Big Bass Day at the Races Slot Review
It’s another follow-up to the popular among gamblers ‘Big Bass’ series that boasts traditional cash-collecting mechanics within the base and the bonus game, cash-prizes multiplier up to x50, an outstanding Free Spin round with up to 76 extra
free spins, and numerous features that are triggering in a random way to make your playing experience as engaging and profitable as possible. Are you already intrigued? Then, let's reveal all the secrets of this game!
Big Bass Day At The Races Video Review
Big Bass Day at the Races General Characteristics
- 10 pay lines
- 5 reels and 3 rows
- High Volatility
- RTP: 96.07%, 95.08%, 94.05%
- Base game hit frequency: 11.76% (1 in 8.5 spins)
- Free spins hit frequency: 0.67% (1 in 148.43 spins)
- Odds for > x1,000.00 hit frequency: 1 in 28,445 spins
- Max win hit frequency: 1 in 14,321,518 spins
- Bet amount: 0.1 EUR - 250 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x10,000
- Maximum win value: 2,500,000 EUR
- 9 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Man Wild, Scatter, Money Symbol
Big Bass Day at the Races Bonus Features
Here are a lot of features introduced in this slot, yet most are about Free Spins’ gameplay. Let’s make their rules clear to you.
Money Symbols
These symbols aren’t paying, yet have random attached cash prizes, from x0.2 to x1,000, which are gathered within the base and the bonus game under certain circumstances. During Free Spins, there is Man Wild, which collects cash values from Money Symbols.
Within the base game, otherwise, there is a special feature that randomly triggers when there are Money Symbols on the screen to reap cash prizes from each of those without needing the Man Wild symbol. Also, a random multiplier (x1 — x50) is applied to these wins.
Scatter
Scatter here isn’t a paying symbol that can appear on any reel. As many as 3 Scatters start the bonus game with 10 Free Spins. If there are just 2 Scatters, one of 2 foreseen features can randomly trigger to give you a chance for bonus game activation even under these circumstances:
- Respins of the ‘Spin To Win’ feature. If there is a possibility to move both Scatters one position down so that they don't leave the playfield, respins may be granted. Their possible number is 1 or 2, depending on which row is located the most down Scatter — on the 2nd or the 1st. This feature provides a chance during the following 1 or 2 respins to get additional Scatter to the play grid to start the bonus game.
- Lasso. It's another random feature that uses a Lasso, changing a randomly chosen paying symbol into a Scatter symbol.
In case 4 or 5 Scatters are on the playfield during the bonus game, you will get, besides free spins, respectively, 1 or 2 already revealed bonus game modifiers.
Free Spins
Before an FS round starts, you’ll get an opportunity to pick the horses for the big win chasing that hide different modifiers to enhance the current bonus game.
Modifiers
There are 4 available modifiers:
- ‘More Free Spins’ provides 1 FS, 2 FS, or 3FS. The maximum Free Spins quantity you can get due to these modifiers is 6.
- ‘Fixed Horse’ reveals up to 3 Fixed Horse pictures that guarantee a corresponding number of Money Symbols present on the play grid during the whole bonus game duration.
- ‘Already Collected Man Wilds’ gives up to 3 Man Wild symbols, collecting within the bonus game for Free Spins retriggering.
- ‘Remove Lowest Horse’ excludes from the Money Symbols that are used during the bonus game those with x2 and x5 values if 1 or 2 such modifiers are revealed, respectively.
But one of those horses you will have to choose from is hiding a no-modifier item that starts Free Spins. Therefore, the horses' picking process will continue until you pick that one, which starts the bonus game.
Man Wild
It’s a Wild symbol used only within the bonus game to substitute any paying symbol in the winning combination, except for Scatter and Money Symbols.
Also, it’s a Money Symbols’ prizes collector. If there is more than just a single Man Wild symbol hit on the play grid, each will gather all the Money Symbols' prizes currently in view on the screen.
During Free Spins, Man Wild symbols are collected using the top-located meter. Every 4th Man Wild grants 10 extra FS, and a bigger Man Wild Multiplier that increases exclusively wins due to the Money Symbol's prizes. The maximum number of additional Free Spins eligible for getting in this way is 70 extra FS. At the same time, Man Wild Multiplier is gradually increasing, taking x2, x3, x10, x20, x30, and x40 values up to a maximum of x50.
4 random Free Spins features
Also, there are 4 other features, randomly triggering during Free Spins to increase your bonus game’s win:
- If there is a free spin with a Man Wild picture in view but no Money Symbols on the screen, some of those can suddenly appear to trigger a prize-collection feature.
- If some number of Money Symbols are on the play grid, yet there is no Man Wild, the Lasso function can put Man Wild on a randomly chosen reel.
- If there is a free spin with a Man Wild picture in view but no Money Symbols are on the screen, after the ‘Stampede!’ animation, all the symbols, except for Man Wild, are changing to reveal new pictures. And some of those new pics could be Money Symbols.
- Lastly, the Lasso function can put those onto the play grid if neither Man Wild nor Money Symbols are on the screen.
Ante Bet
Also, there is a choice to increase the Free Spins triggering chances by enabling the ‘Ante Bet’ option, which will cost you 50% of the currently chosen stake.
Buy Free Spins
Here is an opportunity to buy FS triggering for x100 to the bet. The number of Scatters will be randomly chosen since it can be 3, 4, or 5 special symbols simultaneously landed on the reels.
Our Experience Playing Big Bass Day at the Races
Also, we successfully played this slot on real money using a €1 stake and a €200 game balance. The theoretical RTP of the slot’s version used was 96.07%. As a result, we earned €191 through 300 spins. Let us explain how that happened.
During the 1st hundred spins, there were four times when the Money Symbol prizes-collecting feature triggered. Thanks to the activated multipliers up to x20, this function brought us €170.1. Another €250.4 we made thanks to the only Free Spin round triggered in this gaming session. So, those both features earned as much as €420.5. Also, there were regular wins, but they didn’t earn a lot due to just 17 prizes, 9 of which turned lower than the stake. So, after the 100th spin, there was as much as €531.17 on the balance.
During the 2nd hundred spins, we got only €24.2 thanks to the base game cash prizes. Also, there wasn’t an FS round. The number of regular wins was just 10, including 6 that were less than €1. As a result, our game balance decreased to €463.3.
The 3rd hundred spins went the same way, providing 8 regular prizes (this time, 3 appeared less than the current bet) and €10.6 total win due to base game cash-collecting. Yet, thanks to the luckiest 1st hundred spins, even after the 300th spin, we had as much as €391.
Here are all the baseline statistics concerning these 300 spins:
So, we want to highlight the too-volatile base game with way-low wins if it comes to pay-line prizes. For instance, the biggest regular win we got through these 300 spins was just €5.5 prize, whereas, for the first 30 spins without extra features triggering, we got only €0.9. So, the most income is due to Money Symbols' prizes within the base game and Free Spins wins.
Another con is not frequent FS triggering, even though there is a pair of features, randomly increasing the chances of their triggering like respins and Lasso function. Fortunately, the bonus game here is generous enough to guarantee you good income despite rare activations. Free Spins here is beyond all praise, thanks to all those modifiers, up to 76 extra FS, and a brilliant max Man Wild Multiplier up to x50.
Big Bass Day at the Races Verdict
So, what can we say — it’s an incredibly engaging follow-up to the famous ‘Big Bass’ slot series with the lucrative base game thanks to the random cash prize wins with a guaranteed multiplier of up to x50 and outstandingly generous Free Spins, which are packed out with such various lucrative features like modifiers, extra FS, and cash wins multiplier, again, up to x50.
The only drawbacks are customizable RTP (96.07% - 94.05%), the absence of Wild in the base game, and maybe not that frequent Free Spins triggering. Nevertheless, as we've demonstrated, just choose the slot with the best RTP and don’t hesitate for a second — this game can captivate you like no other before. Just give it a shot, and you won’t regret it!
