Big Benji’s Back WildWays Slot Review
Diamonds, sevens, BARs and cherries dress Big Benji’s Back WildWays up like a Vegas classic, but the costume is a decoy. This game barely pays its symbols at all: almost everything it hands back rides on cash values that sit locked on the board until a pair of wilds on the opening reels unlocks the lot. Playing it means watching that pile grow while the symbol wins quietly don’t matter.
Jelly Entertainment built this one, alongside Piggy Staxx and Bounty Hunter MultiBoost. It runs at 94.04% RTP with high volatility, on a 3/3/6/6/6 grid that opens up to 11,664 ways to win, with stakes from 0.20 to 80 per spin. Money symbols land throughout, but they stay inert until the right wilds show up, and that gatekeep shapes every session.
Base Game & Features
Reels one and two are fixed at three symbols high. Reels three through six can be anything from three to six symbols high, so the ways count shifts constantly, from 729 at its narrowest to the full 11,664 when every reel stretches out. Wins pay left to right on adjacent symbols, and symbol size doesn’t matter, only position.
That moving grid does a lot of quiet work. A spin can start looking flat and finish with the back four reels loaded, and the ways counter climbing mid-spin is the closest thing this game has to a heartbeat. Wins land on roughly 31% of spins, so the gaps between them aren’t long.
Symbols and Paytable
The paytable is pure old-school casino, with one modern twist at the top. Values are multiples of stake for matching symbols on adjacent reels:
- Diamond: 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 10x (three to six symbols)
- 7 and BAR: 0.3x, 0.5x, 1x, 2.5x
- Bell: 0.3x, 0.4x, 0.5x, 1.5x
- Cherry: 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.5x, 1.5x
- A and K: 0.15x, 0.3x, 0.5x, 1.2x
- Q and J: 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.4x, 0.8x
- 10: 0.05x, 0.1x, 0.2x, 0.4x
- 9: 0.05x, 0.1x, 0.2x (three to five symbols)
- Crown: 0.2x, 0.4x (three to four symbols)
The Diamond is the only symbol that pays anything close to serious money, at 10x for six across. Everything else on the ladder is small change, which tells you where the real wins are meant to come from: the money symbols and their collector, not the line pays.
Most symbols need a minimum run of three to pay, but the 9 and the Crown stop earlier on the ladder. The 9 tops out at five symbols and 0.2x, and the Crown pays only at three and four, which makes it the odd one out on a table full of six-symbol ceilings.
Wild Ways
The wild lands on reels one and two, and a wild on both is what triggers Wild Ways. When that happens, every money symbol prize showing on reels three to six gets collected in one sweep. Money prizes only count when they connect left to right from the wild pair, so a cluster of cash sitting disconnected on reels five and six pays nothing.
Money symbols land regularly in the base game and simply sit there, inert, until a Wild Ways trigger sweeps the board. The adjacency rule matters more than it sounds: a wild pair with money symbols packed onto reels three and four collects cleanly, while the same prizes scattered across the outer reels can be worth very little.
The maximum win is 2,500x the stake, and reaching it takes the money symbols, the grid and the multipliers all lining up on a single collect. Stakes run from 0.20 to 80 per spin, which sets a wide spread between a casual spin and a bought session.
Big Benji’s Back WildWays Bonus Features
Free Spins (Benji Bonus)
Land a Bonus symbol on reel three during a Wild Ways trigger and you’re into the Benji Bonus. A wheel spins first and reveals the free spins count, which can be 8, 10, 12, 14 or 16. The count is decided by that single wheel spin, not by how many Bonus symbols landed.
Inside the bonus, Wild Ways triggers come round more often, which is the whole appeal: the collect mechanic you’re waiting for in the base game becomes a regular event. Multipliers also come into play on reel six, and they can turn an ordinary sweep into something much bigger.
The round runs on the same grid as the base game, so the ways count keeps moving between 729 and 11,664 depending on how the back four reels land. A free spin with all six reels stretched out gives the money symbols their largest possible canvas.
Multiplier Symbol
The multiplier symbol only appears in free spins, and only on reel six. If it connects with a win, it multiplies everything on that collect by 2x or 3x. It’s a simple rule with a big effect, since it applies to the full swept total rather than a single prize.
Because it sits on the final reel, the multiplier lands at the end of the win chain. A collect that’s already built from a full stretch of money symbols is the one it transforms most, and 3x on a board’s worth of prizes is where this game’s biggest results come from.
Golden Bet
The Golden Bet is a side bet that raises your stake by 25% in exchange for more frequent bonus triggers. It doesn’t change paytable values or money symbol amounts, so it’s purely a question of how badly you want to speed the journey to free spins.
Bonus Buy
If waiting isn’t your thing, the buy button skips the queue:
- Bonus Buy: 100x your stake for a free spins session
- Golden Bet: 25% stake increase for more bonus triggers
At the maximum stake that makes a bought session a serious outlay, and there’s no published RTP difference for the buy. What it buys is certainty: you’re in the wheel spin and the free spins round within seconds.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
Most of a session here is spent watching cash pile up on a board that refuses to pay it. That sounds like a complaint, but it’s the hook: when the wild pair finally lands and the sweep runs, a long stretch of nothing resolves in one number, and the old Vegas symbols turn out to have been set dressing all along. That single delayed payday is why anyone picks this over a dozen steadier games.
Its best idea is the free spins round, where the collect stops being an event and becomes the rhythm, with the reel-six multiplier stacking on top of full boards. Its worst is the base game, which offers almost nothing of its own: the symbol pays are token and every spin without the trigger is pure waiting.
It’s a good pick for anyone who enjoys that build-and-release loop and has the bankroll to sit through the quiet stretches; anyone who wants regular action from the reels themselves will find the waits punishing. For patient collectors, the payoff when the grid opens all the way is worth the drought.
Big Benji’s Back WildWays FAQs
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What is the RTP of Big Benji’s Back WildWays?
The RTP is 94.04%. -
Is Big Benji’s Back WildWays high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility game with a hit frequency of 31.16%, so wins land fairly often but the bigger collects take patience. -
How many ways to win does Big Benji’s Back WildWays have?
Up to 11,664 ways to win. Wins are awarded on left to right adjacent symbols regardless of their size. -
How does the Wild Ways feature trigger?
Landing a wild on both reels 1 and 2 triggers Wild Ways, which collects all money symbol prizes showing on reels 3 to 6, but only when they connect left to right from the wilds. -
How do you trigger free spins in Big Benji’s Back WildWays?
Land a Bonus symbol on reel 3 during a Wild Ways trigger. A wheel then spins to reveal 8, 10, 12, 14 or 16 free spins. -
What does the multiplier symbol do in Big Benji’s Back WildWays?
The multiplier symbol appears only on reel 6 and only during free spins. If it connects, it multiplies all wins by 2x or 3x. -
Can you buy the bonus on Big Benji’s Back WildWays?
Yes. A free spins session costs 100x your bet, and there’s also a Golden Bet side bet that increases your stake by 25% for more bonus triggers. -
Who makes Big Benji’s Back WildWays?
Jelly Entertainment, the studio behind Piggy Staxx and Bounty Hunter MultiBoost, among others.
