Big Bass Day at the Races Slot (Pragmatic Play)

The Big Bass Day at the Races slot is played with 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines. Landing 3, 4 or 5 matching symbols from left to right across any of the paylines. Winning symbols need to begin from the leftmost reel (i.e. reel 1) with the highest win on each payline awarded. With the highest-value symbol, 2 or more are needed.

Bets-wise, you can play Big Bass Day at the Races from 10p to £250 a spin. With the maximum bet limited at most casinos and slot sites, changing your bet is simple. Use the plus and/or minus buttons under the reels (laptop/PC) or by pressing the ‘Coins’ icon if you’re using a mobile or tablet device. Are you located outside the UK? Autoplay lets you choose up to 1,000 auto spins with optional Turbo and Quick Spin modes.

In terms of the return rate, the Big Bass Day at the Races RTP rate is 96.07%. As with other Pragmatic Play slot games, there are 95.08% and 94.05% RTP alternative versions which may be used by your chosen slots site. Open the Paytable to check with RTP rate the game has.

5 out of 5 on the volatility front (very high), winning combinations will land every 8.5 spins as the base game hit frequency rate is 11.76%. Triggering the all-important Free Spins feature will occur, on average, every 148.43 spins.

Finally, the Big Bass Day at the Races slot comes with 10,000 times bet max wins. The max win hit frequency or max win probability is 1 in 14,321,518 spins (14.3 million spins) with the chances of winning 1,000 times your total bet or higher at 1 in 28,445 spins.

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With a horse racing theme, you get to trade in the reels for racehorses in the Big Bass Day at the Races slot game. Released on the 7^th of March 2024, expect to see popular bonus features from the Big Bass slots series albeit with a fresh and unique horse racing style.

With a generic racecourse in the backdrop, the graphics and animations are completely different to the fishing-themed ones you’ve seen many times before from the popular series. The soundtrack reminds me of the Catchphrase TV show hosted by Stephen Mulhern.

On the reels, there are colourful A, K, Q, J and 10 royals which are the same as in other slot games. The higher-value symbols are represented by binoculars, pints of beer, tackle boxes and champagne flutes (to celebrate your horses coming in). The champagne flutes symbol pays the most award 200 times your total bet for 5 across a payline. A screen full of champagne flutes will result in a 2000 times bet payout.

Big Bass Day at the Races has a Punter Wild symbol which appears on all reels during the Free Spins feature. It substitutes for all paying symbols as well as collecting Money symbols (more on this below). The other important symbol to look out for is the Jockey and Racehorse Scatter which is key to triggering the free spins. You’ll also see Money symbols which contain prizes of up to 1,000 times your total bet (these come into play during the free spins). Find a list of all symbol payouts and functions below:

• Q/J/10: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 1 or 5 x bet
• A/K: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 2.5 or 10 x bet
• Binoculars/Pint of Beer: 3, 4 or 5 = 2, 10 or 50 x bet 
• Tackle Box: 3, 4 or 5 = 3, 15 or 100 x bet
• Champagne Flutes: 2, 3, 4 or 5 = 0.5, 5, 20 or 200 x bet
• Punter Wild: Substitutes + collects Money symbols during free spins
• Money: Worth up to 1,000 x bet + collected in base game randomly & during free spins
• Jockey & Racehorse Scatter: 3+ triggers Free Spins feature

Big Bass Day at the Races Mobile

Big Bass Day at the Races uses HTML5 technology so can be played on desktop, mobile and tablet devices. With the 5x3 reel layout adapting perfectly to all devices, it’s perfect for play on Android and iOS smartphones. The Portrait Mode is particularly impressive.

The Big Bass Day at the Races slots has a total of 7 bonus features. Randomly in the base game, Money symbols worth up to 1,000 x bet are collected with a multiplier of up to 50x applied. In the Free Spins feature, Punter Wilds collect Money symbol values with the former added to the progression meter. Each time you land 4 Punter Wilds, you win 10 free spins and increase the Money symbols multiplier (up to 50x). Pragmatic Play has also thrown in random extras to boost your winning potential.

Money Symbols

On the reels, you will notice a variety of racehorse Money symbols appearing on all 5 reels. Worth between 0.2 and 1,000 times your total bet, the Money Symbols feature is activated randomly after a base game spin.

When this happens, all Money symbol values are collected and awarded. Furthermore, a random multiplier between 1x and 50x will be awarded and applied to the total value collected from the Money symbols. Below, find a list of all Money symbol and multiplier values:

• Money symbols: 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 200, 250, 333, 500 or 1,000 x bet
• Multiplier: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 40x or 50x

Free Spins

The Big Bass Day at the Races slot is all about the Free Spins feature. It’s triggered by landing 3 or more Jockey & Racehorse Scatter symbols anywhere on a base game spin (on any reel).

Did you land 2 Jockey & Racehorse Scatters in the base game? Not to worry as another scatter can make it’s way onto the reels with the Random feature:

• If the Jockey & Racehorse Scatters can move down 1 position without falling off the reels, a respin is awarded where the reels with scatters shift down 1 position and the reels without scatters respin.
• A lasso can appear and change 1 symbol on the reels into a scatter.

With 10 free spins awarded once you enter the feature, you get to pick racehorses to add modifiers to the free spins. If you’re lucky enough to trigger the Free Spins feature with 4 or 5 scatters, 1 or 2 racehorses already picked. You will carry on making picks until you uncover ‘And they’re off’. Below you’ll find details on all modifiers up for grabs:

• More Free Spins: 1, 2 or 3 additional free spins will be added to your tally (up to 6 extra free spins).
• Fixed Horse: Reveal up to 3 +1 Fixed Horse items which will give you 1, 2 or 3 guaranteed Money symbols landing on each free spin.
• Already Collected Punter Wilds: Reveal up to 3 Punter Wilds which contribute to the progression meter. This makes it easier to retrigger the feature.
• Remove Lowest Horse: Up 2 low-value Money symbols will be removed from the reels (2x and 5x Money symbols).

During the free spins, each Punter Wild symbol will collect all values from the Money symbols that appear on the reels.

Every 4^th Punter Wild collected will lead to a retrigger with additional free spins and a multiplier increase for Money symbols collected. With 8 levels available during the feature, you can play with up to 80 free spins and a multiplier of up to 50x:

To help you win more during the feature, there are 2 randomly triggered features that can come into play:

• Bazooka feature: When Punter Wilds(s) appear on the reels with no Money symbols, a stampede animation can occur and change all the symbols from the screen to something else.
• Lasso feature: A lasso can randomly pull the reels up to drag Punter Wild and Money symbols onto the reels when none of them appear on a free spin initially.

Ante Bet 

To help you land Jockey & Racehorse Scatters in the base game, there is an optional Ante Bet feature. This would cost you 50% more per spin: i.e. the minimum bet of 10p increases to 15p. Also, the RTP rate goes down from 96.07% to 96.06%.

Buy Free Spins

Outside the UK, there is a Bonus Buy element called the Buy Free Spins feature. Costing 100 times your total bet, you can buy your way into the Free Spins feature. This will randomly see 3, 4 or 5 Jockey & Racehorse Scatters land on the reels. The RTP rate remains unaffected.

The Big Bass Day at the Races slot is different from other games in the series as it has a horse racing theme. Released by Pragmatic Play to coincide with the Grand National (in April), the graphics are not entirely that different from other slots in the series like Big Bass Splash and Big Bass Bonanza.

Using a lot of the same symbols, the mechanics have been seen more. In the base game, Money symbols are randomly collected and awarded with a random multiplier applied. Money symbols are worth up to 1,000 times your total bet and multipliers can reach 50x!

Focusing on the Free Spins feature, you pick racehorses to play with various modifiers including Money symbols on every free spin, extra free spins, higher-value Money symbols and up to 3 Punter Wilds in the progression meter. The latter makes it significantly easier to retrigger the feature.

Importantly, each retrigger awards 10 more free spins and increases the multiplier applied to Money symbol wins. If you manage to land enough Punter Wilds, you’ll play 80 free spins with a massive 50x multiplier. You also have random features which can add Punter Wilds and/or Money symbols onto the reels.

With a 96.07% RTP rate, the Big Bass Day at the Race slot comes with 10,000 times bet max wins. Whilst this makes it one of the more lucrative in the series, it’s basically a horse racing-themed version of Big Bass Amazon Xtreme (June 2023). If you’re a horse racing fan, it’s odds on to be a favourite.

If you fancy a day at the races, check out OLBG’s Horse Racing Slots Guide which includes games from Playtech, Play ‘n GO and NetEnt. Chasing bigger payouts but like the Big Bass series? Big Bass Hold & Spinner Megaways comes with 20,000 x bet payouts.

The Big Bass Day at the Races 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. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime Slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

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