Fat Santa Bonus Buy: A Slot Checklist Before Buying (9 Items)

What 80x the Bet Buys in Fat Santa

Fat Santa's Bonus Buy sells the trigger for Free Games at 80x the base bet. It places Fat Santa on reel one and 1 to 4 Wild Christmas Pies on reels two to five, exactly the pair the round needs. At the client's default bet of 0.50 that's 40.00, shown as Feature Cost above the BUY button.

What the money buys is entry, nothing more.

The round itself runs by the usual rules once it starts. That means 5 free spins, Santa walking to every pie that lands, and a meter that adds +3, +2, +2 and +1 spins, so 13 spins at most. The number of pies a purchase brings, anywhere from one to four, varies from ticket to ticket. The client prints no maximum win for the round or for the game.

Buy Price at All 12 Bet Levels

The price scales with the bet in a straight line: 80 times whatever total bet is selected, from 20.00 at the lowest level to 8,000.00 at the highest. The game has no line-bet control. The total bet is the only dial, and the twelve levels are the only prices on offer.

Fat Santa Bonus Buy Cost at Each Bet

Read on 2 Nov 2026; the maker can change a screen without saying so.

The three right-hand columns are the long-run average loss implied by each published RTP, worked out by us as price × (1 − RTP). They describe an average over a vast number of rounds. A single purchase lands far above or far below them, and we have no way to say which.

A useful yardstick: one purchase at 0.50 costs the same 40.00 as 80 base-game spins. Our whole 96-spin demo session staked 48.00.

Two Builds and a Third Figure

Fat Santa carries two published returns for the base game and one for the purchase. The client's GAME INFO screen states 96.45% for the game and 96.59% for the Bonus Buy. Push Gaming's own game page lists 96.45% and 94.15% side by side, under the note "RTP's may vary per casino. The RTP of the game can be found in the user panel and on the game loading screen." In the demo only GAME INFO showed the base-game figure; the BONUS BUY screen repeats the 96.59% for the purchase.

Three RTP Figures, Three Sources

Catalogues add three more numbers, 95.28%, 90.51% and 94.18%, and the studio prints none of them. The demo we played ran the 96.45% build, so the BONUS BUY figure we read belongs to that build. Whether a 94.15% build keeps 96.59% for the purchase is not printed on any screen we read.

When Buying Returns More on Paper

On paper, buying returns slightly more than spinning: 96.59% against 96.45%, a gap of 0.14 percentage points. At the 0.50 bet that's 0.06 of average loss saved per 40.00 staked. One round's swing swallows it whole.

The gap would widen on the second build. If a 94.15% base game kept its purchase at 96.59%, the gap would grow to 2.44 points, or 0.98 per 40.00 on average. Nothing we read confirms that pairing.

That's the only claim the numbers support. It says nothing about whether a purchase is a good idea. A higher average return still loses money on average, just slightly less of it.

Our Natural Rounds Against the Price

Each of the three Free Games rounds we triggered for free paid less than one purchase would have cost. We played 96 paid spins on 2 November 2026 at 0.50 in the studio's demo. The rounds came on spins 61, 94 and 96.

Our Natural Rounds Against the 80x Price

All three ran eight spins and stopped after a single meter fill. Added together they paid 45.88, a little more than one purchase. They arrived without a purchase at all, inside the same 48.00 of stake.

Then we bought the round twice at 0.50. Two tickets cost 80.00 and returned 76.56.

The first ticket filled the meter twice, and Santa grew to 3x3. It paid back more than its own price. The second returned about a third of it. Two purchases measure nothing about the 96.59% figure, in either direction.

Five rounds are a measurement of five rounds, nothing wider. They don't show that bought rounds pay more or less than 80x, and we'd be inventing a rule if we said so.

The Loss Limit as a Brake

As a brake on buying, the loss limit is weak: its widest setting at 0.50 is 50.00, and one 40.00 Bonus Buy uses 80% of that in a single click. Autoplay won't run without the limit, which is set in multiples of the total bet from x5 to x100, with an optional single-win limit on top. Whether the loss limit also counts purchases is not printed anywhere we read; the settings screen covers spins.

The limit does one job reliably: it stops a run of base-game spins at a figure set in advance, not at one the session happens to pick.

Where the Purchase Falls Short

The purchase guarantees entry and nothing about value. It doesn't guarantee a meter fill, a bigger Santa or any win. With no maximum win printed for the game, nobody can say what the round is worth at best.

The guarantee itself is narrower than it sounds. One to four wild pies means the meter may start nearly empty. Our two purchases opened with 1 and 2 pies and filled on the second and the fourth free spin.

The only ceiling-like figure from the studio, a "HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN" of 3,844x on its game page, also appears unchanged on its Fat Rabbit page. Volatility is labelled "Mid - High", with no scale explained.

We do not recommend the Bonus Buy as a way to chase back a losing session. At 80x the bet it spends a balance eighty spins at a time, and our best natural round covered barely half of one ticket.

Trying the Bonus Buy for Free

The studio's free demo is the cheapest place to press the Bonus Buy, because the 40.00 on its BONUS BUY screen is paid in FUN credits and costs nothing real. Our two purchases there showed how the round feels and nothing more.

For money, the checks run in the same order as for the base game: what the law where you live allows, a site licensed there, then that copy's GAME INFO screen. Whether the buy keeps its 96.59% on the 94.15% build is not printed anywhere we read.