Frog Bog: how it plays, odds and payouts

Frog Bog is a collect-until-splash game. A frog launches off a see-saw and hops across the bog, up to eight times. Each hop lands on a lily pad, a flower or the golden pad, or splashes into the water and ends the run. The frog always keeps what it has collected, and your bet is multiplied by the final pot.

How a round works

1. Set your bet and tap to launch the frog. The whole run is decided the moment you play.
2. Each hop is drawn from a fixed table: lily pad adds 0.25x to the pot, flower adds 0.8x, the golden pad doubles the pot (or sets it to 1x if it is empty), and a splash ends the run.
3. The frog hops until it splashes or has made eight hops.
4. Your bet is multiplied by the pot and paid.

There is no cash-out decision: once you play, nothing you do changes the hops. The animation is the reveal.

What one hop can be

Overall, 69.8% of rounds pay something and 34.9% pay more than the bet.

Worked example

Suppose the frog's hops are lily pad, flower, golden pad, lily pad, then a splash. The pot grows 0.25x, then 1.05x (0.25 + 0.8), then the golden pad doubles it to 2.1x, then another lily pad makes 2.35x. The splash ends the run and the frog keeps its 2.35x, so a bet of 100 coins pays 235 coins.

Order matters in one way: a golden pad is worth far more late than early. Landing it with a pot of 0.25x gives 0.5x; landing it with a pot of 2.1x gives 4.2x. Over all the hops this is exactly priced into the 96.74% return, so you cannot make it worth more by anything you do.

Two edge cases: a splash on hop 1 (30.2% of rounds) pays nothing, and a golden pad on hop 1 sets the pot to a full 1x, the same as getting your bet back.

Max win and limits

The top result is eight golden pads in a row: the first sets the pot to 1x and the next seven double it, giving 128x the bet. That has a chance of about 1 in 14 billion. The frog survives all eight hops about 5.6% of the time. The game-wide limits (50,000x the bet, 250,000,000 coins per round) cannot be reached. Volatility is high for the size of the top prize, because most of the return comes from rounds that collect several flowers or a golden pad.

What matters and what does not

• Everything after you tap play: the hops are drawn on our servers, so the see-saw timing and the frog's arc are for show.
• Bet size: scales payouts, not odds.
• The hop number: every hop is drawn from the same table, so a long run of lily pads does not make a golden pad more likely.

If you want to see how a game like this spreads its results, read volatility explained.

How it differs from other instant games

Coin Pusher adds up five independent spills, so it never stops early. In Frog Bog a single splash ends everything, which is why the result curve is lumpier. Pinball multiplies a score by a lane instead of building a pot hop by hop.

Play with limits

Coins are virtual, have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn or exchanged for prizes. For adults (18+), for entertainment. Set a time limit before you play; see playing safely in Cashout Arcade.