Pragmatic Play · 2019
Sweet Bonanza Xmas is a high volatility video slot by Pragmatic Play, with a 6x5 grid, tumbles and free spins. Read the figures before your first spin.
The demo is free. The real game needs an account and the legal age of 18+.
Sweet Bonanza Xmas is a six-reel, five-row video slot from Pragmatic Play built on a Christmas, food and winter theme, where fruit and candy tumble across an ice-flecked grid. Wins do not follow paylines: eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the reels pay, and the Scatter Lollipop triggers the bonus round.
Tumble play, multiplier bombs, unlimited cascades and a Christmas reel strip set this game apart from the provider's plain fruit slots. A Double Chance ante bet and a paid 10-spin feature round out the options, so the game runs differently depending on how you set it up.
What the figures mean for you
Winshark Casino lists every parameter up front so you spin with the facts in hand.
| What it covers | What it is |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| RTP | 96.49% / 96.60% |
| Volatility | High |
| Grid | 6x5 |
| Max win (x bet) | x21,100 |
| Max win at A$125 | A$2,637,500 |
| Release date | 01/11/2019 |
Know each step
One spin, start to finish, laid out the way Winshark Casino lists every figure on this page.
Step one: open the bet panel and pick anything from A$0.20 to A$125. The stake sets every payout on this page, so a A$0.40 spin and a A$5 spin return the same multipliers scaled to different money.
Land eight or more matching symbols anywhere on the 6x5 grid and the group pays, wherever it sits. Clear the 10-symbol threshold and the Scatter Lollipop stops paying and starts triggering.
Winning symbols vanish and the rest drop, with fresh ones filling from the top. The chain keeps going until no new group forms, then the whole tumble sequence pays as one total.
Four or more Scatter Lollipops anywhere launch 10 free spins; landing three more during the round adds five. Candy bombs carry multipliers that sum at the end of each tumble sequence.
Pick a figure before the grid loads and stop when it is gone or when the clock says so. Volatility stays high, so a session can run cold for stretches longer than any estimate suggests.
Four screens, one grid
Useful while you decide, before putting the A$0.20 minimum on the table.
The Buy Feature costs 100 times the bet, so A$500 at A$5 a spin, while the ante option adds a quarter of the stake to each round.
| Option | Charge | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Buy Feature: Ten Spins Bought | x100 · A$500 | – |
Each A$100 staked returns A$96.49 on the listed version and A$96.60 on the other across a long run of spins. The version running here is named in the game rules.
| Rate Program | RTP | Live Version |
|---|---|---|
| version 1 | 96.60% | No |
| version 2 | 96.49% | Yes |
Win Bigger With Multipliers
Where free spins come from, how payout multipliers build and what the 25x ante bet does.
Four scatters anywhere award 10 spins, and 3+ scatters landing while the bonus runs adds 5 more. Special reel strips are in play, Multiplier Bombs stick until the tumble ends, all their values are summed and multiply the whole sequence win.
Plain TumblesBomb Multipliers
The 6x5 grid pays anywhere: 8-9 matching symbols, 10-11 or 12+ all count. Tumbles run limitlessly inside one spin, winning symbols vanish, the rest fall down and new symbols drop in from the top, with every tumble win banked before the payout.
Your BalanceStacked Wins
The ANTE BET panel switches the bet multiplier from 20x to 25x, a 1.25x stake for the same spin, and doubles natural scatter frequency on the reels. Bonus Buy stays closed while the ante is running, so the choice is one or the other.
20x StakesRicher Reel Set
Sweet Bonanza Xmas
Most players ask whether a trial can cost them money before the first spin.
A$0.20 is the lowest real stake, but the demo needs no money and pays nothing. The real game needs a Winshark Casino account and the legal age of 18+.
Start playing4+ Scatter Lollipop symbols anywhere on the grid start the Free Spins, and how often that happens is not known in advance. Each spin is random, so one session can bring many bonus rounds or none. The result of one session is random whatever the RTP, because the RTP describes the return over a very large number of spins.
96.49% and 96.60% are the two RTP versions of Sweet Bonanza Xmas, and only the game rules show which one is active. The RTP version sets the long-run return of each bet, so check the rules before the first spin.
x21,100 the bet is the ceiling of Sweet Bonanza Xmas, and it is reached very rarely. Because the ceiling is a multiple of the stake, the money amount grows with the bet you place. Treat the maximum win as a limit on the payout, not as an expected result.
This slot is for adults of 18 and over. For help in Australia, call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 or put yourself on BetStop, the national self-exclusion register.
Work out what this session can cost before the first spin, and hold that figure in your own head rather than in the reels. Sweet Bonanza Xmas has no budget built in, so you supply it.
Pick your exit point while the balance is still calm, and include a win in it: a big hit is a good place to finish, not a reason to push further on the same machine.
Deposit and loss limits on your account act as a backstop that bypasses your mood, and they work the same whatever the grid shows. Set them before Sweet Bonanza Xmas has a chance to argue.
A break works best when you take it while the fun lasts, not after it has gone; the spins keep running whether you watch them or not. If the habit has taken over, self-exclusion draws a hard line.
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Four answers
Skim these four answers before you set a bet on Sweet Bonanza Xmas.
High volatility means long cold stretches broken by rarer, bigger pays, so Sweet Bonanza Xmas swings hard on the base game. The tumbles can chain without a cap within one spin, which sharpens that swing. Treat the balance as built for the gap, not the hit.
The ceiling is 21,100 times the stake, so a A$5 bet tops out at A$105,500. Nothing is owed to you at that figure: it is a cap the game applies, not a target. Most sessions finish well under it.
Stakes run from A$0.20 to A$125, and the paytable on this page is priced at A$0.40 for comparison. The top end is the game limit here. Choose a figure you can lose in full without it changing anything else.
Each edition shares the six-by-five grid and the tumbling mechanic but carries its own top win. Sweet Bonanza Xmas caps at 21,100x under a Christmas theme. The other versions reach 25,000x, 25,000x, 50,000x and 2,500x respectively.
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