Christmas Bonanza Slot Review

Christmas Bonanza review

As someone who has put plenty of spins through the original Bonanza Megaways, Christmas Bonanza felt instantly familiar. Big Time Gaming have taken that iconic mine entrance, covered it in snow and swapped the gemstones for wrapped presents, but left the engine alone. You still get 6 reels with 2 to 7 rows, up to 117,649 ways to win and those relentless reactions that defined the series.

Under the Christmas wrapping, the numbers stay the same. Stakes run from 20p up to £40 a spin, with a 96% RTP in the regular game or 96.11% if you use Bonus Buy. Volatility is very high and the hit frequency of roughly 37% means lots of small chains of wins while you hunt for the free spins that can reach 26,000x your bet.

What you’ll find in this Christmas Bonanza Review

I tend to judge a Megaways slot on a few simple things: how the paytable feels, what the bonus game can really do, and whether the base game has enough punch to keep me spinning. In this Christmas Bonanza review I focus on the symbol set, betting range, RTP and volatility, then run through reactions, free spins, the multiplier and Bonus Buy from a grinder’s point of view.

Christmas Bonanza Symbols & Payouts

In Christmas Bonanza the low-paying symbols are the familiar 9, 10, J, Q, K and A royals. Six of a kind pays between 0.8x and 1.75x your stake, so they mostly act as fuel for reactions and multipliers rather than serious payers. I find long chains of these small wins are what build the ladder in free spins, letting the multiplier climb while you wait for presents to land.

The premiums are four Christmas presents in green, blue, red and purple. Green, blue and red pay up to 7.5x for six, while the purple gift can hit a chunky 50x the bet for a full way. The wild symbol is a stick of dynamite on the top reel that substitutes all regulars, which can swing a whole cascade when it drops in the right gap above the main reels.

With up to 117,649 ways active, the paytable looks modest at first glance, yet it carries real punch once the multiplier gets moving. In my sessions I have seen base game hits climb into the hundreds of times stake on sequences of presents, and the maths backs it up, with potential up to 5,400x in the main game and a theoretical 26,000x in the free spins feature.

Symbols and Paytable

Symbol	Quantity	Payout
	6	x50
	5	x25
	4	x10
	3	x5
	2	x2
	6	x7.5
	5	x2.5
	4	x2
	3	x1
	6	x2
	5	x1.5
	4	x1
	3	x0.25
	6	x2
	5	x0.75
	4	x0.5
	3	x0.25
	6	x1.75
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	6	x1.75
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.4
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.6
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.2
	6	x1
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.15
	6	x0.9
	5	x0.5
	4	x0.25
	3	x0.15
	6	x0.8
	5	x0.4
	4	x0.2
	3	x0.1
	Special
	Scatter
	Wild

Game Features in Christmas Bonanza

Christmas Bonanza sticks to the classic Bonanza recipe, so the features will feel instantly familiar if you have played the original. Every winning combination triggers reactions: winning symbols are removed, new symbols drop from above on the main grid and slide in from the right on the top reel. As long as new wins form, the process repeats on the same stake, which keeps spins alive longer than you’d expect.

Scatters are gold square symbols that spell G, O, L and D. Land all four in view during one paid spin and you get 12 free spins, with any extra scatter adding five more. In the bonus every reaction nudges an unlimited win multiplier up by one, so a good run can escalate fast. If your jurisdiction allows it you can pay 90x the bet to buy the feature, nudging RTP to 96.11%.

Christmas Bonanza Graphics & Sound

I like how BTG handled the Christmas treatment here. The old mountain landscape and little wooden hut are still there, now covered in snow with flakes drifting down and a thin waterfall still running. High-paying gems have turned into colourful presents, yet it never feels overloaded with Santa hats and tinsel. The soundtrack is the same uptempo country-style tune as Bonanza, which gives the game a fast, lively rhythm.

Solutions if you have some issues with Christmas Bonanza

If you are spinning Christmas Bonanza with a casino bonus and the wagering does not seem to move, I always check the terms first. Some sites limit Megaways slots or cap the stake that counts. Make sure Christmas Bonanza is not excluded or restricted in the bonus rules. If it still feels wrong after that, I get in touch with support and keep a screenshot of my play history.

On the rare occasions the game itself glitches, every reputable operator follows the same basic rule: if a spin fails and the round cannot be completed, the bet is void and funds go back to your balance. I usually reload the client, check my transaction log around the time of the issue, and only then continue my session so I know exactly what has been settled.

Christmas Bonanza is Bonanza + Megaways

For me Christmas Bonanza is simply Bonanza Megaways in a winter coat, and that is not a bad thing at all. The maths, paytable and max win are the same, the only real tweaks are the snowy graphics and present symbols. If you already rate Bonanza as a rite-of-passage slot, this festive version slips straight into the December rotation without asking you to learn anything new.

I see it as a game for players who like high volatility and do not mind long stretches of grind for the chance of a heater. The advertised 26,000x looks great on paper yet, based on my time with both versions, anything over a couple of thousand times stake will be rare. If you enjoy that old-school Megaways feel, this Christmas makeover does the job nicely.

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