Spaceman
Spaceman predictor apps and bots
No app, bot or signal channel can tell where a Spaceman round will end. The Game Help describes the end point as random and predetermined, so a “Spaceman predictor” has nothing to read it from, and downloads making the same promise for another crash game have been documented delivering malware.
Key takeaways
- Published standards for an RNG (random number generator), such as UK Gambling Commission RTS 7 and GLI-19, call for outputs that are computationally infeasible to predict.
- In our calculation under the constant-RTP model at an assumed RTP (return to player) of 95.5%, a call of 1.50x comes true in about 63.7% of rounds by chance, which is why low “predictions” can look accurate.
- Check Point Research reported on 17 June 2026 that a download presented as an “Aviator Predictor” delivered clipboard-hijacking malware on Windows and macOS.
What Spaceman predictor apps claim
A “Spaceman predictor” is any app, bot or channel that claims to know where the next round will end before it starts. The claim comes in three recurring forms.
- Predictor apps. Software that displays a “next multiplier” or a suggested cashout point for the coming round.
- Signal channels and bots. Messaging groups, often on Telegram, that post a target before each round.
- “Hack” files. Downloads, often Android APK files, presented as modified versions of the game or as tools that read its results early.
Why a Spaceman predictor cannot work
Note
The reasoning in this section is ours. It is built from the game’s own help text and from published technical standards. It is not a finding of any security report and not a statement by Pragmatic Play.
The end point is random and already fixed
The Spaceman Game Help says the multiplier rises to a random, predetermined value at which the round ends, and Pragmatic Play’s 2022 press release calls the game an RNG title. The value exists before the multiplier starts moving, and the round itself is what reveals it.
Neither document describes any way for that value to be seen before the round ends. A tool running outside the game sees what every player sees: the multiplier as it is displayed, and the results of rounds that are over.
Unpredictability is what RNG testing looks for
The UK Gambling Commission’s RTS 7, which applies to games offered under a British license, says outputs should be unpredictable, meaning it is computationally infeasible to predict them without knowing the algorithm and the seed. GLI-19, a voluntary lab standard that regulators can choose to adopt, asks for an RNG that is cryptographically strong, with future values that cannot feasibly be predicted from past ones.
Pragmatic Play states, at portfolio level, that its RNG is tested and certified by three named test labs; the details are on the page about whether Spaceman is fair. A tool that really predicted rounds would mean the RNG had failed the property that RNG testing exists to confirm.
Past results carry no information
A predictor that claims to analyze recent rounds has only what Spaceman’s Statistics panel already shows: a record of finished rounds, described on the Spaceman features page. Where end points are random and predetermined, earlier results say nothing about later ones, and expecting a high round to be “due” is the gambler’s fallacy, whether a person or a piece of software does the expecting.
| Claim | What it would need | Why it fails |
|---|---|---|
| “The app reads the next result” | Access to the predetermined value before the round ends | No published document describes that value being exposed early, and unpredictable output is what RNG standards call for. |
| “AI found the pattern” | Past rounds that influence future ones | End points are random and set before each round; earlier results carry no information about later ones. |
| “Screenshots prove it” | Proof that the call was made before the round | A screenshot records a finished round. It shows nothing about when the “prediction” was written. |
| “The paid tier is more accurate” | A free tier that works at all | Paying more does not create information that does not exist. |
Why some predictions look right
A low multiplier is reached more often than a high one, so a low call is right more often, with no knowledge behind it.
Under the multiplier model, at an assumed RTP of 95.5%, the Game Help figure (sources differ), a round reaches 1.50x about 63.7% of the time. This is a model. The provider does not publish Spaceman’s actual distribution.
Take a channel that posts “cash out at 1.50x” before every round. Under the model, it would look correct in roughly 64 rounds out of 100 while knowing nothing, and a run of five correct calls would happen by chance about 10.5% of the time.
| Multiplier called | Chance one call is right | Chance of five in a row |
|---|---|---|
| 1.50x | 63.7% | about 10.5% |
| 2.00x | 47.75% | about 2.5% |
| 3.00x | 31.8% | about 0.3% |
The misses matter as much as the hits. In the 1.50x example, the other 36.3% of modeled rounds lose the whole stake, and 100 rounds at 1 unit each return about 95.5 units as a long-run average: 63.7 wins paying 1.50 each. That is the RTP, which is what any fixed target returns under the model, and it is an average, not a forecast for any particular 100 rounds.
So the “signal” adds nothing. It is a fixed cashout target with a story attached, and a lucky run of calls is exactly the kind of result that makes a persuasive screenshot. What a fixed target does and does not change is set out under Spaceman strategies.
What researchers found in similar downloads
On 17 June 2026, Check Point Research published a report on fake “advantage” tools, among them one presented as an “Aviator Predictor” (Aviator is another crash game). According to the report, the downloads delivered clipboard-hijacking malware, a type of malicious software that tampers with what a user copies and pastes, for both Windows and macOS.
The report also describes how the files were promoted: through a phishing site, through projects on GitHub and SourceForge, and through YouTube, with manufactured reputation signals to make them look trustworthy.
Keep in mind
Check Point’s report concerns an Aviator-themed tool and other fake “advantage” software. We are not aware of a published analysis of a Spaceman-specific file, and we do not claim one exists.
Where the appeal of a predictor is the hope of recovering losses, the responsible play page lists support organizations and how to reach them.
Sources
- Pragmatic Play — Spaceman Game Help, version 1.7 (change log to 10 July 2024), as distributed to licensed operators. Cited by name; operator-hosted copies are not linked.
- Check Point Research — “From Stars to Upvotes: Fake Reputation Fueling a Crypto Clipboard Hijacker” (17 June 2026)
- UK Gambling Commission — RTS 7: Generation of random outcomes
- Gaming Laboratories International — GLI-19: Standards for Interactive Gaming Systems, version 3.0 (17 July 2020)
- Pragmatic Play — press release, “Pragmatic Play blasts off with Spaceman” (24 March 2022)
- Wang and Pleimling, Online Gambling of Pure Chance: Wager Distribution, Risk Attitude, and Anomalous Diffusion, Scientific Reports 9, 14712 (2019) (background for the constant-RTP model; it analyzes gambling logs for four types of game, crash among them, and none of the data are from Spaceman)
- Modeled probabilities are our own calculations under the constant-RTP model. They are not published by the provider.