Big Bad Bison: The Reels Explained

RTP And Volatility, Read Straight

Big Time Gaming built Big Bad Bison with a confirmed return to player of 96.58%, which sits a touch above the 96.02% median across this site's pokie library. It isn't the highest RTP on offer, but it's a genuinely above-average figure rather than a rounding trick. The record also confirms high volatility here, which in practice means longer stretches without a win balanced against the chance of a much bigger result when the reels line up — a spread of outcomes, not a promise that sitting through the quiet spins pays off. If you're working to a fixed session budget, deciding your stop point before you start matters more on a high-volatility pokie than on a steadier one.

Animals, Card Symbols And The Bonus Round

The theme runs an animal cast across the higher-value positions with classic playing-card symbols filling out the lower-paying spots, a combination Big Time Gaming tends to use to keep a paytable readable at a glance. The record confirms bonus rounds as a feature here, and separately confirms a bonus buy option, meaning you can pay directly for entry into that round instead of triggering it through ordinary spins. Paying for it in one click spends noticeably more of a session's budget than a normal spin would, so it's worth checking your current wagering terms before using it — I wouldn't assume a bonus-buy purchase counts toward clearing a wager the same way a regular spin does unless the terms say so outright.

How It Compares To Bonanza Falls

If animals aren't quite your thing but you still want Big Time Gaming's mechanics, Bonanza Falls is worth a look: it also confirms bonus rounds and a bonus buy, runs a close 96.55% RTP, and swaps the animal cast for a gem-and-card theme instead. Both sit in the same high-volatility bracket, so the session-budget thinking above applies to either one.

Big Bad Bison's swings play out the same way on a small screen as on desktop, and the Mobile App page covers how bonus-buy pokies like this one handle on Here2Win Casino's phone setup.