Bigger Barn House Bonanza

Bigger Barn House Bonanza: Slot Overview

See the words 'bigger' and 'bonanza' in a slot associated with Pragmatic Play, and the suspicion is that the word 'bass' isn't far behind. However, in a major shock, online slot Bigger Barn House Bonanza has nothing to do with fish, fishing, or the sea of any kind. Instead, it's a good ol' getting back to agriculture on a farm kind of game. More specifically, this is a farm dealing in chickens and eggs. Not just thematically, but eggs are linked to a framing/upgrading reel positions mechanic, and are accompanied by prize wheels as well as jackpots.

Slot farms are usually happy-go-lucky places, but it might be hard to see much of this one, depending on how players view the game on their devices. The reason is that placed on either side of the gaming area are lists of jackpot prizes and feature buys, while above it is a rotating prize wheel. Still, in the gaps, and around the edges, can be seen a classic red wooden barn, a white wooden fence, and other pleasing items of the countryside - hay, flowers, etc. The view more or less stays the same during free spins, with the exception that a low-angle sun bathes the scene in golden light. It's all very fine and dandy run-of-the-mill farm slot stuff.

The bulk of the action takes place on a 5x3 reelset, but at certain moments it may expand to 5x6 in size, meaning the number of ways to win is either 243 or 7,776. Players may stake 20c to $/€240 per base round, while three feature buys are available. Highly volatile, the preferred RTP configuration is 96.5%, which applies no matter how players choose to play the game.

Bigger Barn House Bonanza has ten paying symbols. They are 9-A card ranks, awarding 0.15x to 0.2x for 5 OAK, as well as wheelbarrows, corn, chicks, chickens, and roosters, paying 0.25x to 1.5x for 5 OAK. A devious fox character is wild. It appears on reels 2, 3, and 4 to substitute any of the mentioned pay symbols.

Bigger Barn House Bonanza: Slot Features

Free spins, jackpot prizes, a Wheel Bonus, a Super Wheel Bonus, and feature buys are the crops growing out of Bigger Barn House Bonanza.

Free Spins

Hitting 6 or more scatters triggers 6 free spins. When the round starts, the positions that held the triggering scatters are highlighted with straw. During the round, when scatter symbols hit, they either highlight their position with straw or upgrade from straw to wood, then wood to brick. If a scatter hits in a brick spot, then a random position on the screen is upgraded to the next highlight in order instead. If all positions are bricked, and scatters hit, 10x the bet is paid for each scatter. Hitting 3 or more scatters awards +1 free spin.

At the end of the round, highlighted positions reveal a prize value which is paid. Straw awards 0.5x to 1.25x, wood awards 1.5x to 6x, the Mini, 2x Mini, or Minor, while brick awards 7.5x to 175x, the Mini, 2x Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand. The Mini, Minor, Major or Grand are worth 12x, 60x, 500x, or 5,000x, respectively. Brick highlighted positions may reveal a Wheel Bonus trigger symbol instead of a prize value. When this occurs, a Wheel Bonus feature is awarded.

Wheel Bonus

Landing 3 or more Wheel Bonus symbols in the base game triggers an award from the wheel:

• Mega Egg feature - a big 2x2, 3x3, 5x3, or two 2x2 scatters land to award free spins, with starting highlighted positions based on the positions covered by the big scatter.
• Windmill feature - the triggering Wheel Bonus symbols roll to the right edge of the screen, leaving behind highlights till they leave view. If more Wheel Bonus symbols roll over the same spots, they are upgraded to the next level. After this, the free spins round triggers with the highlighted spots in place.
• Barn House feature - the triggering Wheel Bonus symbols transform to brick highlights, then free spins trigger. During this round, all new scatters automatically grant brick highlights.
• Random Jackpot - the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand is awarded.
• Bigger Wheel - a new award is revealed from the Bigger Wheel.

Awards from the Bigger Wheel are these, and all free spins are played on a 5x6 grid:

• Bigger Mega Egg feature - before free spins start, at least two big 2x2, 3x3, or 5x3 scatters land to place marks on the reels.
• Bigger Windmill feature - before the feature begins, three new rows are added with all triggering Wheel or Golden Wheel symbols duplicated on the same positions as the initial result. Wheel Bonus symbols roll to the right, marking and upgrading spots as in the regular Windmill feature.
• Bigger Barn House feature - Wheel Bonus and Golden Wheel Bonus symbols are duplicated on the three new rows, placing brick highlights. As before, landing scatters highlights their positions with brick.
• Random Jackpot - awards the Major, Grand, or 25,000x Super Jackpot.

Feature Buys

Paying 100x triggers 6 to 15 free spins with a random number of scatters. For 200x, players can trigger the Wheel Feature, or 300x buys a Bigger Wheel spin.

Bigger Barn House Bonanza: Slot Verdict

While expanding on Pragmatic's earlier release Brick House Bonanza, this slot also borrows familiar elements from competitors, most notably Play'n GO's Buildin' Bucks, where highlighted grid positions and upgraded frames ultimately determine the cash prizes awarded based on the final building materials.

Around this mechanic, Bigger Barn House Bonanza has quite a lot of supporting features, including Mega Eggs, Windmills, and Barn Houses (as well as their bigger counterparts), which complement the main highlight and upgrade action. Still, no matter what happens before free spins begin, the crux of the game is highlighting positions, and the suspense that kicks in at the end of the round as prize values are allocated to the respective positions. Sprouting in a neighbouring field are jackpot prizes, which add or subtract from the game depending on player preference. The Super Jackpot's 25,000x value is equal to Bigger Barn House Bonanza's win cap, which is a sizable amount, but the wonder is how much the rest of the game can reasonably be expected to produce.

Players who get a kick out of chickens, eggs, and a bit of suspense might like the way Bigger Barn House Bonanza highlights and upgrades reel positions before revealing prize values. Jackpot prizes and wheels add to the tension, and the game's busy nature may appeal to gamblers drawn to this particular sort of harvest.