Bigger Barn House Bonanza Slot Review
Pragmatic Play has us tending the farm and collecting the profit in Bigger Barn House Bonanza. With farmers having been hit rather hard in the current economic climate, it’s great to see developers like Pragmatic Play support them, even if it is restricted to the iGaming industry.
In between the Greek Mythology and Egyptian-themed slot releases, we find ourselves at the helm of farming life. Unlike your flexible Monday-Friday job, farming is a 365-day-a-year commitment that requires passion and dedication.
Receiving inspiration from another of Pragmatic Play’s games, Brick House Bonanza, the ‘bigger’ part of the title makes it feel like we’ve missed the original release and skipped straight to the sequel, albeit that’s not the case.
In fact, the ‘bigger’ part of its title comes in the form of advanced Wheel Features, 5 sizable Jackpot Prizes, and a Bigger Bonus option. Aesthetically, Bigger Barn House Bonanza offers splurges of bright colours, a hearty farm backdrop, and high-quality graphics.
In the space of a minute, the soundtrack goes from slow and steady to chaotic and rushed in a heartbeat, building up the suspense as you land those big wins and golden eggs. With a fixed RTP of 96.50% and a high volatility score, this game can produce wins of up to 25,000x your bet.
Join us as we head on down to Pragmatic Play’s farm and explore its ‘eggcelent’ features and mechanics…
Base Game & Features
Bigger Barn House Bonanza is a high volatility, farming-themed slot from Pragmatic Play, consisting of 5 reels, 3 rows, and 243 ways to win. Symbols create winning combinations when 3, 4, or 5 matching instances land on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1.
The highest-paying symbol falls to the Rooster, followed by the hen, chick, corn, wheelbarrow, and A, K, Q, J, 10, & 9 card suits. Each winning combination awards a payout between 0.05x and 1.5x your bet, where applicable.
Additionally, Wild (Fox) symbols appear on reels 2, 3, & 4 throughout gameplay, substituting for all symbols except Scatters, Wheel Scatters, and Golden Wheel Scatters. Lastly, Scatters in the form of Golden Eggs appear on all reels, and are responsible for triggering the Free Spins mode.
Bonus Buy
Players may purchase one of the following Bonus Buy options:
- Free Spins: Guarantees 6+ Scatters to land in the next spin, thus triggering the Free Spins mode for 100x your bet (96.50%)
- Wheel Bonus: Instantly triggers the Wheel Bonus for 200x your bet (96.50%)
- Bigger Bonus: Guarantees to trigger the Wheel Bonus with a Golden Wheel Scatter on reel 5 for 300x your bet (96.50%)
The maximum win potential of this game is 25,000x your bet. If a single session exceeds this figure, the current mode ends, and the player returns to the base game with the qualifying amount.
Bigger Barn House Bonanza Free Spins
When 6 or more Egg Scatters land anywhere in the base game, the Free Spins mode is instantly triggered, awarding 6 Free Spins. This mode begins with all Scatter positions marked with a Square made of Straw.
Throughout spins, whenever a Scatter symbol hits, its position is instantly marked with a Straw Square, unless already marked with one. If a Straw Square displays another Scatter symbol, its marked position will upgrade to Wood, followed by Brick.
Once a Scatter symbol appears on a Brick position, it will upgrade another random position instead. Alternatively, if all positions are marked with Brick, each Scatter symbol will award a 10x your bet Prize.
At the end of the Free Spins mode, each marked position will transform into a house, where a fox passes by and reveals a random Cash Prize depending on the type of house:
- Straw House: 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, and 1.25x your bet
- Wood House: 1.5x, 2.25x, 3x, 3.75x, 4.5x, 6x, Mini (12x), Minor (60x) your bet
- Brick House: 7.5x, 9x, 14x, 18.75x, 37.5x, 75x, Major (500x), Grand (5,000x) your bet
Additionally, Brick positions may reveal a Wheel Bonus instead of a Cash Prize. If a Wheel Bonus is awarded, it will instantly trigger after all wins are applied from the current Free Spins mode. Finally, landing 3 or more Scatters awards a further +1 Free Spin.
Wheel Bonus
In addition to a regular Free Spins mode, the game reveals 2 Wheel Bonuses above the main reel set. To trigger either of the Wheel Bonuses, you will need to land 3 or more Wheel Scatters anywhere on the reels, except Gold Scatters, which appear on reel 5 only.
Once a Wheel Bonus is active, the following Bonus Prizes can be won:
- Mega Egg Feature: Awards a giant 2×2, 3×3, 5×3, or two 2×2 Scatter symbols, thus triggering the Free Spins mode.
- Windmill Feature: When revealed, the Wheel Scatters roll towards the rightmost reel, leaving behind marks until out of sight. Marked positions can be upgraded if further Wheel Scatters roll over them. After this, the Free Spins mode is triggered with the marked positions in place.
- Barn House Feature: Once active, each Wheel Scatter transforms into Brick positions, causing the Free Spins mode to trigger with the current marked positions.
- Random Jackpot: Awards the Mini (12x), Minor (60x), Major (500x), or Grand (5,000x) Jackpot Prize at random.
- Bigger Wheel: Transfers players to a new wheel with even bigger Prizes.
Bigger Wheel Prizes
- Bigger Mega Egg: The incoming Free Spins mode is played on a 5×6 matrix. At the start of the mode, an additional 3 Rows are added to the matrix, before two 2×2, 3×3, or 5×3 Egg Scatters appear on the reels.
- Bigger Windmill: The matrix expands to 5×6 before Wheel Scatters are transferred onto the additional rows. Each Wheel Scatter rolls towards the rightmost reel, participating in the same Windmill feature from the previous Wheel Bonus.
- Bigger Barn House: First, the matrix expands to a 5×6 size before Wheel Scatters are transferred onto the additional rows. Each Wheel Scatter goes on to reveal Brick Squares below their current positions, triggering the Free Spins mode.
- Random Jackpot: Awards a Jackpot Prize as mentioned above, with the addition of the Super Jackpot (25,000x).
Our Honest Verdict
Bigger Barn House Bonanza is a happy-go-clucky release from Pragmatic Play, tapped with multiple Wheel Bonuses and even more ways to trigger the Free Spins mode. If you fancy yourself a dutiful Farmer, you’ll find plenty to get stuck into here.
Although gameplay is on point with Brick House Bonanza, there’s something quite charming about the Farming lifestyle, making it feel fresh and inviting, in addition to the game’s high-quality graphics and very encouraging (and slightly chaotic) soundtrack.
The idea of upgrading reel positions with Straw, Wood, & Brick Squares is the focus point of Brick House Bonanza, so you may be wondering what this game can do that its predecessor could not? Well, that comes in the form of a second Wheel Bonus, offering bigger and better Bonus Prizes, including a 25,000x Super Jackpot.
Non-UK players can participate in the Bigger Wheel Bonus, but it comes with a hefty 300x price tag. Alternatively, all other players will have to trigger it the old-fashioned way, with an opportunity to upgrade in the standard Wheel Bonus.
The available Bonus Prizes in either Wheel Bonuses tend to lead towards the triggering of the Free Spins mode, unless you trigger a Jackpot Prize. Although the Wheel Bonuses are great, during testing, we always ended up in the Free Spins mode, and nowhere near the 25,000x max win potential.
All in all, Bigger Barn House Bonanza is great for players hoping to see the Free Spins mode in action, but it’s gonna take some serious grinding to get anywhere near the 25,000x max win potential…whether that be through the Jackpot Feature or naturally, and even then, it’s not guaranteed.
*The images found in this slot review are currently from Demo Play. On average, our reviews are written prior to the initial release date and before real play is available.
