Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Overview

When it comes to long-running online slot franchises, Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom‘s Big Bass Bonanza has shown serious staying power. The number of entries stopped being easy to track ages ago. Keeping a juggernaut like Big Bass Bonanza moving forward without going stale means regularly adding new twists to keep things feeling current. For better or worse, Reel Kingdom clearly isn’t afraid to bolt on off-the-wall concepts to its fishy flagship, even when they seem wildly out of place. Big Bass Day at the Races is a prime example, and this is another instalment that isn’t exactly about fishing either—still, ding ding, here comes Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round, ready for fishing and/or boxing fans to go a few rounds.

How boxing is supposed to relate to fishing is anyone’s guess, but boxing is the theme, and Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round lets players imagine they’re in the crowd at a major fight night. Spotlights cut through a dark arena packed with spectators—about as far removed from casting a line from the shore or rocking on open water as you can get. The connection still doesn’t really add up, but that’s slots for you—things don’t always need to be perfectly logical.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round is a highly volatile slot with a preferred RTP of 96.5%, and this stays the same whether you’re wagering 10 c to $/€250 per spin, using the ante bet, or purchasing free spins. Turning on the ante bet boosts the stake by 50% for a higher chance of activating the free spins feature. The action plays out on a 5×3 gaming area with 10 paylines to form winning combinations.

Symbols include 10-A royals, fish, boxes, skipping ropes, boxing shoes, and boxing gloves. Five-of-a-kind royals return 5 to 10 times the bet, while the premium fish-to-glove icons pay 20 to 200 times the stake for 5 OAK. Red and blue wilds appear in the free spins round and substitute for all symbols except scatters or Money symbols.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Features

The fish premium symbols also act as Money symbols, each arriving with a value from 2x to 5,000x the bet. These rewards can be gathered during the free spins round, which is available either through normal play or via purchase.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter awards 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. In the base game, when 2 scatters land, there is a random chance the third is pulled into view through a respin feature or a hook.

While free spins are active, every wild symbol collects all values from Money symbols currently on the reels. Any Blue and red wild symbols that land are also tracked separately on a blue or red meter. Each meter’s 4th wild symbol collected retriggers the feature and grants +10 free spins. The multiplier applied to Money symbols collected by the wild of that colour during retriggered free spins increases to x2 at the second level, x3 at the third level, and x10 at the fourth level. Once the fourth level is reached on either meter, no further retriggers are possible. On top of that, several random events can occur during the round:

• Camera Spin – randomly, when wild symbols are on screen but no fish, at the end of a free spin, fish symbols may appear on the reels.
• Hook – when there are fish but no wilds, at the end of a free spin, a hook may appear to bring wilds into view.
• Knock Out – when there are wilds in view but no fish, symbols other than wilds may be changed into something else.

Feature Buy

Spending 100x the bet purchases free spins triggered by at least 3 scatters, while paying 300x the bet buys super free spins where only 3 wilds of any colour collected on any meter are required to retrigger the feature.

Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Verdict

Alongside its habit of throwing unusual concepts into the Big Bass line to keep things lively, Reel Kingdom has also been perfectly content to rework older titles to broaden the catalogue. Both tendencies show up in Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round, which is essentially a strangely themed remake of Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe—itself already a somewhat odd Vegas-flavoured fish slot. It’s hard to say Reel Kingdom didn’t go off-script with the presentation, since fishing and boxing rarely belong together. From a gameplay perspective, though, there’s very little new here, because it’s fundamentally a copy.

Strip away the arena, the crowd, and the boxing theme, and you’re left with a fairly standard Big Bass experience. As with the Vegas version, the main hook is having two collectors instead of one, with red and blue wilds gathering Money symbols during free spins. It’s a solid mechanic that can, in theory, lead to plenty of retriggers, and it supports wins up to 5,000x. The downside is that there’s minimal on-grid interaction between the two wild types, and a higher win ceiling wouldn’t have been out of place given the dual setup. Still, even if it’s easy to side-eye the oddness of Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe, it’s a slot—fun is the point—and at least Big Bass loyalists get the familiar maths and features they enjoy, wrapped in a completely different and totally unexpected look.