Big Bass Football Bonanza
Demo Stats
RTP & Maths
- RTP by Mode
- Ante 15x 96.50% · Ante 16x 96.50% · Ante 25x 96.50% · Buy Free Spins 96.50% · Buy Free Spins + Repeat Chance 96.50% · Buy Mega Free Spins 96.50%
- Max Win Rule
- 5,000x bet; round ends, win awarded up to the cap, remaining free spins forfeited
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3/4/5 scatters = 15/20/25 free spins · Retrigger: every 4th Wild collected (3 of any colour in any meter in Mega Free Spins); no retrigger after the fourth level
- Bonus Buy
- Buy Free Spins 100x (96.50% RTP) · Buy Free Spins + Repeat Chance 180x (96.50% RTP) · Buy Mega Free Spins 300x (96.50% RTP) · Ante 15x 1.5x (96.50% RTP) · Ante 16x 1.6x (96.50% RTP) · Ante 25x 2.5x (96.50% RTP)
- Ante Bet
- 1.5x (15x multiplier) · 1.6x (16x) · 2.5x (25x) vs 10x normal play stake · 15x: higher natural free spins chance, more scatters · 16x: Repeat chance at the end of free spins · 25x: both · Disables the buy
- Multipliers
- 2x, 3x, 10x · Every 4th Wild collected: +10 free spins and money collection multiplier 2x (level 2), 3x (level 3), 10x (level 4); no retrigger after level 4
Symbols & Pays
- Money Symbols
- 2x–5000x
- Wild
- Substitute for all symbols except the scatter and money symbol; appear on all reels during the free spins round · All reels, during the free spins round
- Scatter Reels
- All reels
- Line Pays
- Top symbol 200x · Lowest 0.2x
Big Bass Football Bonanza Overview

Big Bass Football Bonanza takes the series’ anglers to a floodlit football stadium, puts two of them in numbered shirts, and borrows a terrace chant for the tagline, Fishing’s Coming Home. Under the kit, this slot keeps the free spins feature, where a Wild collects fish values, then adds a decision the player makes before it ever starts. Big Bass Football Bonanza lets you choose how to pay for a second run of the same round, via a 16x or 25x ante or an 180x buy. That second run is a chance at the end of free spins, not a certainty.
What’s in the Demo

Red 11 and Blue 26
The Wilds are two players, a bald one in red 11 and a bearded one in blue 26, each holding a gold trophy. They appear on all reels during free spins and substitute for all symbols other than the scatter and the money fish. Landing three scatters starts that round with 15 spins, four with 20, and five with 25. During the round, each Wild also collects the value of every money fish on screen.
Every 4th Wild collected adds 10 more spins and lifts the collection multiplier to 2x at the second level, 3x at the third, and 10x at the fourth, after which the round can’t be retriggered again.
Anyone who has tried the two-meter round Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe runs will know the ladder, since its meters climb independently toward 10x.
Bonus Repeat
When the free spins finish, the REPEAT feature can appear and give a chance to restart the round from the beginning. A restarted round begins on the spin count the finished one started with and with its potential random modifiers, and the wins collected so far are kept. The main screen labels it Bonus Repeat.
Three routes bring it into play: the 16x ante, the 25x ante, or the 180x buy. The buy opens a round straight away. With either ante, the scatters still have to start one.
Pragmatic Play’s Three Ante Bets
| Bet multiplier | Effect | Buys |
|---|---|---|
| 10x | Normal play | Available |
| 15x | More scatters, higher natural free spins chance | Disabled |
| 16x | REPEAT chance at the end of free spins | Disabled |
| 25x | Higher natural chance plus REPEAT chance | Disabled |
The buy menu lists three prices in multiples of the base bet: 100x for Buy Free Spins, 180x for Buy Free Spins + Repeat Chance, and 300x for Buy Mega Free Spins, a round in which only 3 Wilds of any colour, collected in any meter, are needed to retrigger. Switch on an ante of any size, and all three buttons are disabled.
Podium and BASS-ZOOKA!
Three random modifiers can act when a free spin finishes. When Wilds are showing without any fish, money fish can randomly appear in new positions, or a BASS-ZOOKA! animation can randomly change all the symbols other than the Wilds into something else. When fish are showing without a Wild, a podium can randomly appear and pull a reel up to bring Wilds onto the screen.
How to Play
Demo RTP
Big Bass Football Bonanza prices a spin by its bet multiplier, 10x in normal play and 15x, 16x, or 25x with an ante on, so the setting decides what each spin costs. The Ante Bet panel left of reel 1 switches the settings, labelled MORE SCATTERS AND BONUS REPEATS, with a Buy Free Spins button under it. Against a normal-play spin, the three antes cost 1.5x, 1.6x, and 2.5x. Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe has one step above normal play, from 10x to 15x, whereas this game has three. Only the 16x and 25x settings bring REPEAT, and 15x changes the scatters and the natural trigger chance alone.
The theoretical RTP is 96.50% in the demo. At the bottom of the bet range, it can be played for $0.10 a spin.
Standard play has its own help with the trigger. When two scatters land without a third, the game can randomly try to add one. Either the scatters move down one row and the reels without them respin, if they can do so without leaving the reel area, or one more scatter can appear in a random position after the spin lands. Both are random, so two scatters may simply stay two.
Big Bass Football Bonanza Paytable
The football is the only symbol that pays for two of a kind, at 0.5x, and it climbs to 200x for five. The whistle comes next at 100x for five, and the other picture symbols start paying at three. Money fish have a row too, 1x for three up to 20x for five, separate from the value each fish shows on each spin, which can be won during free spins. Boots and the kit bag pay alike, and the royals split into two tiers, A and K at 10x for five, with 10, J, and Q at 5x. The two Wilds and the scatter are left out of the table, which reads in x the total bet.
| Symbol | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | 0.5x | 5x | 20x | 200x |
| Whistle | – | 3x | 15x | 100x |
| Boots | – | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Kit bag | – | 2x | 10x | 50x |
| Money fish | – | 1x | 5x | 20x |
| A | – | 0.2x | 2.5x | 10x |
| K | – | 0.2x | 2.5x | 10x |
| Q | – | 0.2x | 1x | 5x |
| J | – | 0.2x | 1x | 5x |
| 10 | – | 0.2x | 1x | 5x |
Ultimate Slots Verdict
Big Bass Football Bonanza suits players who like to decide how their free spins are set up.
Three antes and three buys put REPEAT, extra scatters, and Mega Free Spins on one menu, and REPEAT gives a chance to restart a finished round with its wins kept. Against that, any ante disables all three buys, and REPEAT is a chance rather than a promise.
Hits What we like
- REPEAT gives a chance to restart the free spins with the wins kept
- Three ante levels, each with its own effect
- Mega Free Spins need only 3 Wilds of any colour in any meter to retrigger
- Every 4th Wild collected adds 10 spins at 2x, 3x, then 10x, with no retrigger after the fourth level
Misses What could be better
- Any ante disables all three buys
- REPEAT is a chance once the round finishes, not a promise
Detailed Review
Slot Review
REPEAT is what sets this entry apart, and the way it’s sold is the best part of the design. Reel Kingdom added the game to its Big Bass series in May 2026, and it’s the entry with the most ways to set up a round before it starts, three antes and three buys against one ante and two buys on Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe. The 16x ante is the tidiest way in, adding REPEAT for 1.6x a normal spin. The Repeat Chance buy costs 180x against 100x for the plain one, and the difference pays for a chance at a second round, nothing more.
Mega Free Spins at 300x is the buy with the clearer payoff, because only 3 Wilds of any colour in any meter are needed to retrigger it. REPEAT has a cost that isn’t in the price list. When a round finishes, the feature appears, and sometimes it doesn’t fire. Paying extra every spin, or up front, for that moment and then watching it pass is a near-miss you’ve bought in advance, and one worth meeting in free play first.
Two cartoon footballers front this game. Blue 26 has long hair, a beard, and a white headband, with a football under one arm, while red 11 is bald and grinning, with an earring. Both shirts have a crowned-gorilla crest and BIG BASS across the chest. Behind the reels is a floodlit stadium with a blimp overhead, and the symbols come from the kit room, a panelled football, a referee’s whistle, blue boots marked BB, and an open kit bag. The football joke runs all the way through, and it gives the two Wild colours a reason to exist as rival shirts.
A familiar Big Bass round with more say over how it starts, and this review’s 4.1 out of 5 for it.
Big Bass Series at a Glance
All Big Bass Series ›| Game | RTP | Max win | Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bass Football Bonanza | 96.5% | 5,000x | Low |
| Big Bass Splash | 96.71% | 5,000x | Very High |
| Big Bass Bonanza | 96.71% | 2,100x | High |
| Big Bass Bonanza 1000 | 96.51% | 20,000x | High |
| Big Bass Splash 1000 | 96.52% | 25,000x | High |
| Big Bass Amazon Xtreme | 96.07% | 10,000x | High |
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