About Speed Winner
Speed Winner was released by PG Soft on 21 June 2022. The studio's official description is precise: "a 6-reel, 5-row video slot with an additional row on the bottom of reels 2, 3, 4 and 5". In other words, reels 1 and 6 show 5 symbols while reels 2 to 5 show 6, which is the 5-6-6-6-6-5 notation.
That detail is not cosmetic, it determines the number of combinations. On a ways-to-win system you multiply the reel heights together: 5 × 6 × 6 × 6 × 6 × 5 = 32,400 ways. When the central reels shrink to three symbols, the count drops to 5 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 5 = 2,025. The 2,025-to-32,400 range recorded by the databases therefore matches the geometry the studio describes exactly, which is rarer than you would think.
Paid wins trigger cascades: the winning symbols vanish, others drop in to replace them, and if the refill forms a new combination the sequence continues. Wilds appear only on reels 2 to 5, according to SlotCatalog — never at either end.
The heart of the game is the multiplier symbols. PG Soft states that they go up to 10x, that they can land on any spin, and above all that they are added together, with the total applied to the spin's win at the end of the sequence. Addition changes everything compared with multiplication: four 5x symbols give 20x, not 625x. The studio chose to contain variance rather than sell spectacular numbers.
Four scatters trigger 8 free spins, with each additional scatter adding 2 more according to SlotCatalog. During this phase the multipliers accumulate from spin to spin and only reset on the return to base play. That is the structural difference between the two modes, and it is what justifies the feature's existence.
The official RTP is 96.72%, meaning €3.28 of theoretical margin per €100 staked across a very large number of spins. In our sweep of PG Soft's published figures, values run from 96.68% to 96.95%: Speed Winner sits in the lower half. SlotCatalog also measures a hit frequency of 27.78%, a little over one paying spin in four.
Stakes run from €0.20 to €100. The bonus buy is offered at 50x the stake according to SlotCatalog; PG Soft does not publish that price on its official page. Run the numbers, because they are instructive: a 50x purchase on a game returning 96.72% pays back 48.36x on average. You pay €10 at minimum stake hoping for €9.67 back, or €5,000 at maximum stake hoping for €4,836. The price is not abusive by market standards — plenty of studios charge 100x — but it works no miracle: it is the same structural loss, concentrated into fewer events. The option is banned in the United Kingdom, where the regulator treats feature buys as an accelerator of losses.
The maximum win raises the usual question. PG Soft shows 100,000x in the Maximum Win column of its official page. SlotCatalog records 8,345x as the realistic ceiling while noting the advertised 100,000x. At €0.20 that is €1,669 against €20,000; at €100, €834,500 against ten million euros. The second figure is purely theoretical.
PG Soft rates session volatility at 2 and SlotCatalog calls it medium, which fits additive multipliers and a hit rate above one spin in four. The title sits alongside Wild Coaster, Treasures of Aztec and Caishen Wins in the studio's catalogue.
