Sweet Bonanza rules

The grid

Six reels, five rows, thirty positions. There are no paylines and no left-to-right rule. A win is formed when eight or more identical symbols appear anywhere on the grid simultaneously. Position is irrelevant — they can be scattered across all six reels or clustered in a corner.

This is why the game is described as scatter pays. It also explains why the minimum win threshold is so high: with thirty positions and nine paying symbols, eight-of-a-kind is far more achievable than it sounds.

Tumble

When a win lands, those symbols are removed. The symbols above drop down and new ones fill the gaps from the top. The grid is then evaluated again. If the new arrangement contains another win, it pays and the process repeats. The chain ends when a drop produces no winning combination.

Everything in a tumble chain belongs to the same spin. The total is settled once, at the end. This matters enormously during free spins, because multipliers are applied to that final total rather than to each individual tumble.

Betting

The standard stake range is $0.20 to $125 per spin, though operators may narrow it. There is no bet-per-line concept: the figure you set is the total stake, and every payout multiplier in the paytable applies to it directly.

Ante bet

Switching ante on increases the cost of every spin by 25%. In exchange, the scatter symbol appears roughly twice as often, so the bonus triggers about twice as frequently. Published RTP is broadly comparable in both modes — you are buying bonus frequency with bankroll length, not buying an advantage.

Buy free spins

Where the operator and jurisdiction permit it, you can purchase the free spins round for 100x your base stake. It has its own RTP figure, listed separately in the game information. Several regulated markets — the UK among them — prohibit feature buys entirely, so the button may simply be absent.

Free spins

Four or more lollipop scatters anywhere on the grid award 10 free spins. During the round, landing three or more scatters awards five additional spins, and this can happen repeatedly.

Multiplier bombs appear only inside this round, carrying values from 2x to 100x. A bomb stays on the grid for the duration of the tumble sequence. When the sequence finishes, every bomb value visible is added together and the sum is applied once to the total win of that sequence. Two bombs of 20x and 50x produce a 70x multiplier, not 1,000x — they add, they do not multiply each other.

Autoplay and limits

Autoplay runs a preset number of spins and can be configured to stop at a loss limit or on any single win above a threshold. Setting a loss limit here is the one genuinely useful in-game control, because it enforces a decision you made while calm.

Malfunctions

Pragmatic Play's standard rule applies: a malfunction voids all pays and plays. If a round is interrupted, the game state is stored and resumes when you reopen it. An unresolved round left open beyond the operator's retention window is typically settled automatically.