Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake: demo, features & RTP
Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake arrived from Pragmatic Play on 26 November 2025. It pays out at 96.07% RTP by default and caps wins at 5,000× the stake, with a card pick that decides which kind of free spins you get.
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Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake demo
Try the official demo in pounds with play money. Trigger a few bonus rounds and you will see the card pick for yourself — it is the quickest way to understand this game.
Free demo · 18+ only
Official Pragmatic Play demo · virtual credit in GBP · no real money
A bonus that starts with a choice
Frozen Lake looks like a classic Big Bass at first: a 5×3 grid, 10 paylines and a winter lake under snow. The twist comes when free spins trigger. Before the round begins, twelve face-down cards appear and you turn one over. That single pick decides whether you play the regular free spins or the stripped-down Frozen Lake Free Spins.
The default RTP is 96.07%. Lower versions at 95.07% and 94.07% exist, so a casino may not be running the top figure — the game's info screen tells you which one is live. Volatility is high (some sources say very high), which means long quiet stretches are normal and the bigger wins arrive less often.
On average a winning spin comes about once in 7 spins and the bonus once in 113.
- Provider
- Pragmatic Play
- Release
- 26 November 2025
- Grid
- 5×3 · 10 lines
- RTP
- 96.07%
- Volatility
- High–very high
- Max win
- 5,000×
- Free spins
- 1 in 113 spins
- Fish values
- 2×–5,000×
Symbols: Fisherman, money fish and scatter
In free spins the money fish carry values from 2× to 5,000× the bet. The Fisherman Wild only appears in free spins, and whenever he lands he collects every money value on screen at once.
The base game is about landing scatters. Two scatters can still turn into a bonus: a respin or a random event may add more scatters to the reels.
The 12-card pick and Frozen Lake Free Spins
Three, four or five scatters award 10, 15 or 20 free spins, and then the twelve cards appear:
- Bonus card — you play the regular free spins you triggered.
- Secrets of the Frozen Lake card — you get 10 Frozen Lake Free Spins instead. Every regular pay symbol is taken off the reels, so only blanks, money fish and Fishermen can land.
Published sources do not say how many of the twelve cards hide the Frozen Lake round, so there is no way to work out the odds of finding it. With the regular pay symbols gone, every spin in that mode is about fish and collectors.
In both versions every fourth Fisherman adds 10 spins and lifts the money multiplier:
- ×2Level 2 · 4 more Fishermen · +10 spins
- ×3Level 3 · 4 more Fishermen · +10 spins
- ×10Level 4 · no further retriggers
Random events can step in at the end of a spin: if Fishermen are in view but no fish, money symbols may be added; if fish are in view but no Fisherman, a hook may pull one in; and symbols can also transform.
Bonus Buy and Ante Bet
Bonus Buy is not available in Great Britain. At UK casinos the only way into either free-spins round is through the scatters and the card pick.
Outside Great Britain and in the demo, regular Free Spins cost 100× the bet and Frozen Lake Free Spins cost 270×. The Ante Bet adds 50% to the stake for a better chance of free spins, with the RTP unchanged; it still makes every spin cost more.
Want to turn over the cards for real? Play Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake at a UKGC-licensed casino, with a deposit limit set first.
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