 560,200. The 5,000x Mega jackpot alone occupies nearly 90% of that ceiling, which means the big win on this machine depends on a symbol landing, not on an accumulation. The base stake runs from 0.10 to 100, but a 5x5 Push-Up spin costs five times that, up to 500. And as always with this studio, two degraded builds circulate at some operators: 94.47% and 85.33%. At that last rate, the house margin rises to 14.67 per 100 wagered. The game rules display the value actually installed: that is the first screen to open.
