Big Ben — Aristocrat's London Pokie with a 20× Free Spin Ceiling

Big Ben pokie by Aristocrat — London clock tower reels

Big Ben is the pokie Aristocrat built around a clock tower. Released in 2013, it swaps the studio's usual Egyptian or Chinese imagery for London postcard iconography — Big Ben on the reel frame, red double-decker buses in the symbols, a Yeoman Warder as the wild — and wraps it around a fairly standard 25-line base game. What makes the pokie memorable is the free spin feature, where the Big Ben symbol doubles as a wild and multiplier, capping at a 20× payout ceiling.

It's a workmanlike mid-volatility pokie — not flashy like Lightning Link, not as feature-dense as Lucky 88, but solid and with a feature that does reliably pay something when it triggers. It's stayed in rotation at Australian venues for more than a decade and the online port has the same appeal.

At a glance

Medium-volatility pokie with a forgiving free spin feature. 15 free spins with stacking Big Ben wilds that carry multipliers up to 20×. Base game is conservative — line wins land regularly but small — so the feature is where the session's fortunes usually turn.

How Big Ben plays

Five reels, 25 fixed paylines, left-to-right wins from the leftmost reel. The Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) heads the paytable, followed by the red bus, the black taxi and the phone box; 9-A royals fill out the bottom tier. Big Ben is the wild and scatter combined — it substitutes for everything on the base game and triggers the free spin feature when three or more land on the reels.

Bets range from a penny per line (A$0.25 minimum on 25 lines) up to A$5 per line at most casinos. That makes the practical bet range A$0.25–A$125 per spin, with most casual sessions sitting around A$1–A$2.50.

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Theme, graphics and sound

The art is charmingly literal — Big Ben framing the reels with a pale London sky behind, symbols that look like they were lifted from a souvenir postcard. Cabinet sound is a mix of Big Ben's chime on feature trigger and a jaunty brass-and-strings base-game loop. It's the kind of theme that reads as dated now but was firmly on-trend for Aristocrat in 2013 when they were expanding beyond pure Asian-fortune and Egyptian templates.

Mobile play

The HTML5 build runs well on phones. 25 lines aren't visually busy, which helps on small screens. The free spin feature's stacked wilds display cleanly in both portrait and landscape, and the bonus chime — easily muted — fires the same way it does on a venue cabinet.

Where to play Big Ben with PayID

Big Ben distribution is narrower than the jackpot-series titles but most of the classic-Aristocrat-carrying casinos still have it. PayID-friendly picks:

If Big Ben isn't in the lobby, a lobby search usually surfaces it — most casinos list it under "classic pokies" rather than directly under the Aristocrat brand.

Similar pokies worth trying

Big Ben sits in the classic Aristocrat tier with themed 25-line pokies. Natural next stops:

FAQ

What is the RTP of Big Ben?
Approximately 94.93% on the online version — in line with most Aristocrat pokies from the same era.
How is the 20× multiplier achieved in free spins?
Big Ben symbols stack during the feature and each stacked Big Ben on a winning payline multiplies the line win. The 20× figure is a ceiling that requires a specific stacked-wild configuration on one or more paylines — it's not the default per-spin multiplier.
Can I retrigger the free spin feature?
Yes. Three more Big Ben symbols during the feature add another 15 free spins on top of the remaining count, and retriggers can stack.
Is Big Ben the same cabinet as other Aristocrat classics?
It was originally released on the Viridian cabinet, the same platform that hosted 50 Dragons and a few other mid-2010s Aristocrat releases. The online build translates the Viridian layout to HTML5.

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