Big Bass Day at the Races Slot Review
Pineapple on pizza, pickles and ice cream, stripes and polka dots, water and electricity – some things aren’t meant to go together. 🍍🍕🚫
Fishing and horse racing is another example that springs to mind, and yet, this is exactly the combo that Pragmatic Play has opted for with Big Bass Day at the Races slot. 🎣🏇
And yet, if we think about it, both of these things require a lot of luck and a bunch of skill. And the payoff could potentially be life-altering. 💰💰
Gameplay
There are 12 games in the Big Bass series on BitStarz right now which attests to the crazy popularity of these fishing games. But they ceased to be purely about fishing some time ago, and on this occasion, Pragmatic has mixed fishing in with horse racing. Huh?
Personally, I don’t get it but since when does that matter? If y’all are up for such weirdness then who am I to make a fuss?
Unsurprisingly, you’ll find binoculars, fishing tackle boxes, beer, and champagne on ice with lures as symbols on the 5-reel, 10-payline grid.
The Wild is our fisherman holding some winning tickets and he appears on all reels during the Free Spins round. Wilds replace all symbols that aren’t Money symbols or Scatters. The latter is our fisherman on a horse, and Scatters land on all the reels.
To the left are the Ante BetAn Ante Bet is an option that costs a percentage of your bet but increases your chances of landing triggering symbols that initiate a feature. and Buy Bonus, which I’ll discuss in the Features section.
The vital info you wanna know about goes like this:
- RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.07% - Max Multiplier: 10,000x
- Max Win: $350,000
- Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: High - Accepted Currencies: All except the Japanese yen
Features
MONEY SYMBOLS:
The horses and jockeys are the Money symbols. After a base game spin, these symbols could randomly have their values collected and then a multiplier of 1x to 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, or 50x could be applied to that value and paid out.
After every Free Spin, Money symbols can carry random multiplier values of 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, 200x, 250x, 333x, 500x, or 1,000x your bet
FREE SPINS:
Get 10 Free Spins when you hit 3 or more Scatter symbols. If you only land 2, there’s a chance that a 3rd one could be secured with either a lasso or a re-spin.
The round starts with you getting to pick horses from a list of 14. These horses represent modifiers, but if you’ve triggered Free Spins by landing 4 or 5 Scatters, one or two of the horses, respectively, will already have their modifiers revealed.
The Free Spins “race” starts when you click on the horse that reveals, “And they’re off!”
The modifiers offer the following:
Extra Free Spins: Get up to 6 additional spins
Fixed Horse: 1, 2, or 3 guaranteed Money symbols will drop when you reveal up to three +1 horse modifier symbols
Already Collected Wilds: Up to 3 Wilds can be collected; these will contribute towards nailing a re-trigger (I’ll explain below)
Remove Lowest Horse: Reveal this modifier the first time and the 2x Money symbol is removed. Reveal it a second time, and the 5x Money symbol gets removed from the possible values
Coming back to the 3rd modifier above – all Wilds collect the Money symbols’ values, but the Wilds themselves are also collected during Free Spins.
Every 4th Wild re-triggers the Free Spins round (10 spins), and the multiplier you get when you collect Money symbols, will increase. The multiplier is 2x for the initial re-trigger, then its 3x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 40x, and 50x.
If there’s a Wild on the reels but no Money symbol, Money symbols could land randomly at the end of Free Spins. Or you could see a stampede animation kick-off, which will transform all symbols other than Wilds into other symbols.
On the flip side, if there are Money symbols on the reels but no Wilds, a lasso can appear, pulling a random reel onto the screen. This lasso action can even happen randomly, pulling Wilds or Money symbols onto the screen.
BUY BONUS:
Pay 100x your bet and get into the Free Spins round without having to wait. The number of Scatters you’ll land will be random.
ANTE BET:
Increase your chances of nailing the Free Spins round by using the Ante BetAn Ante Bet is an option that costs a percentage of your bet but increases your chances of landing triggering symbols that initiate a feature. option. You’ll pay 50% of your bet more for each spin (until you deselect the Ante BetAn Ante Bet is an option that costs a percentage of your bet but increases your chances of landing triggering symbols that initiate a feature.).
If the Ante BetAn Ante Bet is an option that costs a percentage of your bet but increases your chances of landing triggering symbols that initiate a feature. is on, you won’t have access to the Buy Bonus.
Performance
Big Bass Day at the Races slot suffered through hundreds of spins at my hands but in all that time, the game functioned exactly as it was meant to.
Maximum Win
It’s really tough to find a game with better stats: $350,000 and a 10,000x max multiplier. That’s amazeballs! Betting ranges from $0.10 to $35.
Conclusion
Shake your head in disbelief at the fact that Pragmatic has combined their beloved fishing game with horse racing (I did), but the fact remains that it’s a fun game to play with incredible win potential.
Money symbols could carry multipliers of up to 1,000x, and there’s that magnificent max multiplier and $350k on the line. The Free Spins round with its modifiers is sweet and adds spice to this gumbo.
There’s not much to point a finger at when it comes to Big Bass Day at the Races slot, so put aside your issues with the studio’s choice of theme and give it a bash.
Slot Details
Software: Pragmatic Play
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 10
Reels: 5
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 96.07%
Bonus Round: No
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins / Re-spins
Max Multiplier: 10,000x
Max Win: $350,000
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