Big Bass Bonanza at 1xBet
1xBet hosts Big Bass Bonanza in its casino lobby, and the game turned “fishing for cash” into one of Pragmatic Play’s most enduring formulas — simple on the surface, but built around a bonus mechanic that rewards a very specific kind of luck: not just landing wilds, but landing them at the right moment relative to a stacking multiplier most reviews skip entirely. Every rule, payout, and interface detail below is pulled directly from the game’s own in-client rules screens (verified against the live demo client at a $2.00 reference bet), not paraphrased from a third-party summary.
How Big Bass Bonanza Plays
The base game runs on a fixed 5-reel, 3-row, 10-payline grid. Symbols pay left to right on adjacent reels starting from reel 1, and three official scoring rules govern every spin, straight from the in-game rules screen:
- Only the highest win is paid per line — if a payline qualifies for multiple winning combinations, the game pays the single best one, not a stack of them
- When multiple paylines win on the same spin, all of those wins are added together into the total payout
- All displayed values are actual wins in coins, multiplied by the bet placed per line
Bets range from $0.10 to $250.00 per spin, confirmed directly on the rules screen. The bet menu (opened via the +/− buttons beside the spin button) breaks the total bet down into coins per line and coin value, and both the CREDIT and BET labels can be toggled between a coins view and a cash view by clicking directly on them — a small interface detail worth knowing if the displayed numbers suddenly look unfamiliar mid-session.
Big Bass Bonanza Interface
Full Interface and Controls (From the Game’s Own Settings Menu)
Beyond spin and bet, the client exposes a full settings panel that’s rarely documented in reviews of this game:
- Settings menu icon — opens INTRO SCREEN (toggles the intro animation on/off), AMBIENT (toggles ambient sound and music), SOUND FX (toggles sound effects specifically), and GAME HISTORY (opens a dedicated log of previous spins)
- Spin-speed cycle icon — cycles between normal speed, quick spin, and turbo spin; holding the space bar also triggers turbo spin directly
- Sound toggle — mutes/unmutes all audio in one tap
- Info icon — opens the same rules screens referenced throughout this review
- Autoplay button — opens a dedicated automatic-play menu; pressing it again mid-session stops autoplay immediately
This level of control (particularly the separate ambient/SFX toggles and the dedicated game history log) is more granular than a lot of Pragmatic Play titles bother to expose, and it’s worth using the game history page specifically to review exactly how a free spins round played out, since the pace of retriggers can otherwise be hard to track in real time.
Paytable: Multipliers and Real Dollar Payouts at a $2.00 Bet
| Symbol | 5-of-a-kind | 4-of-a-kind | 3-of-a-kind | 2-of-a-kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Coloured Float | 200x ($400.00) | 20x ($40.00) | 5x ($10.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) |
| Fishing Rod | 100x ($200.00) | 15x ($30.00) | 3x ($6.00) | — |
| Dragonfly | 50x ($100.00) | 10x ($20.00) | 2x ($4.00) | — |
| Tackle Box | 50x ($100.00) | 10x ($20.00) | 2x ($4.00) | — |
| Fish | 20x ($40.00) | 5x ($10.00) | 1x ($2.00) | — |
| Ace | 10x ($20.00) | 2.5x ($5.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) | — |
| King | 10x ($20.00) | 2.5x ($5.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) | — |
| Queen | 10x ($20.00) | 2.5x ($5.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) | — |
| Jack | 10x ($20.00) | 2.5x ($5.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) | — |
| 10 | 10x ($20.00) | 2.5x ($5.00) | 0.5x ($1.00) | — |
The Multi-Coloured Float is the only symbol that pays on a 2-of-a-kind combination at all, which makes it slightly more consistent than the other high-value symbols even though its top payout isn’t the largest jump on the reel set proportionally.
Wild: appears only during the free spins round, on all reels, and substitutes for every symbol except the scatter. Scatter: appears on all five reels and triggers the free spins feature when 3 or more land on the same spin, regardless of position.
Big Bass Bonanza Scatter Symbol
The Free Spins Feature and Money Symbols — The Exact Mechanic
Triggering the feature: landing 3, 4, or 5 scatters on the same base-game spin awards 10, 15, or 20 free spins respectively.
Money symbols: every fish-paying symbol that appears during the feature is also a money symbol, carrying one randomly assigned cash value: 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, or 2,000x the total bet. On their own, these fish pay nothing extra beyond their normal paytable value — they only pay their attached cash value if a wild lands on that same spin.
What the wild does: when a wild lands on a free spin, it collects the values of every money symbol visible on the reels at that moment and pays the sum as a single prize. Land money-value fish worth 10x and 15x with no wild present, and neither cash value pays out — but the same board with one wild present pays 25x. Two wilds on the same spin means both independently collect the full set of visible values, effectively doubling that spin’s payout.
Retriggers and the multiplier: every 4th wild collected during the round triggers a retrigger — 10 additional free spins are added, and the multiplier applied to money-symbol collection increases: 2x after the first retrigger, 3x after the second, and 10x after the third. After the third retrigger, the feature can’t extend any further. Retriggered spins are played only after the current batch of free spins ends, and the active multiplier applies specifically to those retriggered spins going forward — not retroactively to anything already collected earlier in the round. This is a detail worth being precise about, since it’s often flattened elsewhere into a generic “up to 10x multiplier” description that skips the fact it only ever applies going forward from the point it’s earned.
A documented quirk directly from the rules screen: on any free spin where exactly one wild is present on the reels, additional fish money symbols can randomly spawn into empty positions before that wild finishes collecting — described in the game’s own rules as occurring on “special reels” that are in play specifically during the feature. It’s not a guaranteed event, but it adds real variance to single-wild spins that a plain description of the mechanic would miss entirely.
Malfunction clause: as stated directly on the rules screen, any malfunction voids all pays and plays for that round — a standard but rarely quoted disclaimer worth knowing exists.
The hard cap: total winnings from a single free spins round are capped at 2,100x the triggering bet. If the running total hits that figure at any point — including mid-retrigger — the round ends immediately, the capped win is paid, and any remaining free spins (retriggered or otherwise) are forfeited on the spot.
A Worked Example: How the Retrigger Multiplier Actually Stacks
Take a $10 base bet that triggers the feature with 3 scatters (10 free spins).
- Spin 4: a wild lands with two money symbols on screen worth 15x and 20x. No retrigger multiplier is active yet, so this spin pays 35x = $350.
- Spins 5–8: four more wilds land, triggering the first retrigger — 10 more free spins are added, and the money-symbol collection multiplier is now active at 2x.
- Spin 12 (within the retriggered batch): a wild lands with money symbols worth 10x and 25x visible — the same raw 35x combination as spin 4, but now multiplied by the active 2x, paying 70x = $700, exactly double the identical raw value collected earlier in the same round.
The practical takeaway: an identical-looking board of money symbols is worth twice as much (or more, at higher retrigger tiers) depending purely on when in the round it appears — a strong board early in the feature is worth meaningfully less than the same board reached after even one retrigger.
RTP, Volatility, and Max Win
- Theoretical RTP: 96.71%, stated directly on the rules screen, above the roughly 96% industry baseline. Lower-RTP configurations (95.67% and 94.5%) also circulate depending on which casino operator has licensed the build, so it’s worth confirming which version is live before assuming the top figure applies — the info icon in the game client always shows the exact RTP running on that specific build.
- Volatility: rated 4 out of 5 on the game’s own scale, described in its own rules text as paying out less often on average in exchange for a higher chance of hitting large wins in a short span. This lines up with a base game where the hit frequency (how often any winning combination lands at all) sits in the low-30% range per independent tracking — meaning roughly two out of every three spins return nothing, with most of the real upside concentrated in the money-symbol collection during free spins rather than base-game line hits.
- Maximum win: 2,100x the triggering bet, hard-capped at the moment the running total reaches it.
The game is developed under Pragmatic Play’s Reel Kingdom studio imprint, visible directly on the in-client branding — Reel Kingdom is Pragmatic Play’s dedicated studio for this style of money-symbol mechanic, which also underlies several of the spin-off titles below.
Where to Play Big Bass Bonanza
The game runs identically across desktop and mobile, with confirmed support on Android and iOS as well as Windows — the fixed 10-payline layout and simplified control set translate cleanly to a smaller screen. It’s available directly in the casino lobby, and registering an account takes only a couple of minutes for anyone who wants to move from demo play into real-money spins.
Big Bass Bonanza vs. the Rest of the Series
| Game | Key difference | Max win |
|---|---|---|
| Big Bass Bonanza (original) | The fixed 10-payline, wild-collects-money-symbols formula covered above | 2,100x |
| Big Bass Bonanza Megaways | Shape-shifting reels replace fixed paylines with a Megaways ways-to-win mechanic | Varies by build |
| Big Bass Amazon Xtreme | Enhanced bonus features layered on top of the standard money-symbol mechanic | 10,000x |
| Big Bass Hold & Spinner Megaways | Up to 147,456 ways to win, combined with a hold-and-spin bonus layer | 20,000x |
The higher ceilings in the newer titles generally come from a wider spread of possible money-symbol values rather than a fundamentally different collection mechanic — Hold & Spinner, for instance, runs a longer list of money values (including several intermediate tiers between 50x and 2,000x) stacked on top of a hold-and-spin bonus layer, which is what pushes its theoretical ceiling well past the original’s flatter 2,100x cap. Anyone drawn specifically to the wild-collects-money-symbols mechanic but wanting a higher ceiling than the original’s cap has a clear upgrade path within the same family rather than needing to look at an unrelated game entirely.
Big Bass Bonanza Gameplay
Is Big Bass Bonanza Worth Playing?
The appeal isn’t visual — the cartoon underwater theme and jazz-inflected backing track are functional rather than spectacular, and the interface, while more granular than most (separate ambient/SFX toggles, a dedicated game history log), doesn’t try to be flashy either. What it does well is make one mechanic genuinely worth understanding precisely: the timing of a wild relative to a retrigger threshold can double or more the value of an otherwise identical board, and the low base-game hit frequency means most sessions are genuinely a wait for the free spins round rather than a steady drip of small wins. The 2,100x cap is modest next to its own spin-offs, but the 96.71% RTP (worth double-checking against the in-game info panel, since operators can run lower-paying builds) and 4/5 volatility make it a reasonably balanced entry point into the mechanic before deciding whether Amazon Xtreme’s or Hold & Spinner Megaways’ higher ceilings are worth the added variance.
Aiden Brooks 
