How Often Does the Free Spins Round Land?
Scatters land where the tumble takes them, so the gap between one free spins round and the next is never written into a schedule. A 96.58% return describes millions of spins and says nothing about your session: you can hit the round twice in ten minutes or wait a whole evening, and neither outcome contradicts the figures on this page.
Five return figures sit behind this slot, spread from 96.50% to 96.58%, and the one your rounds run on is printed in the game rules panel, not on the lobby tile. Checking there tells you which version you are playing before the first tumble rather than after a long session.
The x50,000 ceiling behind that A$100,000 top prize at A$2 is a boundary, not a target: a chain of multiplier spots climbing toward x1,024 during free spins has to line up, and most rounds finish far from it. Treat the maximum as the edge of what is possible and plan your bets without it in mind.