Monopoly Big Baller

Before the draw you choose how many bingo-style cards to buy. More cards means more chances to complete a line and a proportionally larger stake — it raises the stakes rather than the value.

Numbered balls are then drawn by a live presenter and marked off your cards automatically. Completing lines is what pays, and multipliers can be attached to the lines you form, which is where the larger results come from. Because the cards are marked for you, there is nothing to do once the draw starts.

The bonus is not automatic — it is a separate bet placed before the round, on either 3 Rolls or 5 Rolls. Back one of them and, if the round qualifies, you enter the bonus.

Inside it, Mr. Monopoly walks around a virtual 3D Monopoly board and collects multipliers as he goes. Five rolls costs more than three and gives him further to walk. The bonus is where the game gets its name and most of its ceiling, and skipping the roll bet means the bonus cannot pay you no matter what the draw does.

Structurally it is the same idea as online bingo — buy tickets, numbers drawn, complete a pattern. The differences are pace and the multiplier layer.

A bingo room game usually splits a pot among everyone completing the pattern on the same draw. Big Baller pays on your own cards against a paytable, so a busy table does not dilute your win. In exchange, the base game is less generous and the bonus carries the upside. Which of the two you prefer is genuinely a matter of taste rather than value.

Cards and the roll bet are staked in rand at a licensed South African operator, with a real presenter and a real ball draw filmed in a studio.

If the bonus-round structure is what appeals, Mega Ball is the closest neighbour — the same ball-draw skeleton with a multiplier applied to completed lines. For the wheel-based shows, start at Crazy Time. Funding is on the payment methods page.