Pragmatic Play · 2025
A 5x3 video slot with 10 fixed paylines, 96.07% RTP and high volatility, made by Pragmatic Play. This page covers the figures before your first spin.
The demo is free. The real game needs an account and you must be 18+.
A 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines carries this Christmas and fishing video slot. Wins pay from left to right, starting on the leftmost reel, and as few as two matching symbols can form a win. The symbol set mixes the Sleigh, Robin, fishing reel, treasure chest and presents pile with the card symbols A, K, Q, J and 10, so the winter theme shows on every spin.
3 scatters anywhere on the reels start Free Spins with 10 spins, and 4 or 5 scatters give 15 or 20 spins. During Free Spins, Fisherman Wild appears on all reels, substitutes for every symbol except scatter and money, and collects the money values shown. A 12-cell tracker retriggers 10 spins with every fourth collected wild and lifts the multiplier to x2, x3 or x10.
Know your return
Finish this table knowing what the return, volatility and top win mean in dollars.
| Game detail | Shown as |
|---|---|
| Game provider | Pragmatic Play |
| Return to player (RTP) | 96.07% |
| Volatility | High |
| Reel grid | 5x3 |
| Maximum win multiple | x5,000 |
| Maximum win in dollars | A$1,875,000 |
| Release date | 01/11/2025 |
Four modes to learn
Not sure what triggers the bonus or what it costs? These modes show it before any spin.
Three, four or five SCATTER symbols anywhere start Free Spins with 10, 15 or 20 spins. FISHERMAN WILD appears on all reels and collects every on-screen MONEY value. Every fourth collected wild retriggers 10 spins and raises the multiplier to x2, x3 or x10 on the shared 12-cell tracker.
Base GameFree spins
Frozen Lake Free Spins start with 10 spins on their own reels, where normal paying symbols fade away. Only MONEY symbols, FISHERMAN WILD and blank light-blue ice-diamond tiles remain. Entry comes from BUY FROZEN LAKE FREE SPINS at 270x bet, or a SECRETS OF THE FROZEN LAKE card.
Buy or pickFrozen Lake reels
Switching Ante Bet on raises the total bet to 1.5x normal, so the multiplier becomes 15x instead of 10x. It raises the scatter frequency and the chance that a bonus scatter completes the trigger. While it is on, BUY FEATURE options are disabled. RTP stays at 96.07%.
Base Game betHigher trigger chance
Buy Free Spins costs 100x total bet and opens a 12-card pick screen. The card revealed is random: either a BONUS card for regular Free Spins or a SECRETS OF THE FROZEN LAKE card for Frozen Lake Free Spins. The cost in money follows the bet you choose.
Base GameFree Spins entry
Spot the bonus cues
This section settles what the bonus and win screens show before you play.
Play with clear limits
You will have followed one full round, from first bet to a session limit.
A$0.10 is the smallest bet you can place, and A$375 is the largest. Pick the amount before each spin, and the 10 fixed paylines stay active at every stake.
5 reels and 3 rows form the grid, with 10 fixed paylines paying from the leftmost reel to the right. Two matching symbols from the left can pay.
3 SCATTER symbols anywhere trigger Free Spins, and MONEY symbols that land in the base game stay dormant and cannot be collected.
10 spins start with 3 SCATTER symbols, 15 with 4, and 20 with 5, wherever they land on the grid. Every 4th collected wild adds 10 more spins.
A$375 is the largest bet allowed on this game, so set your session limit before the first spin and stop once you reach it.
100x and 270x your total bet is the price of the two bonus buys, and the money at A$1 is listed in the table below.
| Bought bonus | Price | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Buy Free Spins | x100 · A$100 | – |
| Buy Frozen Lake Free Spins | x270 · A$270 | – |
96.07 percent is the RTP of this slot: for every A$100 staked, the game returns A$96.07 on average over many spins. This site's version is shown in the game rules.
| Payback | RTP | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Variant 1 | 96.07% | Yes |
96.07% is the long-run return on A$100 staked, not a promise for any one visit. How often the bonus round comes is not known in advance, and the result of one session is random whatever the RTP. Two players on the same reels can see a dry evening or a strong one, because each spin is decided separately.
One RTP version is listed for Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake. Sol Casino shows which RTP version runs only in the game rules, so the rules are the place to check it before the first spin.
x5,000 is the most this game pays against one bet, a ceiling reached very rarely. At the example top bet of A$1 that is A$5,000. Whether any session comes near it cannot be known in advance, so treat the figure as a limit, not a target.
You must be 18+ to play. Call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 and use BetStop to self-exclude.
Decide how much you can lose on this slot before you open the game, and keep that figure in mind through every bet.
Choose your stopping point before the first spin, and keep to it after a big win, because wins cannot be known in advance.
Set deposit and loss limits in your account before you play, and treat them as the ceiling for every session.
If the game stops being fun, take a break or self-exclude through BetStop, and come back only when the session feels like play again.
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A 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines sets the basics of Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake. Wins pay from the leftmost reel to the right, and bets run from A$0.10 to A$375, so you can start small and learn the rules at your own pace.
96.07% is this version's RTP, below every other Big Bass entry in its series. Big Bass Blast, Big Bass Football Bonanza and Big Bass Trophy Catch each list 96.50%. Big Bass Splash 1000 lists 96.52% with a maximum win of x25,000, five times this game's x5,000.
A$0.10 is the smallest bet and A$375 the largest on Big Bass Christmas – Frozen Lake. The examples on this page use A$0.40, A$0.50 and A$1, all within that range. The x5,000 ceiling is A$5,000 at A$1 and A$1,875,000 at the A$375 top.
100 times the total bet (A$100 at A$1) buys a random card pick between two bonus types. 270 times the total bet (A$270 at A$1) buys Frozen Lake Free Spins directly. The Ante Bet switches the buy options off while it is on.
x5,000 is the maximum win multiple, and this game carries high volatility. High volatility means results swing more widely, so one short session can look very different from another. How often the bonus comes cannot be known in advance.
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