Crazy Balls Live is a hybrid live dealer game show made up of parts of Crazy Time and Monopoly Big Baller.
It’s Crazy Time but without the Top Slot and big wheel, which a Bingo machine replaces.
Rather than betting on specific numbers, you can bet on up to 4 regular bingo-style cards, which deliver wins in the form of completed lines. Randomly placed multipliers can further boost payouts, while free spaces improve the chances of completing lines.
For added excitement and the reason you’ll play this game are the four bonus cards, one for each of the Crazy Ball Bonus Rounds, of Coin Flip, Cash Hunt, Pachinko and the Crazy Time Wheel. Complete all the numbers on the card, and you’ll enter the bonus round to get a chance of big multiplier payouts.
It’s possible to have more than one bonus round per game round, and with multipliers a bound, someone will likely hit the maximum 20,000x payout!
In this review, I’ll explain how to play Crazy Balls and the options and strategies for choosing the cards you play with. You can also see me explain everything in my Video Review.
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Crazy Balls Live is a shortened bingo game with four bonus rounds taken from Crazy Time. If you’ve played Monopoly Big Baller and Crazy Time, you’ll immediately understand the concepts of this new game.
There are eight bingo cards. Four of them contain 25 squares in a 5×5 pattern. You can choose them as Free Space Cards or Multiplier Cards.
You decide what type of cards you want to play. These cards also get random Free Spaces and Multipliers to improve your chances of winning.
The remaining four cards are reserved for the bonus rounds. A card for the Coin Flip contains three numbers, cards for Cash Hunt and Pachinko with four numbers each, and a fourth for Crazy Time, which has five numbers. These cards can also receive free spaces and multipliers.
Once betting time has been completed, some free spaces and multipliers are randomly applied to each card.
Twenty-number balls are drawn from sixty from the bingo machine, and if your card contains a number, it’s struck off.
To win a payout, you need to complete lines, and you need to complete all numbers on one of the bonus cards to enter the bonus round.
It’s possible to win on multiple bonus cards, so you may play in one or more bonus rounds during a game.
First, you must decide how many bingo cards you’ll play, their mix (Free Space or Multi), and whether to play some, all, or none of the bonus round cards.
Let’s not kid ourselves. You’ll be playing all the Bonus Cards, which is why you’re playing Crazy Balls.
Each bingo card has a toggle switch that changes it from a Free Space to a Multi card.
Select your bet amount and dab it on the card(s) you want to play.
Once betting time has completed numbers, free spaces and multipliers are randomly applied to each card.
The bingo ball machine, containing 60 numbered balls, jumps to life, and the drawing begins.
Twenty balls get selected. As each one gets drawn, a red blob appears on the cards where the number matches one on a card.
A completed line or lines are needed to win. These can be Horizontal, Vertical or Diagonal.
The payout is determined by the bet amount, active multipliers, and number of lines completed.
The bonus rounds have been taken straight from the gameshow, Crazy Time.
There are four Bonus Round:
The bonus rounds are activated when you fill one of the Bonus round bingo cards. Cards with free spaces are more likely to be filled than ones without.
It’s possible to win more than one bonus round to experience back-to-back bonuses during the same game round.
You need three numbers on the Coin Flip bonus card to activate this bonus round.
The bonus round consists of a Flipomatic machine which flips a two-sided coin. Each side, the Red and Blue, is given a multiplier value. If the bingo card contains a multiplier, it’s applied to the allocated multipliers, boosting the payouts.
The presenter places the coin on the flipping pad and presses a button, which flips the coin.
The side landing face-up wins, and everyone playing the bonus round receives the same multiplier prize.
The Coin Flip Bonus round traditionally pays the lowest multipliers, but you can get some nice wins with a Bonus multiplier.
The RTP is 96.49%.
Cash Hunt is a wall containing 108 squares, displayed in a 12×9 grid, containing random multipliers.
Four numbers on the Cash Hunt Bingo card are required to trigger the bonus round.
The available multipliers are displayed and scrambled before being hidden behind various symbols.
You can use a cannon to fire a shot at your chosen symbol or let the game pick for you.
After a while, the symbols disappear, revealing the multipliers below. The one below your symbol is your multiplier prize.
This bonus round delivers medium wins but can give massive wins if the bonus card has a multiplier.
The maximum base payout can sometimes reach 500x, but you should expect to win between 10x and 25x more often than not.
The RTP is 96.09%.
The Pachinko wall contains 16 drop zones and 16 prize zones containing multipliers or the word Double.
A puck is dropped from one of the zones by the presenter, which proceeds to bounce off pegs in the wall until it reaches one of the prize zones at the bottom. If it lands in a zone with a multiplier, all players receive that value as the prize. If the zone contains the word Double, the multiplier values are doubled and the puck is dropped a second time.
This bonus round can pay up to 10,000x, but it’s also known to pay 2x. So don’t get your hopes up too high!
Four numbers on the Pachinko Bonus card are required to enter this bonus round.
The RTP is 95.68%.
Crazy Time is a large virtual 64-segment wheel containing multipliers and DOuble segments.
There are three flapper options: Green, Blue and Yellow. Pick a flapper, and whatever segment it lands on becomes your multiplier prize.
Quite often, one of the flappers will stop on the word double, which will double all the multipliers on the wheel for a respin. Only players who are playing that Flapper benefit from the repin. Everyone else wins the multiplier amount from the segment where their Flapper stopped.
The maximum win is 20,000x!
It’s common to win 25x to 100x in this bonus round. Doubles and card multipliers improve your chances of a more significant win!
The RTP is 95.54%.
The payouts for Crazy Ball occur in two ways:
The max payout on Crazy Balls is €£$500,000. The Crazy Time Bonus can have a max multiplier of 20,000x.
Line payouts start at 2x and, depending on the card type, can reach 39:1 on the Free Space card and 199:1 on the Multiplier card.
Getting big wins is possible, especially if you complete a whole card.
I’ve covered RTPs in the Bonus Section, but the optimal RTP based on the Free Space and Multi cards is 96.10%, which is similar to other game show games.
Everyone playing the four Bingo Cards gets a different set of numbers. The free spaces and Multipliers are common across all the cards, but the numbers differ for everyone.
However, for the Bonus Round cards, everyone plays the same set of numbers. It makes sense, really. Otherwise, a bonus round would probably be triggered every game round—imagine the delay if that occurred.
Generally, you’ll want to play Crazy Balls because of the Bonus rounds. Most players looking for a big win on Crazy Balls will think they come from the Bonus rounds.
But the steady wins come from playing the Bingo Cards. Once in a while, you’ll get a bonus round, and when you do, most times, it won’t pay that well.
So, what are the tactics and strategies for playing Crazy Balls?
In a nutshell:
Let’s be frank.
If you want to win regularly, go with the free space cards.
If you want to win more when you win, then the multiplier cards are the way to go. But you’ll have fewer wins.
Do the two even out in the long run? Most probably, the RTPs for both cards are the same: 96.10%!
So, here’s what I do.
I split it down the middle and play two Free Space Cards and Two Multi-Cards. I bet on everything, including the Bonus cards, because I fear missing out (FOMO).
I always play this game where my total bet is a small proportion of my overall bankroll, around 5%, each game round and no more.
That’s it.
Always play the Bonus Cards – If you’re not, play something else with a better return to player, like Blackjack or Roulette.
To Recap my playing strategy.
It depends on what type of player you are. Do you like Big Wheel games or Bingo games?
I prefer the big wheel version of Crazy Time, but I can see the attraction of playing using the Bingo mechanic.
Crazy Time builds anticipation in steps as you go through the game, whereas in Crazy Balls, you get a big hit up front, with all the free spaces and multipliers.
The drawing of the balls and the wheel spin perform the same function; however, although the process is very slow, I feel there’s more anticipation with the ball drawing than with the wheel’s spin. Keeping up with what’s going on is another matter!
As for payouts, since the games are so closely aligned with each other, you’re going to experience very similar results. However, you know that No.1 on Crazy Time will be the most frequent win. In Crazy Balls, you do not know what the most frequent win will be. Free Space line wins will be, of course, but it isn’t easy to see because of the Ball Drawing process.
So I’m going with what I already know, and that’s Crazy Time!
The game has a limited set of in-play statistics and results trackers.
What is available is a running commentary on the balls drawn for each game round. If they are shown as red, the number appears on at least one of the cards you have in play. If the number is Grey, it’s a miss.
Information on the previous game or payouts for the bonus round is not available, but you can ask in chat, and the game’s chat moderator will tell you the last payouts for the Bonus rounds and the highest payout for the day.
Other than that, it’s unlikely there will be a results tracker soon.
Crazy Balls is quite a slow game, as it takes a while to draw all twenty balls from the machine. It’s also quite tricky to keep up with what’s been drawn and how it impacts the cards you have. Your best bet is to let the playing interface do it for you and rely on the commentary from the presenter to point out the obvious things going on.
There’s lots to take in, from the numbers, the multipliers on lines, and what’s needed to complete a line or one of the bonus cards.
Don’t get disheartened you don’t win on every game because it happens, even if you’ve bet on every card. You’ll make money when a line comes in with a multiplier or you get a bonus round with a multiplier, so you have to hang in there.
I don’t think this will topple Crazy Times’ crown, but it’s a great alternative if you want a rest from Crazy Time. I’d probably play Monopoly Big Baller, as playing the same bonus rounds on two games can become repetitive.
Crazy Balls Live is essentially a reskin of the big wheel gameshow, Crazy Time, where a Bingo Ball drawing-style machine has swapped out the wheel. Rather than placing bets on wheel segments, you play bets on Bingo cards, which get a random set of numbers, free spaces and multipliers. You can access the four bonus rounds from Crazy Time through four unique bingo cards, and if you fill them with numbers, you’ll trigger one or more of them.
The maximum multiplier on the Crazy Time Bonus round is 20,000x. Pachinko can pay 10,000, and other bonuses and cards can pay big, thanks to the extra multipliers on the cards. The maximum cash payout is £$€500,000 per game round.
The RTP is 96.10% for optimal play.
Each player gets different numbers on the bingo cards, regardless of the combination they choose to play. The Free Spaces and Multipliers are common across the cards though. For the Bopnus round cards, all players have the same set of numbers, with common Multipliers and Free Spaces.
The largest multiplier on a standard number is 20x. On a line, it is 50x, and the global multiplier on a card is 3x, with two global multipliers possible on a card. The multipliers can tot up quite quickly.
The strategies are less about how to play and more about how you place your bets between the Free Space and Multiplier Cards. It’s a given that you’ll play the Bonus round cards.
The machine contains sixty coloured balls, and twenty are drawn for each game round.
Yes, you can win, but whether you win a significant amount is down to luck. Crazy Balls is a volatile game, so expect to lose frequently. If you do win, expect them to be low-value wins for the most part. The bigger wins will be less frequent.
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Neil Walker
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