Olympus without reels: god-themed roulette and bingo

The Olympus name in the catalogue has long been tied to reel games with cascades, scatter symbols and random multipliers. But the latest datasheets show the theme no longer confines itself to that form. Gates of Olympus Roulette from Pragmatic Play is registered as a roulette, Rise of Olympus Bingo from Play'n GO is a 90-ball bingo game, and Rings of Olympus from Turbo Games uses concentric rings instead of reels. It's still marble, Zeus and multipliers, but the math behind the game isn't the same as in a regular slot.

The editorial team actually sat in front of two of the three screens. Rise of Olympus Bingo and Rings of Olympus are both documented with screenshots and session notes, and it is the specific cards, ball draws, ring fields and payout readings that this article builds on. Gates of Olympus Roulette, however, does not exist in the material the editors have access to; there is no saved screenshot and no session note for that title, so the article can only reproduce what the fact sheet itself states about it. RTP and max win are mentioned along the way, but it’s the screens, not the table, that carry the text.

01When the Olympus theme leaves the reels

The clearest break with the reel form is Rise of Olympus Bingo from Play'n GO, registered in the catalog on 8. juni 2026 with RTP on 96 procent, volatility N/A and max win på 5.000 gange indsatsen. The data sheet does not hide the kinship with other game forms: the themes include Balls and Bingo, and the feature list mentions Lottery, Bonus Game, Bonus symbols, Pick Objects, Fixed Jackpots, Multiplier and Random multiplier. These are not words that alone make a game bingo, but the combination with the harvest notes makes the form clear. In the demo session the game ran with four cards at a time, Total Bet 1,00, Bet in Coins 20 and coin value 0,05. It is a different working layout than a 6x5 grid, where symbols fall down after a cascade.

In Rise of Olympus Bingo the game draws balls, and the cards are settled according to patterns. The prize table in the screenshot showed fixed amounts for patterns: 1250 and 750 for the two large figures, 500 for 2L, 200 for two other patterns, 60, 20 and 15 for the smallest, while the BINGO field paid 7500. The Treasure of Olympus jackpot stood at 25.000 in the demo. After the round you can buy extra balls, and in the recorded session extra balls cost from 5 to 50 coins. It feels more like deciding whether to buy one more draw in an almost finished round than waiting for three scatter symbols.

Gates of Olympus Roulette from Pragmatic Play is the other clear extension, but it's also the one the editorial team must write about from a distance. The spec sheet lists 9. april 2026 as the date, RTP 97,3 procent, volatilitet N/A og maksgevinst på 10.000 gange indsatsen. The themes include Roulette Game, and the name places it directly in continuation of Gates of Olympus. At the same time Avalanche, Cascading, Free Spins, Multiplier, Random multiplier and Scatter symbols still appear in the feature list, which makes the spec sheet a bit odd to read if you're only looking for roulette terms. But that's where what we can write ends: there are neither saved screenshots nor a session note for Gates of Olympus Roulette in the editorial material, and therefore the article cannot describe bet fields, the paytable or round structure from an actual session, as it can for the two other titles.

Rings of Olympus from Turbo Games sits somewhere between categories. It is not registered as roulette or bingo, but the harvest notes clearly describe it as a ring game and not as a regular slot machine. The data sheet states RTP 97,34 procent, volatility N/A, max win 700 times the stake and the date 5. maj 2025. The feature list is short: Multiplier, Random multiplier and RTP range. In the demo there were four concentric rings with fields such as 1,33X, 4,85X, 7,7X, 10X, 12,5X, 16X, 1,55X, 2,5X, 3,9X, 27,5X, 28X, 52X, 44X, 85X and 200X, plus +7X, +20,5X and BONUS. It's a game where you press, hold and follow a running Payout counter, not a reel game with lines, ways or clusters.

02The bingo screen: four cards, a fixed prize table and a jackpot called Treasure of Olympus

Rise of Olympus Bingo was played with Total Bet 1,00 and Bet in Coins 20, the coin set to 0,05, and the balance started at 25.000,00. The starting point is four cards at a time, each with BET:5, and the right side of the screen is not a reel grid but a fixed paytable: 1250 and 750 for the two large patterns, 500 for 2L, 200 for two smaller patterns, 60, 20 and 15 for the smallest, while the BINGO field itself pays 7500. Above the board the Treasure of Olympus jackpot shone with 25.000 as a standing figure throughout the recorded session. It's a completely different screen than the cascade fields the Olympus name usually rides on.

The round itself is played by drawing balls, not by spins. After each card purchase balls are drawn, and the prizes from completed patterns are added together over the round. The editorial session first recorded 16 coins, then 200 coins, and in the best recorded round 235 coins, equivalent to 11,75 in cash at Total Bet 1,00. During the round the screen offered a Buy Extra Ball button, where the price of an extra ball rose as the round progressed: from about 5 coins early to 50 coins late in the run, and a Collect button that closes the round with the coins already accumulated.

What the screenshots therefore show is a decision chain: buy the card, watch the balls be drawn, judge whether another ball is worth its rising price, and press Collect when it feels right. The RTP figure of 96 procent, which the datasheet states, doesn't say anything about when that kind of decision pays off; it's something entirely different from reading a cascade win or a free spins multiplier off a reel grid. Here it is the fixed numbers on the paytable and the course of the ball draws that carry the experience, not a ceiling far out in a theoretical distribution.

Gates of Olympus Roulette has no equivalent session in the editorial material, and therefore the article cannot set up a ball-draw scene or a bet screen for the third title in the same way. It's a difference worth keeping in mind as you read on: two of the three wheel-less Olympus games have been seen on screen here, the third has only been seen in the data sheet.

03The rings: a counter that shows Payout instead of a reel that stops

Rings of Olympus blev spillet med Bet Amount $1. I stedet for hjul er der fire koncentriske ringe, og hvert felt på ringene bærer sin egen trykte multiplikator: den inderste ring viser 1.33X, 4.85X, 7.7X, 10X, 12.5X og 16X, den næste 1.55X, 2.5X, 3.9X, 27.5X, 28X og 52X, og de yderste felter går op til 44X, 85X og 200X. Ovenpå ligger et par ekstra felter, +7X og +20.5X, samt et BONUS-felt. Skærmen er altså ikke en gevinsttabel, man slår op i bagefter; hele udfaldsrummet står trykt og synligt på ringene, før man overhovedet trykker på noget.

You play by pressing and holding HOLD TO SPIN, after which the rings fill square by square while the god portrait in the middle changes. A Payout counter on the right constantly shows what you would be paid if you pressed CASH OUT right now. In our editorial session the green 2,5X field filled first, and the Payout read 2,50 dollar at a bet of 1 dollar. When the blue 1,55X field also filled, the counter rose to 4,05 dollar. CASH OUT takes all or part of the shown win, so the choice feels more like picking a moment than waiting for a result.

Rings of Olympus reads as a different kind of exercise than a cascade game. There is no tumble, no scatter and no free spins round to wait for; there is only the ring that fills, and a counter that climbs while you choose when to stop it. The datasheet figures, RTP 97,34 procent and a max win of 700 times the stake, don't contradict that picture, but they don't tell you what it's like to watch a ring fill field by field; the screenshots do.

Compared to the bingo screen the difference is clear: both titles have left the reels, but they did so in very different ways. Bingo settles by cards and patterns with ball draws as the driving mechanic, while Rings of Olympus settles via a running counter the player can interrupt. Gates of Olympus Roulette still sits outside both documented scenes; it’s a third, as-yet-undescribed variant of how the Olympus name can leave the reels.

04Why volatility often ends up as N/A

Volatility is one of the most useful fields in a slot because it translates part of the math into a rough tempo indicator. High volatility typically points to longer periods with small or no wins and a larger portion of the payback tied up in rarer events. Low volatility leans toward more frequent smaller payouts. In the catalog, the classic cascade games are often labeled HIGH: Gates of Olympus, Supreme of Olympus, Olympus Thunderhold, Gates of Olympus Super Scatter, Olympus Wins Super Scatter, Rise of Olympus 1000 and many others. Hold and Win games can be HIGH, MED-HIGH, MED or N/A depending on the provider's information.

For roulette, bingo and ring games the field is more problematic, because the scale providers use is not always the same as for reel games. Gates of Olympus Roulette is listed as N/A. Rise of Olympus Bingo is listed as N/A. Rings of Olympus is listed as N/A. That does not mean all three games have the same variance. It also does not mean they are neutral or particularly mild. It only means the data sheet does not report volatility in the usual classification. It is like having a product label where the calories are clear, but the manufacturer has not put the familiar strength rating on.

There may be several practical reasons for that, but in this article we stick to what the data shows. Bingo settles via cards, patterns and possible extra balls. The Roulette edition is marked as Roulette Game, but without harvest-notes and without a conventional wheel structure in the datasheet. Rings of Olympus has a running Payout counter, fields with printed multipliers and CASH OUT. When the base form is not five reels with lines, clusters or Pay Anywhere, a single low, medium or high label can give a less certain picture than in a traditional reel game. Therefore N/A in such datasheets is often a sign of missing classification, not of missing risk.

You also see N/A for some titles that still look more like slot machines than roulette or bingo. Aphrodite Legends of Olympus has Hold and Win, Fixed Jackpots, Expanding Reels and Respins, but volatility is listed as N/A. Olympus Divine Reels has Hold and Win and Respins, but is also N/A. King of Olympus has Avalanche, Cascading and Pay Anywhere, but volatility is not disclosed. Therefore the field must always be read together with the rest of the data sheet. When volatility is missing, it's better to state that the provider does not disclose it than to guess based on theme, name or maximum win.

05The hybrid forms between reel games and other game types

Apart from the three clearest exceptions, there is a growing group of Olympus games that still have reels or a grid, but borrow mechanics from other game types. Rings of Olympus is the most open of them, because it completely abandons the reels, but several data sheets show the same movement on a smaller scale. Olympus Storm Connectify Pays Power Combo from Gold Coin Studios has Bonus wheel, Cash Collector, Fixed Jackpots, Reelset Changing and Symbols collection, with RTP 96,33 procent, high volatility and a max win of 5.000 times the stake. Here the wheel is not the whole form of the game, but the bonus field points to a different kind of resolution than pure cascades.

Olympus Explosion from Ruby Play is also a good example of the mix. The factsheet lists RTP 96,37 percent, high volatility and no disclosed max win. Features include Bonus Game, Pick Objects, Fixed Jackpots, Free Spins, Random multiplier, Scatter symbols and Wild. In the demo the jackpot ladder sat fixed above the reels with GRAND 2.000,00 EUR, MAJOR 125,00 EUR, MINOR 37,50 EUR and MINI 25,00 EUR at a total bet of 2,50 EUR. The paytable showed Jackpot Pick Deluxe with Mini 10x, Minor 15x, Major 50x and Grand 800x the total bet, as well as possible multipliers of x2, x3, x5 or x10. It’s still a reel game, but the bonus logic is more akin to selecting objects and fixed prize tiers than pure cascade building.

Olympus Bonanza Claw from clawbuster sits elsewhere in the same space. The spec sheet states RTP 95 percent, high volatility and max win 10.000 times the stake, while the features include Avalanche, Cascading, Free Spins, Bonus Bet, Buy Feature, Multiplier and Random multiplier. The Harvest notes describe it as a 6x5 cluster machine with fruit symbols and six locked claws over the grid. In the demo the side panel could offer Ante Bet for +0,80 FUN, Booster Bet for +4,00 FUN and Buy Bonus. The cheapest bonus buy gave 10 free spins with one unlocked claw for TOTAL BET 100,00 at base stake 1,00, and the round closed with TOTAL WIN 72 FUN. There are clusters and cascades here, but the claw element and the Big Catch payouts make the form less pure than the early Olympus cascades.

Even ordinary reel games can therefore be less ordinary than the name suggests. Chronicles of Olympus Assembl'em has Multiway, Cash Collector, Fixed Jackpots, Respins and Symbols collection on top of free spins and multipliers. Unusual Suspects: Legends of Olympus has Nudge Feature, Random Wilds, Fixed Jackpots and RTP range. Raging Gods: Olympus 2 Power Combo combines Hold and Win, Cash Collector, Fixed Jackpots and Random multiplier in a game with medium volatility, RTP 96,12 procent and max win 5.000 gange. These titles are not roulette or bingo, but they show that Olympus in the catalogue has become a theme that can be attached to several mathematical frameworks.

06How to read the new Olympus datasheets

The practical reading starts by separating theme from form. Zeus, Olympus, harp, helmet and gold only tell you which imagery the game uses. The form words tell you how it rains. If it says Roulette Game, as with Gates of Olympus Roulette, you're not in the same category as a Pay Anywhere game, even if the feature list also mentions words you know from cascades. If it says Balls, Bingo and Lottery, as in Rise of Olympus Bingo, read the paytable, cards and extra balls before you compare it to reels. If it lists almost only Multiplier, Random multiplier and RTP range, as with Rings of Olympus, you shouldn't assume a classic slot structure hides behind the name.

Next it makes sense to ask whether you can actually see the game in motion before you plug the numbers into a comparison. For Rise of Olympus Bingo and Rings of Olympus the editorial team could: the screenshots show a fixed prize board with ball draws in one case and a printed ring structure with a Payout-tæller that rises field by field in the other. For Gates of Olympus Roulette there is no comparable session, and therefore the datasheet's RTP and max win stand alone, without a screen to hold them up against. That's not the same as comparing three numbers in one table; it's the difference between having seen the game and only having read about it.

Finally, the N/A fields should be allowed to remain open. If volatility is not stated, we don't write 'high' just because the max win is high, and we don't write 'low' just because RTP is high. For Rise of Olympus Bingo, Gates of Olympus Roulette and Rings of Olympus the usual volatility label is missing in the data sheets. It's an information gap, not a conclusion. The same applies to titles where RTP or max win is missing, such as Olympus Destiny, 3 Pots of Olympus, Treasures of Olympus 1000, Zeus of Olympus and Olympus Explosion in the max win field. A catalog becomes more useful because of the empty fields if they are not filled with guesses.

The short responsible footnote is the same here as with the reel games: gambling is for adults, and the numbers don't change that short sessions can deviate wildly from the theoretical return. In Denmark you can seek help from StopSpillet and self-exclude through ROFUS. It's not particularly mythological, but it's the most concrete tool on the subject.