Big Bucks Deluxe in detail
Big Bucks Deluxe landed on 23 April 2025, and it is an unusual Big Time Gaming release. The Australian studio drops its cascades for the most widespread mechanic on the market — the coin-based hold and spin — and grafts it onto its own variable-reel chassis. The title carries a double pun: a buck is both a dollar and a stag, and it is a golden stag that serves as the scatter. The art direction plays retro luxury against a midnight-blue background, and it works better than this studio's usual visual habits. The grid has six reels, each showing between two and seven symbols, which makes the number of ways to win swing between 64 and 117,649 from spin to spin. That is exactly the model Big Time Gaming invented and trademarked as Megaways in 2016 with Bonanza. This title does not carry the word in its name, but the underlying mechanic is the studio's own — the same one Pragmatic Play, Blueprint and Relax Gaming have licensed at a cost for years. Be careful with the 117,649 figure: it is a theoretical maximum, not a permanent value. When the reels run short, you drop back to a few hundred combinations. The heart of the game is Hold and Spin. Six or more coins trigger the feature with three respins. Each coin reveals a fixed amount, a multiplier, or a Megapots icon. Any new coin that lands resets the respin counter to three. At the end, the amounts are added together and then multiplied by every multiplier collected — and if every grid position ends up covered in coins, the total is doubled. Megapots are three jackpots displayed above the reels, winnable only during Hold and Spin. Their values shift: Mini swings between 100x and 300x the stake, Midi between 1,000x and 8,888x, Mega between 20,888x and 88,888x. That last figure explains why several pages online quote 88,888x as the game's maximum win: they confuse the jackpot ceiling with the actual game ceiling, which Big Time Gaming puts at 89,200 times the stake. Free spins need three golden stags and pay twelve spins, plus two per additional scatter. A global multiplier starts at x1 and gains a point every time a coin lands, with no announced cap. A retrigger adds four spins. Big Time Gaming states a 96.26% RTP, a hit rate around 35% and stakes from €0.20 to €10. Two bonus buys exist: 35x the stake for Hold and Spin, 100x for the twelve free spins.
