Sweet Bonanza 1000

What the official pages disclose

Sweet Bonanza 1000 arrived on 3 June 2024, by the announcement of Pragmatic Play, as the 1000 edition of the studio’s oldest counting grid. The announcement’s own headline says the studio “sweetens up candyland”, and the official page is unusually direct about the limit, and it states wins “of up to 25,000x”. The configuration behind the demo prices that claim at odds of 1 in 71,428,571 spins. Both numbers are the studio’s, and the pairing tells a player more than either does alone.

The published default RTP for the game is 96.53%. The configuration adds the mode figures, with the ante at 96.50% and the purchases at 96.52% and 96.55%. Every route into the game therefore sits within 0.05 of a point of the others. No alternative operator version appears on any official surface, the standing gap across this studio’s list. The copy of the rules in the operating casino therefore remains the deciding document, whatever the marketing says.

The game runs the studio’s 6×5 counting grid, on which 8 or more matching symbols pay wherever they sit, with cleared wins refilled through Tumble & Cascading Reels. The win system is filed under Pay Anywhere. Volatility is worded high in the game’s own information pages, and the shipped configuration takes stakes of 0.20 to 240.00 credits.

The paytable in outline

The symbol sheet reads in count bands, with one value for 8 to 9 matching symbols, a higher one for 10 to 11 and the top band from 12. Fruit fills the lower half of the table and candies the upper, in the series tradition. Hearts, squares and the banana sit low, whilst the red candy heads the sheet. The lollipop scatter pays in its own right as well as triggering, so a 4 scatter landing is a paid event twice over. A player can read the whole sheet from the rules in under a minute, and the bands are the part worth memorising, because tumbles turn near counts into full ones mid sequence.

The bombs and the round

The signature symbol is the candy bomb, a multiplier that lands during the bonus. Bombs carry values up to 1,000x in this edition, against 100x in the 2019 game. When a tumble sequence ends, every bomb on screen is summed into one figure and applied to the whole sequence win. The behaviour is the one described under Bonus Multipliers rather than a persistent counter. Each sequence settles on its own, and the round’s value arrives in bursts rather than as a slope.

Entry into the round follows the series pattern. 4 or more lollipop scatters award 10 free spins, and 3 or more during the round add 5 more. Two purchase routes exist, a standard entry and a heavier one, and the ante option raises the stake for better trigger odds where a player prefers waiting less without buying outright. The rules print a price for each purchase and a return for each mode, which is how the menu should be judged.

The ante arithmetic

The ante option deserves its own line of sums, because its published return of 96.50% sits 0.03 below the standard mode. A player paying the raised stake buys trigger frequency, not value, and the rules never pretend otherwise. Whether the trade suits a given player depends entirely on what the waiting costs them, which is a question no paytable can answer. The purchases price the same impatience differently, one bonus at a time, and their two returns bracket the standard figure from both sides. The three numbers read together in a minute, and they settle the whole menu.

What the demo shows

The demo greets a player with its candy machine and the series’ pink lettering when opened, as it was for this catalogue’s artwork. The loading screen carries the win claim in the same breath. The presentation matches the paperwork, which is not a given in this industry, and a player can hold the loading claim against the rules two clicks later. The interface keeps the count bands one tap away during play.

What it costs to play

The 96.53% figure means $3.47 kept of every $100 staked at $1 a spin over the long run, a fraction friendlier than the studio’s usual 96.50%. The cap deserves the same arithmetic from a player. At 1 in 71,428,571, the 25,000x maximum is the longest shot among the games reviewed here except one, which is the price of the largest headline. Players weighing this game against its 2019 predecessor are weighing a bigger number against nearer ones, with both sheets printed.

Within the series

The Sweet Bonanza line began in June 2019 with a stated 21,175x potential, and this edition rounds the family up to modern caps. The bombs grew tenfold, the maximum grew with them, and the published return rose slightly against the first game as commonly shipped. Nothing structural changed, which is the series’ way. A player who knows the 2019 game will find every habit intact under the larger numbers, from the count bands to the burst shaped bonus. The line’s Christmas and Super Scatter editions orbit the same sheet, and the family’s one constant is that nothing about the counting ever changes.

Disclosure grade and score

Disclosure rates a B, and a high one within that band. The page states the cap plainly, the configuration prices it in the open, and every mode return is readable. The unpublished operator versions keep the grade from an A. The game scores 7.5 of 10 here. Among the studio’s counting grids it is the most complete package, with the friendliest published default and a cap that at least prints its own odds. The deduction is that the bursts arrive rarely enough to test patience, and the rules say as much to anyone who reads the odds line.

One check before you play

1. Confirm the paytable RTP against the published 96.53%, and read a lower figure as a reduced operator version of the same game.
2. Where a purchase is offered, compare the two routes’ printed returns in the rules before paying, because the heavier route is not automatically the better priced one.

Sources

Each figure above was read against the documents below on 25 September 2026.

• Official game page (RTP, max win)
• Release announcement, 3 June 2024

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