Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-10-04
Big Bass Halloween 2
During Big Bass Halloween 2 demo free spins, the collection that opened the 3x tier still paid at 2x: USD 124 in round 185, before twelve extra spins began.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.71% |
| RTP measured | 92.49% (approximate 95% CI 75.3–109.7) |
| Hit frequency | 14% · every 7.36 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 54 / 7.52 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (base game) | 143.0x · spin 8796 |
| Free spins, natural | 87 · 8.7 bHz · every 114.9 spins · mean FS-only payout 64.0x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 98,497 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Big Bass Halloween 2 with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays freeBonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.42x · median 0.271× price (USD 54.20) · 45 of 50 below price · best 2.27x · worst 0.02x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 12.6 / 10–30 |
| Retriggered | 16% |
| Money-symbol collects, avg win | 78.56 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Opening awards already include the +2 modifier when selected. The extension percentage counts features that subsequently earned a new batch through Fisherman collections; a twelve-spin opening alone does not count as a retrigger.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 4,172.2041.72% · approximate 95% CI 29–54%
- Net
- −USD 5,827.80−29.1 buys
- Break-even or better
- 5 / 5010%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 1 / 502%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~115 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 115 paid 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 this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 54 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 157 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 644 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
7 rules screens from the game
The Fisherman does two jobs during the bonus: substitutes for paying symbols and collects each visible fish value. With two Fishermen present, both make a collection, and the active tier multiplies each of those awards. The smallest fish label is 2x the stake and the largest is 5,000x; in base play their cash labels alone do not award money.
The five-by-three field carries ten fixed paylines, read from the left edge across adjacent reels. Trucks can pay from two symbols, whereas the remaining regular symbols need three; the Fisherman Wild appears only in free spins and cannot replace a Scatter. An entry with three Scatters awards ten spins; four award fifteen, and five award twenty. A two-Scatter near miss can randomly receive a reel-shifting respin or a hook that reveals the third.
Before play begins, the feature can receive zero to five modifiers: extra Fish, extra Fishermen, increased dynamite/hook/chainsaw activity, a level-2 start, and +2 spins. The last option adds two to both the opening award and every extension. Collecting four Fishermen qualifies the feature for a new batch, normally ten spins, with the collection rate progressing through 2x, 3x and 10x; each new tier starts after the current batch finishes, and the 10x tier cannot extend again. Dynamite may populate a field containing Fishermen but no fish; hooks can reveal a Fisherman when only fish are present, while chainsaws replace the other symbols around a Fisherman.
Medium is the stated volatility rating, and 96.71% is the theoretical RTP listed for both regular play and the 100x feature purchase. This client accepts virtual USD 0.10–250 stakes; a purchase therefore costs USD 200 at the tested USD 2 setting. A 5,000x round cap ends any outstanding feature and cancels its unused spins.
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Retrigger
Bonus buy- money_collect
Bet range USD 0.10 – 250 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
7 frames from the test
Verdict
An earned upgrade still has to waitThe timing becomes visible in round 185. Its twelfth free spin used a chainsaw replacement, leaving one Fisherman with USD 62 in fish values: the active 2x rate paid USD 124, even though that same spin opened the next tier. The subsequent twelve spins used 3x, and the complete feature returned USD 345. Applying 3x to the earlier collection would incorrectly add USD 62 to the result.
The +2 modifier also changes the length of the ladder. In round 3072, twelve opening spins became 48 after three twelve-spin extensions, and the last tier continued collecting at 10x after the progress display filled. That feature paid USD 451.20, below the USD 621.20 from round 7205, whose 30 spins only reached 3x. The latter combined USD 594 in fish collections with USD 27.20 from paylines.
Collection money contributed USD 10,362 to the USD 18,497.20 returned by ordinary play, which included 87 naturally triggered features. Purchased features were a much smaller experiment: 45 of 50 failed to cover the USD 200 ticket cost, and the median payout was USD 54.20. The separate filmed purchase returned USD 1,779.60; adding that demonstration to the measured purchases would distort their recorded result.
- The 87 natural features included 23 that earned at least one extension.
- A non-feature round, number 8796, paid USD 286 on the ten paylines.
- All three extension tiers appeared together in the 48-spin feature at round 3072.
- USD 4,172.20 came back from USD 10,000 spent on the purchase series.
- Only 13.58% of ordinary paid rounds returned any payout.
- Fifty-four consecutive rounds, 3945–3998, settled at zero.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 14%rounds that paid
- 311xbiggest round
- 1 / 115natural bonus rate
- 0.42xmean of 50 buys
- 54longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-10-04 measured return92.49%-4.2 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 75.3–109.7%
- rounds that paid
- 14%
- biggest round
- 311x · round 7,205
- longest dry streak
- 54
- natural bonuses
- 87 · one per 115 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.42x · median 0.27x · 90% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,497
- deepest drawdown
- 1,309x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.71%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-04.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, cascade steps, 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
7 questions · answered from the logAt what point does an earned multiplier upgrade take effect?
It qualifies the bonus for another batch; the current batch retains its existing rate. Round 185 demonstrates the boundary: its twelfth spin paid USD 124 at 2x, followed by an award of twelve spins at 3x. The modifier for a level-2 start had already skipped the opening 1x tier.
What makes a retrigger contain twelve spins instead of ten?
The +2 modifier adds two spins to each award, including retriggers. Among the 87 natural features, 29 started with that modifier and therefore opened with twelve spins. Round 3072 received three further batches of twelve, reaching 48 in total.
Did the fifty Halloween purchases recover their cost?
Purchased entries costing USD 200 apiece paid back USD 4,172.20, or 41.72% of their total cost. Five exceeded the ticket price, with ticket 50 highest at USD 454; ticket 49 returned USD 4. A fifty-ticket sample is too small to rank the purchase against natural entry by long-term value.
Was a natural bonus entry frequent in this run?
The observed entry rate was one per 114.94 paid rounds, with 87 triggers across the 10,000-round sample. The longest internal gap contained 523 rounds without an entry, between triggers 544 and 1068. Neither the average nor that gap defines a waiting time for future play.
What explains the gap between measured and stated RTP?
Ordinary play measured 92.49%, compared with the client's theoretical 96.71%. The approximate 95% CI is 75.26%–109.72% under a normal approximation to the sample mean; rare large payouts make this estimate imprecise. It describes uncertainty in this finite measurement, rather than proving fairness or predicting the next session.
Can the final 10x tier keep collecting after its meter is full?
It can: round 3072 provides a recorded example. The meter reached its final threshold on free spin 33; the 10x batch began after spin 36 and lasted twelve spins. Free spin 40 alone paid USD 100 from fish at 10x plus USD 6 on paylines, while further extensions were no longer available.
What is included in the USD 1,779.60 video result?
The filmed USD 200 ticket produced USD 0.40 on its trigger and USD 1,779.20 during 36 free spins. Four modifiers supplied extra Fishermen, increased special actions, a level-2 start and +2 spins; the More Fish modifier stayed inactive. This independent recording is excluded from both the 10,000-round series and the fifty-purchase sample.
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