New Slot Announcement Bonanza by Big Time Gaming
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Dont bro, want my honest opinion...
If its just the itch you are trying to scratch, go rattle out a few 0.10p spins, might get lucky like i did last night.
I made £100 on Le bunny and £80 on the goonies, all on 10p spins.
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On your screenshots the first thing I look at now is your playtime. Bonus average 1 in 460 seconds not spins
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800x on Goonies is some exceedingly rare shit, I wouldn't recommend anyone tries to repeat the feat. 95% of all those Blue Print bonuses pay 40-something-x. That's not hyperbole, they're 40x factories.
No no, i just meant "The goonies" games all around doing 10p hits...
I got a red key on The Goonies return - popped out £50 on the all symbols covering the screen...
I got SOOO many green keys that would go into bonuses through either the coins or selection in general *Thank my mrs and her natural ways* - All in all between the 3 goonies game, i was around £80 up, including a bonus on the goonies megaways that payed £18 cause i unlocked the mad table thing at the top etc etc.
Was a good run!
Ohhhh also Dusk princess by Hacksaw - What a beautiful lil game, most amazing fkn music especially when the saxophone kicks in when you get a x100 hit!
Managed to scamper about £20 from that early on to then bolted.
geordiecolin
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Hot period on Bonanza? I go through period pains regularly while playing and after playing Bonanza.Remember, it's not permissible to have a hot period on Bonanza as it invalidates the conspiracy theories, the belief you cannot win on it any more, the fact it's 'changed' and the little man with the watering can behind the scenes has silently decreased the feature frequency.
Should you be seen to get too many bonus rounds, or substantial returns from any free spins round, you will be excluded from the woe-is-me Bonanza club for an indefinite period, reviewed only after such time you have been seen to make a string of posts about how shit the game has turned and the others were right after all.
I am on a great run right now, not seen since my insane Casumo one many years ago where for two weeks I couldn't stop winning and went about 12k up on it at 1 to 2 euro stakes although it did turn bad and I left it after losing about 4k back.
And in my YT comments I get the same kind of assertions as witnessed in this thread, 'how do you do it?' and 'I've never landed features that often' and 'there's a different version you play' or 'it must be fake as Bonanza cannot play that well' (my favourite!)
So my question is, why can't people associate the behaviour of Bonanza as being common to most RNG slot games and not something unique that is only ever experienced on this specific game?
Is it played by some only as a form of self-flagellation or do they actually enjoy the risk?
We may get there by the 1,000th page of this thread.
**Hang on, I could have sworn we had about 923 pages here, seem to have lost 700 of them!
After initially worrying about your peptic issues and fast forwarding to your next bonus I feel quite touched by your ability to get over that very poor last bonus return.
Meenwhile I am about to return to my two hours in version that I am slightly up on tonight and hope to get a decent hit that I am happy to move on from.
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I see people get nice wins on bonanza so of course i get tempted, but i guess all the good wins were taken.
Couldnt even break past 500x.
Jokes aside, if spin #10 with the 3 wilds would have made some proper connections with good symbols it could have been a beautiful hit with the 20x multiplier.
Sorry not sorry for the annoying swapping between screens, i was waiting for the few pennies i had on Mrvegas to disappear so i could close that slot, my poor laptop did not like recording bonanza while having a blueprint slot run in the background.
Couldnt even break past 500x.
Jokes aside, if spin #10 with the 3 wilds would have made some proper connections with good symbols it could have been a beautiful hit with the 20x multiplier.
Sorry not sorry for the annoying swapping between screens, i was waiting for the few pennies i had on Mrvegas to disappear so i could close that slot, my poor laptop did not like recording bonanza while having a blueprint slot run in the background.
Ok I couldn't help myself I had to get in on the action.
£100 down, 494 spins no bonus no max ways. Had a 25x base 5OAK purple but that was all. Busted out. A lot of teasing going on but always the shitty L on reel 6 or tumbles in when there's no more tumbles.
Switched sites, another £100 (I knew this rabbit hole would open up). Balance draining fast with no teasing, barely any base game either. Feeling pretty shitty about the whole situation when out of nowhere a D popped its head and the bonus did reasonably well so recover the £100 I threw away and leave me a big old £45 in profit lol. Shame I didn't play this site first. Could have been better, last few spins dead as is usually the case! Those ways on the last spin utter pisstake. 1 off the nut low.
£100 down, 494 spins no bonus no max ways. Had a 25x base 5OAK purple but that was all. Busted out. A lot of teasing going on but always the shitty L on reel 6 or tumbles in when there's no more tumbles.
Switched sites, another £100 (I knew this rabbit hole would open up). Balance draining fast with no teasing, barely any base game either. Feeling pretty shitty about the whole situation when out of nowhere a D popped its head and the bonus did reasonably well so recover the £100 I threw away and leave me a big old £45 in profit lol. Shame I didn't play this site first. Could have been better, last few spins dead as is usually the case! Those ways on the last spin utter pisstake. 1 off the nut low.
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Honestly, stop wasting your time lol...
So much potential being wasted for elsewhere now days.
Whats annoying is i took the screenshot of me getting the bonus after 1minute 38seconds of spinning.
Dunno where it went.
But yeah, keep in mind, - i already won £2.90 when the bonus started.
I got 10 dead spins out of 12 and won a total of £1.99 from 12 spins.
lol, its just getting bleh now.
So much potential being wasted for elsewhere now days.
Whats annoying is i took the screenshot of me getting the bonus after 1minute 38seconds of spinning.
Dunno where it went.
But yeah, keep in mind, - i already won £2.90 when the bonus started.
I got 10 dead spins out of 12 and won a total of £1.99 from 12 spins.
lol, its just getting bleh now.
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Everyone knows I dislike Bonanza. But got same bonus available as last week at william Hill and so bored lying in this hospital bed since Wednesday tempted to do it again.
Be a surprise if I can wager £500 from £100 on this junk without busting out twice in a row.
Be a surprise if I can wager £500 from £100 on this junk without busting out twice in a row.
Pls just crop the time playtime out, it's getting ridiculous
So are the bonuses dont worry ;p;
Well i took the change back over to Normal bonanza to see if its going to be nice....
Lets see...
Ok done alot better, and im STILL going to gripe!
I was on x10 Multi for 6 more spins, got 1 lil hit of a quick £1 from K's, then 5 dead spins
But still a fantastic lil result!
Sorry @2Slots i forgot to take the bloody timer thing out!
Lets see...
Ok done alot better, and im STILL going to gripe!
I was on x10 Multi for 6 more spins, got 1 lil hit of a quick £1 from K's, then 5 dead spins
But still a fantastic lil result!
Sorry @2Slots i forgot to take the bloody timer thing out!
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Yeah but if you play 2 minutes and get a bonus you're never going to be down that bad so a 30x win likely puts you in a small profit.
Meanwhile when I'm spinning 30 mins + doesn't matter that I get a 100x bonus most likely it just brings me back to start balance or ever or slightly up.
Same difference really.
This is exactly how I see it. That's why I'd love thediro's bonus frequency and would have loved bonanza a lot more if it did that for me.
He hits them so early that it's win/win really imo. If it's a 'crap' one he still going to be near even because they land so early. Would be perfect for me.
Nah leave them in, it's the best part of seeing them. Plus you'll just get asked everytime 'how long did that take you?'
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With all those bonuses so early you should be spinning at max bets, would be up thousands by now
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Decied to give Bonanza a quick whirl, it ate about a 100x in record time, my biggest win was just under 4x.
Back on the ban list for a month so it has time to re-charge.
Back on the ban list for a month so it has time to re-charge.
Honestly, its just.....its fucking unbearable how this just can constantly happen so much to this degree now.
Dont care what anyone says, get them investigated lmao Wheres the fkn wins!
Who programmed these bonuses to have 80% dead spins?
A fucking retrigger - and proceeded to do 8 more dead spins
17 spins - 14 dead, im sorry, but whats the fucking point?
Whos actually programming this bs to happen and whats the point of a "bonus" its just becoming worthy of looking into now lol.
10 + years and its the same repetitive questionable shit.
Its actually boring tbh now.
Time to hit the other slots where its actually fun!
Also - managed to scamper another £50 From huff and puff the other night from a few good bonuses and another red key from Goonies!
So conclusion?
Bonanza is a joke of a slot, always has been and always will be.
Dont care what anyone says, get them investigated lmao Wheres the fkn wins!
Who programmed these bonuses to have 80% dead spins?
A fucking retrigger - and proceeded to do 8 more dead spins
17 spins - 14 dead, im sorry, but whats the fucking point?
Whos actually programming this bs to happen and whats the point of a "bonus" its just becoming worthy of looking into now lol.
10 + years and its the same repetitive questionable shit.
Its actually boring tbh now.
Time to hit the other slots where its actually fun!
Also - managed to scamper another £50 From huff and puff the other night from a few good bonuses and another red key from Goonies!
So conclusion?
Bonanza is a joke of a slot, always has been and always will be.
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Bonanza is impossible to bonus for me pretty much always so I won't be trying anymore. Gave it a try last night ate 40x then 50x second time before I stopped. Would have been a very short evening! Played other slots and they gave it back so I got some playtime in the end.
Would have thought a 70% base game would be perfect for me but bonanza's design means it just ends in a loss almost every time. It hits the base game RTP or slightly better a lot but the bonus not landing often enough means I'm playing a 70% average RTP slot most of the time.
I feel bonanza's main 'appeal' is thinking it can't be this hard all the time so give it another go. The answer I found is yes it is that hard all the time!
Reckon that's why so many come in here to say they don't play it because it's terrible and then post some time later how their session on it went, they're just checking!
I feel the same about retriggers though, they're usually a signal of doom
I've only had 2 on JATB and both times the bonus has gone completely dead. Got one at 5 spins on it at 2.5x and after the 10 spins completed I won 2.53x.
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Do not watch my latest video when it comes out later. If you choose to ignore that advice, get a paper sick back ready.
P.S. About to have a sesh today, not played for a few days. No doubt it will revert to type.
*Rubs hands together*
Ive stacked up on a fresh new box of Latte's
Fresh pack of smokes *wink wink*
Cat has been prewarned to leave me the fuck alone.
I look forward to the adventure.
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The guy plays through more spins just from bonus rounds in a session than everyone else gets during base play. Dafuq is this shit?!
Wanted to give this a few quid just to try and hit a big base game hit to play something else. Ironically hit a bonus after 12 mins. +5 too. 319x returned. If a couple more decent hits would have happened near the end would have made it much better as it might have replaced more of my previous losses!
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Finally hit one of Diros bonuses, not only did i bonus it in less than 5 mins but 1st Spin LOL
And it retriggered..... so luckily not one of Diros results
And it retriggered..... so luckily not one of Diros results
This has to be a sick joke what the fuck have I just watched this last hour.
Lost that 2nd £100 after the shit bonus.
Put in 1 last £100 lasted 15 minutes. £300 in less than an hour. That last hundred 203 spins. Barely 50%.
1 Max ways the entire time that paid 0.4x
Last 203 spins I saw the L 1 time, best win was a 6x.
Entire spins best hit was a 20x base game.
First £100 39% rtp, second hundred not sure but maybe 65-70%. Third £100 just over 50%. On Bonanza? You're fucking kidding me. I might as well spin a hacksaw or no limit city that can actually give a big win.
I'm 1 more bad session away from I love to hate this game but I keep going to fuck this game I'm never touching it again.
Lost that 2nd £100 after the shit bonus.
Put in 1 last £100 lasted 15 minutes. £300 in less than an hour. That last hundred 203 spins. Barely 50%.
1 Max ways the entire time that paid 0.4x
Last 203 spins I saw the L 1 time, best win was a 6x.
Entire spins best hit was a 20x base game.
First £100 39% rtp, second hundred not sure but maybe 65-70%. Third £100 just over 50%. On Bonanza? You're fucking kidding me. I might as well spin a hacksaw or no limit city that can actually give a big win.
I'm 1 more bad session away from I love to hate this game but I keep going to fuck this game I'm never touching it again.
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£1 spins on £100 deposits are into real death or glory territory. Your total deposits there were only 300x, on a slot that is (a) Notoriously hard to bonus and (b) Is still capable of base game dry patches despite the high overall RTP churn assigned to it.
My absolute starter for ten in terms of stake versus bankroll was 500x (i.e. a £100 deposit for 20p spins), with the idea being that the bankroll would be sufficient to withstand a bad session for long enough to last to an upswing - but in reality even that would fail to be enough with some regularity.
Certainly when I was taking on Who's The Bride (DOA clone) I went with £150 deposits for 18p spins (833x as bankroll versus stake) but in reality that slot would eat that for breakfast and do the same again for lunch and tea as well.
If you're happy with the risk versus reward profile of playing such big spins relative to your deposits then fair enough, but it won't take much of getting on the wrong side of volatility to wipe you out.
My absolute starter for ten in terms of stake versus bankroll was 500x (i.e. a £100 deposit for 20p spins), with the idea being that the bankroll would be sufficient to withstand a bad session for long enough to last to an upswing - but in reality even that would fail to be enough with some regularity.
Certainly when I was taking on Who's The Bride (DOA clone) I went with £150 deposits for 18p spins (833x as bankroll versus stake) but in reality that slot would eat that for breakfast and do the same again for lunch and tea as well.
If you're happy with the risk versus reward profile of playing such big spins relative to your deposits then fair enough, but it won't take much of getting on the wrong side of volatility to wipe you out.
I found the only way to play bonanza with a low x starting balance and chase the bonus is if you catch it early with a 30-50x win and then try to 'freeroll' that for as long as possible.
It did it quite often tbh and then it depended on how long it played well for after that. It still was almost impossible to hit the bonus though.
I ended up playing it aiming to use 25x-50x of my deposit and see if I got a big base hit early. It barely bonuses for me anyway so it felt more enjoyable that way and I could still leave in 'profit' sometimes.
Trying to chase the bonus just meant the losses mounted up and I had to either write them off and stop or continue to play the slot for fun. It was only fun for me when playing 25-50x and maybe losing it like any other slot rather than losing 100x+ almost every time and never seeing a bonus.
At that point even a bonus win that was decent didn't feel like it because by the time I got one I already lost around 10 deposits to get maybe 3/4 worth back if lucky.
But it's not just £100 is it it's many rounds of £100 at a time.
Last night £400 in total 1 bonus 19x.
Today another £500, £400 of which was on video slots.
Total another 1300 spins, no bonus, best hit a 28x base game. I saw 1 L tumble on Mr Vegas and 5 L tumbles on Video Slots.
Add on the spins done last night after the bonus without anything else and I'm at about 1600 spins no bonus with a 28x as the best to show for it.
My last bonuses before this were 18x and 75x (along with that 19x) so it's not like I've even had a big hit somewhere. No I've just been fucked in the arse for £900.
Meanwhile everyone else posting here seems to bonus in 5 minutes or hit 300x wins. It's just so frustrating that I can't see a good run too. It's not like I have an infinite balance to just keep throwing money at the game and when a bonus does finally come it won't even come close to making up the RTP.
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Don't lose heart, you'll hit the big boy soon enough - you aren't even on the base game average RTP at the moment, 63% is under even that. We've all seen this crap before in our own play, you'll be surprised when you hit a sustained good run on it, which it has a habit of doing. Unless somehow you've found a 70% version lol
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Well this is the ultimate point isn't it, these things are designed for us to lose our money on them, and if we play them for long enough, eventually we will lose all our money.
Stretched out over a long enough timeline, whatever amount of money we start with that's anything less than 'infinite', and given an RTP that's anything less than 100% - we will finish up bankrupt.
That being a mathematical certainty, the decision we then have to make is whether or not we think the act of gambling is worth the money and time it costs us for the returns of 'entertainment'. The money can (hopefully) be replenished, the time spent certainly can't be, all we can do on that score is not commit any more time to it in the future, should we choose to make that choice.
Bonanza has a 4% house edge, that's a large house edge, and like all slots it's a very volatile form of gambling - (compare and contrast with full pay Jacks Or Better Video Poker that has a 99.54% RTP and is low volatility, but again, eventually it'll take all your money off you!) - some poor souls are going to end up at the wrong end of the bell curve in terms of the random results it dishes out, and that's going to cost a lot of money at £1 per spin.
I don't know exactly how far you are in the hole on Bonanza overall, but once you get past a certain point in terms of losses your chances of getting back to level pegging become essentially zero, so you can either subscribe to the theory of sunk cost fallacy and carry on in the increasingly vain hope you win some your losses back, or throw in the towel and do something else instead.
Or just tell yourself it's all in the name of entertainment, which is what I deluded myself with for a decent chunk of time before finally calling it a day completely last month.
I know I will lose it all eventually but the numbers I'm putting up are fucking insane.
I am not even shitting you look, I put 1 final £100 in, got my bonus that took 1700 spins and £923 to earn.
PAID 14X. 14 MOTHERFUCKING X.
Like how is it possible I'm on this run. Take 1600 spins and pay 300x sure, take 100 spins and pay 10x sure.
Where is the fun? Where is the play? There's just nothing. Doesn't even put me back to £100 from this last deposit.
I am not even shitting you look, I put 1 final £100 in, got my bonus that took 1700 spins and £923 to earn.
PAID 14X. 14 MOTHERFUCKING X.
Like how is it possible I'm on this run. Take 1600 spins and pay 300x sure, take 100 spins and pay 10x sure.
Where is the fun? Where is the play? There's just nothing. Doesn't even put me back to £100 from this last deposit.
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They're not insane, they're unlucky.
Imagine there's a bell curve for every element of the game, feature frequency, feature pays, base game pays, max ways base game spins, max ways base game pays etc.
For the maths of online slots to work, there have to be players distributed all across these bell curves, and some unfortunate souls are going to get stuck at the wrong end of them, sometimes for some or all of them at once, and sometimes for an extended period of time.
By all accounts that's currently where you are, and yes, it's going to sting.
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Come on @ChopleyIOM I always thought your graphs were more accurate than that one - I have corrected it properly:
13 mins...you're either slacking or deliberately taking your time on the bank holiday
Fuck me man. What a day.
FINALLY popped off on a regular bonus that retriggered once. I'm not even happy, just relieved to have recovered a bit. Now I'm even for the day, though still down the £400 from last night so I don't look at this as a win even though the recovery is a win in of itself.
I need a break from slots after this, way too stressful lol.
FINALLY popped off on a regular bonus that retriggered once. I'm not even happy, just relieved to have recovered a bit. Now I'm even for the day, though still down the £400 from last night so I don't look at this as a win even though the recovery is a win in of itself.
I need a break from slots after this, way too stressful lol.
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Honest truth?13 mins...you're either slacking or deliberately taking your time on the bank holiday
I was literally doing dishes in between and cleaning etc, i left it for like 10min to go down to shop and grab milk, then came back and finished it off
