Wins in the Bouncy Bombs slot gather in a total above the grid, and what you keep isn’t always settled straight away. Bombs appear at random, though they turn up often. The ones that arrive sit in place until the round closes. Then they explode, join with any others and multiply that total in one go. A plain 2x is a nudge. A revealing bomb hiding a 100x, dropped over a round that already paid well, is the spin you play for.
Every winning combination in a round is collected above the grid, in what Hacksaw labels the Total Win Bar. Left alone, that figure pays out as it stands. The bombs are what can turn it into something larger.
Bombs on the board go off together when the round finishes, as long as at least one win has landed, their values adding into a single multiplier that drops on the running total. A lone 4x over a €10 round makes it €40. Several bombs pool first, so a 4x and a 10x become a 14x before they strike.
The bombs come in three types, and the type decides what is on offer.
Dynamite only reaches those heights while the cascades keep landing, which is why the revealing bomb’s outright 100x posts the biggest numbers more readily.
Land 3 YUMMY scatters at once and the Bombastic round opens, 10 free spins with a higher chance of landing bombs than the base game gives you. Catch 4 scatters and its richer cousin, Bombastic Fantastic, takes its place, the same 10 spins but with a bomb promised on each of them. That promise covers the bomb and nothing else. Bombs only explode when the round has produced a win, so one that lands on a spin with no win is wasted.
More scatters caught during either round stretch it, two extra spins for a pair and four for a trio.
There are five ways in, split into two kinds. Three are FeatureSpins, which stay switched on until you press disable, and two are direct buys. All five are free to play in the demo, so the prices below come off demo credits and nothing else.
The buy menu labels its own volatility as Medium for the 25x tier and High for the other four.
Bouncy Bombs has no paylines. Land 8 or more matching pieces and they pay as a group, wherever they sit on the grid. Winners then clear and new symbols fall into the gaps, and any further match pays again, the cascades carrying on until a tumble brings no win.
A spin runs €0.10 at the smallest and €100 at the largest, set with the arrows by the spin button, and the Buy Bonus menu sits to the left for anyone paying their way in.
The fruit are the symbols to hope for. A €1 spin pays €2 for 8 matching blueberries or green apples, and €0.20 for 8 jelly sweets. Everything above that is the bombs’ doing.
The return sits at 96.22% in the demo, and leaner builds circulate at some casinos, so check the game info before you play for real. Volatility reads as medium, with the splash screen meter lit to 3 out of 5, so wins land regularly and the heavier bomb rounds do not.
The most a spin can pay is 10,000x, and that cap holds whether you reach it in normal play, on a FeatureSpin or inside either bonus, with the round ending the instant it lands. The buy menu’s own returns sit close to the base figure, from 96.27% on three of the five up to 96.38% on BonusHunt.
Every jelly sweet pays the same, whatever its shade. The two brighter fruits, the green apple and the blueberry, pay double the strawberry and the orange at every count.
| Symbols | Pays |
|---|---|
| 8 | €0.20 |
| 9 | €0.40 |
| 10 | €1.00 |
| 11-12 | €2.00 |
| 13-14 | €5.00 |
| 15-16 | €10.00 |
| 17-18 | €20.00 |
| 19+ | €50.00 |
All Jelly sweets are identical. Shown at €1 spin.
| Symbols | Strawberry / Orange | Green Apple / Blueberry |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | €1.00 | €2.00 |
| 9 | €1.50 | €3.00 |
| 10 | €2.00 | €4.00 |
| 11-12 | €4.00 | €8.00 |
| 13-14 | €10.00 | €20.00 |
| 15-16 | €20.00 | €40.00 |
| 17-18 | €60.00 | €120.00 |
| 19+ | €200.00 | €400.00 |
Fruit values at €1 per spin.
Bouncy Bombs puts everything on the close of a round, and it makes that wait easy to read, the total sitting overhead while the multipliers gather to add themselves together. The characters are why the single idea holds across a session, faces on every fruit and a jelly-mushroom that will not stop dancing. It pays off often enough to hold up. Three scatters at €1.00 a spin gave us a Bombastic round that finished at €349, and a €75 Revealing spin put six bombs worth 137x over a €1.00 total for €137. The reservation is the buy above both. Bombastic Fantastic costs 200x and guarantees a bomb on each of its ten spins without adding anything else, no multiplier held from one to the next, and our two goes at it came back €56.60 and €209.80.
The end-of-round explosion is the best thing here, and it’s easy to follow, since the total sits in full view the whole time. Winning symbols burst in a splash of their own colour with a pop that lands just right, so even a small win carries a bit of theatre. Five prices from 3x to 200x cover both ends of it, three that change the spins you are already making and two that hand you the round outright.
The top buy is the part that feels short-changed. Bombastic Fantastic costs 200x and keeps its promise, a bomb on all ten spins, which on its own can push a round along. What the extra 100x never adds is persistence, since no multiplier builds up between spins, and our two goes at it returned €56.60 and €209.80 against the €200 they each cost. The cheaper Bombastic round, reached for nothing on three scatters, gave us €349 on the same €1.00 bet.
Everything in this game points at one moment, the close of a round, when the bombs go off. What comes before it feeds a total that keeps building inside the round. A run of 8 or more symbols pays, clears, and lets new ones fall, each win adding to the count. Then the bombs decide it. Their values pool into one number, it lands on the total, and a couple of euros can finish at thirty or forty. A 4x, a 10x and a 4x pooled into 18x over a €2.00 total on one of our €25 FeatureSpins, and paid €36.
That structure cuts both ways, and it’s the part to grasp before you reach for the heavier bombs. Because the bombs multiply a win you have already banked, the size of that win counts as much as the value on the bomb. Two spins from our session, both on a €1.00 base bet, make the point. A 75x Revealing spin put six bombs worth 137x between them over a €1.00 total and paid €137. In Bombastic Fantastic, a 100x, two 10x and a 5x landed together, 125x in all, and paid €25 because the win underneath was €0.20.
We reached Bombastic the ordinary way, three scatters at a €1.00 spin, and the round built slowly. A €45 win came early, then one spin combined its multipliers into €303 and carried the round to €349 with six free spins still to run.
The FeatureSpins are the cheaper way in, and they keep you spinning while they shift the balance. The 75x Revealing tier is where the big ones live, and it misses often too. A 4x and a 5x over a €2.40 total came back at €21.60, and two 10x bombs on another spin made €40, both well short of the €75 they cost. Below it, the 25x Normal tier guarantees a bomb and a win each time, which turned a €5.00 win into €50 on a lone 10x, and the 3x BonusHunt only shortens the odds on a bonus.
What keeps Bouncy Bombs likeable through all of it is its manner. The fruit have faces and moods, and the sweets wobble on the spot. Off to the side a blue jelly-mushroom dances, blows kisses, draws hearts in the air and cheers along, a smaller one riding on its head that shouts YIPPEE when the big one twirls. Another wanders across the reels now and then.
The bonus rounds look and sound calmer than the base game even as the numbers get bigger. The forest gives way to a warmer scene, bubbles drift past, and the music slows behind it all.
The extra 100x does buy a bomb on every spin, and a persistent multiplier held through the free spins would have turned that into a proper step up. As it stands, the bombs carry the game, and most of the time that’s enough. Anyone who wants a spread of buy prices, from 3x up to 200x, and doesn’t mind a medium volatility base between the explosions, will get on with it well.
