Pragmatic Play · 2022 · tested 2026-10-06
Sugar Rush
Fifteen jelly beans landing on three 2x cells turned round 5142 of the first Sugar Rush demo run into a 371.1x base-game win without free spins, the top base result of that run.
- RTP measured / declared 101.6% 96.5%
- Hit frequency 34%
- Max win · no bonus 650x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.88x
- Free spins, natural 129 / 40,000
- Bonus frequency 3.2 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 101.6% against 96.5% declared over 40,000 logged rounds in 4 runs; 34.1% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 310 rounds (129 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 37.3x the stake, mean 101.6x, trigger spin included; 200 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.88x of their price on average, 69% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,075.5x; the longest dry run was 19 spins.
Test card
40,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 40,000 · 4 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 101.62% (approximate 95% CI 89.8–113.5) |
| Hit frequency | 34% · every 2.93 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 19 / 2.91 |
| Median hit | 0.75x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 650.0x · run 3, round 803 |
| Free spins, natural | 129 · 3.2 bHz · every 310.1 spins · mean bonus round payout 101.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 101,299 |
- 012026-09-0410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓90.80%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓93.15%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓107.01%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 042026-10-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓115.53%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
200 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.88x · median 0.288× price (USD 57.50) · 137 of 200 below price · best 10.55x · worst 0.01x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.7 / 10–30 |
| Retriggered | 12% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Inside free spins, three to seven Scatters add 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 spins to the remaining count. Only such additions count as extensions: 24 of the 200 purchases received one, while a 12- or 15-spin start does not count.
- Spent
- USD 40,000200 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 35,137.8087.84% · approximate 95% CI 68–108%
- Net
- −USD 4,862.20−24.3 buys
- Break-even or better
- 63 / 20032%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 18 / 2009%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~310 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 310 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll the 4 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 411 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 480 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 656 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
7 rules screens from the game
Sugar Rush has no paylines: seven candy symbol types populate a 7×7 grid and a win is any block of five or more identical symbols touching horizontally or vertically. The lollipop is the top symbol: five of them pay 1x the bet, fifteen or more pay 150x. The orange gummy bear pays 0.2x for five connected symbols and 20x for fifteen or more. Winning symbols explode and the rest of the column drops down, so one spin keeps tumbling until nothing new connects.
Every explosion marks its cell; the second explosion on the same cell puts a x2 multiplier there, and each further hit doubles it up to x128. A cluster that covers several marked cells adds those multipliers together. In the base game the marks are wiped once the tumbling stops. The two largest base-game rounds of the first test paid 371.1x on round 5142 and 333.8x on round 1382; in each, one block of fifteen symbols on 2x cells paid most of the money, USD 720 on three cells and USD 640 on four, before a fifth screen paid nothing.
Three or more candy-jar scatters start the free spins: 10 spins for three, 12 for four, 15, 20 and 30 for five, six and seven. Inside the bonus the marked cells and their multipliers stay on the grid for the whole round and keep growing, and a fresh set of scatters adds the same number of spins again. Of the 28 natural triggers in the first run, 24 ran exactly ten spins, two ran twelve (rounds 989 and 8652) and two reached twenty (rounds 993 and 3891).
The buy button costs 100x the bet and can land anywhere from three to seven scatters. The win cap is 5,000x in both modes, and the server reports the same 96.5% RTP for regular play and for purchases. No ante option exists in this build.
Cluster pays
Cascading reels
Multiplier
Free spins
Retrigger
Scatter symbol
Bonus buy
On narrow screens, swipe or use arrow keys to view all payouts.
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
8 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Hit rate held near 34%Every multiplied cluster in the four logs was paid at the sum of the cell values beneath it, and six of the 129 natural features pushed that sum past 128x on a single cluster. All six finished at 282x or more and together paid 26.2% of the free-spins money, including the 1,075.5x record of round 4339 in the fourth run.
Measured run by run, ordinary-play RTP rose from 90.80% and 93.15% to 107.01% and 115.53%, 101.62% over 40,000 rounds; without round 4339 the other 39,999 returned 98.94%. The base rhythm barely moved: 33.74% to 34.38% of rounds paid in each run, the median hit was 0.75x in all four and no dry stretch passed 19 rounds. Natural features arrived 28, 34, 41 and 26 times, one per 310 rounds overall, and their rounds supplied 32.2% of ordinary-play payouts.
The 200 purchases at USD 200 returned 87.84%, with run samples from 71.62% to 105.76%. Seven tickets passed 5x, three each in the first and third runs and one in the fourth, and 18 reached 2x.
- Base-game play alone reached 650x, on round 803 of the third run
- 47 of the 129 natural features paid at least 100x
- Retriggers took three features to 30 spins: round 7831 of the third run, rounds 4339 and 7506 of the fourth
- 61 of 40,000 ordinary rounds paid 100x or more, free-spins rounds included
- Natural features stopped for 1,788 spins in the third run, from round 1662 to round 3451
- Half of the 129 natural features paid 37.25x or less, against a 101.6x mean
- Two of the four purchase samples returned under 75%, 71.62% and 73.28%
Run 01·2026-09-04·90.80%
The base game carries more of the load here than in most Pragmatic tumblers. Four rounds above 100x arrived without a single scatter, spins paid something 34% of the time, and the longest run of empty screens was 16 spins (rounds 5689 to 5704). The balance peaked at 101,835 on round 2177, was still above 100,200 near spin 5,700 and only then slid, finishing at 98,161, 920 bets down, with its lowest point at spin 9886. Fixed bankrolls did not enjoy the early strength: 50 bets were gone by spin 411, 100 by spin 480, 200 by spin 656.
Steadier money came from the free spins. Twenty-eight triggers, one per 357 spins, averaged 80x; eleven of them passed 100x, eight stayed under 20x, and the extremes were 3x on round 2951 and 235x on round 3891, a twenty-spin round. Rounds 980, 989 and 993 triggered within fourteen spins of each other and paid 172x, 155x and 131x. Bonus wins made up about a quarter of everything the game returned.
Buying is a coin flip with a long tail. Fifty purchases at 200 each came back with 10,576, or 1.06x of their price, but 31 of them lost money and the median return was 0.3505x. The profit sat in three rounds: 10.55x on buy 6, 7.44x on buy 13 and 5.04x on buy 49. Buy 28 paid 0.021x. Seven purchases (14%) received extra spins after entry; four other purchases began with more than ten spins. Across all fifty, the average length was 11.9 spins and the longest was 30.
Run 02·2026-09-21·93.15%
The second series returned 93.15% of stake against the printed 96.5%, with an approximate 95% band of 74.0 to 112.3%, and closed 685 stakes down; the balance held above its start for the first two thousand spins, so fifty stakes lasted 2,004 spins, a hundred 2,084 and two hundred 5,958, before a 1,562-stake slide that bottomed at spin 9124. Hits came on 34.27% of spins at a 0.75x median, no empty run passed 19, and the ordinary reels peaked at 121.75x on round 1538, a five-tumble chain that finished with USD 240.
The free spins carried the run. Thirty-four triggers, one per 294 spins, paid 81.76x the stake on average and 25.27x in the middle; seven cleared 100x, sixteen stayed under 20x, and round 3463 stacked its multiplier spots until the ninth of its ten spins paid USD 1,120 on its own, USD 1,325.60 for the feature, 662.8x. Fifty purchases at USD 200 went badly: 0.7162x of price on average, a 0.28x median, USD 56, 35 tickets below price and none above 3.45x.
Run 03·2026-09-26·107.01%
Third series, 10,000 spins at USD 2: 107.01% of stake returned, approximate 95% CI 80.91 to 133.11%, the first run on this page to finish above the printed 96.5%, and the balance closed 701 stakes up after peaking 806 up at spin 8111. The road was not smooth: fifty and a hundred stakes were gone by spins 73 and 224 and two hundred lasted until 2356, the 2,000-spin blocks returned 98.0%, 70.2%, 100.2%, 154.6% and 112.1%, and a 1,611-stake slide from the high after round 803 bottomed 1,048 down at spin 7030 before the late features turned it. A hit landed on 34.38% of spins at a 0.75x median, 6,562 rounds paid nothing, and no dry stretch passed 17 spins, the longest from round 5699.
The base game set the series record on round 803: a five-step chain whose first drops paid USD 15.20 and whose last one cleared USD 1,284.80 through stacked multiplier spots, USD 1,300 in all, 650x, taking the balance from 85 stakes down to 564 up in one round. Round 5149 added 280.8x from four tumbles, so two ordinary rounds cleared 100x against four in the first run and one in the second.
Forty-one natural features, one per 244 spins, 4.1 bHz (natural features per 1,000 rounds), the most of any run here, with the first on round 468 and a 1,788-spin wait between rounds 1662 and 3451; 34 ran ten spins, two twelve, four twenty and one thirty. They averaged 98.57x, median 29.9x, USD 59.80, and made 37.8% of everything paid, 16 clearing 100x and 14 staying under 20x. Round 7831 became the biggest round on this page: retriggers stretched it to 30 spins and 53 tumbles, and it closed at USD 1,453.50, 726.75x with the trigger, and 683.55x from free spins alone; round 7724 followed with 559.7x over 20 spins. Fifty tickets at USD 200 returned 1.0072x of price, 100.72%, on a 0.2975x median, USD 59.50: 33 lost money, 32 returned under half, and three passed 5x, led by buy 34 at 10.2895x, USD 2,057.90, a 30-spin round; without it the other 49 averaged 0.8178x.
Run 04·2026-10-06·115.53%
A cluster of 11 pink jellybeans on free spin 10 paid USD 306.00 in round 4339. Its USD 9.00 paytable amount was multiplied by the combined 34x already on its cells. The complete round returned USD 2,151.00: USD 1.50 on entry and USD 2,149.50 across 30 free spins.
The 10,000 USD 2 rounds returned USD 23,105.50, with 26 natural features. The fifty USD 200 purchases paid a separate USD 7,328.10. 38 fell below their price, and the median ticket paid USD 48.30.
Test record
4 runs · 40,000 rounds · 200 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 4 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 40,000rounds, all runs
- 34%rounds that paid
- 1,076xbiggest round
- 1 / 310natural bonus rate
- 0.88xmean of 200 buys
- 19longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-04 measured return90.80%-5.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 74.7–106.9%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 371x · round 5,142
- longest dry streak
- 16
- natural bonuses
- 28 · one per 357 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.06x · median 0.351x · 62% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,161
- deepest drawdown
- 1,866x
02run Run 022026-09-21 lab note measured return93.15%-3.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 74.0–112.3%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 663x · round 3,463
- longest dry streak
- 19
- natural bonuses
- 34 · one per 294 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.72x · median 0.28x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,631
- deepest drawdown
- 1,562x
Second run, seventeen days after the first: the return moved from 90.80% to 93.15%, and the 74.0–112.3% band keeps the printed 96.5% inside. Free spins came more often, 34 against 28, and produced the series record, 662.8x on round 3463, while the base game never repeated the first run's 371x and 334x tumbles; the 50 buys fell to 0.72x of price after 1.06x, with the best ticket at 3.44x against 10.55x.
03run Run 032026-09-26 lab note measured return107.01%+10.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 80.9–133.1%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 727x · round 7,831
- longest dry streak
- 17
- natural bonuses
- 41 · one per 244 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.01x · median 0.298x · 66% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 101,402
- deepest drawdown
- 1,611x
Five days after the second series, the third came in at 107.01%, the first of the three above the printed 96.5%, and it pulls the pooled figure to 96.99% over 30,000 spins, right at the label. Forty-one features against 34 paid 98.57x on average against 81.76x, the base game found 650x on round 803 after nothing above 121.75x last time, and the tickets recovered from 0.7162x to 1.0072x of price on three rounds above 5x.
04run Run 042026-10-06 lab note measured return115.53%+19.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 85.1–146.0%
- rounds that paid
- 34%
- biggest round
- 1,076x · round 4,339
- longest dry streak
- 16
- natural bonuses
- 26 · one per 385 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.73x · median 0.242x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 103,106
- deepest drawdown
- 664x
Ten days after the third run, the fourth returned 115.53%, the highest of the four, from the fewest natural features: 26 against 41, averaging 155.77x against 98.57x. Purchases fell back to 0.7328x of price from 1.0072x.
4 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-04, 2026-09-21, 2026-09-26, 2026-10-06): 40,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 200 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.5%); every request and response logged.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
6 questions · answered from the logDid Sugar Rush pay back more than its 96.50% RTP over 40,000 rounds?
Yes. Sugar Rush returned 101.62% of the USD 80,000 staked across 40,000 USD 2 demo rounds, natural free spins included, while the game declares 96.50% for regular play and for purchases. Its approximate 95% CI over the 40,000 rounds runs from 89.80% to 113.45%.
Why can identical Sugar Rush clusters pay different amounts?
A cluster needs at least 5 matching symbols, with its paytable amount set by the symbol and cluster size. Any multipliers already active beneath that cluster then multiply it; several active cell values add together. A cell created or doubled by the current explosion affects a later cluster.
When does Sugar Rush clear its gold multiplier cells?
At the end of every ordinary tumbling sequence. Free spins also open on a clean grid: 17 natural triggers in these logs ended with multiplier cells on the board, and none carried a cell into the first free spin. Inside the feature each cell stays, up to 128x, through every spin and retrigger.
Is a twelve-spin Sugar Rush start always a retrigger?
No. Twelve spins are the initial award for four Scatters; three, five, six and seven award ten, fifteen, twenty and thirty. The natural features in these four tests started as follows: 123 with 10 spins, 5 with 12 spins, 1 with 15 spins. A retrigger requires a further Scatter award during free spins.
How many Sugar Rush purchases recovered their cost?
Sixty-three of the 200 USD 200 tickets, 31.5%, paid the price or more. The median ticket paid USD 57.50, 0.288x of the price, and the best, buy 6 of the first run, returned USD 2,110.60, 10.553x.
Can a Sugar Rush cluster use more than a 128x multiplier?
Yes. The 128x cap applies to each cell, and a winning cluster is multiplied by the sum of all multiplier cells beneath it. Six of the 129 natural features applied more than 128x to one cluster, up to 400x in round 7724 of the third run; the round itself stays under the 5,000x win cap.
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