Vegas Ball Bonanza from Pragmatic Play

Vegas Bonus Bonanza is no longer available. It has been replaced by The Bingo Spot.

Vegas Bonus Bonanza is a lottery type game, with your financial destiny completely in the hands of lady luck. There is no skill involved in this game whatsoever.

How to play Vegas Ball Bonanza

The aim of Vegas Ball Bonanza is to match as many numbers (and lines thereof) on your ticket with the 9 balls that are drawn from the ball machine. The more horizontal or vertical lines you complete on your 3×3 numbered ticket, the bigger your payout.

Buying your tickets

You’ll need to purchase a ticket(s) to be in the game. You can buy up to 9 tickets during betting time, which is a pretty brisk 12 seconds.

You simply click a ticket to buy it. The default cost is $0.10 per ticket. But you can increase the ticket value (up $50) by clicking the ticket value arrow. Any tickets clicked/purchased subsequently will be at the newly selected value.

Once purchased, your ticket will flip to display a 3×3 grid containing 9 random numbers between 1 and 30.

In the below round, all 9 tickets have been purchased.

The Ball Drop

Once bets have closed, it’s time for the ball drop. In a standard round 9 balls will be drawn from a total of 30 (numbered 1 through 30).

As drawn balls match any of the numbers on your ticket, they are blotted out. If a complete line of 3 is matched on a given ticket (vertical or horizontal), it is blotted out and win payout is assigned to that ticket, as below.

The more lines that are completed for a given ticket, the higher the payout applying to its purchase value.

A single line completed wins an even money payout. 4 lines gets you 60:1. If all 9 numbers on your ticket are drawn, you win a 250 to 1 payout.

Boosting your returns: Bonus Multipliers, Star Ball, Wild Ball

It wouldn’t be a live game show without a few payout boost opportunities. In Vegas Ball Bonanza there are three.

Bonus Multipliers

After bets close, but before the ball drop, 3 to 5 lucky numbers are selected. Each of the lucky numbers has a multiplier assigned t it (2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x or 50x).

If any of these balls drop, the multiplier is activated and will apply to any ticket containing that number. The regular payouts for completed lines is now boosted by the multiplier.

For example, a ticket has 2 lines matched. It also contains 2 lucky numbers that were activated and whose multipliers were 2x and 3x. The tickets payout is boosted from 5:1 up to 2x3x5:1 = 30:1.

Star Ball

If the Star Ball is drawn, all lucky numbers are automatically activated, irrespective of whether they’ve been drawn.

Wild Ball

If a Wild Ball is drawn, the Wild Wheel is spun to determine whether the 1,2,3 or 4 additional balls will be drawn – increasing the chance of ticket number matches.

That’s pretty much it. Buy your tickets, wait to see if any of them have won.

The only decisions you need to make playing this game are:

your ticket buy values, and
how many tickets you want to buy.

Vegas Ball Bonanza returns

A pretty reliable rule of thumb when it comes to gambling games and theoretical returns is this: the less skill involved, the lower the theoretical returns.

The rule holds here. Vegas Ball Bonanza’s return to player rate is 95.97%.

If you’re still up for giving it a go, you can do so at any casino carrying Pragmatic Play games.