The figures that disagree, and which one has a source
The numbers · four disagreements and one missing field
Almost every page about this slot prints an RTP of 97.22%. The company that made the game publishes no return figure at all. It does publish five other numbers, and four of them contradict what gets repeated. This page sets both columns side by side and says plainly which one has an origin.
The two columns
Left: everything JILI publishes on its own catalogue entry for the original, read on 24 September 2026. Right: what appears across the third-party pages that rank for this game.
| JILI's own page | What gets repeated | |
|---|---|---|
| Max win | 10,000x | 1,500x |
| Volatility | LOW-MED | Medium-high |
| Publish time | August 2020 | 2022 |
| Paylines | 1024 ways | 1024 ways |
| RTP | no field at all | 97.22% |
| Bonus buy | button on screen in the demo | “not in the base game” |
One row agrees. Four disagree. The sixth is the interesting one.
The missing field
JILI's catalogue entry is a short table with six labelled values: max win, volatility, type of game, special features, paylines, publish time. Under it sits the company's own paragraph describing the mechanic.
There is no return-to-player figure anywhere on it. Not hidden in a footnote, not in the description, not on the parent catalogue page.
That is not unusual for a game studio. What is unusual is how specific and how confident the number filling the gap has become. 97.22% appears with two decimal places, unhedged, on page after page. Some of those pages go further and list variant figures — a high, a mid, a low — attributed to the same maker who publishes none of them.
This site is not going to tell you what the RTP of Super Ace is. It does not know. What it will say is this: a figure with two decimal places that cannot be traced to the company that wrote the game is not more trustworthy than an honest blank. It is less, because the decimal places borrow the appearance of measurement.
What a return figure would mean anyway
Worth saying, because the number is usually presented as though it settles something.
A return-to-player figure is a long-run design property of the maths, computed over a number of spins far larger than any person will ever play. It does not describe a session, an evening, or a week. Two games with the same published return can feel completely different, which is exactly what the volatility field is for — and volatility is a field JILI does publish.
So the practically useful figure on that page is the one nobody quotes: LOW-MED. That says more about what an hour with this game is likely to feel like than a percentage to two decimals ever could.
The max win, and why the gap is so large
10,000x against 1,500x is not a rounding difference. It is nearly seven times.
The maker's figure appears on its own catalogue entry, in a labelled field, in the same table as every other parameter. It is also consistent across the family: Deluxe, Joker, Super Ace 2 and 3 Super Ace all publish 10,000x. The one title that publishes something different publishes 375x, and it is a 3×3 game on five lines — a genuinely different shape, covered on eight of them.
A consistent figure across six catalogue entries, published by the maker, against a figure that appears only on pages that cite nothing. That is not a close call.
The date
August 2020 on the maker's page; 2022 on most write-ups.
A plausible explanation: four other titles carrying the Super Ace name shipped between July 2024 and June 2026, and the game's commercial visibility in the Philippines and Vietnam grew long after it launched. A page written in 2023 from lobby popularity rather than from the catalogue could easily land on the wrong year and then be copied forward.
It matters less than the other two, but it is a clean illustration of how the column on the right got filled: not by looking, by repeating.
The bonus buy, which anybody can check in ninety seconds
The most-linked English description of this game states that the base title does not support a bonus buy, and that only some sequels offer one at select operators.
There is a BUY BONUS badge in the top-right corner of the screen in JILI's own free demo.
That is not a matter of interpretation. Open the demo, wait forty seconds, look at the corner. Instructions are on the free demo, and what the button actually costs is on free spins.
Whether a given operator exposes that button is a separate question — integrations differ and in some jurisdictions the feature is switched off — but the claim on the table is about the game, and about the game it is wrong.
What operators can change, and what they cannot
Worth stating, because it is the standard defence of the unsourced number.
Studios do sometimes ship a title in more than one mathematical configuration, and an operator selects one at integration. That is a real practice. It is also not an argument for quoting a specific decimal as the RTP of a game, since under that same argument the figure would vary by casino — which is the opposite of what a single confident number claims.
What an operator cannot change is the mechanic. The golden card still appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 and still flips to a joker in place; the ladder still reads ×1 ×2 ×3 ×5. Those are the things worth learning about this game, and they are described on the golden card.
The rule this site works by
Four lines, and they are why this page exists at all.
A number without a source is not a fact. However many places it appears.
The maker outranks the summary. When a catalogue entry and a review disagree, the people who wrote the game are the source.
The game outranks both. The rules screen and the on-screen interface settle anything visible, in about a minute, for free.
Print the date and the build. Everything on this site was checked on 24 September 2026, against demo build v_186_0008. A page that never says when it looked can never tell you whether it has gone stale — and almost none of the pages in the right-hand column of the table above says when it looked.
The same copying shows in the search results themselves, described on in the Philippines.
Who applies that rule and how to report a breach of it is on who writes this and contact. The sequel has its own entry with its own figures, compared on Super Ace 2.
The overview is at Super Ace Philippines.