Big Bass Christmas Bash: demo, features & RTP
Big Bass Christmas Bash is the 2023 festive game from Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom, released on 23 November 2023. It shares the best default RTP in the series, 96.71%, and pays up to 5,000× the stake — after a random handful of modifiers is dealt out before every free-spins round.
18+ · UKGC-licensed casinos only · £5 maximum stake per spin (£2 for ages 18–24) · T&Cs apply · BeGambleAware.org
Big Bass Christmas Bash demo
Load the official demo in pounds and trigger free spins a few times: no two rounds start quite the same, because the modifiers are drawn fresh each time.
Free demo · 18+ only
Official Pragmatic Play demo · virtual credit in GBP · no real money
The most frequent bonus in the series
Christmas Bash plays on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines and a party theme. Its signature is the pre-round draw: before free spins begin, the game picks anywhere from zero to five modifiers at random, so one bonus can start bare and the next can arrive fully loaded.
Among the Christmas Big Bass games with a published hit rate, it hits most often: a win lands about once in 6 spins and free spins about once in 63 — the most frequent bonus of the six Christmas games. Volatility is high.
The default RTP is 96.71%, level with Christmas Big Bass Bonanza for the best in the series. Lower versions at 95.67% and 94.60% exist, so look at the info screen inside the game to see what your casino runs.
- Provider
- Pragmatic Play
- Release
- 23 November 2023
- Grid
- 5×3 · 10 lines
- RTP
- 96.71%
- Volatility
- High
- Max win
- 5,000×
- Free spins
- 1 in 63 spins
- Fish values
- 2×–5,000×
Symbols: Fisherman, money fish and scatter
Money fish are worth between 2× and 5,000× the bet. The Fisherman Wild shows up only in free spins, and every Fisherman in view collects all the fish values on the reels. More Fishermen in view means more collects of the same catch.
Two scatters can still become a bonus: a respin may shift the scatters down one position, or a hook may pull a reel to reveal another scatter.
Pre-round modifiers and free spins
Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins. Then the draw: between 0 and 5 of these modifiers are switched on for the round.
- More Fish — more money symbols on the reels.
- More Fishermen — more wilds to collect them.
- More Dynamite/Hooks/Bazookas — the random features fire more often.
- Start From Level 2 — the round opens at the ×2 multiplier.
- +2 Spins — two extra spins now, and +2 on every retrigger.
During the round every 4 wilds collected give 10 more spins and push the multiplier up. Retriggered spins are played after the current batch.
- ×2Level 2 · 4 Fishermen · +10 spins
- ×3Level 3 · 4 more · +10 spins
- ×10Level 4 · 4 more · +10 spins, no further retriggers
The random features: Dynamite may drop fish when Fishermen are in view without any; a Hook pulls in a Fisherman when fish are in view without one; and the Bazooka changes every symbol except the Fishermen.
Bonus Buy and Ante Bet
Bonus Buy is not available in Great Britain. UK casinos remove the buy option, so the modifier draw comes only after landing scatters.
Outside Great Britain and in the demo there is one buy: Free Spins for 100× the bet. The Ante Bet adds 50% to the stake for a better chance of free spins, but it also lowers the maximum win from 5,000× to 3,334× — a trade worth knowing before you switch it on.
Fancy seeing what the draw deals you? Play Big Bass Christmas Bash at a UKGC-licensed casino, with your limits set in advance.
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