Pragmatic Play · 2019 · tumble / scatter pays
Sweet Bonanza: quick to load, two different maths
Upright is fine and 1.9 seconds is quick. The thing to know about this one has nothing to do with the phone: it ships in two return builds, three points apart.
The phone check
Upright, the spin button shrinks and the bet stepper crowds it. A wide thumb hits the wrong one. The demo pulls about 8 MB before the first tap registers, which on a poor bar is where the 1.9 s goes. Getting money back out is a separate count and we keep it at cashout.
This title ships in more than one return build
Pragmatic Play licenses 2 configurations of Sweet Bonanza. The spread from top to bottom is 3.03 points, which is about C$30 in expected cost per C$1,000 staked. Same reels, same features, different maths.
| Configuration | Return | House edge | Cost per C$1,000 vs the top build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highest build the studio licenses | 96.48% | 3.52% | baseline |
| Lowest build | 93.45% | 6.55% | C$30 |
How to see which one you are on, in three taps
- Open the demo and tap the burger or the ⓘ in the game's own toolbar, not the casino's.
- Scroll the info panel to the bottom. The return figure is printed in the rules footer.
- Compare it to the table above. If it is not the top row, that is the build you are being served.
123 of the 306 titles on this board carry more than one build, so this is worth doing once per game rather than once ever.
On the handset
Candy on a 6x5 grid, scatter pays, no lines to read. Portrait crops the sides slightly and the bomb multipliers still land where you can see them. The spin button is smaller than it should be and the ante bet sits right beside it, which is a bad neighbour for a control that raises your stake by a quarter.
Check the info panel on this one
96.48% is the top build. 93.45% is the other one. Over a thousand dollars of turnover that gap is about thirty dollars of expected cost, and the two versions look identical on screen. The game's own rules footer prints the figure it loaded with, and it takes three taps to get there.
The sequel, Sweet Bonanza 1000, only ships one build at 96.53%, so there is nothing to check there.
Which Sweet Bonanza is which
The candy art is on several separate builds and they do not play the same. This page is the 2019 original. Sweet Bonanza 1000 raises the multiplier ceiling and ships a single return configuration, so there is nothing to check on it.
CandyLand is not a slot at all. It is a streamed game show with a wheel and a presenter, wearing the same sweets, and it belongs on the live shelf rather than here.
Seasonal releases like Sweet Bonanza Xmas are their own builds again. Read each one's own info panel; a figure from this page does not carry across.
The rest of it
| Studio | Pragmatic Play |
|---|---|
| Released | 2019 |
| Board | 6x5 |
| Mechanic | tumble / scatter pays |
| Volatility | High |
| Top licensed return | 96.48% |
| House edge on that build | 3.52% |
| Max win | 21,100x |
| Minimum stake | C$0.20 |
| Spins on twenty dollars | about 100 |
| Free demo | yes, no account needed |
| Tags | tumble, bonus-buy, popular |
Sweet Bonanza: what people ask
Which Sweet Bonanza am I looking at?
There are several and they are separate builds, not skins. The original 6x5 tumble game is this page. Sweet Bonanza 1000 raises the multiplier ceiling, CandyLand is a streamed game show wearing the same art, and the seasonal ones are their own releases again.
They share the candy and not much else that matters. Each has its own load time, its own portrait behaviour and its own return configuration on its own page here.
What does Super Scatter mean on a Pragmatic slot?
It is a bonus entry mechanic the studio has been putting on rebuilds of its bigger titles. A single high value scatter symbol takes you into the feature instead of the usual count of ordinary ones, which changes how often the round arrives and what it is worth when it does.
We do not have a Super Scatter build of this title on the board. The one we have loaded and timed is Gates of Olympus Super Scatter, and the mechanic behaves the same way there.
Does Sweet Bonanza ship in more than one RTP?
It does. Pragmatic licenses this one at 96.48% and at 93.45%, and the reels look identical in both. Three points of return is about C$30 per C$1,000 staked.
The only way to tell which one loaded is the rules footer inside the game's own info panel. That is worth checking once per lobby, not once ever.
Can I play Sweet Bonanza free?
Yes, and no account is needed. The demo runs the top configuration, which is one reason a demo can feel better than the signed-in version of the same tile.
Twenty cents a spin means twenty dollars is about a hundred spins. On a game this volatile that is a look at the rhythm and nothing more.
What is the bonus buy worth?
It skips the wait and charges you roughly a hundred times the spin stake for the privilege. The return figure on a bought bonus is set to land near the base game's, so you are not buying value, you are buying time.
What you are definitely buying is variance. A hundred spins of base game and one bought feature cost about the same and feel nothing alike.
How does it behave on a handset?
Holds portrait, 1.9 seconds to playable over cellular, which is quick for a six reel tumble game with this much going on.
The stepper and the spin button sit close together upright, so it is one of the titles where the autoplay menu is safer than repeated taps.
Done with the demo?
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