Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach Slot Review
Down on Bacon Beach the pigs are on holiday, the wolf has a picnic table laid, and almost nothing that happens on the reels matters until he turns up. That’s the real design of Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach: the coins that pile up on every spin are dead weight without the wolf on reel 1 or 5, which makes this less a payline game than a waiting game with a payout attached. Playtech dresses the wait in glossy cartoon, and the joke lands.
Underneath the sunscreen it’s a 5×4 grid with 30 paylines running at 95.6% RTP, built around one Cash Collect symbol. The wolf blows down houses and pockets whatever was hiding behind them, and that single symbol drives the base game, the Free Games and the Collect & Link round alike.
Base Game & Features
All wins pay left to right across the 30 lines, and only the highest combination on each line counts. It’s a conventional payline setup. The reels sit in front of that holiday-postcard beach, with a striped umbrella and sun lounger on the left and the lighthouse headland on the right.
The picnic table in the foreground is the wolf’s, and you suspect the pigs are what’s for lunch. The artwork tells the story before a single spin does.
The Wolf Cash Collect
The Wolf Symbol acts as the Cash Collect. When it lands on reel 1 and/or reel 5, it huffs and puffs to blow down the House Symbols on the reels, revealing the hidden prizes behind them. It then collects every coin in view, including cash prizes, bonus symbols and Free Games.
It’s the engine the whole game is built around, and the reels are full of coins that only mean anything once the wolf shows up. Three things can happen when he does:
- House Symbols are blown down, revealing the prizes hidden behind them
- All coins on the reels are collected, including cash prizes, bonus symbols and Free Games
- A LINK or MEGA LINK coin in view alongside him triggers the Collect & Link feature
House Prizes
Three house types can appear: Straw, Wood and Brick. Each hides a prize behind it, and the tougher the house, the bigger the potential prize inside.
The fable’s logic applied to a pay mechanic is a neat touch. The brick house is the one worth blowing down.
Symbols and Paytable
Three pigs in holiday mode lead the paytable, followed by beach gear and the royals. Pays below are multiples of the bet, for three, four and five of a kind:
- Pig with sunglasses and hat: 0.3x / 1.5x / 6x
- Pig with green sunglasses: 0.3x / 1x / 4x
- Pig with surfboard: 0.2x / 0.8x / 3x
- Beach bucket and spade, rake: 0.2x / 0.5x / 2.5x
- Beach umbrella, K, Q, J: 0.1x / 0.4x / 1.5x
The Wild is a golden trowel icon, and it substitutes for all symbols except the coins and the Wolf Cash Collect itself.
The Ham Nudge
On spins where nothing triggers, a ham might appear and nudge the Wolf Cash Collect into place, setting the feature off anyway. It’s a small mercy of a mechanic. A near-miss with the wolf just off-screen can still pay off, and it keeps every spin carrying a little tension.
Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link Bonuses
Collect & Link
Landing a LINK or MEGA LINK coin alongside the Wolf Cash Collect triggers the Collect & Link feature, a hold-and-collect round where coins lock in place. Fill the screen with 15 coins and you win the Wolf’s Banquet Grand Prize, which is additional to all the collected coins already banked.
Free Games
Land one or more Free Games coins anywhere on the reels together with the Wolf Cash Collect and the Free Games begin. The number awarded equals all the numbers on the triggering Free Games coins combined, so a lucky spin can stack the count high before a single free spin plays out.
During Free Games the Wolf Cash Collect can land and collect all coins, and when it does, it stays frozen on screen for three spins. Any additional symbol that lands resets that counter back to three. That’s where the round builds its momentum: a sticky wolf with a refreshing timer can string together a long run of collections.
Cash Collect Prizes
Landing a Prize Coin with the Wolf Cash Collect wins one of the four fixed prizes. The prize is chosen at random, each pays a fixed amount based on your bet value, and each can be won multiple times over a session.
- GRAND: 500x the bet
- MAJOR: 200x
- MINOR: 50x
- MINI: 20x, the smallest rung of the ladder
Those meters scale with your stake, so the figures are the shape of the ladder rather than fixed sums. The GRAND can also arrive the other way, by landing 15 coins in the Collect & Link feature.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a game about watching coins stack up and waiting for the wolf to come and collect them, and the waiting is better company than it sounds because the beach is that likeable. The pigs-on-holiday artwork and the houses built to be blown down give every spin a bit of story, which is more than most collect games bother with.
The best thing here is how generously the Free Games are built: a sticky wolf whose timer resets on every new symbol can turn one trigger into a long, compounding run of collections. The let-down is everything else on the reels. The top symbol pays 6x the bet, so the wolf’s absences are quiet ones, and the prize ladder is short of the four-figure multiples a lot of players hunt.
If you enjoy collect-and-jackpot slots and don’t need big line pays between features, this one does the job with real charm. Players chasing huge max wins will find the ladder too modest. Everyone else can pull up a sun lounger; the wolf will be along shortly.
Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach FAQs
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What is the RTP of Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach?
The RTP is 95.6%. -
How do you trigger the Free Games in Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach?
You need Free Games coins together with the Wolf Cash Collect symbol. The number of free games awarded equals all the numbers shown on the triggering coins combined, so several coins in one spin can award a large batch. -
What does the Wolf Cash Collect symbol do?
When it lands on reel 1 and/or reel 5, it blows down the House Symbols to reveal the prizes hidden behind them, then collects all coins on the reels, including cash prizes, bonus symbols and Free Games. -
How does the Collect & Link feature work?
Land a LINK or MEGA LINK coin together with the Wolf Cash Collect to trigger Collect & Link, a hold-and-collect round. Fill the screen with 15 coins and you win the Wolf’s Banquet Grand Prize on top of all collected coins. -
Can the Free Games retrigger?
During Free Games, any Wolf Cash Collect that lands freezes on screen for three spins, and every additional symbol that lands resets the counter back to three. A sticky wolf can therefore keep collecting across the whole round. -
What is the ham nudge in Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach?
If a spin doesn’t trigger anything, a ham can still appear and shove the Wolf Cash Collect into a paying position, activating the feature. It gives near-miss spins a second chance. -
How many paylines does Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach have?
It has 30 paylines on a 5×4 grid, with all wins paying left to right and only the highest combination on each line counting. -
Who makes Big Bad Wolf: Cash Collect & Link – Bacon Beach?
Playtech, one of the industry’s longest-established studios.
