Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza Slot Review
A candlelit fortune-teller’s parlour: tarot cards face-down on a worn wooden table, chandeliers burning violet in the gloom. Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza looks like a game about telling fortunes, but the cards themselves pay pocket change. The real money sits in a wheel, a progressive ladder, and jackpots with nothing to do with the tarot, or, despite the sign, with bass.
Pragmatic Play build it on six reels with up to 200,704 ways to win, tumbling wins, a 2x wild and a free spins wheel running to a 25x multiplier, under a 5,000x round ceiling with the jackpots excepted. The game doesn’t publish an RTP of its own. Cards of Fate Megaways – Oranje Jackpot trod this same parlour floor in 2026 and landed a 7; Big Bass Splash makes a closer cousin for the name.
Base Game & Features
The reels sit in an ornate scrolled frame between dripping candles, and every spin reshuffles the row counts. Reels 1 and 6 carry up to seven symbols, reels 2 through 5 up to eight, with the top row of the middle reels spinning independently.
Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, combinations of any size, and the live counter tracks the running total towards that 200,704 maximum. The Tumble Feature clears every winning combination after it pays. Remaining symbols drop to the bottom and new symbols of the same size fill the gaps.
Tumbling continues until no new win appears, and all wins from a base spin land in the balance together once the last tumble resolves.
Five tarot cards and four royals make up the paying symbols. The gold sun card is the richest payer, and even it only reaches 20x the total bet for six of a kind. Values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Tarot Card (gold/sun): 1x for 2, 2x for 3, 4x for 4, 10x for 5, 20x for 6
- Tarot Card (brown/woman): 1x for 3, 2x for 4, 2.5x for 5, 3.75x for 6
- Tarot Card (white/star): 0.3x for 3, 0.5x for 4, 1x for 5, 2x for 6
- Tarot Card (purple): 0.3x for 3, 0.5x for 4, 0.8x for 5, 1.5x for 6
- Tarot Card (blue/moon) and A: 0.2x for 3, 0.4x for 4, 0.5x for 5, up to 1.25x for 6
- K: 0.2x for 3, 0.4x for 4, 0.5x for 5, 1x for 6
- Q, J, 10: 0.1x for 3, 0.2x for 4, 0.4x for 5, 1x for 6
- Scatter (blue orb): 5x for 3, 10x for 4, 20x for 5, 100x for 6
The wild appears only on reels 2 through 6, substitutes for everything except the scatter, and doubles any winning combination it forms part of, in both the base game and free spins. The blue orb scatter lands on all reels, and three or more of it anywhere is the free spins trigger.
Ante Bet
A toggle labelled Double Chance to Win Feature switches the bet multiplier from the normal 20x to 25x. At 25x, the chance of triggering free spins naturally is doubled, and more scatters sit on the reels. You pay a quarter more per spin for it.
Cards of Fate Megaways Free Spins & Jackpots
Three or more scatters anywhere on the reels trigger the free spins round, paying their scatter award on the way in.
Before a single free spin plays, a Wheel of Fortune appears with two slices, one holding a spin count and one a multiplier. One spin of the wheel fixes both for the round.
- Possible spin counts: 5, 8, 10 or 12
- Possible multipliers: 2x, 3x, 5x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 20x or 25x
- The multiplier applies to the total win of every free spin
- Special reels are in play during the round
Three or more scatters during the round retrigger it. The wheel spins again and adds a fresh random spin count and multiplier to the current values, and there’s no limit on how many times this can happen. A round that starts on five spins at 2x can end up running long and hot.
Buy Free Spins
The round can be purchased outright from the base game for 100x the current total bet. One thing to remember: the buy button is disabled while the 25x ante bet is switched on, so it’s one route or the other, never both at once.
Jackpots
Four jackpot badges sit above the reels: MINOR, MAJOR, MEGA and GRAND. No fixed amounts attach to any of them, standard for progressives, since the values climb with play.
They’re also the one thing the 5,000x round cap doesn’t touch. Hit that ceiling during free spins and the round stops dead: the win is paid out in full and every remaining spin is lost. The jackpots sit outside the limit entirely.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
This is a slow evening in a nice room. You sit, the reels shuffle, the 2x wild keeps the balance breathing, and the one reason you’d choose this table over the next is the ladder over it: four progressive tiers that can drop on any spin, whatever the stake, whatever the cards show.
The free spins wheel is the strongest thing here, because one spin of it sets everything that matters and a good round compounds instead of fading. The weakest is the paytable underneath: a top symbol worth 20x and royals paying crumbs means the base game rarely buys its keep.
Take a seat here for the progressive and the patience it rewards, with the candles for company. Jackpot chasers on a small stake have a genuine reason to pull up a chair; the reels alone were never going to pay for the evening, and the placard above them is the real draw.
Cards of Fate Megaways FAQs
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How many paylines does Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza have?
There are no fixed paylines. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels for combinations of any size, with reels 1 and 6 holding up to seven symbols and reels 2 to 5 up to eight. The maximum number of possible ways to win is 200,704. -
What is the grid size of Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
It’s a six-reel Megaways game with variable row counts per reel, seen at six to seven rows during play. Every spin reshuffles the row heights, which is what drives the changing ways-to-win count. -
Can you buy the bonus on Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
Yes. The buy button costs 100x your current total bet and starts the free spins round at once. It’s disabled while the 25x ante bet is switched on. -
How do you trigger free spins in Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
Land three or more scatter symbols, the blue orb, anywhere on the reels. Before the round starts, a Wheel of Fortune awards a random combination of free spins (5, 8, 10 or 12) and a multiplier (2x up to 25x) that applies to every win in the round. -
Can free spins retrigger in Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
Yes. Landing three or more scatters during the round spins the wheel again, adding a new random number of free spins and a new multiplier to your current values. There’s no limit to the number of retriggers. -
When is Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza released?
Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza’s release date is 28 September 2026. -
Who makes Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
Pragmatic Play. It forms part of their Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza family, which layers four-tier progressive jackpots over existing game formats. -
What is the maximum win on Cards of Fate Megaways – Big Bass Jackpot Bonanza?
The maximum win is limited to 5,000x your bet, except for the jackpots. If a free spins round reaches 5,000x, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and all remaining free spins are forfeited.
