Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot is played on 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines. Winning combinations are formed when 3 or more identical or matching symbols land from left to right on adjacent reels and across any of the 10 paylines. The more matching symbols per payline, the bigger the payout with the highest win awarded only.

With a minimum bet of 10p per spin, the maximum bet is £5 in the UK (or £2 for those under 25). To change your bet, there are plus and minus buttons either side of the main ‘Spin’ button. You can also use the System Settings icon to change your bet easily. Players outside the UK can benefit from additional gameplay features including Autoplay (up to 1,000 auto spins) as well as Turbo/Quick Spin modes.

The Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round RTP rate is 96.5%. Significantly higher than the 96% average, Pragmatic Play has produced 95.5% and 94.5% RTP versions which will be used by some UK slot and casino sites (open the Paytable and check your rate there). That said, the Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round free demo uses the highest RTP setting as do most slot demos found at OLBG.

Very high on the volatility front (5/5), you can expect a winning combination to land every 7.7 spins in the base game as the hit frequency rate is 12.99%. When it comes to triggering the Free Spins feature, this will take approximately 113 spins on average.

Lastly, the Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot comes with 5,000 times bet max wins. The max win probability, or your chances of landing the top payout, is 1 in 2,544,391 spins. Winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher will occur every 1 in 168,833 spins.

Unlike other Big Bass slots, the Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot has a boxing theme rather than a fishing one. It’s not the first time Pragmatic Play has switched things up in the series with Big Bass Day at the Races and Big Bass Halloween having horse racing and horror themes respectively.

With a boxing venue the setting for the 26^th release in the series, I do wonder what possessed Pragmatic Play to marry boxing and fishing. It’s certainly odd with no natural connection. Anyway, the reels are set within a boxing ring, you’ll see spotlights beaming down onto the action.

On the reels, there are low-value A, K, Q, J and 10 symbols. The higher-value symbols including Fish Money, medical kits, skipping ropes, boxing shoes and boxing gloves: the latter pays 0.5, 5, 20 or 200 x your total bet for 2, 3, 4 or 5 in combination.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round comes with 2 wild symbols: you have a Blue Boxer Wild and Red Boxer Wild which can appear on all 5 reels during the Free Spins feature only (i.e. not in the base game). As expected, they substitute for all paying symbols (more on this below). The other symbol of importance is the Big Bass Scatter which is key to triggering the free spins.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round Mobile

Created using HTML5 technology, Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round can be played on mobile, desktop and tablet devices. Detecting and adapting to whatever device is used, Portrait Mode will be used if playing on an iOS or Android smartphone to make better use of the vertical screen layout.

The Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot is all about the Free Spins feature. With 2 wild symbols, land them with Fish Money symbols to collect their values (up to 5,000 x bet each). Every 4^th Boxer Wild of any colour awards retriggers for more free spins and Fish Money multipliers up to 10x. To help, there are 3 random extras.

Free Spins

The all-important Free Spins feature is triggered when you land 3, 4 or 5 Big Bass Scatter symbols anywhere during a base game spin: this will reward you with 15, 20 or 25 free spins respectively.

Look out for Fish Money symbols as they contain a random bet multiplier value ranging from 2 to 5,000 x your total bet. When a Wild symbol lands, it collects all the Fish Money symbol values on the screen.

Every Blue Boxer Wild and Red Boxer Wild that land are collected separately on a blue or red meter. Every 4^th Wild symbol of any colour collected in their respective meter will retrigger the feature: this reward you with 10 additional free spins with the Fish Money multiplier increasing to 2x. The multiplier increases to 3x and then 10x in levels 3 and 4 respectively:

To help increase your winning potential, Pragmatic Play has thrown in some randomly-triggered features:

• Camera Spin feature: when a Blue or Red Boxer Wild appears with no Fish Money symbols, Fish Money symbols are randomly added to the reels.  
• Hook feature: when Fish Money symbols appear with no wilds, a Hook will randomly pull up a reel to bring either Red or Blue Boxer Wilds onto the reel.
• Knock Out feature: When Red or Blue Boxer Wilds appear with no Fish Money symbols, a Knock Out animation appears and changes symbols on the reels to something else.

Ante Bet 

This optional feature sees your bet increase by 50% (i.e. from 10p to 15p per spin). As a result, your chances of landing Big Bass Scatter symbols increase which in turn increases your chances of triggering the Free Spins feature. The RTP rate remains unchanged.

Buy

For non-UK players, there is a Buy feature. For 100 times your total bet, you can buy your way into the Free Spins feature with 3, 4 or 5 Big Bass Scatters landing. There is also a Super Free Spins feature which costs 300 x bet: for this investment, only 3 Blue or Red Boxer Wilds are needed to trigger the feature. RTP rates remain unaffected.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round Slot

Rating: 2.8/5

With a 96.5% RTP rate and 5,000 x bet max wins, Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round is a clone of Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe which is unoriginal and has an odd theme.

Chris Taylor

With the Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot being the 26^th game in the series, I was interested to see what Pragmatic Play came up with next. Opting for boxing oddly, marrying this theme with fishing doesn’t quite work in my opinion.

The gameplay is pretty much what we’ve come to expect from Big Bass slots: the focus is entirely on the Free Spins feature where Wilds collect Fish Money values which in turn lead to additional free spins and Fish Money multipliers up to 10x.

What is different to most Big Bass slots is that there are 2 wild symbols (i.e. the Red Boxer Wild and Blue Boxer Wild) which doubles your chances of collect Fish Money prizes and increases your chances of retriggers and multipliers. You can find this in Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe. In fact, Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round shares example the same stats as it’s Vegas counterpart.

That said, Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round will only appeal to players who like boxing as this clone offers nothing new or unique. I would have hoped that Pragmatic Play would have introduced some new modifiers or features to keep things fresh and exciting.

If you want a Big Bass game with something extra, I would opt for Big Bass Bonanza 1000 due to the win potential being high at 20,000 x bet.

The Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. 

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