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Big Bad Bison Slot Review

Call them bison or buffalo, these large bovines are one of the most iconic animals of the American West.

The Big Bad Bison slot is not the first time we have seen them charging across the reels; however, as this is a Megaways slot, using the popular mechanism for changing its layout mid-game, it is not just five neat reels but a potential 6x7 format opening up as many as 117,649 ways to win.

This is even before we consider the Big Bad Bison bonus features.

The looming cliffs

There is one thing that may stop these buffalo from charging, which is the towering cliffs looming behind the reels of this video slot. They are rough-hewn in brownish rock, set against a purple-tinged sky. Filling your view so there is barely anything else to see is one way to try to convey the scale of this ancient landscape.

The cliffs may be solid and unmoving, but a flash of animated birds zooming overhead and a lively Western soundtrack straight from a cowboy movie keep things alive.

American fauna

What animals do you think of when you think of North America?

Eagles, the USA’s national bird? Wolves, perhaps, roaming the plains and prairies? What do the wolves eat? Which animal underpinned so much indigenous culture? The bison, sometimes called the buffalo, with its size and horns ensuring its presence leaves an impact, whether in slots or real life. 

The animals in Big Bad Bison are admittedly a little fuzzy-edged. This may be an attempt to depict the woolliness and fluffiness of various furs but it lacks some of the sharp detail we expect in modern slots. These symbols are more about texture than appearance.

Big Bad Bison RTP and variance

The Big Bad Bison slot has a 96.58% RTP and high variance.

How to play Big Bad Bison

Are you ready to ride out into a different looking Big Time Gaming slot?

1. It is the menu that will tell you most of what you need to know, starting with the payout potential for winning symbols.
    
2. You can scroll through further pages explaining the rules and features or use the tabs at the top to find options and the help page. Options include sound and full-screen buttons.
    
3. Betting is done on the main screen, using the arrows. When you have decided how much to bet based on your budget and the risk and have set some win, loss and time limits so that you know when to stop, you can hit the spin button.
    
4. When the fun stops, stop playing. Timeout and self-exclusion functions are provided.

How To Win at Big Bad Bison

Megaways slots are a little different compared to the likes of Rich Wilde and the Tome of Madness with its set reels and paylines. The number of rows can change, which also changes the ways to win. Big Bad Bison always has six reels, but whether all seven rows are active varies.

You start with 64 ways to win, which can increase to 117,649. In the free spins bonus round, the minimum number of ways can increase.

What doesn’t change is the need to match paying symbols. As long as they start on the left and are on consecutive reels, any combination of between three and six awards a payout. This is unless they are the wild symbol or scatter symbol, which have special functions.

Top wins

• Look at the paytable to figure out what your winning symbols are worth. Your total win depends on both the type and number of symbols.
   
• There are six playing card symbols and four themed animal symbols. Card symbols are worth less, animal symbols are worth more.
   
• The most valuable of the animals is the titular bison. Find him the maximum six times and the win multiplier is 25x your bet.
   
• The max win is 67,540x.

Bet range

Bets start from a minimum of 0.10 per spin.

Big Bad Bison Features

We have reached one of the most important sections of our Big Bad Bison slot review: the part that talks about the wild multipliers, free spins, and all the ways in which this slot rises above its base game.

Wild multipliers

Not only can the wild act as a substitute but also it can also come with a win multiplier of between 1x and 5x.

Free spins

For many slots, finding the scatter symbol three times is how you trigger free spins. This is the case with the Big Bad Bison slot. You start with 12 spins and the next scatter means another four.

More scatters after that mean two extra spins. Every free spins retrigger removes the lowest number of available winning ways from play and once you reach five retriggers, you are guaranteed all 117,649.

It plays out like this:

• First retrigger: 729 winning ways
• Second retrigger: 4096 winning ways
• Third retrigger: 15,625 winning ways
• Fourth retrigger: 46,656 winning ways
• Fifth retrigger: 117,649 winning ways

Max-win 67,540x

Volatility High

Top RTP 96.58%

Big Bad Bison Review: Summary

One potential criticism of Megaways slots is that whilst they have lots of ways to win, these ways are not all unlocked. This means the ability to guarantee all 117,649 ways in free spins is an interesting twist, even if it is difficult to trigger. We enjoyed the gameplay of Big Bad Bison - both in its base game and bonus features - more than its graphics.

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