Play Big Bass Splash

Big Bass Splash sends Pragmatic Play’s familiar fisherman back onto the water, although this trip looks a little different from the original Big Bass Bonanza.

The calm blue seabed has made way for a brighter shoreline with rocky cliffs, warm colours and a Monster Truck sitting among the fishing gear. It still feels unmistakably like a Big Bass game, but the slight Western influence gives this instalment its own identity.

Pragmatic Play released Big Bass Splash in June 2022 as the fifth title in the series. It uses five reels, three rows and 10 fixed paylines. Most standard wins begin on the first reel and run from left to right across neighbouring reels.

The base game stays fairly simple. Most of the extra mechanics arrive through the two-Scatter nudge and the Free Spins feature, where Money Fish, Fisherman Wilds, random modifiers and increasing collection multipliers all come into play.

Big Bass Splash has a maximum win of 5,000x the stake. Pragmatic Play links that top potential to the Money Fish collection system and the later multiplier levels inside the bonus round.

Open Big Bass Splash at Heart Bingo and choose a stake from the amounts currently available inside the game.

All 10 paylines remain active on every spin. You do not need to turn individual lines on or off.

Most regular wins require three or more matching symbols to land across adjacent reels, beginning on the leftmost reel. The Monster Truck can form a combination with two matching symbols, while the Scatter does not need to follow a payline.

Before starting:

1. Choose the stake for the next spin.
2. Open the information menu to check the current paytable.
3. Press Spin to set the reels in motion.
4. Look for standard payline combinations or Fish Scatter symbols.
5. Check the total result before beginning another spin.

The lower-paying symbols are the usual 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace.

Fishing equipment fills the premium part of the paytable. These symbols include a tackle box, dragonfly and fishing rod. The Monster Truck sits at the top of the regular symbol set and can produce a payline result from two or more matching symbols.

The game also uses three symbols with particular roles in its features.

Fish Scatter

The green bass acts as the Scatter.

Landing three, four or five Scatters anywhere on the grid starts the Free Spins feature with 10, 15 or 20 spins respectively. Scatter symbols do not need to land across one of the 10 paylines.

Money Fish

Fish can carry cash values during the Free Spins feature.

Those values do not collect automatically. A Fisherman Wild must land during the same spin to reel them in.

Money Fish can display values of up to 5,000x the stake, although the result remains subject to the game’s overall maximum win.

Fisherman Wild

The Fisherman joins the reels during Free Spins.

He substitutes for regular paying symbols and collects the values shown on every Money Fish in view. When several Fishermen land together, each one can collect the visible fish values.

The game also counts each Fisherman towards the progression meter above the reels. That second job makes him the central symbol in the entire bonus round.

The Two-Scatter Nudge Feature

Two Scatters do not simply end as a near miss.

Whenever two land in the base game, Big Bass Splash starts its nudge sequence. Reels containing Scatters move down by one position while the other reels spin again, creating another opportunity for a third Scatter to appear.

A Hook can also pull a reel upwards and reveal the missing Scatter.

Neither mechanic guarantees the bonus, but both give the round another chance to produce the third symbol required for Free Spins.

Big Bass Splash Free Spins

Three Scatters start the bonus with 10 Free Spins. Four award 15, while five provide 20.

Before the first free spin begins, the Fisherman casts his line into a small selection sequence. He may catch between zero and five modifiers for the upcoming feature.

This means two bonus rounds triggered by the same number of Scatters can begin with different reel setups.

Pragmatic Play confirms that the feature can apply up to five random modifiers before it starts.

More Fish

More Fish adds extra Money Fish symbols to the reel strips.

The modifier creates more opportunities for cash values to appear, although a Fisherman still needs to land during the same spin to collect them.

More Fishermen

More Fishermen increases the number of Fisherman Wild symbols available during the feature.

That can help with ordinary payline substitutions, Money Fish collections and progress along the Fisherman meter.

More Dynamites, Hooks and Bazookas

This modifier raises the chance of the Dynamite, Hook and Bazooka events appearing during Free Spins.

These features can adjust the symbols when the necessary parts of a Money Fish collection fail to land together. For example, one event may bring Fish into a spin containing a Fisherman, while another may attempt to reveal a Fisherman when Money Fish are already present.

They remain chance-based reel modifiers rather than separate bonus rounds.

Start from Level 2

This modifier skips the opening 1x stage.

The bonus begins at Level 2, with the 2x collection multiplier already active. It also places the feature closer to its next Fisherman milestone.

Plus Two Spins

The +2 Spins modifier adds two spins to the original feature.

It also adds another two spins whenever the Fisherman meter later triggers a retrigger. This means a standard 10-spin retrigger becomes 12 spins when the modifier is active.

Fisherman Wild Meter and Multipliers

Every Fisherman Wild that lands during Free Spins moves the collection meter forward by one position.

The game rewards progress after every fourth Fisherman:

• The fourth Fisherman awards 10 extra spins and moves the collection multiplier to 2x.
• The eighth awards another 10 spins and raises it to 3x.
• The twelfth provides another 10 spins and moves the multiplier to 10x.

The multiplier applies to Money Fish collected after reaching that level. It does not retrospectively increase fish values collected on earlier spins.

Once the feature reaches the 10x stage, it cannot move to another multiplier tier.

Big Bass Splash vs Big Bass Bonanza

Big Bass Splash keeps the main structure that made Big Bass Bonanza recognisable.

Both use five reels, 10 fixed paylines, Fish Scatters and a Free Spins feature in which Fisherman Wilds collect Money Fish. Every fourth Fisherman also adds more spins and raises the multiplier in both games.

Splash adds more variation before the feature starts. The random modifiers can change the frequency of Fish, Fishermen and helper events, add spins or begin the round at Level 2. It also adds the two-Scatter nudge and replaces the original’s underwater calm with a warmer shoreline and Monster Truck theme.

Players looking for the simplest version of the collection system may prefer Big Bass Bonanza. Big Bass Splash suits those who want the same core feature with more variation between bonus rounds.

Can You Play Big Bass Splash on Mobile?

Big Bass Splash works on supported smartphones and tablets through Heart Bingo.

The mobile version keeps the same five reels, 10 paylines, nudge mechanic and Free Spins progression. The information, stake and spin controls move around the grid to fit the smaller display.

No separate version of the game is required. Open Heart Bingo through a supported browser or app, sign in and search for Big Bass Splash.

The original Big Bass Bonanza offers the most straightforward version of the Fisherman and Money Fish feature.

Bigger Bass Bonanza expands the grid to four rows and 12 paylines while retaining the collection meter and multiplier progression.

Players looking for a newer version of Splash itself can try Big Bass Splash 1000, which retains the modifiers and Fisherman progression but increases the available Money Fish values and overall maximum win.

Further fishing games and Pragmatic Play releases are available through the Heart Bingo online slots section.

Big Bass Splash does not change much during an ordinary base-game spin. That restraint leaves plenty of room for the bonus to take over once the Scatters arrive.

The two-Scatter nudge gives the base game its most distinctive moment. Free Spins then introduce random starting modifiers, Money Fish collections and a meter that gradually moves from 1x to 10x.

Not every bonus will reach the later levels. The game may also apply no pre-round modifiers at all. That variation is part of the design, and nothing that happened during a previous feature changes the likely result of the next one.

Check the paytable before playing, choose a stake that fits the spending limit set for the session and remember that every spin uses a random result.