Big Burger Load It Up With Xtra Cheese

Theme and Design

Head On Down To The Diner In This Retro-Looking Slot

Big Burger Load It Up With Xtra Cheese is no healthy slot. That is for sure! It’s set in a US-style diner with booths in the windows to the left and the counter to the right. Center stage is a GIANT burger and bun stack that houses the reels. A huge pair of eyes and nose can be seen over the top of the stack, suggesting someone about to munch down on the greasy meal. The design style is a retro 60s cartoon one. More cheap and cheerful than anything and with a whacky soundtrack to match.

RTP and Variance

Big Burger has 3 possible RTP settings which is typical of Pragmatic Play slots. They are 96.04%, 95.01% and 94.07%. There is not that much between them to be fair, but if you want to give yourself the best chance of coming away with a positive balance then find a slot site where the RTP is at the optimum rate of 96.04%.

You can check the RTP rate by hitting the ‘I’ button under the reels then scrolling through the game information screens until you see Return to Player. I recommend MrQ from Lindar media which consistently runs slots at max RTP levels.

Pragmatic have labelled the volatility here as ‘very high’ which by their own standards suggests it will be a tough play. It comes not long after Mighty Munching Melons, another food-themed slot that runs at ‘very high’ and lived up to that assessment in testing.

Maximum Win

And just like Mighty Munching Melons, Big Burger also comes with an underwhelming max win of just 3,000x. If these numbers are doing it for you the check out our list of Pragmatic Play slots with the highest maximum wins for games with much greater potential.

Symbols and Paytable

Big Burger follows a basic slot format of 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 paylines. Wins are triggered by landing 3 or more identical symbols across a payline from left to right, starting at the left most reel.

One of the most impressive parts about the game is the paytable with really high value at the top end. There are 11 pay symbols in all. There are 6 low payers represented by the cards, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. These are valued at from 0.5x for 3 9s up to 10x for 6 Aces. The premiums are the soda drink, fries, salad, onion rings and eggs and bacon. These are valued at from 2x for 3 sodas up to 500x for 6 eggs and bacon.

There are NO wilds in Big Burger base game, but there are special wilds in the free spins round. More on that in the next section.

Features and Gameplay

The gameplay in Big Burger is relatively simple. There are extra instant pays in the base game and a free spins round with win ways, expanding symbols and random multipliers. Here is how they work:

Hot Dogs Trigger Instant Pays Up To 1,000x

The hot dog symbol will deliver an instant prize when 3 or more land on one spin. The prizes are as follows:

• 3 Hot Dogs – 1x prize win
• 4 Hot Dogs – 2x prize win
• 5 Hot Dogs – 5x prize win
• 6 Hot Dogs – 10x prize win
• 7 Hot Dogs – 20x prize win
• 8 Hot Dogs – 50x prize win
• 9 Hot Dogs – 100x prize win
• 10 Hot Dogs – 1,000x prize win

Free Spins With Win Ways, Expanders and Random Multipliers

The free spins round is triggered when 3 or more of the burger scatter symbols land on reels 1, 3 and 5 on one spin. That gets you 10 spins.

An interesting part about this feature is that the pay model changes. Paylines are dispensed with and win ways come into play instead. That means wins are now triggered by landing identical symbols across the reels from left to right on ANY row on adjacent reels. That gives you 243 win-ways on each spin (3x3x3x3x3).

In addition, you get 4 new symbols on the reels.

Expand Symbol – represented by half a cheese square pointing up! This symbol expands the reel set by 1 row horizontally first time it lands, by another row horizontally second time it lands, then by another row vertically the third time it lands. Every time an Expand Symbol lands thereafter it becomes a Wild, substituting for any pay symbol to complete win ways.

Pop Symbol - this symbol, with ‘Pop’ written across it, triggers extra pay outs. When it lands, one symbol will be chosen from those visible on the screen and for each instance of it, a 0.5x win is awarded.

Ketchup Bottle Symbol – this may drop at random at any time. When it does, a multiplier of 2x, 3x or 5x will randomly be applied to one winning symbol currently on the reels. The multiplier is applied to ALL win ways in which the chosen symbol appears.

Mustard Bottle Symbol – on non-winning spins the mustard bottle may drop to change random symbols into other symbols that are GUARANTEED to complete win ways.

Finally, the free spins round can be re-triggered by landing 3 or more scatters again for 10 free spins.