Big Bass Bonanza - Hold & Spinner™ Slot

Big Bass Hold and Spinner is a 5-reel, 3-row slot from Reel Kingdom, which is part of the Pragmatic Play group. The slot can be played from a minimum bet of 10 cents, and you can win a maximum amount of 10000x your bet. There are 4 major symbols that pay from 200x to 50x your bet and 5 minor symbols that pay from 10x to 5x your bet on connections of 5 of a kind. The game also has money fish symbols which carry values from 2x to 10000x your base bet, but these values can only be won in the bonus game. The coin symbols are also an important part of the game, and these have values from 1x to 2000x, and these values can only be won during the hold and spinner feature, which can be triggered by landing 3 coins anywhere. After three coins land, you will get 4 re-spins, and your job will be to trigger at least one more coin so that the feature can stay alive. The coins that triggered the feature will retain their place, and every new coin that lands along with the previous coins will be added to your win. This will continue as long as you keep landing a minimum of 1 coin in four spins or win the maxwin amount.
Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters will trigger 10, 15, or 20 free spins. During these free spins, every time you land a wild in the presence of wish symbols, the fish values will be collected. Collecting four wilds will upgrade the feature by applying a 12x multiplier to your wins and give you 10 free spins. Collecting 4 more wilds will apply a multiplier of 3x to your wins and add 10 free spins. Collecting four more wilds will take you to the final stage where all your fish value symbols will be multiplied by 10x, and you will again get 10 extra free spins. The free spins, hold, and spinner bonus can be bought for a price of 100x your bet.
Another boring game from Pragmatic, even after adding a new feature. If you want to play this, please buy bonuses because the base game is only going to dent your balance without paying anything good.

The bonus lands every 250 to 300 spins, which is higher than the advertised number of 233. Most bonuses end at the first stage, and you hardly get a win above 20x on them. I played this game only for the Hold and spinner feature and was disappointed by the regular 10x payouts. I must have triggered over 50 to 60 bonuses, and I am yet to see a diamond coin.

A slot from Pragmatic Play and based on the all too familiar fishing theme and it comes with the Big Bass franchise for those that are into fishing. It’s one of Pragmatic’s hold and spinner type of slots, they have a few of those with different themes. The slot is easy to realize what is going on since it is only a 5 reel , 3 row, and total of 10 lines. The max win is 10,000x bet which is double what some Pragmatics pay. The min bet is just 0.10 per spin which will suit lots of players and thus such a low stake will minimize the damage a slot can do to the balance. There are 2 bonusees in the game, one is via the free spins which you get if you get 3 scatters or more and the other is via the coins money feature which you need 3 coins/diamonds or more to trigger. Having 2 games or more like this is good for the player as it keeps the game interesting unlike some games that only have 1 bonus game.

I liked that the first feature game only took 135 spins to trigger and paid a respectable 72x. It was the coins bonus feature. My next feature was the free spins feature and that gave only 14x.

So far the features take an avg of 169 spins each. Which is a lot better than what you will find on some other high variance slots such as megaways slots where you are looking at 400+ spins per feature. So if you do like more frequent bonuses as most of us do then this game can be good to play. Sometimes the bonus can be triggered in under 40 spins, happened to me twice (33 & 26).

There is another feature which is the wild mining feature and that happens when a non paying combination occurs and then there is also the wild multiplier feature involving the xbombs with increasing multipliers.

During my session I was able to get some good base wins, including the best one being just under 58x.

Another thing to like is the RTP at 96.07% but check the slots help pages to find out the actual RTP you are playing on as some sites will give you 94% or so. But the max is 96.07% and that would be the recommended RTP to play on.

Theme doesn’t appeal to me. The features average under 50x, that is what I have found so far with this game and I have had 6 features so far, 3 of them were free spins features and the other 3 were the coin bonus features. The first 2 free spins features were under 20x and then the next one was 79x.
While the features have averaged 169 spins the slot can sometimes take many hundreds of spins between bonuses. It decided to go over 400 spins and counting and who knows when the next one will hit. Perhaps for some of those that don’t like to wait there is the option to buy the bonuses if you are in a region that allows bonus buys.

Big bonus money like it. But I like it a little hard. Bonus to come. Sometimes deposited money was not enough, for playing and waiting for the bonus. But still, be good if the bonus comes!!