New Slot Announcement Bonanza by Big Time Gaming

[goatwack]

Not sure how people can think Bonanza is high variance, it's really quite low. What it does have is potential to give some huge wins but their effect on rtp is tiny since they are so rare. Almost all of the rtp comes from small to medium wins, there is a reason people choose to play this game for wagering.

Dunno about that. Bonanza gives lots of small wins but still drains your balance to feed the bonus (which never comes).

DOA also spits out lots of small wins and I wouldn't call that low variance either

 

[PMKFRUITPRO]

I was swayed into thinking it was good for wagering, but I find it almost a miracle to deposit say £100 and get 7-800 spins out of it on £1 a go.

I’m lucky if I manage that many on 40p

 

[zap987]

The difference is the really big wins on DoA come a LOT more often than on Bonanza so they make up a much larger portion of the RTP. I just think a lot of the complaints about this game come down to people expecting it to be something it isn't. If you play it expecting it to be a nice high variance slot that will quite 'often' give 1000x wins, you will get frustrated because they pretty much don't happen. It's pretty much Starburst with a progressive jackpot, low variance base game and even most bonuses are in the 5-100x range, it's just that it has potential to pay ridiculous amounts.

 

[slotmaster]

Just hit this, gold at 117,000 ways and of course missing 1 diamond to boot! Also no balance left so on min bet.

 

[mcgameboy]

Here's my take on Bonanza.

PLEASE NOTE - There is a commentary maths error at 26m57s and 28m11s, the correct figure is £9,600,000 and not £9,960,000. I only noticed this after I'd finished editing the video together, rendered it out, and kicked off the upload. (Small sherries had been consumed at the time of filming.)

Great vid Choppers. But then again, I expected nothing less.

I would love to see your video takes on the other BTG games. They would make for great viewing.

 

[Jd666]

28 spins to see the D this morning
Was on 12x with 5 spins left, then.......
5 dead spins.
92x bet win.

 

[goatwack]

28 spins to see the D this morning
Was on 12x with 5 spins left, then.......
5 dead spins.
92x bet win.

Oh how you toil and suffer JD.

The other day I lost count of how many sets of 100 spins I done on autoplay, but I'd estimate about 1700. With over £120 lost on minimum bets too, I gave up in the end cos it was going to go on all night otherwise.

So I'll light a candle and say a prayer for your 5 lost free spins

 

[Jd666]

It owed me
I have had a shocking couple of days on it

 

[Lincolnuk]

Well Last night was a odd one. After 2356 spins without a D it dropped, Not a biggy x66.6 (yep that 666 as arrived again) But it was what happened next that makes Bonanza the game it really is.
Spin 1 Gold = X126.3
Spin 2 Gol
Spin 3 Gold = X73
Spin 4 Gold =x724

So 5 spins 4 golds Unreal on a slot that hardly shows a D

 

[snorky510238]

Well Last night was a odd one. After 2356 spins without a D it dropped, Not a biggy x66.6 (yep that 666 as arrived again) But it was what happened next that makes Bonanza the game it really is.
Spin 1 Gold = X126.3
Spin 2 Gol
Spin 3 Gold = X73
Spin 4 Gold =x724

So 5 spins 4 golds Unreal on a slot that hardly shows a D

Nice 1 but there you have it the best proof I have ever seen that slots are not random.Given the accumulative odds of that happening would be harder than impossible to achieve.

 

[Jd666]

Well Last night was a odd one. After 2356 spins without a D it dropped, Not a biggy x66.6 (yep that 666 as arrived again) But it was what happened next that makes Bonanza the game it really is.
Spin 1 Gold = X126.3
Spin 2 Gol
Spin 3 Gold = X73
Spin 4 Gold =x724

So 5 spins 4 golds Unreal on a slot that hardly shows a D

Now it will cost you 8000 spins until you see the D

 

[nutnut]

Good thing about last 2 nights on this slot, is i finally put a deposit limit on all my accounts.

Max £20 a day. Worse thing about this game is the ease of constantly redepositing over and over without realising those £5 deposits soon total up to 100+

 

[Lincolnuk]

Now it will cost you 8000 spins until you see the D

Lol 600 and counting

 

[nutnut]

Oh how you toil and suffer JD.

The other day I lost count of how many sets of 100 spins I done on autoplay, but I'd estimate about 1700. With over £120 lost on minimum bets too, I gave up in the end cos it was going to go on all night otherwise.

So I'll light a candle and say a prayer for your 5 lost free spins

This is the weird thing I can't grasp with this slot. If I play any other slot all night it is IMPOSSIBLE not to trigger a bonus. But this game it feels like it targets certain accounts. I had one two days ago I had it running in background for like 12 hours straight, I triggered about one bonus in 6 hours, then pop on here and see people triggering bonuses galore. I know it sounds bat shit crazy but I swear their are certain days you can play this till you drop dead and it won't chuck a bonus at you. And like you, you can easily lose 100/200 at min stakes at min deposit before nights over. The randomness doesn't feel random and when you do have a ok win(god forbid) it turns off like a light switch.

Also people say the base game is great, it is and can be, but what they fail to mention is 100 spins later it can take 70% of that win and put you right back at same spot, and thats another running theme.

£1 balance win upto £12 back down to £4 back upto £18....now you think oh nice a decent balance at min stakes to hit a bonus round...........200 spins later its gone!

 

[mcgameboy]

Nice 1 but there you have it the best proof I have ever seen that slots are not random.Given the accumulative odds of that happening would be harder than impossible to achieve.

That's about the dumbest thing you've said in this thread. And it beats out a lot of stiff competition. 4 bonuses in the space of 5 spins is about as random as it gets.

 

[snorky510238]

That's about the dumbest thing you've said in this thread. And it beats out a lot of stiff competition. 4 bonuses in the space of 5 spins is about as random as it gets.

and that's the dumbest you've said.

 

[jfoxuk]

Here's my take on Bonanza.

PLEASE NOTE - There is a commentary maths error at 26m57s and 28m11s, the correct figure is £9,600,000 and not £9,960,000. I only noticed this after I'd finished editing the video together, rendered it out, and kicked off the upload. (Small sherries had been consumed at the time of filming.)

Try Danger High Voltage much better

 

[aceking123]

That's about the dumbest thing you've said in this thread. And it beats out a lot of stiff competition. 4 bonuses in the space of 5 spins is about as random as it gets.

i Dont think its dumb at all , lets see the odds of this happening , penny for your thoughts , compensated rings a bell here.

 

[Naok777]

The difference is the really big wins on DoA come a LOT more often than on Bonanza so they make up a much larger portion of the RTP. I just think a lot of the complaints about this game come down to people expecting it to be something it isn't. If you play it expecting it to be a nice high variance slot that will quite 'often' give 1000x wins, you will get frustrated because they pretty much don't happen. It's pretty much Starburst with a progressive jackpot, low variance base game and even most bonuses are in the 5-100x range, it's just that it has potential to pay ridiculous amounts.

The way I see it:

DoA is a low variance base game with a bonus that pays either nothing or everything, with medium wins in fs being almost as rare as the really big wins.
Bonanza is a low variance base game with a bonus that pays nothing to everything and anything in between, with medium wins being significantly more common than really big wins.
Obviously all those medium wins in Bonanza have to be paid for somehow and that happens at the expense of the frequency for really big wins.
So where DoA may throw up a really big win every 150000 spins Bananza will only do so once every 50 million spins.
(yes I made up that 150000 and 50 million on the spot to illustrate a point)

 

[goatwack]

Don't think I've ever observed or heard both DOA and Bonanza described as low variance twice in one week.

I need to lie down for a bit.

 

[pinnit2014]

Yesterday’s bonanza was no bonus in 2500 spins and today’s is 10 bonus offerings in 500. One 200 x and the rest, well I couldn’t be arsed to count to 8.

The 1000 x is getting farther and farther away.

In that time 2 1000 Xs in the rigged DOA tho

 

[Jono777]

It's seriously " GOL, TrOLLIng" today. Rigged.

 

[greylady]

I always seemed to get the bonus rounds in close succession when the wins were not worth the bother, got two retriggers the last time I played making for 22 spins and most of them were dead - what is the point?

I am absolutely baffled by my game play on Videoslots, thousands and thousands of spins on Bonanza since the start of December and not once have I managed to get above my starting balance - ok I know I don't do well there at the best of times but this, for me, has to be the worst result ever across any site

 

[goatwack]

I always seemed to get the bonus rounds in close succession when the wins were not worth the bother, got two retriggers the last time I played making for 22 spins and most of them were dead - what is the point?

I am absolutely baffled by my game play on Videoslots, thousands and thousands of spins on Bonanza since the start of December and not once have I managed to get above my starting balance - ok I know I don't do well there at the best of times but this, for me, has to be the worst result ever across any site

I think Videoslots need to send you a Bonanza shirt, signed by Dan and the team. It's only fair

 

[Harry_BKK]

OK, I'll try to be as neutral as possible.

As you all know I have been playing this slot very regularly and had both, great times and bad times and as well as the real ugly times.

However, we seem to be all fixated on the statement from BTG that bonus rounds happen on average 1x in 450 spins only because they pay on average over 100x bet. Hence, we do expect that every bonus round should go up to x20 multiplier and produce some big wins leading to a daily killer screenshot.

But what we forget and to keep the maths simple, if one bonus round ends with a 1,000x bet win that means there have to be 10 rounds with very low results. Nothing different as with other slots. How many times have we gone 500+ spins on DOA, TS2, IR or other favorites without a bonus round and then finally hitting it only to be served a 2x - 5x bet "win".

I don't have access to the details how the RTP is distributed on BTG slots, only got Netent sheets. e.g. to keep it comparable I took NRVNA which has as well only Free Spins plus rather high base game pays and no other features just like Bonanza.



Please remember, that this is the theoretical distribution which has been established by the math model and probably a few billion test spins. Deviations in both directions are absolutely normal, otherwise it wouldn't be a random game.

Hence, it doesn't ring any alarms when I see somebody doing 1,000 spins on Bonanza and ends up with a 73% RTP or has a few bonus rounds in succession with measly returns far below 100x bet. I had those periods too, just like anyone else.

Meanwhile, I have restarted more than half a dozen times the trophies for Bonanza at VS, plus hammered it considerably at Rizk and Betat, yet I do not see any big difference to other slots. In contrary, I get more often longer sessions with my balance on Bonanza, even without a bonus round, than on other slots, e.g. BoD or DOA.

Bonanza can be a beast or an ATM in a matter of hours and the long waiting time for a bonus round is designed to appeal on the gambler's mind, e.g. "I played it so long, it must hit now soon". Hence, we are chasing that GOLD with a vengeance, only to be mostly deeply disappointed and then come onto CM to vent our frustration. Myself, I went in excess of 3,500 spins once to hit the bonus round, losing a ton in the process and getting a meager return after the 12 spins finished rather quickly.

Getting hooked up on that GOLD is dangerous and anyone prone to that should set a limit of spins before leaving the game and trying their luck on another slot, damn'it VS has over 2,000 available, yet we all stick to maybe 10 - 12 all the time, whereas 2 - 3 from those are getting the main share.