Brick House Bonanza Slot Review

Brick House Bonanza Slot Overview

Brick House Bonanza is a casino slot from Pragmatic Play where three little pigs will help you build up a fortune. If it wasn’t obvious, this game is based on the story “The Three Little Pigs,” where each pig builds up a house to hide away from the scary wolf. Here, however, the pigs build up houses with increasingly big prizes for you to reap the rewards of after the wolf blows it away, and in the rubble, you can find jackpots worth up to 5,000X the bet. This old fable dates back over 150+ years, but the most well-known source comes from James Halliwell-Phillipps and his book “Nursery Rhymes of England,” released in 1886. We have also seen quite a few casino slots using this old story, such as the Quickspin Big Bad Wolf series, with releases such as Big Bad Wolf: Pigs of Steel and Big Bad Wolf Megaways. 

Brick House Bonanza is a video slot from Pragmatic Play with 5 reels, 3 rows, and 243 ways to win. Players can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.2 and a Max.bet of 240. The game sits at a higher-than-average RTP of 96.5% by default; however, take note of other versions of the game with lower RTPS sitting at 95.5% and 94.5%. Brick House Bonanza is played with high volatility, a hit frequency of 27.93%, and a max win of 10,000X. However, the max win hit frequency is very low, averaging 1 in every 12,212,629 spins, with the Free Spins feature activation frequency averaging out at 1 in every 76 spins.  

Join the three little pigs as they build houses and fortunes while taking turns on the Bonus Wheel. The features in Brick House Bonanza are Wild Symbols, Free Spins, Random Bonus Wheel, and Feature Buy.

Brick House Bonanza Slot Information

Set in a calm forest, you play on a wooden grid with a large bonus wheel that sits atop the reels, presumably built by the handy pig brothers. The game comes with a funky and upbeat fairy-tale-like soundtrack and cartoony sound effects as if the game came straight out of a children’s show. The game can be played on most notepads, mobiles, and desktops. Wins are made by landing 3 or more of the same symbols in adjacent reels, starting from the leftmost reel. 

The lower-paying symbols are 9, 10, J, Q, K, and A. Landing a win with 5 of the same symbols pays out 0.15X to 0.2X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are a saw, a brick trowel, the blue pig, the green pig, and the orange pig. Creating a win with 5 of the same symbols pays out 0.35X to 2X the bet. You will also be able to find various special symbols on the reels, such as Wilds, Scatters, and Wheel Bonus symbols, but more on those in the next section.

Brick House Bonanza Slot Features

What is the max win in the slot Brick House Bonanza?

You can win up to 10,000X the bet.

What features are available in the slot Brick House Bonanza?

The features are Wild Symbols, Free Spins, Random Bonus Wheel, and Feature Buy.

Wild Symbols

Wild Symbols help create winning combinations by being able to substitute for all symbols except for Scatter and Wheel Bonus symbols. Wilds can also only appear on reels 2, 3, and 4.

Free Spins

After landing 6 or more Scatter Symbols in the same spin, you’ll be awarded the Free Spins feature with 6 spins. When the bonus starts, all triggering Scatter Symbols will leave a straw mark on its position if it is not already marked. As the feature goes on, each time a Scatter Symbol lands, it will mark its square with a straw or upgrade it to wood and, later on, to brick. When the feature ends, all squares that are marked will be built into houses, and the Big Bad Wolf will come by, blowing the houses away and revealing random prizes based on the type of house. 

Straw house prizes = Cash prizes ranging from 0.6X to 1.5X the bet. 

Wood house prizes = Cash prizes ranging from 2X to 6X the bet or chances at landing the Mini or Minor jackpots. 

Brick house prizes = Cash prizes ranging from 10X to 250X the bet or chances at landing the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand jackpot. 

If you land 3 or more Scatter Symbols during the feature, you retrigger the feature and win 1 additional spin.

Random Bonus Wheel

By landing 3 or more Wheel Bonus Symbols in the base game, you will be awarded a spin on the Random Bonus Wheel, which comes with 4 different prizes, and these range from: 

Mega Bank Bonus = When awarded, a 2x2, 3x3, 3x5, or two 2x2 Scatter Symbols will land on the reels, awarding the Free Spins feature in the process.

Windmill Bonus = When awarded, the Wheel Bonus Symbols that triggered the feature will roll to the edge of the screen, leaving behind marks on the reels. After this, you will be awarded the Free Spins feature. 

Brick House Bonus = When awarded, the Wheel Bonus Symbols that triggered the feature will transform into brick marks on the reels and then awarded the Free Spins feature. During the feature, all Scatter Symbols will instantly mark their positions with brick marks.

Random Jackpot = A random Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand Jackpot is immediately awarded.

Feature Buy 

From the base game, you have the option to buy 1 of two bonuses, with prizes based on the current bet. 

100X = Triggers the Free Spins feature with 6 to 15 triggering Scatter Symbols. 

200X = Triggers the Random Bonus Wheel feature.

Brick House Bonanza Slot Conclusion

Pragmatic Play has taken an old children’s fable and turned it into a fun and engaging slot experience, with bonus points for integrating the core parts of the story into the features. However, for its bright and colorful thematic visuals, there are still parts that can feel a bit shallow and a few kinks that stand out, such as the relatively cut-and-dry cartoon sound effects, which can become a bit too much in the long run. Now, it’s not all too bad, as previously mentioned, we do give proper credit to the fun thematic parts, especially with its house-building mechanics in the Free Spins, which just adds a fun little twist to features we have seen before. 

Talking about the Free Spins feature, we can move over to the gameplay section, starting with some of the quick stats. Across the board, we can see that the game comes with some average stats, with a slightly higher-than-average RTP and a juicy max win of 10,000X the bet. Now, hitting this max win, however, is no easy feat, as it takes 2 Grand Jackpot wins to hit it, which you can find hiding underneath the Brick Houses in the Free Spins feature. While the house-building minigame is kinda fun at times during the Free Spins, it can sadly grow a little old after a while, and that’s where the Random Bonus Wheel comes in. The bonuses from the wheel are quite huge and can definitely make for very lucrative Free Spins, which only makes it more exciting. Now, if you can look past some of the visual representations and maybe repetitive gameplay, Brick House Bonanza can definitely offer some fun spins. 

Brick House Bonanza is a slot that takes an old fable and turns it into a volatile house-building casino game.