Frozen Fruit at Skycrown

Frozen Fruit's Pre-Bonus system is the kind of mechanic that sounds like a nice extra until you realise it can also be the fastest way to burn through a session budget. Three spinning wheels let you customise your free spins setup before it even starts — spins, multiplier and active screens — and BGaming lets you pay to influence all three. I tested it at Sky Crown, and the RESPIN ALL and ADD EXTRA purchase options are genuinely powerful, but they're also easy to overspend on before you've seen a single free spin play out.

This page covers how the Pre-Bonus wheel actually works, what the Wild Rain feature does during free spins, and what realistic bankroll expectations look like given a natural bonus trigger rate of roughly 1 in 150 spins. If very-high-volatility BGaming titles are your thing, Gold Rush with Johnny Cash and Piggy Bank Hold & Win are worth comparing against this one.

How does the Pre-Bonus wheel work?

Frozen Fruit runs on a 5x3 grid with 10 fixed paylines at a 96% RTP. Landing the FS Ice Cube scatter simultaneously on reels 1, 3 and 5 triggers the Pre-Bonus Game — a genuinely unusual mechanic even by BGaming's standards. Three spinning wheels then determine your free spins setup: the number of spins (1–6), the win multiplier (1–6x), and the number of active reel screens (1–6).

Here's where it gets interesting: RESPIN ALL and ADD EXTRA purchase options let you pay to re-spin the wheels or boost individual values before locking in your setup. That means the bonus you actually play can look very different depending on how much you're willing to spend at the Pre-Bonus stage alone — separate from whatever you've already staked to trigger it.

At maximum configuration — 6 spins, 6x multiplier, 6 active screens — the free spins round runs across 60 simultaneous paylines (10 paylines × 6 screens), with wins from every screen combined and then multiplied by the bonus multiplier. That's the theoretical path to the game's 6,600x ceiling, and it requires close to perfect alignment across every wheel to get there.

What does Wild Rain do during free spins?

Once the free spins round begins, Wild Rain adds random wilds across the active screens. The payout depends on how many wilds land on a single payline: three wilds pays 10x, four wilds pays 100x, and five wilds pays 500x — and because this can occur across all active screens simultaneously if you've unlocked more than one, the multiplier stacking gets significant fast at higher screen counts.

This is the feature most competitor pages skip entirely, which is a real gap — Wild Rain is arguably more important to the game's actual payout potential than the Pre-Bonus wheel customisation itself, since it's what generates the big hits once the free spins are already running.

Author's tip from Mitchell Carr, Australian Online Casino Content Analyst: "Don't spend heavily on RESPIN ALL before you understand what you're actually buying. A better multiplier means nothing if you've only unlocked one active screen — screens and multiplier work together, not independently."

What bankroll does a realistic session need?

The base game hit rate sits at 18.18% — roughly one win every 5.5 spins — but the bonus itself triggers naturally at only about 1 in 150 spins. At a A$0.50 bet, that works out to roughly A$75 in average spend before a natural Pre-Bonus trigger, before any Pre-Bonus purchases are factored in. Bonus Buy is available at 80x bet for standard entry if you'd rather skip the wait entirely, though that's a direct cost decision rather than a shortcut to better odds.

Very high volatility is the operative description here — the base game pays out often enough at 18.18% to feel active, but the meaningful money is locked behind a bonus that takes real patience or real spend to reach.

• Understand what each Pre-Bonus wheel controls before spending on RESPIN ALL or ADD EXTRA
• Watch for Wild Rain during free spins — it's the feature actually responsible for the largest hits
• Budget for roughly 150 spins to reach a natural bonus trigger, or factor in the 80x Bonus Buy cost as an alternative

Frozen Fruit's Pre-Bonus customisation is genuinely unique in BGaming's catalogue — most pokies don't let you shape your bonus round before it starts. That novelty comes with a real cost if you're not deliberate about what you're paying for at each wheel. Demo mode is available to see the full system play out before staking real money. Play remains 18+ only, and no Pre-Bonus configuration changes the game's underlying house edge over time.

For definitions of RTP, volatility and other terms used across this page, the glossary has the full breakdown. Otherwise log in to try the Pre-Bonus wheel yourself, or head back to the homepage for the rest of the lobby.