Sweet Bonanza 1000 Review with Bombs up to 1000x

What Sweet Bonanza 1000 is

Sweet Bonanza 1000 is Pragmatic Play's high-multiplier remake of Sweet Bonanza. The grid is the same 6x5, wins still come from 8 or more matching symbols anywhere on the screen, and the fruit and candy paytable has not moved. What changes is the multiplier range in the bonus, the maximum win, the bet range and the buy menu.

The published RTP is 96.53%, or 96.5% with Ante Bet switched on. The game rules on your platform list the build that is actually running, so confirm the figure before you play.

How a spin works

1. Choose a stake between 0.20 and 240.
2. The 30 positions fill, and every symbol type with 8+ copies pays, no matter where the copies sit. This is a scatter-pay grid.
3. Winning symbols are removed, the rest drop, new ones fall in from above.
4. The tumble repeats while new wins form. When none do, the sequence closes and pays.

There is still no wild symbol. The heart remains the top regular symbol at 10x, 25x and 50x for 8 to 9, 10 to 11 and 12+ copies, and the banana stays at the bottom at 0.25x, 0.75x and 2x. Because the paytable is identical to the original, a base-game session plays and pays exactly as you remember.

Scatters and free spins

The lollipop scatter works as before. Four, five or six of them pay 3x, 5x or 100x the stake and award 10 free spins. During the round, 3 scatters add 5 more spins.

Inside free spins, multiplier bombs land with values from x2 to x1000. They stay on the grid through the tumble sequence. When the sequence ends, the game adds all bomb values together and multiplies the sequence win by that total. A sequence without a win leaves the bombs with nothing to multiply.

Worked example

At a 1.00 stake, a free spin produces 10 apples for 1.50, then a tumble adds 8 purple candies for 2.50. Sequence win: 4.00. Three bombs landed along the way: x10, x25 and x2, a total of x37. The sequence pays 4.00 × 37 = 148.00.

Replace the x25 with a x1000 and the total becomes x1012, so the same 4.00 turns into 4,048.00. That single swap is the whole appeal of this edition: in the original, the highest bomb is x100, so the same win with x10, x100 and x2 would stop at 448.00.

Ante Bet and the two buys

Ante Bet raises the cost of each spin by 25% and doubles the chance of triggering free spins. At 1.00 you pay 1.25 per spin. With it on, the published RTP moves from 96.53% to 96.5%. See our ante bet guide for how to compare the surcharge against the higher trigger rate.

Buy free spins costs 100x the stake. Buy Super Free Spins costs 500x and guarantees that every bomb in the round is at least x20.

The x20 floor matters because low bombs are common in a normal bonus. With the floor, even a single bomb on a winning sequence multiplies it at least twentyfold, and two bombs mean at least x40. The price is five standard buys, so compare what you would get from five regular bonuses with what you get from one enhanced one. Our bonus buy guide walks through that maths.

What changed versus Sweet Bonanza

If you liked the original but felt the x100 cap limited the bonus, this edition fixes exactly that and nothing else. If you prefer a feature with instant prizes, look at Sweet Bonanza Super Scatter instead.

Choosing between spins, Ante Bet and buys

All four modes run on the same paytable, so the choice is really about how you want to spend a fixed budget. Take 250.00 as an example session. At a 1.00 stake that buys 250 standard spins, or 200 spins with Ante Bet, or two and a half regular bonus buys, or half of one Super Free Spins purchase.

Standard spins give you the most base-game action and several chances at a natural trigger. Ante Bet trades 50 of those spins for twice the trigger rate on the remaining 200. A regular buy skips the wait but concentrates the whole budget on two rounds. A Super Free Spins buy at that budget simply means lowering the stake to 0.50 for a single 250.00 attempt.

The published figures are 96.53% for standard play and 96.5% with Ante Bet; if a buy runs at a different return, the rules screen lists it. What the modes really change is how results are spread, and that is what should drive your choice.

Testing it in the demo

1. Play 100 base spins to confirm the base game feels the same as the original. It should, since the paytable is unchanged.
2. Trigger or buy several regular bonuses and write down each bomb total. Most will be modest; the x1000 is rare.
3. Try a few Super Free Spins buys and compare their average against five times a regular buy.
4. Open the rules screen and check the RTP build, the 0.20 to 240 bet range and whether both buys are offered in your region.

Keep stake size in proportion: if one Super Free Spins buy is more than a small slice of your session budget, stick to spins or the 100x buy.

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