Big Bass slots: one name, thirty-six pages, and the machine that is an outlier in its own family

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Five published figures under one name, and where each is kept

The maker’s own site carries thirty-six pages with Bass in the title, and the sheet behind this domain was built by opening every one of them off the sheet, claim 73. One of the thirty-six is not a reel at all, which entry eight deals with, so thirty-five slot titles are in play. There is no published count of the series from the maker itself claim 113, so this card says what can be said: thirty-six game pages, read on one day, and products under the same name that have no page among them.

Five figures are published for each of those thirty-five, and they do not all live in the same document. The return to player is the only one on the maker’s page, in a single information item, and it is in the game’s own session data as well. The biggest round, the grid, the count of lines and the span of stakes are in the session data and on no page the maker publishes claims 76 and 109. So a reader comparing two Bass titles on the maker’s own site can compare one figure out of five, and the four that are missing from it include the two this card is about to show deciding the most money.

That is the whole of what a shared name gives a reader: a list of five quantities to go and look up, title by title. It does not give them a single value of any of the five, and the rest of this card is the arithmetic of how far the five actually travel across one family.

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How much of the family carries each of the original’s own figures

Take the original’s five figures one at a time and count how much of the family shares each. The counting is arithmetic on the sheet’s own table and nothing more claim 74.

The order of that table is the finding of this card in one glance. The three figures describing what the machine looks like travel almost everywhere under the name, and the two figures deciding what it is worth travel hardly at all. A reader is therefore right to expect the same reels, the same lines and the same cheapest turn on a title they have not met, and wrong to expect the return or the ceiling, which are the two that go into a sum.

The two that travel least are also the two a reader cannot check in one place. Six of the maker’s pages print 96.71 per cent claim 75b, and the thirty-six pages carry twelve distinct returns between them, ten on the maker’s own and two only in what a session reports claim 75a. The ceiling at 2,100 of one stake belongs to the original and to three others claim 75i, and it is in no page the maker publishes at all claim 28.

Two of the outliers are worth naming because the sheet declines to tidy them away. The grid of Big Bass Bonanza 3 Reeler comes back as 3 by 3 with a lines field reading 10, both of them the game’s own figures, and the sheet prints the pair without reconciling them claim 75g. The two Megaways titles report 6 reels with 7 and 9 rows and a lines field of 20, and because such a build varies the symbols on each reel the row figure is the most the data describes rather than a fixed grid claim 75h. Neither of those notes changes a sum on this card, and both are reasons to read the figure for the title in hand instead of the figure for the name.

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The family’s commonest return and its commonest ceiling

If the original is not the typical member of its own family, something else is, and the table says what. Eleven of the thirty-five slot titles print 96.50 per cent, which is the largest group of them at any one return and nine more than carry the original’s figure claim 75c. Eighteen of the thirty-five cap a round at 5,000 times the stake, which is more than half of them and more than four times as many as carry the original’s ceiling claim 74.

Eleven titles print 96.50 per cent and eighteen cap a round at 5,000 of one stake, and the machine the family is named after carries neither figure

So the typical Bass slot, as this maker has actually published them, returns 96.50 per cent and stops a round at 5,000 of one stake. Big Bass Blast is one such title, and this card uses it as the second row below for exactly that reason: it carries both of the family’s commonest figures at once, on the family’s commonest grid, with the family’s commonest count of lines, and it sells from the same ten pence as the original claim 74. Nothing about it is unusual, which is the point of putting the famous machine beside it.

The second largest group is worth pricing on the same credit, because it runs the other way from the commonest one. Nine titles print 96.07 per cent, which stands 0.64 points under the original claim 75c, and an £18.00 credit at twenty-nine times closes at minus £2.51 on a reel at that figure. That is £3.34 below where the same credit and the same condition close on the machine the family is named after, on a difference of under two thirds of a point.

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One credit on the famous machine and on the typical one

Hold the offer still and let the title move, since nothing else isolates what a name is worth. A credit of £18.00 handed over before any payment, with twenty-nine times its face to be staked before a withdrawal opens, is a shape published often enough out here. The requirement works out at £522.00 of turnover, which comes to 5,220 turns of whichever reel the credit is spent on, where one turn is priced at the ten pence put up here.

The multiple at which such a credit stops surviving is not a constant here. Invert the share each reel keeps of every pound staked and the answer comes out at 30.40 times on the original and 28.57 on the family’s commonest figure, so the twenty-nine times asked is inside one of them and outside the other. The expectation is E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g), where B is the £18.00 the credit advertises, W the twenty-nine times asked of it, RTP whichever of the two published returns the reel carries, and g a weighting of one in the offer’s own terms.

A fifth of a point of published return, multiplied by twenty-nine and applied to £522.00 of turnover, comes to £1.10 and carries the close across nothing on the way. That is the whole of what the name settles on this offer, and a reader who had been told only that both machines were Bass titles at about ninety-six and a half per cent would have had no way to know which side of nothing they were standing on.

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Two mistakes running in opposite directions, so neither cancels

Carrying the original’s figures onto another Bass title is not one error but two, and they point opposite ways, which is why the habit survives. Read the original’s return onto a title at 96.50 per cent and a reader has made the machine better than it is, by the £1.10 the table above prices. Read the original’s ceiling onto the same title and they have made it worse than it is, because 2,100 of one stake is the lowest ceiling in the family and the typical title stops a round at 5,000.

The second of those is worth more than the first, and the only honest way to show it is in the machine’s own units. The gap between the two ceilings is 2,900 of one stake. This card has been spending ten pence a turn, but a ceiling is the one figure where the stake the game itself opens on is the more telling price: the data names a default coin value whose ten lines come to 2.00 a turn claim 25, so a round at the original’s ceiling could reach £4,200.00 and one at the typical title’s £10,000.00, with £5,800.00 between them. Neither figure is a thing a reader should expect to see. Both are what the published ceiling means, and the difference between them is in no page the maker publishes.

So the two errors do not cancel. One of them flatters the sums a reader is able to perform and the other hides the only quantity on the machine capable of a large number, and a reader who makes both at once ends up with a figure for the close that is too high and a figure for the best case that is too low. That is a worse position than knowing nothing about the family, which is the strongest argument this card has for looking the title up.

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A different name with every published figure the same

The mirror of this card’s subject is worth a paragraph, because it exists. Run the sheet’s own table down the five published figures and exactly one other title matches the original on all of them, which is Christmas Big Bass Bonanza. Its figures read 96.71 per cent in both documents, 10 lines across 5 reels by 3 rows, a round stopping at 2,100 stakes, and a span of stakes from 0.10 up to 250.00 claim 74. Every figure the arithmetic of this site needs is identical. The two pages differ in their publication dates and in nothing else that is published.

Which means the £18.00 credit worked above closes at the same £0.83 on either of them, to the penny, and a reader who treats them as one machine for pricing purposes is right to. That is the only case in the family where the habit this card warns against is safe, and what makes it safe is not the name at all: the figures were checked and they agreed. Five of the other thirty-four titles share the original’s return claim 75b and not one of those five shares all five figures.

The useful way to put it is that the name predicted nothing in either direction. It did not warn a reader off a title whose figures happen to be identical, and it did not warn them towards one whose return is a fifth of a point lower. A name is a filing system, and this family’s filing system holds twelve distinct returns, seven distinct ceilings, five grids and three stake floors under one word.

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The four titles this card could not have spent ten pence on

One of the five figures has a consequence for this card’s own arithmetic, and it is worth being open about it. Thirty-one of the thirty-five slots sell their cheapest turn at ten pence. Two of them, the twelve-line titles Bigger Bass Bonanza and Bigger Bass Blizzard, open at twelve pence instead, and the two Megaways titles open at twenty claim 75f. A card weighing one of those four titles and spending ten pence anyway would be pricing a purchase the reel declines to sell.

For the credit above that changes the count of play rather than the close. The £18.00 buys 180 turns at the ten pence spent here, 150 at the twelve pence two of those titles charge and 90 at the twenty pence the Megaways pair charges, and a reader who assumed the first of those three would be out by half on the last of them. The expectation of the credit itself does not move with the stake, because the requirement is a multiple of the credit and not of the turn; what moves is how much play is bought with one close.

There is a tidy demonstration of the whole card inside that paragraph. Bigger Bass Bonanza publishes 96.71 per cent, exactly the original’s figure to the hundredth, and sells nothing under twelve pence, carries twelve lines, lays out 5 reels by 4 rows and stops a round at 4,000 times the stake claim 74. One figure of the five is shared and four are not. It is also one of the two titles here whose session reading holds one flat return instead of a figure per bet mode, the other being the original; neither offers a bonus buy, so there is no second mode for a figure to belong to claims 55 and 57.

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The title the sheet holds almost nothing for, and what is done about it

One of the thirty-six pages carries a return and nothing else this site can use. Big Bass Crash is published at 95.50 per cent on the maker’s page, which is the lowest figure under the name anywhere, and it is not a reel: its page carries no game symbol of the kind the others do, and nothing of the kind a slot reports could be read from it claim 75d. The sheet marks its grid, its lines, its ceiling and its stake span as not reachable, and it marks them rather than filling them in from a title with a similar name claim 75l.

So this card does what the sheet does. It states the one figure that exists, declines to put the title in any table of slots, and prices nothing against it, because a count of turns needs a stake span and a close needs a return that belongs to a reel. A reader who wants to know what 95.50 per cent would do to the credit above can see the direction from the two rows already worked, and the honest answer to the question is that the other four figures are not available to settle it.

At the foot of the slots, where figures do exist, there is a disagreement worth printing. Big Bass Halloween carries the lowest figure any slot page here prints, 96.04 per cent, while the same title’s session reading gives 96.06 claims 75e and 119. Two primary sources, two hundredths apart, and this card picks neither: both figures are printed with the document each came out of, which is the practice the sheet requires wherever its sources part company.

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What the name is worth once the five figures are in hand

A name is worth whatever it saves a reader, so price the saving. On the credit weighed here, knowing the title and looking its return up is worth £1.10 at the twenty-nine times asked, £0.38 at the ten times a licence permits, and £1.51 at forty times, which is a multiple this part of the market still publishes in places. The saving grows with the requirement, because every pound of extra staking crosses the published return once more. Knowing the ceiling is worth 2,900 of one stake between the original and the typical title, which is the largest quantity on this card and the one no page of the maker’s carries.

Against that, the name settles the grid, the lines and the cheapest turn for about nine titles in ten, which is genuinely useful and is not nothing. It tells a reader that the thing in front of them will have a fisherman collecting money symbols when the round opens, that three, four or five scatters start that round with ten, fifteen or twenty turns, and that every fourth wild adds ten more and moves a multiplier along 2x, then 3x, then 10x claims 35, 42 and 43. Those are the maker’s own published statements about the original, and the family’s announcements describe the same machinery on later titles.

So the name is a good guide to the mechanism and a poor guide to the money. That is a defensible thing for a name to be, and a reader who holds it to exactly that is not being cheated by it. The trouble is only ever that the two figures it does not settle are the two every offer is priced on.

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The name and the numbers, totalled

Totalled on the one credit this card has held still throughout: the name was worth £1.10 of the £18.00 at the multiple asked, which is the distance between surviving and not; the grid, the lines and the cheapest turn were as the name suggested on about nine titles in ten; and the ceiling, which the name suggests is 2,100 of one stake, is 5,000 on more than half the family. One figure out of the five is on the maker’s page, four are in what a session reports, and all five are published per title and never per name.

The instruction a reader can act on is short, and it is the same instruction whichever Bass title is in front of them. Open the game’s own information screen before committing anything, read the return it reports for that session, and read the cheapest turn off the stake control beside it. Those two figures decided every sum on this card. The word on the tile decided the reels, the rows and the fisherman, and it is entitled to no more credit than that.