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big bass megaways hold & spin theme, stakes, pays & symbols

If you aren’t familiar with the Big Bass Bonanza series…. Then I don’t believe you! You may not be familiar with the original Hold & Spinner variant, though, so that’s a good reference point to check out before you begin to play this new game by Reel Kingdom. What’s really interesting from my perspective though, is loading up the original Big Bass Bonanza game and seeing just how little has changed over the years! In fact, if you check out any random selection of these games – take Bigger Bass Bonanza, for example – it can sometimes be truly tough to tell the difference between them. At least with these Megaways variants, you can be sure of one thing…. The prizes listed on the paytable are sure to be way smaller than the ones with ten pay lines! Of course, that fact has to be balanced with the resulting much-increased frequency of hitting winning combinations, but no matter which style of game you prefer, these are all high-volatility slots with the capacity to deliver huge wins – if you’re looking for something that ONLY pays little and often, you’d best try another franchise.

The regular paytable prizes available in this latest Big Bass Bonanza game start with the spinning bait – probably because of the word ‘spinner’ being present in the title - and on this occasion, these symbols have a maximum return of 50x the total bet for a full payway of six of a kind. That’s the only truly high-paying symbol, I’m afraid – the second-placed fishing rod is only worth 5x for all six of its symbols, followed by the dragonfly at 2.5x, the tackle box at 2x, and the random fish symbols at 1.5x each. That just leaves the lower-paying royals – six tens will get your bet back (1x), while six aces or kings are only slightly more valuable at 1.5x for a complete payway of six of a kind. There’s no premium payout attached to the scatter or wild symbols either, I’m afraid, but don’t despair, as the fish money symbols can pay as much as 5,000x the total bet in this version of the game!

Reel Kingdom build their games on top of Pragmatic Play’s platform, meaning you can be sure of a good degree of flexibility in how much you can bet per spin. In this case, the bet spread is absolutely enormous - €0.20 at the low end and €250.00 at the other! That’s fantastic and all, but it does mean that even Pragmatic Play’s generous three-way bet selection systems start to become a little restrictive towards the upper end of the range. Still, if you are betting more than €100.00 per spin, I very much doubt that increasing your bet in €25.00 increments will trouble you too much!

base game & modifiers

As mentioned in the opening paragraphs, Big Bass Hold & Spinner Megaways does have plenty in common with previous Megaways releases. The first major difference you will likely spot is the three horizontal reels displayed above reels two through five. The top row only contains wilds and blank spaces, whilst the other two horizontal reels can contain any of the regular symbols. All three rows are not necessarily active during every spin, however, and lock/unlock randomly during each game round. Locked reels are shown greyed out, and their symbols are not used when calculating winning combinations.

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big bass hold & spin megaways slot bonus features

Most of the previous Big Bass Bonanza games included just a single bonus round – this time, Reel Kingdom has given us two! The main free spins feature awards 10 free spins for three scatter symbols, with 15, 20, or 25 free spins awarded if four, five, or six scatters are included in the triggering combination. 

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