Bonanza Billion Slot – Free Demo
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BGaming
The only bonus round I saw arrived on spin one and never came back. Bonanza Billion pays anywhere on the grid — matching symbols count wherever they land, winners clear, the gaps refill while wins keep forming — and its Multiplier Symbol, 2x to 100x, shows up only once the free spins start.
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What BGaming Built Into Bonanza Billion
Ok, so word of fresh BGaming slots is not something that make my mouth water. Bonanza Billion is the one they have kept extending, with Bonanza Billion Xtreme, Bonanza Billion X-mas and Bonanza Trillion standing as separate games built on the name rather than settings of this one. The reality is that, up until now at least, the games have all been middling at best, and some are genuinely downright awful.
The library of this studio is rather dismal, and these fellows undoubtedly have a talent for visual design. Dig Dig Digger and Fire Lightning are two more of theirs on the site. But from what I've observed so far, they seem more like contracted coders rather than casino fans.
I was combing through my roster of providers in search for games to review. I quickly realised there wasn't much to choose from, so the pick fell on BGaming and their Bonanza Billion, released since 2 December 2021, due to the festive nature of the iGaming sector and most staff probably still recuperating from new years eve.
Anyways, on to the technical facets. Bonanza Billion is a 6-reel slot that pays anywhere, allegedly on a 6x5 grid where eight or more matching symbols pay regardless of placement. That grid figure derives from a review site though, and not from BGaming. The eight-symbol minimum comes from the same place. Here you will profit from the Refilling Reels feature and a bonus game with multipliers, and the RTP is 95.97%.
Refilling Reels and What Fills the Gaps
BGaming publish no paytable for this one, so there's nothing to cite on what the symbols actually pay, and the count of matching symbols on screen at the close of a spin is what determines the win.
There's a Refilling Reels feature bundled in the base game, and it triggers on every win: the winning symbols vanish, the rest fall down, and fresh symbols fill the gaps. One paid spin can therefore pay several times over before the reels come to rest. The feature persists while wins keep building. My largest single spin of the sitting, 58.80 on spin 138, was a refill sequence that kept clearing. There's also a Chance x2 button. It slightly lifts the bet for more opportunities to land 4 or more Scatters, and is deactivated while Buy Bonus is active.
Four Scatters, Ten Spins, One Multiplier Symbol
The chief draw of this game is the free spins game. To enter it you will either need to land 4 Scatters anywhere for 10 free spins, 5 for 20 or 6 for 30, or use the buy-in feature, which is priced off your bet on the button, and three Scatters during the round grant 5 extra free spins. What that price guarantees is entry to the round and nothing about what the round then pays, which is the same deal the Scatters hand you for free.
Here you will profit from the Multiplier Symbol. I opened the round once in the whole sitting, on spin 1, with four Scatters for ten free spins. It appears in the free spins only and takes a random value from 2x to 100x on each hit, lingering until the refilling sequence finishes and combining together with any other values on screen before it is applied, and the maximum win is 15,000x the bet.
Our Minty Verdict: One free spins round in 310 spins is the whole shape of my sitting, and it arrived on spin 1 and never came back — 41x the stake, a quarter of everything the session won, and 309 spins of base game after it.
What 310 Spins at 1.40 Gave Back
The base game does tend to get a bit dull at times, even with the inclusion of the Refilling Reels feature. Nearly half of the spins that paid me anything came back under the 1.40 stake. But the bonus makes up for it.
It's not a game I see myself coming back to repeatedly, especially with the endless of choices on the virtual shelves. It's a volatile game, however. The balance peaked at 1,056.00 on the first spin and closed at 784.47, which was also its lowest point. Over my 310 spins at 1.40 it returned just 50.3% of what I put in, and only 59 spins paid anything at all. I staked 434.00 in total and took back 218.47. One dry stretch lasted 32 spins, and the single free spins round I triggered, on the very first spin, was worth 41x the stake and a quarter of everything I won. Its return came from Multiplier Symbols landing on two of the ten spins rather than one large clear. It ate my balance like a seagull bolting a sausage.