Pragmatic Play · 2019
Sweet Bonanza is a 6x5 Pragmatic Play slot that pays for symbols counted anywhere on the grid, then tumbles them away. This page covers what a spin pays, how free spins start and what the figures mean.
Sweet Bonanza at a glance
Settles what each headline figure means before you set a bet.
| What it is | Stated as |
|---|---|
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
| Return to player | 96.49% / 96.60% |
| Volatility | Medium |
| Grid | 6x5 |
| Top win multiple | x21,100 |
| Top win at highest bet | A$5,064,000 |
| Release | 27/06/2019 |
Sweet Bonanza is a fruit-and-sweets video slot on a 6x5 grid where paylines do not exist. Wins come from the number of matching symbols anywhere on the grid, and eight of a kind is the smallest group that pays. Winning symbols drop away, the rest fall, and new symbols refill the gaps, so one spin can keep paying.
What separates it from other Pragmatic Play releases is the mix of paid options and modes: an Ante Bet toggle, a Free Spins round that brings in multipliers from 2x to 100x, retriggers along the way, and a paid route into that round.
Sweet Bonanza in Five Decisive Steps
You will know what you set, what you watch and what ends a spin.
Pick your stake first: anything from A$0.20 to A$240 spins the reels. The game pays only from a count of symbols, so the stake sets the size of every win you collect.
A win lands when eight or more of the same symbol sit anywhere across the 6x5 grid, at any moment after a spin or a tumble. There are no paylines to line up and no ways to track.
Winning symbols are paid, then cleared away. The rest drop down, fresh symbols fill the gaps, and the sequence keeps going until nothing more matches; the whole lot reaches your balance together.
Four or more SCATTER symbols anywhere on the grid open the free spins with ten rounds, and a separate set of reel strips is used for them. Three scatters inside the round add five more.
Before the reels move at all, set the amount or the time you are willing to spend, and step away when it runs out. Stakes are read in Australian dollars, and help is on 1800 858 858.
Both paid extras are priced as a multiple of the stake, so the cash amount rises and falls with the bet you pick on each spin.
| Feature | Stake Multiple | RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Free Spins Buy Feature | x100 · A$1,000 | – |
Take A$100 staked on this slot and the return setting tells you the long-run average paid back, counted across millions of spins. Which version runs here is listed in the game rules panel.
| Return Figure | RTP | Default at Winshark |
|---|---|---|
| version 1 | 96.60% | Yes |
| version 2 | 96.49% | No |
Four Screens From the Reels
Useful when a spin is running and you want to know what each screen is telling you.
Four Ways a Round Runs
This section settles how each round starts, what it pays and where the multiplier symbols turn up.
Four or more SCATTER symbols anywhere on the 6x5 grid open the round with 10 free spins. Inside it, special reel strips are used and the MULTIPLIER symbol appears only here, worth a random 2x-100x.
Paying base spinTen free spins
A fixed purchase from the left-hand panel starts the round directly and always awards 10 free spins, whatever bet level you buy at. The purchase costs 100 times your bet, so A$1,000 at the A$10 example bet.
Outside the roundTen free spins
Each paid spin lands tiles on a 6x5 grid with no paylines. Winning symbols are paid by how many appear anywhere, then removed and replaced from above in a tumble that repeats until no win is left.
Choosing a betTumbling wins
A toggle in the left-hand panel raises the cost of each spin by a quarter and is switched off or on before you spin. While it is on, the Buy Feature button stays disabled, so pick one route or the other.
Standard spin costHigher cost per spin
Sweet Bonanza Demo
You will know what the demo lets you test and what the real game requires.
The Sweet Bonanza demo needs no money and pays nothing. The real game needs a Winshark Casino account, and you must be 18 or older.
Play for realBefore you set a stake, accept that how often the bonus round comes is not known in advance. The result of one session is random, and the RTP does not change that for any single visit. Two players on the same version can finish far apart after the same number of spins, so treat each session as its own event and set a limit before you start.
Open the game rules before you commit a stake, because which RTP version this lobby runs is shown only there. Once you know the version, you can read its return next to the other version and see the gap in money. Do not rely on memory of an older title, since versions of the same game can differ.
Read the top prize as a ceiling, not a target. Sweet Bonanza's maximum win is reached very rarely, so the bet you place does not make it likely. Plan each session around the stake and the time you want to spend, not around one big hit.
Gambling here is for adults of 18 and over. If play stops being fun, call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 or join BetStop, the national self-exclusion register.
Decide what this session may cost before the first spin, and treat it as money already spent rather than winnings on loan.
Sweet Bonanza can hand back a multiplier round and tempt you straight back in. Pick a win figure and a loss figure beforehand, then walk at either one.
Deposit and loss limits inside your account cap the damage without relying on willpower mid-session, and they hold across every game, not just this one.
A short pause or a full self-exclusion is there for the moment the spins feel like a chore. Cool-off tools sit in your account settings whenever you need them.
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Five Straight Answers
Short answers on the points players ask most, in the plain style Winshark runs on.
Bets run from A$0.20 to A$240 a spin, so the range suits small sessions and larger ones. The tables here use A$1 and A$10 as examples, not as the game's limits. Switching the Ante Bet on raises whatever you stake by a quarter.
Pragmatic Play rates Sweet Bonanza as medium volatility, so expect a fairly even flow of smaller wins with the big rounds spaced out. Payouts are frequent enough to keep a session moving, but the top prizes stay rare. Set your budget with that rhythm in mind.
A play-only version of Sweet Bonanza is available inside Winshark Casino, using credits rather than your balance, so you can learn the tumbles and scatters at no cost. It follows the same rules as the paid game. Check the lobby for the trial entry.
Sweet Bonanza can be bought into directly: the Buy Feature costs 100 times your bet and always delivers 10 free spins. At a A$10 stake that is A$1,000, and it stays locked while the Ante Bet is switched on.
Sweet Bonanza sits lowest on the win ceiling of its family at x21,100, where later versions push past it. Its RTP is at the top end of the series, though, and the tumble, scatter and multiplier rules are shared across all of them. Pick by the balance you prefer.
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