Big Bass Bonanza 1000 - the Rules, the Money Fish, the Bar and Two Buy Prices
Verdict first - Floating Dragon with fish. Same five-by-three board, same ten lines, same wild that collects money symbols in the free spins, same three-step multiplier on every fourth wild. RTP printed - 96.51%, four times over. Max win printed - 20,000x, as a cap that ends the round. Bet 0.10-375.00. What follows is the build's own text, read off the seven rules pages of the public demo on 8 October 2026, a dollar copy at a 2.00 stake, the stake our session ran.
The reference build, and what this one changes
The closest mechanical comparison in my log is Floating Dragon, the Year of the Snake build, tested on floatingdragoncasino.com. Same engine. Five reels, three rows, ten fixed lines, a wild that exists only in the free spins and collects every money symbol on the screen, a multiplier that steps up on every fourth wild. Big Bass Bonanza 1000 swaps the coins for fish, swaps the dragon for a fisherman, and changes three numbers. The top money value is 1000x instead of the dragon's coin table, the cap is 20,000x instead of 5,000x, and the odds of the maximum are not printed where Floating Dragon prints its own. The base game loses the dragon's modifiers and keeps two helpers for a third scatter. Everything else reads the same, rung for rung.
Short system, short report. The seven rules pages fit on one screen each, and the whole machine is on pages one to four.
How a spin pays
Ten lines, fixed. All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels from the leftmost reel, the highest win per line only, line wins added together. The paytable prints cash at the current stake, and the screens were read at 2.00, the stake the portal session ran, so every figure below is both a sum and a multiple.
| Symbol | Five / four / three at 2.00 | Five in multiples | Three in multiples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Float | 400.00 / 40.00 / 10.00 (two: 1.00) | 200x | 5x (two: 0.5x) |
| Dragonfly | 200.00 / 30.00 / 6.00 | 100x | 3x |
| Fishing rod | 100.00 / 20.00 / 4.00 | 50x | 2x |
| Tackle box | 100.00 / 20.00 / 4.00 | 50x | 2x |
| Fish (the money symbol) | 40.00 / 10.00 / 2.00 | 20x | 1x |
| A, K | 20.00 / 5.00 / 0.40 | 10x | 0.2x |
| Q, J, 10 | 10.00 / 2.00 / 0.40 | 5x | 0.2x |
The float is the only symbol with a two-of-a-kind pay, and the only one that returns five times the stake for three. Five of the ten pay under the stake for three in a row, and the fish pays exactly the stake. The wild and the scatter print no pay of their own. Reproduced against the log. Spin 591 of the portal session landed fish on eleven cells and paid 124.00, three lines of five fish at 40.00 and two lines of three at 2.00, nothing from the tags on the fish. The paytable holds.
Money fish, and the wild that collects them
The fish paying symbols are also money symbols. On every spin each fish takes a random value, and the screen prints the list in full: 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x or 1000x the total bet. The value is won only when a wild collects it, and the wild appears only during the free spins. A tagged fish on a base-game board is a picture of money, not money. In the portal log the best base spin carried 180.00 in tags and paid 124.00 for lines. The tags went nowhere. Eleven base-game boards in that log carried a 2,000.00 tag, the 1000x fish. Same result.
Inside the feature the rules add three random helpers. When at least one wild is on the screen, fish can appear in random positions at the end of a spin. When wilds are on the screen and no fish, a random number of fish can be added through a bazooka animation. Wilds and fish can be brought in after the spin has ended through a hook animation. All three are printed as possibilities with no frequency. The portal log counted two of them in 360 free spins, the bazooka four times and the hook once. The first did not show there, and the two sister logs carry it three times.
Free spins, the bar and the three badges
Three, four or five scatters trigger ten, fifteen or twenty free spins. Two scatters without a third can call one of two random helpers. One is a respin where the reels holding scatters shift down one position and the others spin again, if the scatters can move without leaving the reel area. The other is a hook that pulls one reel up to reveal a third. Every wild that lands in the feature is collected until the round ends, and a bar above the reels counts them. Every fourth wild retriggers. Ten more free spins, played after the current batch ends, and a collection multiplier that applies to the retriggered spins - x2 for the first retrigger, x3 for the second, x10 for the third. After the third retrigger the feature cannot be retriggered again. Twelve wilds fill the bar. Call it forty spins at most from a three-scatter start and fifty from five, derived from the text and not printed on it.
Portal log. 27 rounds in 2,870 spins, every one of them opened by three scatters. Nine landed all three on the paid spin, fifteen needed the respin and three the hook. Nine rounds filled the first badge, none filled the second. Rounds without a retrigger paid 26.40-84.80, rounds with one paid 104.80-434.40, the best on spin 1,520. Across the three logged sessions, 61 rounds, of which 39 stayed at x1, 17 reached x2, five reached x3 and none reached x10. One rule checked against the log. In round 4 of the portal session the fourth wild landed on free spin 5 and a fifth on free spin 8. The fifth collected at x1, 8.00 for 8.00 in tags, and x2 began with spin 11. As printed.
Max win, ante bet and the two buy prices
Max win. The maximum win amount is limited to 20,000x. If the total win of a round reaches 20,000x bet, the round immediately ends, the win is awarded and all remaining free spins are forfeited. Page six repeats it as 20000X with the same rule. A cap, then, not a prize.
Ante bet. The player selects the bet multiplier. At 15x the chance to win the free spins naturally is higher, more scatters are present on the reels, and the buy feature is disabled. At 10x the game plays normally. On the screen that is a toggle marked HIGHER CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE, priced at one and a half times the stake - 3.00 against 2.00, 4.50 against 3.00.
Buy. Pay 100x total bet to trigger the free spins with three scatters guaranteed on the triggering spin. The page calls them BONUS symbols here and SCATTER everywhere else. Pay 450x total bet for the super free spins, where the chance for money symbols with the 1000x value is increased. Increased from what and to what is not printed, and the number of free spins in a bought round is not printed either. At 2.00 the buttons read 200.00 and 900.00, and at 3.00 they read 300.00 and 1,350.00. Four hundred and fifty bets for an unstated improvement on an unstated chance - a marginal proposition at best. Neither button was pressed in any logged session.
What page four prints
Volatility - a MEDIUM VOLATILITY label, with the sentence that medium volatility games pay out steadily and the range of pays varies from low to very high. An earlier copy of this page, archived on 24 May 2026, showed five lightning bolts and a sentence about high volatility in the same place. Same game, same 96.51%, different label. The theoretical RTP of this game is 96.51%. The RTP with the ante bet is 96.51%, with buy free spins 96.51%, with buy super free spins 96.51%. Minimum bet 0.10, maximum bet 375.00. All wins are multiplied by bet per line, all values are expressed as actual wins in coins, only the highest win is paid per line, and the free spins win is awarded after the round completes. Malfunction voids all pays and plays. The space and enter keys start and stop a spin. In practice, the paytable shows cash at the chosen stake rather than coins, and a tap on the credit label switches the view. It is the one place where the printed text and the screen use different units for the same number.
What the screens do not price
No odds for any of the eight fish values, and none for the 1000x in the title. No rate for a retrigger, no rate for the three helpers, no rate for the scatter respin or the hook. No spin count for a bought round. No figure for how much the super buy raises the 1000x chance. No pay for the wild or the scatter. No release date, no version number, and no studio name beyond REEL KINGDOM in the corner. The 96.51% is printed four times, the cap once on page three and once on page six, and the bet limits once. What the build paid is what I publish - 79.18% on the portal's 2,870 paid spins, 111.84% on the three-session pool, both tabled in the review, and neither one a long-run rate. The 6.6 verdict in the review grades the machine, not the run.
Quick answers
Do the fish pay their printed values in the base game?
No. Lines only. A tag counts when a wild collects it in the free spins.
Can the multiplier reach x10?
By the text, after three retriggers in one round. Unverified - none of the 61 logged rounds got past the second.
Does the ante bet change the paytable?
No. Same symbols, same prices. More scatters on the reels, and the buy buttons go dark.
How many free spins does a bought round give?
Not printed. Three scatters are guaranteed, and three scatters award ten by the table on page two.
Is the 20,000x a prize?
No. A cap. The round stops there and the remaining spins are forfeited.
The seven rules pages open from the i button of the provider's current public demo on our shelf. Read them there, on demo credits, before any money goes in.
Known limits of this page
Known limits of this page: the rules as the public demo printed them on 8 October 2026, a dollar demo at 2.00. No weights for the fish values, unverified. No retrigger odds, unverified. The bought rounds and the ante mode, untested in all three logged sessions. The build prints no version number, so the demo on our shelf is the same public address we logged rather than a build we can prove unchanged, and the volatility label on page four did change between May and October. Every other figure here is a screen value or a portal-log value.
Verified against
Session BB1K-20260729-01 - 2,870 paid spins at 2.00 on 29 and 30 July 2026, 27 natural rounds with 360 free spins, checkpoints logged through the run. Rules pages read from the provider's public demo on 8 October 2026. Score, screenshots and tables are in the Big Bass Bonanza 1000 review. The balance before and after each round is in the session report. The build plays on the demo shelf, and the test protocol is written up on the methodology page. Open items - a second retrigger in a portal log, the x10 badge, and the spin count of a bought round. 18+ in demo play as in any other.
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