Big Bamboo Slot Review

Big Bamboo Slot Overview

As soon as I loaded Big Bamboo, the contrast struck me. On the surface you have a zen-like bamboo forest and a dozy panda, yet underneath sits one of Push Gaming’s more brutal maths models. This Big Bamboo slot review comes from quite a few real-money sessions, and I can say the game feels calm for a spin or two, then flips into tense mode when Mystery Bamboo stacks start landing.

Big Bamboo runs on a 5 reel, 6 row layout with 50 fixed paylines. Stakes range from £0.10 up to £100 per spin, so it covers casual spins and serious shots at the max potential. The default RTP is 96.13% with a highly volatile hit pattern and a capped win of 50,000x stake. Core mechanics are stacked Mystery Bamboo symbols, the Golden Bamboo cash feature, a gamble-style free spins round and several bonus buy options.

Big Bamboo Symbols and Audio & Video Design

Push Gaming has gone for a simple wildlife theme in Big Bamboo, mixing pandas and forest animals with touches of Chinese-style art. The reels sit over glowing green bamboo, while soft strings and piano create a very tranquil soundtrack. Low symbols are the four card suits, with a blue bird, monkey, boar and panda for premium hits. The wild icon is framed in gold and shares the same top payout as the panda.

Big Bamboo RTP and Wagering

In Big Bamboo the 50 paylines are fixed, paying from left to right whenever three or more matching symbols land on adjacent reels. The panda and wild are the only ones that pay from two of a kind. Most symbols come stacked, which looks promising but can lead to streaky sessions, as you either line up several stacks for solid hits or miss and sit through stretches of dead spins.

Betting is adjusted below the reels, with a minimum wager of £0.10 and a maximum of £100. The advertised RTP is 96.13%, though feature buys and operator settings can move that number, so I always check the info screen before committing a bankroll. The volatility is very high, and my balance swung hard in testing, but the trade-off is a realistic shot at big Golden Bamboo clusters and the 50,000x cap.

Big Bamboo Slot Paytable & Symbols

The low-paying symbols in Big Bamboo are diamonds, spades, hearts and clubs. Five of a kind of any suit pays 0.4x stake, with 0.1x for three and 0.2x for four. They also appear stacked, so full screens of one card suit are possible, though in practice I saw them more often mixed with premiums. Once you start converting these into Mystery Bamboo during the bonus, the value of every spin steps up quickly.

Premium symbols show a blue bird, green monkey, wild boar and the star of Big Bamboo, the panda. Five birds award 12x stake, monkeys pay 16x and boars 20x for a full line. The panda is the real headliner, paying 0.5x for two, then 2x, 10x and finally 150x stake for two, three, four and five of a kind. In full stacks this symbol can change a bonus in a heartbeat.

Big Bamboo also carries a set of special icons that drive the feature game. The golden-framed wild substitutes for any pay symbol and mirrors the panda’s 0.5x to 150x line wins. Mystery Bamboo symbols land as green stacked bamboos and convert into matching pays, extra wilds or Golden Bamboo symbols. Golden Bamboo then spins through instant prize coins, collector symbols, multipliers and both standard scatters and gamble scatters that can send you into free spins.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	Wild
	5	x150
	4	x10
	3	x2
	2	x0.5
	5	x150
	4	x10
	3	x2
	2	x0.5
	5	x20
	4	x2
	3	x0.5
	5	x16
	4	x1.6
	3	x0.4
	5	x12
	4	x1.2
	3	x0.3
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Scatter

Big Bamboo Bonus Features

Bonus action in Big Bamboo starts with the Mystery Bamboo symbols. When they change into Golden Bamboo, each position spins on its own mini-reel. Outcomes include instant prize values ranging from 1x to 5,000x stake, collector symbols that sum every visible coin before the board re-spins, and multipliers of x2 to x10 applied to all instant prizes and collectors in view. Golden Bamboo can also drop extra free spin symbols and the various scatters.

When free spins start in Big Bamboo, any scatter that lands is collected on a meter beside the reels that holds the four card suits. Each symbol has four dots; filling a set turns that low-pay icon into Mystery Bamboo for the rest of the bonus. The first conversion grants four extra spins, the next two conversions give three each, and the final one adds two more, stretching strong bonuses far longer than you might expect.

Every converted low symbol also raises a Golden Bamboo multiplier, moving through x2, x3, x5 and up to x10 for instant prizes and collectors hit during the feature. Golden Bamboo can award +1, +2 or +3 extra spins as well, which saved several of my bonuses from fizzling out. Outside the UK you can pay 99x, 179x, 608x or 300x stake to buy different free spins setups straight from the base game.

Big Bamboo Final Thoughts

Big Bamboo ended up feeling like a slot of two halves for me. Visually it is calm and almost meditative, yet the gameplay can be punishing, with long stretches of nothing broken by sudden bursts of Golden Bamboo chaos. The rules take a few spins to sink in, but once you have seen the free spins meter and gamble wheel in action, this becomes a gripping high-risk option for serious slot players.

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