Sweet Bonanza is Pragmatic Play’s candy-land slot from June 2019: six reels and five rows with no paylines, where eight or more matching symbols anywhere pay and winners tumble away. In the free spins rainbow bombs worth 2x to 100x multiply the win, up to 21,175x. It returns 96.48%, with a 95.45% version too. Play the official Sweet Bonanza demo below free, with no download.
Sweet Bonanza runs on six reels and five rows with no paylines: eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid pay, and they do not need to touch. Bets run from 20 cents to $100 a spin, or up to $125 with the ante bet, in whatever currency the casino uses. Pragmatic’s game page gives a return of 96.48%; databases quote 96.49% to 96.51%, possibly separate figures for the base game, ante bet and bonus buy, and 21 of 47 casinos tracked by one RTP site run a 95.45% version, with operators able to go as low as 89%. Pragmatic called it a high-volatility game at launch, where databases say medium-high. One database puts the hit rate at about 50% of spins and the free spins at about one in 451. The maximum win is 21,175x the bet per Pragmatic’s launch release, though other sites list 21,000x or 21,100x.
Sweet Bonanza Pokies Characteristics
Wins are counted, not lined up: eight or more of the same symbol anywhere on the grid pay, in three steps of 8 to 9, 10 to 11 and 12 or more. After a win the winning symbols disappear and new ones drop in from above, and the tumble repeats until no new win forms, so one spin can pay several times. There is no wild, and matching symbols do not have to touch, so the cluster pays label some sites use is wrong.
The lollipop is the scatter: it pays anywhere, and four or more start the free spins. The rainbow multiplier bombs land only in the free spins, so the base game is a plain tumble game and the big wins sit in the feature. Turbo and quick-spin settings are available, and autoplay runs to 1,000 spins outside the UK.
Pays below are multiples of the total bet for 8 to 9, 10 to 11 and 12 or more matching symbols anywhere; two independent databases give identical figures.
Four, five and six lollipop scatters pay 3x, 5x and 100x the total bet on top of the free spins, and the six-scatter 100x is the biggest fixed award in the game. The red heart’s 50x for twelve or more, which Pragmatic’s own page confirms, is the top symbol pay, so anything near the 21,175x maximum needs multiplier bombs on a long tumble sequence in the free spins.
Four or more lollipops anywhere award ten free spins. Three or more during the feature add five more, according to the databases, with no stated cap; Pragmatic’s page for the original does not mention retriggers, though its pages for the 1000, 2500 and Super Scatter versions give the same rule. Tumbles carry on as in the base game.
The rainbow bombs are what the round is about. Each carries a multiplier from 2x to 100x, and when a tumble sequence ends, every bomb on screen is added together and the total multiplies the win from the whole sequence: two 20x bombs make 40x, not 400x. With only ten spins, the size of a feature depends mostly on whether bombs land in a sequence that is already paying well.
The ante bet raises the stake by 25%, so a $1 spin costs $1.25, and adds more scatters to the reels; the databases say that doubles, or roughly doubles, the chance of free spins. The return in ante mode is not confirmed. The bonus buy costs 100x the bet and goes straight to the free spins; it is not offered in some jurisdictions, including the UK, and one database gives its return as 96.51%. There is no gamble feature and no jackpot of any kind.
At 96.48% the game keeps about 3.5 cents of every dollar bet over the long run; the 95.45% version keeps about 4.5 cents and an 89% build would keep 11, so the information screen is worth a look before the first spin. High volatility shows in the numbers: one database estimates a win on about half of all spins, but the fruit symbols pay no more than the stake for eight or nine, and the free spins arrive about once every 451 spins by the same estimate.
At $1 a spin, 451 spins is $451 of turnover, so a $100 session will usually end without a feature; at 20 cents the same $100 covers 500 spins, about one expected trigger. The bonus buy turns the wait into a single price, $100 at a $1 stake or $20 at 20 cents, for one ten-spin round that can return far less than it cost.
Sweet Bonanza Xmas (November 2019) is a festive reskin with the same features and 96.48%. Sweet Bonanza 1000 (June 2024) keeps the 6×5 tumbles but lifts the bombs to 1,000x and the maximum to 25,000x at 96.53%, and Sweet Bonanza 2500 takes the bombs to 2,500x with the same 25,000x cap at 96.52%. Sweet Bonanza Super Scatter (96.51%) adds scatters that pay 100x, 500x, 5,000x or 50,000x for one to four of them when the feature triggers, with buys at 100x and 500x. Sweet Bonanza POP (97.05%) moves to a 3×5 grid and adds fixed POP jackpots of 50x, 500x and 25,000x.
Sweet Rush Bonanza (96.50%) is related by name only, with multipliers that double from 2x up to 128x. Sweet Bonanza CandyLand is not a slot: it is a live game show built on a wheel, with a €500,000 maximum and a Sweet Spins bonus of ten free spins on a live version of the slot. A lobby tile that says plain Sweet Bonanza is the 2019 original reviewed here.
Sweet Bonanza is set in a bright candy land that Pragmatic describes as a candylicious adventure. The five lower symbols are fruit and the four upper ones coloured sweets, topped by a red heart candy, with a lollipop scatter and rainbow bombs for the multipliers; the tumbles and the bombs are the visual signature. It runs in HTML5 on desktop, phones and tablets in 19 interface languages, and no source we found describes the music.
Sweet Bonanza is online only: no club, pub or casino version was found. Pragmatic’s game page carries only UK and Gibraltar licensing links, and online pokies are not licensed in Australia, so players here reach it through offshore casinos. Of the offshore casinos we review for Australians, one promotes Sweet Bonanza on its own Australian blog and an RTP tracker lists another on the 95.45% version, though we did not open either lobby; for the rest, availability varies and the lobby search is the way to check. Pragmatic publishes an official Sweet Bonanza demo on its own game page, behind an age check.
Sweet Bonanza has lasted because the rules fit in two lines: count eight symbols, watch them tumble, and wait for bombs in the free spins. It suits players who accept high volatility and long gaps between features, or who will pay 100x to skip the wait where the buy is offered. It does not suit a short session on a small balance, or anyone after a jackpot. The one thing to check is the information screen: 96.48% and 95.45% are the same game at different prices.
96.48% on Pragmatic’s own page, with databases quoting 96.49% to 96.51%. Many casinos run a 95.45% version, so check the information screen.
Land four or more lollipop scatters anywhere for ten free spins, plus 3x, 5x or 100x the bet for four, five or six. Three or more during the feature add five spins.
21,175x the bet, according to Pragmatic’s launch release; other sites list 21,000x or 21,100x. The biggest fixed award is the 100x for six scatters.
They land only in the free spins, worth 2x to 100x each. When a tumble sequence ends, all bombs on screen are added together and multiply that sequence’s total win.
Only online, through offshore casinos that accept Australians, since there is no land-based version; availability varies, so search the lobby. For free play, Pragmatic’s official demo is on its own game page.
The 1000, from June 2024, keeps the 6×5 grid and tumbles but raises the bombs to 1,000x and the maximum win to 25,000x, at 96.53%.
