Fat Santa vs Fat Rabbit: One Slot Maker, Same Numbers
In short: Fat Santa and Fat Rabbit are two Push Gaming slots with identical figures on their studio pages. Both show a 5x5 grid with 50 lines, 96.45% or 94.15% RTP and 3,844x; only the volatility label differs.
Among the published figures, only the volatility label separates them on the maker's pages: Fat Rabbit is labelled "High", Fat Santa "Mid - High". We played 96 spins of Fat Santa in its demo and did not open Fat Rabbit's client.
The Fat Santa reels at the client's default 0.50 bet before our first spin on : a 1,000.00 demo balance and no RTP figure on screen. Source: our own screenshot.
Fat Santa and Fat Rabbit, Figure by Figure
Figure
Fat Santa
Fat Rabbit
Studio
Push Gaming
Push Gaming
Released
November 2018
March 2018
Grid and lines
5x5, 50 lines
5x5, 50 lines
RTP
96.45% / 94.15%
96.45% / 94.15%
Volatility
Mid - High
High
Highest observed win
3,844x
3,844x
Bonus Buy
80x the base bet, per the client
Available per the studio page, price not confirmed
Alternatives in Detail
Why look for a replacement: Fat Santa has no published maximum win, only a "HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN" of 3,844x that the studio also prints for Fat Rabbit.
Fat Santa's Free Games need Santa on reel one plus a Wild Christmas Pie, and every round we triggered stopped at eight spins.
In our 96 spins the base game returned 26.66 on 48.00 staked.
The studio lists two builds, 96.45% and 94.15%; in its demo only the GAME INFO screen showed the running figure.
Fat Rabbit
Fat Rabbit is Push Gaming's March 2018 slot on the same 5x5, 50-line layout, for readers drawn to the studio's High volatility label.
Better than Fat Santa
Nothing measurable on the studio's figures
same 5x5 grid and 50 lines
same 96.45% and 94.15%
same 3,844x highest observed win
Weaker
Far less is established, since we did not open its client
paytable and Bonus Buy price unconfirmed, trigger and Harvest Feature known only from the studio page
Push Gaming Prints the Same Numbers
Push Gaming's own game pages describe Fat Santa and Fat Rabbit with the same figures. Both list a 5x5 grid of 50 lines, an RTP of 96.45% or 94.15%, a "HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN" of 3,844x and a Bonus Buy. Put the two pages side by side and the numbers can't tell the games apart.
That's the finding of this comparison, and it is a finding about the studio's publishing practice rather than about the underlying mathematics of either slot. Fat Rabbit came first, in March 2018. Fat Santa followed in November 2018, with the studio's press release "Fat Santa has arrived" dated .
The One Label That Differs
Volatility is the only published figure that differs. The studio calls Fat Santa "Mid - High" and Fat Rabbit "High". Neither page explains the scale behind those words, and the client we read prints no volatility at all.
A different label on an unexplained scale is thin ground for a choice. It may reflect a real difference in how the two games pay. Nothing on either page shows it, and Fat Santa's hit rate is published nowhere.
Fat Santa, Measured First-Hand
Fat Santa we know from its own client. We opened the studio's demo on , read every rules screen and played 96 paid spins at the default 0.50 bet. The GAME INFO screen showed server version 2.24.0 and client version 10.21.6, together with a return to player of 96.45% for the game and 96.59% for the Bonus Buy.
The Fat Santa paytable at a 0.50 bet, read in the studio's demo on : a 20x line prize, 10.00 at 0.50, for five elves, with five Santas given the identical sum. Source: our own screenshot.
The paytable at 0.50 tops out at 10.00 for five elves, a line prize of 20x the bet. It lists five Santas at the same figure without saying how that line forms. Free Games open only when Fat Santa lands on reel one beside at least one Wild Christmas Pie. They award 5 spins and add +3, +2, +2 and +1 as the pie meter fills.
Our Fat Santa Session at a 0.50 Bet
Measure
Result
Paid spins
96
Staked
48.00
Returned
72.54
Spins that paid
23 of 96
Free Games rounds
3, paying 20.62, 14.06 and 11.20
Base game alone
26.66 back on 48.00
Read on ; the maker can change a screen without saying so.
A sample of 96 spins says nothing about a 96.45% return. The net gain of 24.54 was luck, three rounds of it. The table stays because it is the one part of this comparison built from our own play.
The Gaps on the Fat Rabbit Side
Fat Rabbit we have not opened. We did not load its client, so its paytable, its feature rules and its Bonus Buy price are unconfirmed here. Everything we say about it comes from the studio's game page. That page describes the trigger in one line, a rabbit plus a wild carrot, and a carrot meter that makes the rabbit grow and awards extra spins. It also names a Harvest Feature: a tractor, triggered at random, ploughs through the reels and unearths several wild carrots, much as Fat Santa's sleigh drops pies.
The Fat Santa rule for its pie meter, as the client prints it; we have read no equivalent screen for Fat Rabbit. Source: our own screenshot.
What we know
Fat Santa
Fat Rabbit
Paytable
Read at 0.50, top line prize 20x
Not read
Free Games trigger
Santa on reel one plus a wild pie
Studio page: a rabbit plus a wild carrot; not read in a client
Spins added by the meter
+3, +2, +2, +1
Studio page names a carrot meter, no numbers
Random wild feature
Santa's Sleigh, read in the client
Studio page: Harvest Feature, a tractor that unearths wild carrots
Bonus Buy price
80x the base bet
Not confirmed
Our demo spins
96 at 0.50
None
Client version
10.21.6
Not read
That gap runs in one direction only. Any page ranking the two games on mechanics is working from a client it opened or from a catalogue, and the catalogues are a shaky base, because for Fat Santa alone they disagree with each other by sixty percent.
Catalogue figures for Fat Santa run to 6,400x, 6,405x and 10,233x, against a studio page that prints none of them. We'd rather leave a cell empty than fill it from that pool.
Why 3,844x Proves Little
The shared 3,844x is a "HIGHEST OBSERVED WIN", not a published maximum, and the identical figure on two different games suggests a template value rather than two coincident records. For Fat Santa, the client has no maximum-win line, and the platform config shipped with the demo sets rulesShowMaximumPrize to false.
So neither game has a ceiling a reader can rely on.
What Fat Santa's paytable does state is a top line prize of 20x the bet, 10.00 at 0.50. The best logged free spin in our 96 spins paid 9.02, or 18x. Those are real numbers with a known source. The 3,844x on both pages is not one of them.
Two RTPs on Both Pages
Both studio pages list the same two returns, 96.45% and 94.15%. Each adds that RTPs may vary per casino and that the figure shows in the user panel and on the loading screen. For Fat Santa the gap is 2.30 percentage points. In Fat Santa's demo neither the panel nor the loading screen showed a figure; the GAME INFO screen did, before the first spin, and read 96.45%.
Fat Santa's Bonus Buy adds a third figure, 96.59%, a little above its base game. Whether Fat Rabbit's purchase has a return of its own, we did not check. That would take its client.
Which One to Open in a Demo
If the choice is between these two, we'd open Fat Santa first. The only reason is that it's the one whose rules we've read, which is a statement about what is known rather than a claim that it's the better game. Someone who prefers the studio's "High" label could reasonably pick Fat Rabbit instead.
Either way, the first look costs nothing. Fat Santa's demo on the studio's site plays in FUN credits from a 1,000.00 balance, so reading its rules risks nothing.
We do not recommend choosing between Fat Santa and Fat Rabbit on the studio's figures alone: they are the same figures. Fat Rabbit's studio page carries a Play Game button, as Fat Santa's does; we did not open the client behind it.
If neither slot's numbers settle it, open the Fat Santa demo and read its PAYTABLE and GAME INFO screens. Judge the game by rules you've seen, not by a 3,844x printed twice.
Key Terms Used on This Page
Highest observed win
The studio's label for 3,844x on both game pages; it is an observed figure, not a published maximum.
RTP
Return to player, the long-run share of stake paid back; both studio pages list 96.45% and 94.15%.
Volatility
The studio's label for how a game pays: High for Fat Rabbit, "Mid - High" for Fat Santa, with no scale given for either.
Free Games
Fat Santa's bonus round, opened by Santa on reel one plus a Wild Christmas Pie and starting with 5 spins.
Bonus Buy
Paid entry to the bonus round; for Fat Santa it costs 80x the base bet with an RTP of 96.59%.
Not sure yet? Try the free demo first and learn the round with play money.