Most pokies hand you one free spins deal. 5 Frogs hands you a menu of six, then sells an upgrade to the whole menu for a few extra cents a spin - Aristocrat's follow-up to 5 Dragons, that game's choice idea pushed to its limit. Below: the menu maths, the missing RTP, and the real-money question.
How 5 Frogs plays
Reels and format
The land game runs 5 reels with all-ways Reel Power pays: adjacent symbols from the left form wins, no fixed paylines. It shipped on Aristocrat's Viridian Widescreen cabinet in the 2010s, part of a Super Feature trio with Sunset King and Fortunes of Atlantis. Online demo builds list 40 paylines instead - the format depends on the build.
The free spins menu
Three yin-yang scatters left to right open the pick screen. The packages: 25 spins with x2, x3 or x5 wild multipliers; 20 at x3 to x8; 15 at x5 to x10; 13 at x8 to x15; 10 at x10, x15 or x40; or a Mystery random pick. Frog wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4 carry the multipliers - fewer spins means harder-hitting wilds. A volatility dial dressed up as a frog pond.
The Super Feature bet
The upgrade is priced separately: an extra few cents per spin on top of the base bet, varying by build. Pay it and every package improves, with more spins or better multiplier odds. Skip it and you play the standard menu.
The RTP nobody will show you
Aristocrat has never published a return-to-player figure for 5 Frogs, on land or in demo form. The "98.5%" floating around the web belongs to a different game with the same name from the studio iSlot. We do not quote numbers we cannot trace to the maker - for how the percentages work, see our RTP guide.
Real money in Australia
Aristocrat channels its real-money releases through regulated markets only, so none of the ten portals we vet stocks 5 Frogs for cash. The genuine game lives on licensed cabinets in Australian venues. Review databases report it in social catalogues such as Heart of Vegas - secondary sourcing, so verify in the current app.
Where the choice idea lives on
Start with 5 Dragons, the machine this menu grew out of - the same spins-versus-multiplier trade in an earlier form. The trade-off behind the pick screen is variance: our pokies volatility guide shows how to read a risk profile. Our Aristocrat hub walks through the studio's back catalogue, and the pokies games hub lists real-money titles we have tested.
Frequently asked questions
Only on licensed land cabinets in clubs, pubs and casinos. Aristocrat shuts its cash catalogue out of offshore casinos, so no site we review stocks it for cash. An offshore lobby selling "5 Frogs" for money is offering a clone or another studio's game.
Six packages trading spin count against multiplier size: 25 spins at x2 to x5, 20 at x3 to x8, 15 at x5 to x10, 13 at x8 to x15, 10 at x10 to x40, or a Mystery random pick. The Super Feature ante upgrades every package.
Aristocrat has never published one. The 98.5% figure circulating online belongs to an unrelated iSlot game with the same name. Until the maker states a figure, no honest number exists, so budget as you would for any machine with undisclosed maths.
A separately priced add-on: a few extra cents per spin on top of your base bet. Paying it upgrades all six free spin packages with extra spins or better multiplier odds. Pricing differs between builds, so check the bet panel before you play.
Responsible gambling
5 Frogs sells you decisions, and decisions feel like control - the maths does not change because you picked the 10-spin line. Set a limit before you play and stop when you reach it. Gambling Help Online offers free, confidential support on 1800 858 858. For readers 18+.