Big Benji Bonanza Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Big Benji Bonanza Review

Imitation is not only the sincerest form of flattery, it’s also how young and budding developers grow and learn until they eventually find their own unique voice. You get a visual presentation cleary inspired by East Coast vs West Coast in Big Benji Bonanza, although hip hop is not really on the menu. The 5x3 grid is set in Wall Street, with the Bull statue visible, and it's all about the ‘dum dum da da dum dum’, as the song goes.

We were reminded of the 1995 movie, Dead Presidents, as Big Benji Bonanza revolves around bank notes depicting said presidents. They are collected with cash values attached, and the trademarked Super Staxx feature can wreak havoc to the tune of 12,957x your stake in the bonus round. Streamers looking to ‘print’ get a tip of the hat via the money symbol collect feature, and despite the obvious copycatting there’s plenty of fun to be had here.

Big Benji Bonanza Slot - Reels Screen

Big Benji Bonanza Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 2.5 and 5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the money/president symbols may vary but they all serve as the same top-tier symbol. You can land the Wild symbol on the 3 middle reels only, and it steps in for all pay symbols to help complete wins. The wild holds no value of its own however, and it cannot substitute for money, cash machine or scatter symbols.

The top-tier Money/President symbols land with random bet multipliers attached, and these can be worth 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x and 100x your stake, respectively.

The presidents in question are Georgie, Jeff, Abs, Hamilton, Jacko, Grant and Benji, and the money symbol values are collected and paid only if you also land a Cash Machine ‘printing’ symbol on reel 5. This feature is available in all stages of the game.

Landing 3 scatters anywhere in view awards 10 free spins, and a wheel spins upfront to select a random money/president bet multiplier symbol up to x100. Only the selected money symbol with the corresponding multiplier will appear together with the other symbols in the bonus round. Triggering the feature with 4 or 5 scatters removes the lowest or the 2 lowest tier money symbols from the wheel, respectively.

Big Benji Bonanza Slot - Wheel Screen

Landing 2, 3, 4 or 5 scatters during the bonus round not only upgrades the current money symbols to the next tier, it also gives you 3, 5, 10 or 20 extra spins, respectively. You get framed Super Staxx™ symbols in the bonus round only, and they come with a random number between 2 and 10.

This indicates the number of symbols contained in each Super Staxx, and you can get up to 2 such symbols per reel. Wilds and money symbols can also land in Super Staxx.

Finally, the Bonus Buy feature is available in some jurisdictions, but not in the UK for sure. If available, you can hit the Bonus Buy button to the left, and purchase the feature for 100x your stake. This guarantees 3+ scatters on the spin that follows.

The 200 Spins Big Benji Bonanza Slot Experience

You get to see a money collect trigger in the base game, before the bonus round comes about at 1:10 into the 6-minute highlights video. We got the 5x Abs money symbol from the wheel, and our bonus round started out pretty well. We won plenty of extra spins, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The visual style and attitude of Big Benji Bonanza is so obviously lifted from NoLimit City’s East Coast vs West Coast that Jelly cannot escape a “wannabe” stamp on this release. In addition, they’ve mixed in the cash symbol collect feature known from the Fishin’ Frenzy saga, as well as from the Big Bass Bonanza range. The trademarked Super Staxx feature is very similar to ELK's Nitro Reels, so all in all there’s a whole lot of “borrowing” going on.

However, it doesn’t really ruin the experience as such, as both the theme and the features come together to create an entertaining enough game.

We wouldn’t have minded Super Staxx also in the base game though, but you get occasional ‘cash printing’ wins that streamers may appreciate. The overall 12,957x potential is not shabby at all, but the 95.5 % RTP is a tad low. All in all, Big Benji Bonanza offers a pretty solid mix of recognizable and effective features.

Pros

• Money Symbol collection via reel 5 ‘printing’ symbol
• FS w/ upfront selected & upgradable money symbol
• Super Staxx™ in FS w/ up to 10 symbols per position
• Win up to 12,957x your stake

Cons

• RTP of 95.5 % is a tad below average
• Theme and features are obviously lifted

If you enjoy Big Benji Bonanza Slot you should also try:

East Coast vs West Coast - comes with more attitude and street cred than the game at hand, and this hip hop release from NoLimit City also offers a superior soundtrack. You get 5 enhancers via the drive-by respins feature, and also in the 3 different free spins rounds. The max win is 30,618x your stake.

Cash Bonanza - combines the classic fruit machine theme with a wealth/money theme, and this Pragmatic Play installment comes with increasing win ways respins with sticky winning symbols. The expanded grid is carried over into the free spins round, where an increasing multiplier can lead to 5,000x payouts.

Golden Catch - is one to try if you enjoy cash symbol collecting, and this Big Time Gaming release also comes with the dynamic reels Megaways engine as well.

Cash fish are revealed via reaction wins, and collected by fishing boats that may come with multipliers. The multipliers increase per new boat in the bonus round, for payouts up to 31,430x your stake.

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