Reel Kingdom (Pragmatic Play) · 2020 · free spins / money collect
Big Bass Bonanza: the best behaved slot on this board
1.2 seconds, portrait, and buttons you can actually hit. Out of 306 titles very few get all three right, and this is one of them.
The phone check
Spin and bet sit where a thumb already is. One hand, no stretching. The demo pulls about 6 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 1.2 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
This title ships in more than one return build
Reel Kingdom (Pragmatic Play) licenses 2 configurations of Big Bass Bonanza. The spread from top to bottom is 1.65 points, which is about C$17 in expected cost per C$1,000 staked. Same reels, same features, different maths.
| Configuration | Return | House edge | Cost per C$1,000 vs the top build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highest build the studio licenses | 96.71% | 3.29% | baseline |
| Lowest build | 95.06% | 4.94% | C$16 |
How to see which one you are on, in three taps
- Open the demo and tap the burger or the ⓘ in the game's own toolbar, not the casino's.
- Scroll the info panel to the bottom. The return figure is printed in the rules footer.
- Compare it to the table above. If it is not the top row, that is the build you are being served.
123 of the 306 titles on this board carry more than one build, so this is worth doing once per game rather than once ever.
Why it works
Reel Kingdom built it at 5x3 on ten lines, which is a small enough picture to survive a phone screen without shrinking the controls. Spin is a big circle in the bottom right. The bet stepper is a separate row. Nothing overlaps the reels and nothing important sits within thumb range of something expensive.
Two builds, one gap
96.71% is the top configuration and 95.06% is the lower one. About sixteen dollars per thousand staked between them. Ten cents a spin puts roughly 200 spins on a twenty, and the fisherman collect feature is rare enough that you will spend most of them waiting.
The rest of the family is worth a look on a handset too: Big Bass Splash loads in a second flat.
The rest of the Big Bass shelf
Reel Kingdom has turned one fishing slot into a shelf, and the ones we have loaded and timed are on this board with their own numbers. Big Bass Splash is the quickest of them. Hold & Spinner swaps the collect feature for locking respins. Big Bass Bonanza Megaways is the heaviest, which is what Megaways does to a handset.
Then there is the seasonal end: Christmas Big Bass Bonanza, Halloween, Day at the Races, Amazon Xtreme, Keeping it Reel, Floats My Boat, Secrets of the Golden Lake and Mission Fishin'.
The shelf is longer than our board. New builds appear faster than anybody can load them, so if a lobby is running one we do not list, we have no figure for it and we are not going to guess one. The fisherman wild collecting money fish is the common thread; reel size, line count and return figure are not.
The rest of it
| Studio | Reel Kingdom (Pragmatic Play) |
|---|---|
| Released | 2020 |
| Board | 5x3, 10 lines |
| Mechanic | free spins / money collect |
| Volatility | High |
| Top licensed return | 96.71% |
| House edge on that build | 3.29% |
| Max win | 2,100x |
| Minimum stake | C$0.10 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 200 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | bonus-buy, popular |
Big Bass Bonanza: what people ask
How many Big Bass games are there?
More than a dozen on our board alone, and they are separate builds rather than skins. Big Bass Splash, Hold and Spinner, the Megaways version, the seasonal ones, the racing ones.
The fisherman wild collecting money fish during free spins is the common thread. Reel size, line count, return figure and how each one loads on a phone all move around it.
Which Big Bass game is best on a phone?
The original is the quickest thing in the family here: 1.2 seconds to playable, holds portrait, and the buttons are actually sized for a thumb. That combination is rarer on this board than it should be.
The Megaways build is heavier, which is what Megaways does to a handset. Every one of them has its own load figure on its own page.
Does Big Bass Bonanza have more than one RTP?
Yes. 96.71% is the top build and 95.06% is the other one, a spread of about C$17 per C$1,000 staked. Nothing on the reels tells you which loaded.
The rules footer in the game's own info panel does. Two taps, and it is the only place the figure is stated for the build you were actually served.
Can I play Big Bass Bonanza for real money in Canada?
Yes, in any lobby carrying the Reel Kingdom catalogue, which is most of them. Ten cents a spin is the floor, so twenty dollars runs to roughly 200 spins.
The province you are in decides which lobbies are open to you, and that is set out at where you are.
Is the demo the same as the real game?
Same reels, same features, same free spin round. The one thing that can differ is the return configuration, because demos usually run the studio's top build.
So a demo is an honest look at the rhythm of the game and a slightly optimistic look at its maths.
Done with the demo?
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