How the Sweet Bonanza Slot Works

RTP: 96.60%
Volatility rating: Medium
Maximum payout: 21,100x
Grid layout: 6x5
Paylines and ways: Scatter pays
Release date: 27/06/2019

Publication date 17/09/2026

The closing screen, not the award plaque, moves the credit

The Buy Feature takes its price before a single free spin starts; the win arrives only after the last one ends. The rules state it directly: a Free Spins win is awarded after the round completes. One captured $500 purchase at a $5.00 stake shows the full timing. The award plaque congratulates on 10 Free Spins with $15.00 already on the win line, yet the credit still reads $99,500. Multiplier bombs then sit on the grid through each Tumble sequence, their values summed at its end and applied to that total in a single multiplication. Ten spins later the closing screen posts $147.50 and the credit finally moves, to $99,647.50 in one step. Scatter pays settles every symbol count the moment it lands; the feature round defers a whole sequence of those settlements, so the Medium volatility badge covers two ledgers running on different clocks.

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Base game, free spins and more

Thirty cells set every number on this page: eight matching symbols pay, four lollipops open ten free spins, a 25% stake increase doubles the odds of reaching them, and 100x the bet skips the trigger outright. The cards below take those terms one at a time.

Base Game

No result here settles on the first fall. Whenever eight or more copies of one symbol sit among the 30 cells, in any arrangement, they pay, leave the grid, and the Tumble refills the gaps from above, repeating without a cap until a refill wins nothing. Payout tiers rise at ten and twelve copies, and the chain's wins credit as one sum.

Ante Bet / Double Chance to Win Feature

One switch lifts every stake by exactly a quarter, $0.20 to $0.25 or $240.00 to $300.00, and in return more Scatter lollipops land on the reels, doubling the natural route into the bonus round. While it runs, the purchase control stays locked.

Free Spins

Four or more Scatters in one spin award ten spins on special reels, and three or more landing mid-round add five more. Multiplier bombs worth 2x to 100x appear only in this state, hold in place through the full tumble sequence, then sum and multiply that sequence's win.

Buy Feature

The price is fixed at 100 times the current stake, $200.00 at a $2.00 bet and $24,000.00 at $240.00, and a confirmation screen asks before charging it. The award stays flat at ten spins whatever the cost, and the control greys out whenever the ante switch is on.

Launching the game and placing a bet

Eight copies of one symbol anywhere on the 6x5 grid is a win in Sweet Bonanza, Pragmatic Play's 2019 Scatter pays slot with no paylines. Each round: fix a total bet, spin, and let Tumble refills chain until the board stops paying; the recurring decision is to spin on or to reach Free Spins through the Ante Bet or the 100x Buy Feature.

Enter from the intro screen

Press the round two-arrow enter icon on the loading screen to open the base game: the 6x5 grid, the CREDIT and BET readouts and the SPIN button all become active.
Set the total bet

Set a stake anywhere from $0.20 to $240.00 with the + and - controls, which also open the bet menu. Switching the Ante Bet toggle (DOUBLE CHANCE TO WIN FEATURE) on is optional: it raises the total by a quarter and disables BUY FEATURE.
Spin and let Tumble run

Press SPIN, or the SPACE and ENTER keys, to play. Eight or more copies of a symbol anywhere on the grid pays; winning symbols disappear, the rest drop to the bottom and new ones fall in from above. Tumbles repeat until no win remains, then the whole sequence total lands in CREDIT.
Trigger or buy Free Spins

Landing 4 or more lollipop Scatters starts 10 Free Spins, where Multiplier bombs worth 2x to 100x add together and multiply the final tumble win; a Retrigger from 3 or more Scatters adds 5 spins. BUY FEATURE sells the round at 100x total bet while the Ante Bet stays off.

Symbol payouts

x8 / x10 / x12 / x4 / x5 / x6

Banana Low 0.25 / 0.75 / 2.00 / — / — / —
Grapes Low 0.40 / 0.90 / 4.00 / — / — / —
Watermelon Low 0.50 / 1.00 / 5.00 / — / — / —
Plum Low 0.80 / 1.20 / 8.00 / — / — / —
Apple Low 1.00 / 1.50 / 10.00 / — / — / —
Blue oval jelly candy High 1.50 / 2.00 / 12.00 / — / — / —
Green pentagon jelly candy High 2.00 / 5.00 / 15.00 / — / — / —
Purple square jelly candy High 2.50 / 10.00 / 25.00 / — / — / —
Heart candy High 10.00 / 25.00 / 50.00 / — / — / —
SCATTER Scatter — / — / — / 3.00 / 5.00 / 100.00
MULTIPLIER symbol Other — / — / — / — / — / —

How volatility shapes your session

Bet size comes first on Sweet Bonanza, Pragmatic Play's Scatter pays slot, because the Buy Feature at 100x and the Ante Bet surcharge are both computed from it. Three controls price the session: stake, Ante Bet toggle, Buy Feature. None of them changes how the grid resolves.

The stake sets the price of every other control

The + and - controls set the base stake from $0.20 to a hard ceiling of $240.00, where the + key greys out. Everything priced in bets scales with it: the Buy Feature runs $200.00 at $2.00 and $24,000.00 at the cap, so one adjustment fixes total exposure before any other choice matters. Stake level is not documented to alter the printed return range.

The 100x purchase buys entry, not a result

Available only while Ante Bet stays off, BUY FEATURE charges 100x the current stake, and a confirmation dialog with YES and NO asks before anything is debited, so the decision stays reversible until that click. What the sum delivers is fixed at 10 Free Spins; what those spins return is not. One recorded purchase of $500.00 finished at $147.50.

Ante Bet trades a per-spin surcharge for unstated odds

Ante Bet can be flipped on or off between any two base-game spins. On, each spin costs a quarter more and more Scatter lollipops land, stated to double the natural route into Free Spins, while BUY FEATURE locks grey. The doubled figure has no absolute odds printed anywhere, so whether the surcharge beats the flat 100x price per entry cannot be checked on screen.

See the game in action

Special symbols and features

Ante Bet
Free Spins
Multiplier
Retrigger
Scatter
Tumble

Supported devices

Autoplay mode: Yes

How much can you bet

Min. bet: 0.20
Top bet limit: 240.00
Currency of bets: USD

Game themes

FruitCandy

Explore the bonuses

Buy-a-bonus: Yes
Higher ante stake: 1.25x

Ways to buy the bonus

Free SpinsCost 100.00x

Our take

Eight of a kind anywhere on the 6x5 grid pays; no line, adjacency, or order condition applies.
Six lollipops return 100x the bet outright, and four or more open the 10-spin free-games round.
Stakes run from $0.20 to $240 ($300 with ante), covering cautious sampling and high-limit sessions in one build.
Multiplier bombs appear only in free spins, so base-game tumbles can never grow past their symbol-count value.

The deal here is plain arithmetic: a quiet base game traded for a feature round whose stacked bombs decide how near a session reaches the printed 21,100x top. Pragmatic Play's 2019 original still reads cleanly and pays at a steady medium-risk clip, suiting players who judge a slot by its bonus and accept flat spells between lollipops.