Christmas Bonanza Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Christmas Bonanza Review

Well, it had to happen sooner or later, and Big Time Gaming has resisted what must have been a temptation for plenty of Holiday seasons until now. The Xmas reskin of their most iconic game, and one of the landmark releases in the history of online slots, has finally arrived. Christmas Bonanza offers nothing new except the snow-filled Xmas theme, and even in that department the Megaways inventors haven’t really gone overboard.

Sure, you get wrapped gift boxes instead of gemstones, and the falling snow covers the mining setting, but there is no Santa Claus in sight or anything like that. The soundtrack isn’t really typical for an Xmas release either, but it’s highly enjoyable, and you get the iconic set of features that catapulted the original into stardom. Fans of the original now finally have a seasonal reskin to enjoy in other words, but don’t expect any Xmas mercy from the math model.

Christmas Bonanza Slot - Reels Screen

Christmas Bonanza Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 2 and 50 x your stake for 6 of a kind wins, and the Wild symbol steps in for pay symbols to help complete wins. Winning symbols are removed via the Reactions mechanic, and this makes room for new and/or existing symbols to drop down to fill the gaps. New symbols also slide in on the top tracker reel, of course, and the process repeats as long as you keep winning.

The Bonus Round triggers when you spell out G-O-L-D with 4 gold square scatter symbols, and this awards 12 free spins.

Landing additional triggering scatters above the minimum gives you +5 extra spins per additional scatter. During the bonus round, you win +5 or +10 extra spins when you land 3 or 4 scatters, respectively.

The bonus round comes with a progressive win multiplier that starts at x1, and it increases by +1 per reaction win. The multiplier comes with no upper limit, and it never resets during the bonus round. Finally, non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can purchase the feature for 90x the stake. This guarantees 4+ triggering scatters, and it increases the RTP to 96.11 %.

The 200 Spins Christmas Bonanza Slot Experience

You get a brief and uneventful taste of the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:38 into the 3-minute highlights video.

We got 10 free spins for starters, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

An Xmas version of one of the most iconic slots ever released seems like a safe bet from BTG, and it’s hard to argue with the SlotRank the original game has achieved and defended over the years. However, it’s possible to criticize this release, while still respecting the original, and our main criticism is that nothing new has been added. This was an opportunity for BTG to let their hair down and go to town with it, but instead they’ve simply added some snow effects and swapped the gems for wrapped Xmas presents.

The math model is as stingy as the miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, before his Christmas miracle transformation, and it’s hard to believe Bonanza has kept its popularity for so long given the steep competition. It became the blueprint for all Megaways installments that followed though, and it’s the breakthrough release that sparked the engines popularity. Nobody can take that away from it, and players now have an Xmas reskin for the Holidays season.

Pros

• Cascading wins and up to 117,649 Megaways
• FS w/ unlimited progressive multiplier
• 90x Bonus Buy (not UK)
• Win up to 26,000x your stake

Cons

• Base game max win is 5,400x
• Reskin w/ nothing new added

If you love Christmas Bonanza Slot you should also try:

Bonanza Megapays - is Big Time Gaming’s progressive jackpot version of their iconic original, and it comes with the same base game and progressive multiplier bonus round. The regular max win is only 12,000x in this version, however, but the Mega Jackpot starts at €300,000.

Bonanza - is the iconic original Big Time Gaming release that sparked the whole Megaways frenzy. People still flock to this game after all these years, despite plenty of more exciting (in our view at least) competitors. That tells you all you need to know, really, as this is a timeless classic close to the center of the online slot canon.

Santa's Big Bash Megaways - is an Iron Dog installment in the Xmas genre, and the dynamic grid can provide up to 117,649 ways to win.

The cascading wins comes with a magic bauble collection system, and maxed out reels are locked in the progressive multiplier free spins round. The max win is 25,000x your stake.

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