Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-10-14
Big Bass Day at the Races
Two neighbouring free spins in the Big Bass Day at the Races demo each collected USD 48; this review records different Wild counts for the same cash.
In numbers: measured RTP 92.5% against 96.07% declared over 20,000 logged rounds in 2 runs; 11.9% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 165 rounds (121 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 40x the stake, mean 92.2x, trigger spin included; 100 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.15x of their price on average, 73% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,075.8x; the longest dry run was 52 spins.
Big Bass Day at the Races demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
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Test card
20,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 20,000 · 2 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.07% |
| RTP measured | 92.45% (approximate 95% CI 72.3–112.6) |
| Hit frequency | 12% · every 8.39 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 52 / 8.33 |
| Median hit | 2.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 208.0x · run 1, round 1478 |
| Free spins, natural | 121 · 6.1 bHz · every 165.3 spins · mean bonus round payout 92.2x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 96,980 |
- 012026-09-1610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓82.67%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-10-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓102.23%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Bonus buy lab
100 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 1.15x · median 0.424× price (USD 84.70) · 73 of 100 below price · best 20.65x · worst 0.04x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 18.4 / 10–43 |
| Retriggered | 41% |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 226.40 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Extra-spin extensions occurred in 41 natural features (18 in run one, 23 in run two) and 41 purchased features (25 and 16). Horse-granted starting spins are excluded from those counts.
- Spent
- USD 20,000100 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 23,010.60115.05% · approximate 95% CI 69–161%
- Net
- +USD 3,010.60+15.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 27 / 10027%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 13 / 10013%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~165 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 165 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll the 2 runs in sequence needed
| 50 bets | bust at spin 81 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 167 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 320 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
8 rules screens from the game
Five reels and three rows carry ten paylines beginning on reel one. Wilds substitute for paying symbols and collect the money symbols during free spins. An occasional base-game collection applies a common multiplier of up to 50x to the money-symbol sum. The cash printed on an uncollected symbol is not a paid win.
Before the feature, a field of 14 horses conceals modifiers: extra starting spins, guaranteed money symbols, removal of low cash values and collector credits. Each revealed modifier remains part of that bonus setup, and the test opened still-hidden horses in index order until the selection ended. The starting allocation is 10 spins before horse extras. With 4 or 5 Scatters, respectively 1 or 2 end items are already revealed before the picks.
Collector credits occupy positions in the meter before play, but bonus cash awards still need a Wild on the reels. Each set of 4 collected Wilds adds 10 spins until the eighth level, with collection factors progressing through 1x, 2x and 3x before reaching 10x, followed by 20x, 30x, 40x and 50x. The increased factor applies after its threshold-crossing screen. Separate Wilds on the same board each collect its money amounts.
This build's regular and purchase RTP both read 96.07%, with 96.06% for Ante. Ante replaces a ten-credit wager with fifteen credits; it was disabled for the statistical series. Low volatility accompanies a 10,000x ceiling and ordinary stake limits of USD 0.10 to USD 250.00. Buying entry is priced at 100 times the stake (USD 200 in this test).
Horse-granted extras in round 2211 prefilled two collector credits before any Wild appeared. Those credits do not collect cash on their own. The scatter entry itself paid zero in that recorded bonus.
Wild symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Extra bet
Bonus game
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
15 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Forty-spin features lifted run two
Big Bass Day at the Races climbed from 82.67% to 102.23% between its two USD 2 runs of 10,000 rounds; pooled, the 20,000 rounds return 92.45% (approximate 95% CI 72.33%–112.57%, a range for this estimate's precision) against 96.07%. Paying rounds were only 11.43% and 12.4% of each run; 17,617 rounds came back empty, and each run had at least one blank stretch past 50.
Fifty-one and then 70 natural features, one per 165 rounds, supplied 60.3% of pooled payouts as whole rounds, with a 40x median; 41 of the 121 gained spins at a fisherman milestone. Run two owns the four largest features of the series: rounds 2343 (1,075.8x), 7219 (925.8x), 4324 (416.9x) and 1412 (347.1x), all of them 35 to 45 spins long, ahead of run one's 839.4x at round 1599.
The hundred purchased features have returned USD 23,010.60 on USD 20,000, 115.05%, though the median ticket paid just USD 84.70 and 73 of them stayed under price; 13 doubled their price, three paid fivefold, and ticket 12 of run two (USD 4,129.20, 43 spins) is now the best purchase of the series, replacing run one's USD 1,592.40. Run two's batch returned 108.61%.
- Forty-five free spins in round 2343 of run two paid USD 2,151.60
- The series' best purchase, ticket 12 of run two, paid USD 4,129.20, 20.6 times its price
- Seventy natural starts in run two, one per 143 rounds
- Natural features supplied 64.0% of run two's payouts
- Only 12.4% of run two's rounds paid anything, and 25 blank stretches passed 30 rounds
- Tickets under price outnumbered the rest 73 to 27 across the 100 bought
- USD 122 was the best ordinary screen of run two, 61 stakes
- Six hundred and sixty-eight rounds without a feature in run two, from 4916 to 5585
Run 01·2026-09-16·82.67%
The setup in natural round 2211 already held 2 collector credits and 13 starting spins. Its first 4 free spins contained USD 80 in money-symbol face values but paid nothing because no Wild landed. Spin 5 then landed 2 Wilds beside USD 24 in money, paying USD 48 and moving the meter from 2 to 4. Spin 6 had just 1 Wild alongside the same USD 24 face value, yet it also collected USD 48 because the new 2x stage had begun.
Further progress eventually extended the feature to 33 spins, returning USD 400.40: USD 400 in cash collections and USD 0.40 from a line win. The separate purchase series finished with a surplus of USD 2,149.40, while its median ticket returned USD 104.50 against the USD 200.00 cost. Starting credits advance progress toward a retrigger; every bonus cash collection still needs a landed Wild.
Run 02·2026-10-14·102.23%
Round 2343 ran to 45 free spins from a 15-spin start, collected eleven times and paid USD 2,151.60, 1,075.8 stakes, the largest round in both Big Bass Day at the Races runs; spin 36 alone collected USD 900. Round 7219 followed the same route to 42 spins and USD 1,851.60, and ticket 12 did it for USD 4,129.20, 20.6 times its price, the best purchase of the series.
The 10,000 USD 2 rounds returned USD 20,445.20, a 102.23% RTP, after 82.67% in run one; 8,760 rounds paid nothing, 25 blank stretches passed 30 rounds and the longest ran 52. Seventy natural features arrived, one per 143 rounds, 23 of them extended, and their whole rounds supplied USD 13,085.40, 64.0% of payouts, with a 32.45x median; the best ordinary screen paid USD 122. Fifty USD 200 features bought outright returned USD 10,861.20, 108.61% of cost, but 38 tickets paid under price and the median paid USD 65.70.
Test record
2 runs · 20,000 rounds · 100 buys · open data · closed rig
This game has been through 2 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 20,000rounds, all runs
- 12%rounds that paid
- 1,076xbiggest round
- 1 / 165natural bonus rate
- 1.15xmean of 100 buys
- 52longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-16 measured return82.67%-13.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 59.2–106.2%
- rounds that paid
- 11%
- biggest round
- 839x · round 1,599
- longest dry streak
- 51
- natural bonuses
- 51 · one per 196 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.21x · median 0.523x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 96,535
- deepest drawdown
- 2,566x
02run Run 022026-10-14 lab note measured return102.23%+6.2 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 69.6–134.9%
- rounds that paid
- 12%
- biggest round
- 1,076x · round 2,343
- longest dry streak
- 52
- natural bonuses
- 70 · one per 143 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.09x · median 0.329x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 100,445
- deepest drawdown
- 1,057x
Run two lifted ordinary play from 82.67% to 102.23% as natural features climbed from 51 to 70 and their whole-round pay from USD 9,226.20 to USD 13,085.40. Purchases returned 108.61% against 121.49%, though ticket 12's USD 4,129.20 is the best of the series.
2 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-16, 2026-10-14): 20,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 100 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.07%); every request and response logged.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the log
Did Big Bass Day at the Races recover from 82.67%?
Yes, with room to spare: 102.23% on 10,000 USD 2 rounds, USD 20,445.20 paid, for a pooled 92.45% over 20,000 rounds against a 96.07% declared figure.
Which milestones took round 2343 to 45 spins?
Three fisherman milestones, ten spins each, on top of a 15-spin start; eleven money collections paid USD 2,150, including USD 900 on spin 36, and a line win added USD 1.60 for USD 2,151.60 in total.
Which run two ticket paid USD 4,129.20?
Ticket 12: it opened with 13 spins, was extended three times to 43, and returned 20.6 times its USD 200 price. The rest of the batch, 49 tickets, returned 68.69% of theirs.
Are the long features common?
No. Just 23 of run two's 70 natural features were extended at all, and only eight ran 30 spins or more. Forty-seven of the 70 ended on their starting allowance.
What fraction of run two's rounds paid nothing?
Most: 8,760 of 10,000, with the longest blank stretch at 52 rounds (4037 to 4088) and 25 stretches of 30 or more; a paying round came every 8.06 spins. Run one's hit rate was 11.43%.
Was the second purchase batch an improvement?
No. They returned 108.61% against 121.49%, with the median ticket down from USD 104.50 to USD 65.70 and 38 rather than 35 tickets under price; ticket 12's USD 4,129.20 kept the batch above its cost.
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- spins20,000
- bet2.00
- result-1,510x
- RTP measured92.5%
- bonuses121
- max win, no bonus208.0x
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