About Advant Play
Advant Play is a new-generation casino games provider founded in 2020. The studio describes its products as mobile-friendly and designed for portrait screens, with support for smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. Its catalogue includes conventional video slots alongside faster mini-games, and the visual direction is strongly influenced by Asian gaming markets, mobile entertainment and feature-heavy reel design.
The provider is still young compared with established developers such as NetEnt or Playtech. Its public corporate material also contains less detail about ownership, individual certifications and regulated-market approvals than I would like to see from a major international supplier. That does not make its games unfair, but it means I would avoid repeating unsupported claims that Advant Play is licensed everywhere or has an independently proven reputation across all markets.
A provider creates the software; the casino controls the account, deposits and withdrawals. Australian players must therefore investigate the operator separately. A game being accessible on a mobile phone, or even being available in a free demo, does not establish that real-money online pokies can lawfully be offered to a person physically present in Australia.
Advant Play's Bonanza Games
The current Slots Bonanza page features Jumanji Bonanza, but Advant Play's contribution extends further. Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza is another confirmed release, and it is mechanically very different. The contrast between them tells me that Advant Play uses “Bonanza” as a flexible marketing label rather than the name of one standardised engine.
| Advant Play game | Core format | Key mechanics | Published RTP | Maximum win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jumanji Bonanza | Large 5×6-style scatter-pay grid | Avalanches, board progression and random modifiers | 97.01% | 150× |
| Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza | 5×5 grid with 25 fixed paylines | Lucky Symbol selection, moving Jackpot Frames, free spins and Banker Chance | 97.02% | 20,000× |
These two games sit at opposite ends of the prize spectrum. Jumanji Bonanza is listed as a low-volatility release with a modest 150× cap, while Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza offers medium-high volatility and potential up to 20,000×. They share colourful presentation and visible feature progression, but they should not be treated as sequels or assumed to have similar bankroll behaviour.
How Jumanji Bonanza Works
Jumanji Bonanza is built around a jungle board-game concept. Despite the familiar title, I have not found reliable evidence of an official connection to the Jumanji film franchise, so I would not describe it as a licensed movie slot. The theme instead uses a general adventure-board presentation, with animal symbols, elemental totems and an elephant playing piece moving around a trail outside the reels.
Wins use a scatter-pay system. Eight or more matching symbols can pay without having to appear across a fixed line. Winning symbols disappear through the Avalanche mechanic, the remaining icons fall into the empty positions, and new symbols enter from above. This continues until the cascade produces no additional win.
The elephant token advances around the surrounding board as winning symbols are cleared. Landing on different spaces can activate prizes or modifiers, including Treasure, Chance and Destiny-style events. These may add wilds, alter symbols or award another form of immediate assistance. This is the game's main point of difference: the board is not merely decorative but responds to activity on the grid.
| Jumanji Bonanza element | What it does | My practical reading |
|---|---|---|
| Scatter Pays | Pays for enough matching symbols anywhere on the grid | Easier to read as symbol quantity rather than paylines |
| Avalanche wins | Removes winning symbols and drops new ones into their places | Allows several results to develop from one paid spin |
| Elephant board piece | Moves around the outer trail as progress is earned | Provides visible context for the random modifiers |
| Board spaces | Can award prizes, wilds or other reel changes | Adds variety without creating player control over the RNG |
I find the board mechanic more interesting than the jungle theme. A lot of slots place meters around the reels without making them relevant to the core game. Here, the avalanche sequence and board movement are connected, so a productive cascade can feel like genuine progress through an event rather than a collection of unrelated animations.
However, visible movement should not be mistaken for a skill element. The player does not control where the token ultimately lands or which modifier appears. There is no strategy for timing a spin, changing the stake at a particular board position or predicting an avalanche. Every paid result remains determined by the game's random-number generator.
RTP, Volatility and the Unusual 150× Limit
The published 97.01% RTP is unusually strong for a modern online slot, provided that the same configuration is present in the live game. It represents the theoretical proportion returned across a very large number of wagers. It cannot tell a player what will happen during ten spins, one hundred spins or a single evening.
The 150× maximum win is far lower than the five-figure caps that dominate current slot marketing. Personally, I find the honesty of that limit refreshing. The game is not pretending that every session is a route to a life-changing multiplier. Its low-volatility profile and integrated base-game features are aimed more at frequent activity than rare extreme exposure.
That does not make it low risk in financial terms. Repeated small outcomes can still consume a balance, particularly when the maximum stake is high. Volatility describes the intended distribution of payouts; it does not convert gambling into a predictable purchase. I would use modest stakes and judge the game by its entertainment rhythm rather than trying to reach the board's most valuable event.
Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza Shows the Other Side of the Studio
Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza is important when assessing the provider because it proves Advant Play is not applying one template to every Bonanza title. The game draws on the traditional Fish-Prawn-Crab dice concept found across parts of Asia. It uses a 5×5 reel grid with 25 paylines and allows the player to choose a Lucky Symbol before a spin.
Gold Jackpot Frames occupy positions on the grid. When the selected Lucky Symbol lands inside a frame, the game can award a corresponding multiplier or jackpot-related prize. After certain non-winning spins, the frames may move, and during free spins their number can increase. Landing the required Dice Cup symbols within those frames can activate the Banker Chance bonus.
This design is mechanically richer and much more volatile than Jumanji Bonanza. Its 20,000× maximum provides a dramatic headline, but reaching the upper end of that model will be exceptionally uncommon. Optional bonus access may also be offered in some jurisdictions. I regard a bonus purchase as a high-cost wager with altered distribution, not as an advantage over ordinary spins.
Does Advant Play Have a Real Bonanza Series?
Not in the strict sense. A genuine series normally repeats characters, mathematics or a recognisable proprietary mechanic. Jumanji Bonanza uses scatter pays, avalanches and a moving adventure board. Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza uses fixed lines, symbol selection and jackpot frames. The themes, volatility and maximum prizes are substantially different.
What they share is a design philosophy: both turn progress into something visible outside the ordinary win calculation. The elephant moves around a board in Jumanji Bonanza, while frames shift and accumulate in Fish Prawn Crab Bonanza. That is enough to give Advant Play's releases some common personality, but not enough to call “Bonanza” a defined game engine.
My verdict is that the studio is doing more than simply renaming generic fruit slots. Jumanji Bonanza in particular has an identifiable central mechanic, and its low-volatility, 150× model is unusual in a category increasingly dominated by extreme maximum wins. At the same time, the word “Bonanza” remains promotional. Players should approach every Advant Play title as an independent game and read its rules rather than transferring expectations from Sweet Bonanza 1000 or the original Bonanza.
Advant Play is most interesting when it combines mobile-friendly controls with board, collection or selection systems that are easy to follow. Its weaker point is corporate transparency: I would like to see more accessible detail about game certifications, RTP variants and market approvals on the provider's own website. Until then, the live paytable and the casino's licence should carry more weight than promotional descriptions.
