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Just threw a fiver on I kid you not all dead and I mean all dead spins not 1 win what the f is this game. Disgusting shady theft I've never witnessed that is that possible for every single spin to be dead? Not even a micro win?
 

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kennygamerboy said:
Just threw a fiver on I kid you not all dead and I mean all dead spins not 1 win what the f is this game. Disgusting shady theft I've never witnessed that is that possible for every single spin to be dead? Not even a micro win?
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Most certainly possible, I had twenty dead spins on Finn & The Swirly Spin the other day :)
 
Urgh it's just filth at the minute yes I've been on this thread many a time saying its bad but this is Next level it doesn't even spit micro wins just dead spin after dead spin also we all know it can take the piss dropping bonuses but something is a foot the past 2 or 3 weeks where it just doesn't drop in at all and the heartbeat is pointless as well. How can they change it without the patch update date changing? Sorry but the whole industry reeks right now sites also feel weird and glitchy its just a cesspit.
 
Entertainment value right there, lol.
Speaking of, allow me to use this as another opportunity to bash BOD.
Ain't played in a while meself, many months. Decided to dabbe last night and the night before, counted 71 teases (13 or so "mega teases") on BOD over those 2 sessions on 1 line, for 2 features. Base game wins invisible throughout that period. Yet some say you won't notice the 2% drop in rtp, aaaalrighty then. ;)

The scene so fkng dire with almost 0 entertainment for your buck (unless 100+ near misses where it coincidenty lands the picture symbols you needed on the following spin into the spot where it missed 1 out on the prior spin, someting BOD on 1 line miraculously manages to do more often than not, defying randomness (those independent spins, huh, lol), accompanied by 71 teases for 2 features, during 1.5 - 2 hours of play, is actually classed as entertainment these days).

Crock of shite, the lot of it ;).

(I won't mention that pos again, I promise!)
 
Well, yes of course it’s possible to have 20 dead spins on any game. What I will say is this though. In the first 5 years of Bonanza, it was incredibly rare to see 10 consecutive dead spins and only once did I ever have 15 dead spins. Then, in the past 2 years, 15 dead spins became the norm. Along with virtually all the big base hits disappearing and the bonus virtually impossible to land.

Coincidence, bad luck? Not a prayer, not even the slightest chance. You’re playing against a bunch of crooked, thieving bunch of underhanded *******.
 
kennygamerboy said:
Urgh it's just filth at the minute yes I've been on this thread many a time saying its bad but this is Next level it doesn't even spit micro wins just dead spin after dead spin also we all know it can take the piss dropping bonuses but something is a foot the past 2 or 3 weeks where it just doesn't drop in at all and the heartbeat is pointless as well. How can they change it without the patch update date changing? Sorry but the whole industry reeks right now sites also feel weird and glitchy its just a cesspit.
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I posted a little while ago how it appears the game has been tweaked in the past month or so.
Loads of instances of 20 spins on the trot without a win lately. The game gives you a win about 35 times out of 100 so, even being generous to the game and saying there's only a 30% chance of a winning line, the odds of 20 without a win on the trot are about 1 in 1250, yet it's happening regularly, or I'm getting 12 blanks, a little win (or sometimes a half decent one!) followed by another 15 dead spins. What I'm finding is that a few minutes later I'm getting 7 or 8 wins every 10 spins. I don't record every spin but, when this happens, I start a little tick sheet and I'm still getting between 33 and 45 wins every 100 spins. It's when all these wins are less than 3x that the game gets boring so I tend to stop playing for a while when that happens.
Anecdotally there appear to be a lot more (non-winning) Diamonds and 'L's floating about, and all my bonuses are coming straight in as GOLD rather than getting any letters or extra spins dropping in on a cascade. I average five or six scatters every 10 times I get GOLD but I'm currently on one +5 in the last 48.

It hasn't affected my RTP, in fact I'm doing quite well lately, but it just feels different. Do tweaks to the gameplay need a patch update or not? I don't know.
 
Schind said:
The game gives you a win about 35 times out of 100 so, even being generous to the game and saying there's only a 30% chance of a winning line, the odds of 20 without a win on the trot are about 1 in 1250, yet it's happening regularly, or I'm getting 12 blanks, a little win (or sometimes a half decent one!) followed by another 15 dead spins. What I'm finding is that a few minutes later I'm getting 7 or 8 wins every 10 spins. I don't record every spin but, when this happens, I start a little tick sheet and I'm still getting between 33 and 45 wins every 100 spins. It's when all these wins are less than 3x that the game gets boring so I tend to stop playing for a while when that happens.
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Isn't that literally the expected hit rate on Bonanza, and always has been?
 
You just need to visit the BigWinBoard YT page and see how many BTG games have yielded massive wins in 2023. Answer: none and the last one was when some lucky bloke won the Mega Jackpot. BTG's time has passed and they have become a joke. They still haven't fixed the pause on the VS version of Bonanza and the rest of their slots is tilting fare. They're now in the same boat as Red Tiger and Light & Wonder.

I never liked their spokesman, either. There's a British word for him that I won't use but you all know it.
 
BrianGhattas said:
You just need to visit the BigWinBoard YT page and see how many BTG games have yielded massive wins in 2023. Answer: none and the last one was when some lucky bloke won the Mega Jackpot. BTG's time has passed and they have become a joke. They still haven't fixed the pause on the VS version of Bonanza and the rest of their slots is tilting fare. They're now in the same boat as Red Tiger and Light & Wonder.

I never liked their spokesman, either. There's a British word for him that I won't use but you all know it.
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Rich?
 
ChopleyIOM said:
Isn't that literally the expected hit rate on Bonanza, and always has been?
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I can't comment on always has been. I was only an occasional player until November last year when I got the bug. I always thought the game was very hot and cold previously but I'd only dabble once in a while.

I was being generous by allowing the game a 70/30 lose/win ration. Over the weekend I decided to record 1000 spins a couple of times. Not something I want to repeat too often as it was incredibly tedious, but I did it for my own interest.
The Viking's post a couple of weeks ago shows an average of 374 wins per 1000 spins. On Friday's session I had 371 wins then on Sunday's I had 376. (Pretty similar for something so random!).
Still being generous to the game and using a ratio of 63% losses to 37% wins here are some probabilities based on chance alone.

Getting 10 losing spins on the streak - 1 in 101.5, or to be expected once every 1015 spins. I got this three times in 2000 spins.
11 losing spins - 1 in 161.2 or once very 1772 spins - I got this three times in 2000.
12 - once every 3069 spins - I had two.
13 - once every 5278 spins - I had one.
14 - once every 9023 spins - I had two.
15 - didn't happen to me but it's every 15,345 spins
16 - every 25,982 spins. I had it once.
17 - every 43,818 spins. I had it once.

That's as high as I went over the weekend but, for the record, 20 losing spins has a probability of 1 in 10,308 or once every 206,166 spins at a more realistic percentage.
The 24 spins mentioned above - 1,570,495 spins.

So yes, they can all happen but it's the frequency. At some point you have to say that it's happening more than chance alone suggests it should.
I'm not gonna record all my spins but I can assure you that I go 15 or more spins without a win a damn sight more than once every 15,000 spins. I've had an 11 and a 12 today and I've only done about 500 spins.

I make no apologies for appearing to be a geek. I'm fine with that label. :)
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
Five or Six scatters every ten times I get gold!!???????????

Does casinomeister do drugs test? Wellness checks??

Even Dazza couldn’t make that statement whilst keeping a straight face.
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I'm on 497 bonuses this year. I've had five scatters 36 times and six scatters 10 times. I didn't realise that was extraordinary.
I've just noticed that five scatters have only come in when playing at a maximum of £1 a spin, all the six scatters have been on 20p spins. I've not had any extras at £2 or above but I don't often go there.

It's probably why you rich people don't see them with your £4 and £5 + spins. ?

I'm still not 100% convinced the game is exactly the same no matter what stake you play at.
 
Schind said:
I'm on 497 bonuses this year. I've had five scatters 36 times and six scatters 10 times. I didn't realise that was extraordinary.
I've just noticed that five scatters have only come in when playing at a maximum of £1 a spin, all the six scatters have been on 20p spins. I've not had any extras at £2 or above but I don't often go there.

It's probably why you rich people don't see them with your £4 and £5 + spins. ?

I'm still not 100% convinced the game is exactly the same no matter what stake you play at.
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I can just about accept 1/11 features of 5-scatters, but I've only seen 7-scatters twice and 6-scatters 13 times in 6 years!
 
dunover said:
I can just about accept 1/11 features of 5-scatters, but I've only seen 7-scatters twice and 6-scatters 13 times in 6 years!
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And the above coming from the worlds most spawniest bonanza player ever?

6 scatters 10 times in 8 months? Think I’ve had that about 8-10 times in 5 years and believe me I’ve sessioned the game.

Not doubting u at all but fuck me u must be running it 24/7 to get that shit.

A +5 every 11 features is something I couldn’t even dream of.
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
And the above coming from the worlds most spawniest bonanza player ever?

6 scatters 10 times in 8 months? Think I’ve had that about 8-10 times in 5 years and believe me I’ve sessioned the game.

Not doubting u at all but fuck me u must be running it 24/7 to get that shit.

A +5 every 11 features is something I couldn’t even dream of.
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I'm agreeing with you FFS. Twice a YEAR on average I see 6-scatters, once very 3 years 7-scatters over my Bonanza 'career'.

I never said I PERSONALLY have 5-scatters every 11 features either, but can just about accept @Schind had in his last 490-odd features. Assuming he's including +5 retriggers.
 
PMKFRUITPRO said:
Honestly, I read comments from people in
This thread and I genuinely think they must be playing a different game to me.
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Well he's playing a different one to me right now - the fucking game has been as cold as a witch's tit for me this summer.
 
Oh well I guess ur only about 20 bag up now in the last 2 and a half years !!! Hard times I guess eh??

I’ve watched the videos of late where you’ve been getting fucked over. Well over due imo in a non sarcastic way.

I always want people to win over casinos but you’ve no idea or the arse fucking ur due for the next 12 months.

I’d stop now before it becomes unbearable.
 
It's moot for the most part, as additional scatters serve mostly as eye candy anyway, yet infrequent enough to get players' hopes up.

Any seasoned player will know that such occurrences are usually a precursor to an especially woeful bonus a-comin'.....

Doesn't take more than a few months of solid Bonanza penance to know the game's beats, and that any bonuses of note are usually tagged on at the game's behest in the most unlikely manner.

No one ever truly gets ahead on Bonanza, and it has an unerring way of 'correcting' itself after extended play, just as surely as the game goes stone-cold dead in stark contrast to previous play at the drop of a hat, after any reasonable bonus is achieved.

Yet as we're here, my best yields have always been on default scatters, on sub-10x multipliers. Everything else is purely BTG aesthetic, I'm 'fraid
 
I've been noticing exactly the same layout. Awful runs of dead spins. Lack of scatters. I've been ripping through £100 (£1 spins) quicker than I ever have previously....usually I'd get an hour or so of play, but lately you'd be looking at 18-25mins or so. However, I've just had this drop in and am well happy. £45 on the trigger (multiple cascades to get the trigger) and then into 22 spins. First two spins and I'm onto 9x multiplier and had won approx 25x...I then had a feral run of 14 dead spins. Here we go. But then it threw in a ton of red gems for £228, the cascade on that spin dropped in a ton of blues for another £230 odd. I then had some nice £30-£40 hits per spin and one of £80. So when it wants to...it can still perform. Ended up on a 25 multi. 919x

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Dazza don't take this the wrong way but just watched you're latest vid how do you get that many bonuses in one session and on £10 its insane. Yes you have had a few losses in past vids over the weeks but I find it really hard to believe this is the same bonanza us mere mortals play. I am ultra lucky to get one bonus these days and that's on 20p I can't hit a bonus on my old stakes of 60p 80p or £1 it's nigh on impossible. And I also barely see scatters during play. Something ain't right with the version you play. I'm not saying your a fraud or anything I'm just saying what kind of server are you on
 
kennygamerboy said:
Dazza don't take this the wrong way but just watched you're latest vid how do you get that many bonuses in one session and on £10 its insane. Yes you have had a few losses in past vids over the weeks but I find it really hard to believe this is the same bonanza us mere mortals play. I am ultra lucky to get one bonus these days and that's on 20p I can't hit a bonus on my old stakes of 60p 80p or £1 it's nigh on impossible. And I also barely see scatters during play. Something ain't right with the version you play. I'm not saying your a fraud or anything I'm just saying what kind of server are you on
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When you are able to deposit £400 at a time it is inevitable you will get your fair share of big wins and features just as much as when you are on lower stakes. The bigger wins tend to give more playing time.
 
If anything, the playtime would have been shorter the more he won, as he was incrementally upping his bets after certain bonus rounds.

The thing that saved Dunover was essentially that ruby smack-bang in the middle, nearer the end of a bonus on a fairly decent multiplier if I recall.

Nothing too outlandish that I could see, as doing £4 bets on a £390+ balance would be absolutely no different to any of the multitude of times I've staked 40p on £40ish balances. Much like he was betting £20 near the end on a 6k balance - which would be the smart thing to do for a duration.

Bonus frequency is impossible to predict on Bonanza, but three bonuses in an hour is not a guide. Sometimes it can go bonus crazy, other days one could spend several hours, if not sessions, and see diddly- squat :cool:
 
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goatwack said:
If anything, the playtime would have been shorter the more he won, as he was incrementally upping his bets after certain bonus rounds.

The thing that saved Dunover was essentially that ruby smack-bang in the middle, nearer the end of a bonus on a fairly decent multiplier if I recall.

Nothing too outlandish that I could see, as doing £4 bets on a £390+ balance would be absolutely no different to any of the multitude of times I've staked 40p on £40ish balances. Much like he was betting £20 near the end on a 6k balance - which would be the smart thing to for a duration.

Bonus frequency is impossible to predict on Bonanza, but three bonuses in an hour is not a guide. Sometimes it can go bonus crazy, other days one could spend several hours, if not sessions, and see diddly- squat :cool:
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That's the thing though mate it doesn't go bonus crazy anymore and as I've said in the past it really is a one bonus and that's you're lot these days.
 
There isn’t a person on this forum or anybody with half an ounce of intelligence on
YouTube who watches Dazzas vids that didn’t see that coming.

It was inevitable that the spawn would come back and no doubt continue the 2.5 years of consistent profit.

That’s right folks the first of the newly named ‘series’ videos started back in April 2021. It’s now August 2023 and for 2.5 yrs he’s continued winning.

Yes there has been the odd run of losing vids but somehow over all those 2.5 yrs of deposits/ sessions and the man playing nothing but Bonanza which gives the casino he’s playing at a 4% house edge Dazza has some how defeated the maths on all of them for not just a few Spawny weeks but for 2 yrs and 5 months.

Thank god for that mumbled explanation of how he thought it was his last attempt, but then realised he had one session left, as he thought he had played but didn’t, but had a video in his folder to upload but didn’t. Then said video which he thought he had uploaded but didn’t because he forgot he had it, led to a double up of the balance which he forgot about but we’ll see anyway even tho it was after what he thought was his last deposit!!!

Then wouldn’t you know it but booooom most of the money back as a result!!! How fortunate or is it just selective uploading to suit the narrative?

One things for sure.

Despite all his whinging, he’s the luckiest ever bonanza player the world has ever seen.

Must be making more money off that than selling bullshit Mab Bar X guides and dodgy electrocoin sparkers surely?
 
I think Dunover once said he lives near GCHQ, so perhaps they have got better servers in that area!

When I first started playing slots at sky vegas [knowing literally nothing about online slots really - nothing's changed!] I toyed with the idea, as they were based in leeds, they somehow had a bias against southeners winning and most of the winning action was reserved for locals - my job was to fill the coffers :oops:

I couldn't understand how the games felt a lot tighter than some other places where I played, it's far fetched but perhaps there is something to do with servers and networks and your location :confused: that gives you a slight advantage overall.
 
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I'm sceptical about the mythical Golden Hour, but it certainly feels/ felt as though Bonanza operates on a multi-server. How could it not be? So we're led to believe The Great Calculator In The Sky spits out random numbers to thousands of players across the globe?

With that said, there are 'servers' that completely flatline (most of them), whilst once in a blue moon you might get that inexplicable session where bonuses throw themselves at you like ladies of easy virtue. Namely, as chronicled in this very thread on a couple of occasions, where even though you're enjoying the spawn, you still suspect that this is completely off. After 18 hours straight of spinning and seeing double, that is....

Go to resume on the same game the next day, and it's unrecognizable. Can't be different servers, can it? It must've been bad luck :laugh:
 
All I know is that the game has been murdered and I would be willing to hang if I’m wrong. That’s how confident I am.

I have as much if not more data than most and the past 2 years just don’t stack up anywhere near the previous 5.

Just in case I didn’t mention it. BTG are an underhanded, filthy bunch of cheating crooked ****s and Evolution are even worse.
 
snorky510238 said:
All I know is that the game has been murdered and I would be willing to hang if I’m wrong. That’s how confident I am.

I have as much if not more data than most and the past 2 years just don’t stack up anywhere near the previous 5.

Just in case I didn’t mention it. BTG are an underhanded, filthy bunch of cheating crooked ****s and Evolution are even worse.
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Ooohhh the fabled data again! So damning no one is allowed to see it, lest they melt like that Nazi at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. snorky is saving us from ourselves!

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ChopleyIOM said:
Ooohhh the fabled data again! So damning no one is allowed to see it, lest they melt like that Nazi at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark. snorky is saving us from ourselves!

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I told you I posted my stats at VS and you choose not to reply. Later said they were bad but within the realms of possibility. Well, anything is possible just that some are very highly unlikely. Especially when 70 odd percent is in the base game.
 
I shan't imagine anyone plays this slot since its inception seven plus years ago and has lived to tell the tale. Anyone playing Bonanza exclusively is just a glutton for punishment and set to fail, aside from the four percent house edge already at odds with the player.

Tried it for a duration, the game's simply too fluctuant to invest both time and money into at great length, and those that have tried to attempt to find a middle ground with it would simply dump this sorry-ass slot after prolonged play, we've seen it time and time again.

Those that persist wishing to defy the odds will inevitably get their derrieres handed back to them - as many have attested to. There is little to be gleaned from it, as it doesn't particularly behave like other slots, where at least some patterned solace can be achieved....

There's no happy ending to be sought from it, as most will wise up and ditch it in time. It was predictably unpredictable pre- Evo update, and it's likely wince- inducing now. Only real purpose it serves is to be played sporadically, or to act as a 'F*ck you game, you've gone and done it now' end point to bin slots off altogether, lest one goes (inevitably) insane trying to best it.

That potential will have to remain..... just that :D
 

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