Vegas Ball Bonanza Live by Pragmatic Play Review
The Game in Short
The Basics
Vegas Ball Bonanza is played by purchasing 1 – 9 bingo tickets with a value that you decide for yourself, ranging from R2 – R15 000. Each of these tickets consists of a 3×3 grid and will have 9 randomly assigned numbers on them, ranging from 1 – 30.
Out of a pool of 30 balls that have these numbers, a tumbling machine will randomly draw 9 of these. If the drawn numbers match the ones on your bingo tickets, they are ticked off. Each horizontal and vertical line awards a prize and if you fill the entire ticket by matching all 9 balls, you also win an extra big one.
The Special Features
There are three special features in Vegas Ball Bonanza that add extra excitement to the game.
Random Win Multipliers
Before any balls are drawn by the tumbling machine, 3 – 5 lucky numbers are randomly selected and displayed on a big screen. These lucky numbers will have a win multiplier of either 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x or 50x attached to them.
If your bingo ticket contains a lucky number and this ends up being drawn by the tumbling machine, whatever prize you win on your ticket will be multiplied by the lucky number’s win multiplier.
What’s more, is that several lucky numbers will increase your winnings multiplicatively. For instance, if your ticket has one lucky number with a win multiplier of 5x and then another lucky number with a win multiplier of 20x, the total win multiplier for the ticket would be 100x (5*20).
Star Ball and Wild Ball
In addition to the 30 numbered balls that can be drawn by the tumbler, there is one star ball and one wild ball that can be pulled.
The star ball will instantly activate all lucky numbers that you have on your bingo tickets.
Payouts
The wild ball will increase the number of regular balls that are drawn by 1 – 4. This is determined via a quick wheel spin.
The standard payouts in Vegas Ball Bonanza are as follows:
- 1 line: 1:1
- 2 lines: 5:1
- 3 lines: 20:1
- 4 lines: 60:1
- Full house (full ticket): 250:1
These payouts can be further increased by the lucky numbers and the win multipliers attached to these. For instance, if your ticket contains a lucky number with a win multiplier of 50x, this number is drawn and you end up with a total of 3 lines on your ticket, the payout would be 1000:1 instead of 20:1.
By having several lucky numbers on your bingo ticket, it is possible for winnings to get incredibly high in Vegas Ball Bonanza. For instance, a full house with lucky numbers that have win multipliers of 50x, 20x and 10x would pay 2.5 million times the amount you bet (50 * 20 * 10 * 250).
However, such a brutally large win will never be credited to you as Vegas Ball Bonanza has a payout cap of 20,000 times the amount you bet or R10 000 000 (whichever is lower). Potential winnings of up to 20,000x are still massive though.
RTP
The RTP in Vegas Ball Bonanza is 95.03% – 95.97% as displayed in the game itself.
Interestingly, the higher RTP is achieved by purchasing tickets for a lower value. This is because a higher bet size is more likely to hit theR10 000 000 payout cap that exists.
For instance, if you would have a game round that pays 20,000x and you bet R2 000, you would win exactly R10 000 000. However, if your bet was R2 000, you would win R40 000 000, but still only receive R10 000 000 since that is the game’s maximum win.
As for the RTP, 95.97% is what I consider to be quite fair even though there are some casino games that offer a higher payout percentage. It’s in line with other live dealer bingo games such as Mega Ball and Monopoly Big Baller.
Fun Factor
I absolutely love Vegas Ball Bonanza. It’s such a simple and fast-paced game that’s super easy to learn, yet complex and exciting enough to keep you entertained for a longer period of time and have you coming back for more every now and then. I find it to be incredibly well executed.
The game studio is nicely designed with bright and vibrant colors that add to the immersion. It’s exactly what you would expect when you hear the word game show. Then there’s the game host that constantly talks to players that use the game’s chat interface and does a great job providing extra entertainment.
What’s more, are the special features and the large potential payouts that make each game round of Vegas Ball Bonanza exciting. You first have the random win multiplier to look forward to, then the drawing of the balls which might result in the special star and wild ball that ups the thrill.
While these are simple features, it all works so well because each game round doesn’t last longer than 60 seconds. Compared to other live dealer games, Vegas Ball Bonanza is also uniquely designed and different from other keno games which makes it a breath of fresh air, that to me, is perfect to include in a gambling session.
Strategies
Since there aren’t any choices that players can make in the game, except for their bet size and number of bingo tickets purchased, there aren’t a lot of strategies that can be used in Vegas Ball Bonanza. In fact, there is only one, which revolves around the amount of money you purchase your bingo tickets for.
As covered earlier, a lower bet size will allow you to play with a higher RTP of 95.95%, while very high bets will limit you to an RTP of 95.03%. It’s not a huge difference though and in practice, it will only be noticed if you land a win that’s so big that it surpasses the payout cap of the game.
My suggestion is to bet whatever makes the game most enjoyable to you. After all, online gambling is all about having fun.