Dragon Chase Rapid: The Second Version, With a Grand Built to Drop Often

A game sheet inside the Dragon Chase pack, and no page of its own

Quickspin has no web page for Rapid. Its address on quickspin.com returned a 404 when we checked on 3 Nov 2026, and the studio's portfolio list leaves it out. Its only official document is the second PDF in the game-sheet ZIP linked from the Dragon Chase page, and that sheet's feature page is identical to the standard one, pixel for pixel. Quickspin's Dragon Chase text presents both as one game: "We've also made TWO versions of the game", and operators "can choose to run one version or both".

Our Dragon Chase review explains the shared mechanics, from the sliding Wildfires to the 10 free spins for three Bonus Scatters on reels 2, 3 and 4, so here we stick to the differences. For Rapid's figures we used its own sheet, the demo server's own figures and our log, and for its jackpot pace the 2019 launch news.

Meters of €5.00, €10.00 and €30.00, and a Grand meant to fall nearly every day

The Dragon Pearl Respin ladder is unchanged: 4 held pearls or more pay the Mini, 8 the Minor, 12 the Major and all 15 the progressive Grand, each with the pearl values on top. Only the rungs are smaller, €5.00, €10.00 and €30.00 at €1.00 against €8.00, €28.00 and €138.00 on the standard game. Our log has one Mini and one Major, and both matched their meters to the cent.

Every pearl lights a dot under the meters, four each for the Mini, Minor and Major and three for the Grand, one dot per square of the board. The media round on spin 172 had five pearls after its first respins, enough to light the Mini.

At launch Quickspin set Rapid's Grand a €10,000 target and said it would pay "on an almost daily basis", where the standard Grand was a monthly pot that could pass €100,000. Pools are run by each operator, so today's amounts can differ. In our demo the GRAND meter sat at €6,000.00 for all 500 spins, a fixed play-money figure with no pool behind it.

The same reels with a lower RTP and a lower ceiling

Below, the two sheets sit side by side, with the demo server's figure added where it reports one.

Small and middling wins come a little more often on Rapid, the 100x ones less often. Its sheet splits the RTP into base game 51.21%, free spins 31.24%, jackpot game 13.68%, which add up to 96.13%, 0.06 points short of the printed total. Nowhere does the sheet explain that gap.

Rapid has two top-win figures. The 2019 sheet prints 822x in 100 billion simulated spins, while the demo server today reports 1,101.25x with the same simulation size and the same 96.19%. We give the server's figure as current and keep the sheet's beside it.

A Major on spin 414 and a 161x round of free spins

Staking €500.00 at €1.00 a spin brought back €572.75. The tally shows four free spins rounds and leaves out five Dragon Pearl Respin rounds, which the rig filed as ordinary spins and which we picked out of the server log.

• 500paid demo spins at €1.00
• 21.4%of them paid something
• 161xbest spin, free spins round included
• 4free spins bonuses triggered

Three of the five pearl rounds stopped at three pearls and paid only their values. Six pearls on spin 120 were enough for the €5.00 Mini. The Major came on spin 414, after 15 respins and with 12 pearls, and paid €30.00, or €38.50 counting the pearl values. In the rig's tiles it shows up as the best base spin (38.5x), although it was the jackpot feature.

Two Bonus Scatters on free spin 5 of the round at spin 330 added 3 spins, and that round paid 108x. The round at spin 452 paid 161x, with €112.75 of it from free spin 5 and six Wildfires on screen.

Of the money returned, the four spins that triggered free spins brought €329.75 (line wins on those spins included), the five pearl-round spins €53.50 and the remaining base spins €189.50. Our balance hit its low of €4,839.25 on spin 328, two spins before that 108x round. The filmed round, from media spin 301, got the same +3 early on.

On the clip's last frame the next paid spin starts with three leftover Wildfires in place, the carry-over the rules describe.

Which of the two dragons to open first

Rapid suits someone who likes the idea of a Grand meant to be won most days and can accept smaller rungs, since its Major at €1.00 is worth far less than the standard Major. The standard version has the bigger meters and the higher RTP, and its pool is meant to build over a month. Our two logs ran in opposite directions (114.5% here, 60.7% on the standard game), and 500 spins are too few to read anything into that.

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