The Big Cheese
About this machine
5 Reels, 243 Ways, 500 Credits Max Bet
Description sourced from the manufacturer's public product page.
The Big Cheese on video
Real footage of this machine — 6 clips whose title names it. We index them; the videos live on YouTube. More on YouTube ↗
Artwork & cabinet
Where The Big Cheese sits in Light & Wonder's range
Mechanically it is a 5 reels / 243 ways to win game. Ways-to-win games pay on adjacent symbols regardless of position, so hit frequency is usually higher and individual wins smaller than a comparable pay-line game.
What's the RTP of The Big Cheese?
There isn't one number — and any site quoting you a single figure is describing a different product.
Manufacturers ship the same title in multiple par versions, commonly spanning roughly 85% to 96%. The casino chooses which one to install, and that choice is not disclosed on the machine. Nevada regulation only sets a floor: every wager must theoretically return at least 75%.
What regulators actually publish is hold percentage — realised performance after player behaviour, aggregated by region and denomination. It is never broken out by game title. So the honest answer for any land-based machine is a range plus an unknown configuration, not a single figure.
Figures quoted elsewhere for this title are almost always taken from its online version, which is a different product with a different maths model.
Where to play
We don't yet have verified floor placements for this machine. Our casino cross-reference covers 442 properties, but only through IGT's public linked-progressive data — which doesn't reach Light & Wonder titles. We would rather show nothing than guess.
Other Class III machines from Light & Wonder
Same regulatory class, same manufacturer.
Most-filmed Light & Wonder machines
All 906 Light & Wonder machines →The titles from this manufacturer that slot channels actually put on camera.
