The maximum win figure promoted for a game tells only a small part of the story, as it constitutes an extreme outlier in the payout distribution rather than a realistic target. Far more useful are the probabilities associated with achieving various multiplier thresholds, which show the true shape of the distribution curve. A game advertising a ten-thousand-times max win might appear appealing, but if the probability of reaching even a hundred-times multiplier is extremely small, the practical experience differs significantly from the headline figure.