Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-09-29
Sweet Bonanza 1000
A single 22.56x purchase outweighed forty-nine weaker buys in the first Sweet Bonanza 1000 demo run, which also logged 22 natural free spins features over 10,000 spins.
- RTP measured / declared 92.3% 96.53%
- Hit frequency 43%
- Max win · no bonus 29x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 1.04x
- Free spins, natural 69 / 30,000
- Bonus frequency 2.3 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 92.3% against 96.53% declared over 30,000 logged rounds in 3 runs; 42.8% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 435 rounds (69 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 43.7x the stake, mean 79.7x, trigger spin included; 150 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.04x of their price on average, 71% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 652.7x; the longest dry run was 20 spins.
Test card
30,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 30,000 · 3 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.53% |
| RTP measured | 92.33% (approximate 95% CI 85.0–99.7) |
| Hit frequency | 43% · every 2.34 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 20 / 2.35 |
| Median hit | 0.90x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 28.9x · run 1, round 5076 |
| Free spins, natural | 69 · 2.3 bHz · every 434.8 spins · mean bonus round payout 79.7x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 96,651 |
- 012026-09-0410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓92.51%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓87.10%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓97.37%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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Sweet Bonanza 1000 available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Sweet Bonanza 1000 with the same math and adds a welcome bonus for players from the United States:
300% up to $2,000 + 150 FS 18+ · T&Cs apply · the demo stays free
Bonus buy lab
150 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.04x · median 0.512× price (USD 102.35) · 107 of 150 below price · best 22.56x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.3 / 10–30 |
| Retriggered | 19% |
| Multiplier total (avg / max) | 112 / 1,299 |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 1% |
Purchased rounds opened on ten spins; three scatters inside the feature add five more, and only those later additions count as extensions.
- Spent
- USD 30,000150 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 31,332104.44% · approximate 95% CI 70–139%
- Net
- +USD 1,332+6.7 buys
- Break-even or better
- 43 / 15029%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 17 / 15011%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~435 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 435 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 3 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 231 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 425 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 990 |
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
The screen is 6×5 and there are no lines: any eight or more identical candies or fruits, wherever they sit, pay, vanish and are replaced from above until no new group forms. The red heart is the top symbol at 50x for a dozen or more, followed by the purple square, green pentagon and blue oval; the fruits run from the apple at 10x down to the banana at 2x. The lollipop is the scatter and pays on its own: 3x for four, 5x for five, 100x for six.
Multiplier bombs appear only in the feature. Each carries a value from 2x to 1,000x and stays on screen until the tumbling stops; the values of every bomb on screen are then added together and the sum multiplies everything the sequence paid. Because there are no bombs in the base game, base rounds are capped by the paytable alone: the best logged result of the first run was 29x on round 5076, and only three base rounds of that run reached 25x.
The feature begins with ten spins once four or more lollipops land, and three more inside it add five. Sixteen of the first run's 22 natural rounds ran the basic ten spins, three reached fifteen, two reached twenty and round 8484 reached twenty-five. The largest bomb total in a natural round of that run was 219x on round 6510, worth 94.8x; the 424x feature on round 1585 needed only 96x of bombs.
Three stake options exist: the ante bet costs 25% more and doubles the natural trigger rate while switching the buy off, the standard buy costs 100x and guarantees four scatters, and the super buy costs 500x and makes every bomb worth at least 20x. The win cap is 25,000x, or 20,000x with the ante on, and the server lists 96.53% for regular play, 96.5% for ante and 96.52% for the 100x purchase. All three sets of fifty buys used the 100x option.
Cascading reels
Multiplier
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Extra bet
Bet range USD 0.20 – 300 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
9 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Third run up, series still shortSweet Bonanza 1000 has now gone 92.51%, 87.10% and 97.37% across three 10,000-spin runs, 92.33% pooled over 30,000 rounds, and the approximate 95% CI, 85.0 to 99.66%, still reaches the printed 96.53% only in its upper part; the combined balance closed 1,675 stakes down. What repeats is the base game: a paying spin 42.94%, 43.14% and 42.35% of the time at a 0.9x or 1.0x median, no blank stretch beyond 20 spins in 30,000, and ordinary reels capped by the paytable at 28.85x, 26.65x and 28.6x because bombs never land outside the feature.
Sixty-nine natural features in 30,000 spins, one per 435, 2.3 bHz, that is natural features for each thousand rounds, and paid 79.67x a round on average, trigger spin counted, and 43.7x at the median, 19.8% of everything returned; fourteen cleared 100x, 13 stayed under 20x, the weakest, round 3346 of run one, paid 4.25x, and ten of the 69 retriggered. The record moved to 652.65x on round 8845 of run three, past 424.45x on round 1585 of run one and 323.65x on round 5331 of run two; the longest trigger-free stretches reached 2,512 spins in run one, 1,853 in run two and 946 in run three.
One hundred and fifty tickets at USD 200 brought back 1.044x of price, 104.44%, USD 31,332 for USD 30,000, but 107 tickets lost money and the median ticket paid USD 102.35, 0.512x; 43 covered the price, 17 passed 2x and three passed 5x, purchase 32 of run one at 22.562x, purchase 40 of run three at 10.53x and purchase 26 of the same run at 7.577x. Bomb totals inside bought rounds averaged 112.1x and peaked at 1,299x, 29 of the 150 gained spins after entry, and the batches went 1.1895x, 0.9155x and 1.028x, so the ticket has beaten its price in two runs of three on the strength of one or two rounds each time.
- A paying spin on 42.94%, 43.14% and 42.35% of rounds, with no blank stretch past 20 spins in 30,000
- Fourteen natural features over 100x, led by 652.65x, 424.45x and 337x
- Purchases returned 1.044x of price over 150 tickets, three of them past 5x
- Retriggers extended 10 of 69 natural features and 29 of 150 bought ones
- Bought rounds returned USD 102.35 at the median, about half of the USD 200 price
- No bombs in the base game, so ordinary reels never beat 28.85x in 30,000 spins
- Thirteen of 69 features stayed below 20x, the weakest 4.25x
- Triggers waited 2,512, 1,853 and 946 spins at the longest across the runs
Run 01·2026-09-04·92.51%
Sessions here are long and flat until a bomb lands. Spins paid on 43% of attempts, the longest empty stretch was fifteen spins (rounds 206 to 220 and again 7878 to 7892), and the balance drifted from a peak of 100,256 on round 1720 to a low of 98,502 on the very last spin, 749 bets down. The 2,000-spin blocks returned 104%, 95%, 84%, 86% and 93%; fifty bets lasted 231 spins, one hundred lasted 425 and two hundred lasted 990.
Natural bonus rounds supplied 19.5% of the ordinary series return and all four payouts above 100x. Twenty-two triggers, one per 455 spins, produced four rounds above 100x (424.45x, 217.55x, 175.4x and 125.5x) and four under 20x, with round 3346 at 4.25x and round 7470 at 8x at the bottom. The gap between triggers ran from two spins (rounds 5999 and 6001) to 2,513 spins between rounds 3486 and 5999.
Buying at 100x produced the most lopsided set of results in this lab. Fifty purchases returned 11,895 on 10,000 spent, but 36 of them lost, the median came in at 0.48525x, and buy 32 alone brought back 4,512 from a 25-spin round with a 1,299x bomb total. Without that one round the other 49 averaged 0.75x. Eight buys retriggered; the worst, buy 26, returned 0.03x.
Run 02·2026-09-21·87.10%
At 87.10% of stake the second series landed 9.4 points under the printed 96.53%, and its approximate 95% band, 78.0 to 96.3%, stops a quarter-point short of the declared figure; the balance never rose above its starting point, bottomed 1,379 stakes under it on spin 9275, closed 1,290 down, and busted fifty, a hundred and two hundred stakes by spins 130, 368 and 763. A hit landed on 43.1% of spins at a 0.9x median, the longest empty run was 14 spins, the 2,000-spin blocks returned 83.6%, 80.6%, 92.6%, 91.6% and 87.2%, and the base game, with no bombs to help it, peaked at 26.65x on round 6945.
Twenty-one natural features, one per 476 spins with 1,853 trigger-free spins after round 7378 at the longest, paid 65.61x the stake on average over the whole round and 41.0x in the middle, 15.8% of everything returned; twenty ran the basic ten spins and only round 3834 reached fifteen. Round 5331 made the series: its third spin paid USD 20.50 in candy and bombs of 15x and 12x turned that into USD 553.50, the round closed at USD 647.30, 323.65x, and without it the other 9,999 rounds returned 83.88%. At the other end, round 200 dropped 25x, 50x, 6x, 6x, 5x and 8x bombs on five spins that had nothing to multiply, so its free spins paid 0.65x of a 17.3x round, and round 5029's paid 0.25x of 10.95x. Fifty purchases at USD 200 came back at 0.9155x of price, 91.55%, with a 0.5785x median, USD 115.70, 34 tickets below price, seven retriggers to fifteen spins, and a best of 4.618x on buy 6, USD 923.60, where 10x, 3x and 4x bombs on the fifth spin turned USD 31.30 into USD 532.10.
Run 03·2026-09-29·97.37%
Round 8845 paid USD 1,305.30, 652.65 stakes, the top round of all three runs: a ten-spin feature whose third spin paid 118.8x and whose sixth 462.5x under the accumulated bombs. Round 5851 followed at 337x, with spins of 175.5x and 147x, and round 1599 at 164.35x; seven rounds passed 100x in all, five of them on free-spin winnings alone, while the ordinary reels, with no bombs to help, peaked at 28.6x on round 5236. The run closed at USD 100,727.50, 363.8 stakes ahead, 97.37% of the USD 20,000 staked; it had been 809.5 stakes down on spin 5849 and 604.9 up on spin 9250, and by 2,000-round blocks: 96.8%, 80.8%, 96.7%, 88.0% and 124.6%.
Twenty-six features came one per 385 spins, 2.6 bHz, and paid USD 4,628.30 over their whole rounds, 23.8% of the return, 89.01x on average and 50.25x at the median: five stayed under 20x, the weakest, round 1813, paid 4.9x, and three of the 26 stretched to fifteen spins on a retrigger. Between triggers the waits ran 946 spins from round 4318 to 5265 and 910 from 3407 to 4318, and hits came on 42.35% of spins with 1.0x as the median, 5,765 rounds paying nothing with one blank stretch of 20 spins; the test bankrolls went on spins 130, 253 and 773.
The batch of fifty tickets, bought at USD 200, produced USD 10,282, 1.028x of price, 102.82%, on a median payout of USD 78.30: 37 came back short, 13 above price, six beyond 2x and two beyond 5x: purchase 40 at USD 2,106, 10.53x, over twenty spins with a 933.4x sixth spin under a 212x bomb total, and purchase 26 at USD 1,515.40 with a 750x fifth spin. Fourteen bought rounds extended past ten spins, the longest to thirty, the bomb totals averaged 130.6x and peaked at 1,081x, and the worst ticket, purchase 43, returned USD 7.50.
Test record
3 runs · 30,000 rounds · 150 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 3 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.
- 30,000rounds, all runs
- 43%rounds that paid
- 653xbiggest round
- 1 / 435natural bonus rate
- 1.04xmean of 150 buys
- 20longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-04 measured return92.51%-4.0 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 80.8–104.2%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 424x · round 1,585
- longest dry streak
- 15
- natural bonuses
- 22 · one per 455 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.19x · median 0.485x · 72% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,502
- deepest drawdown
- 877x
02run Run 022026-09-21 lab note measured return87.10%-9.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.0–96.3%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 324x · round 5,331
- longest dry streak
- 14
- natural bonuses
- 21 · one per 476 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.92x · median 0.579x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,421
- deepest drawdown
- 1,379x
Second run, seventeen days after the first: the return fell from 92.51% to 87.10%, and the 78.0–96.3% band no longer holds the printed 96.53%. Free spins landed 21 times against 22 and paid 66x the stake on average against 82x, with the run's best at 323.65x on round 5331; the 50 buys slipped from 1.19x to 0.92x of price with no ticket above 4.62x, and the balance never once stood above its start.
03run Run 032026-09-29 lab note measured return97.37%+0.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 81.2–113.6%
- rounds that paid
- 42%
- biggest round
- 653x · round 8,845
- longest dry streak
- 20
- natural bonuses
- 26 · one per 385 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.03x · median 0.392x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 100,728
- deepest drawdown
- 812x
Run three, dated 29 September, returned 97.37% after 92.51% on 4 September and 87.10% on 21 September; pooled, the three runs stand at 92.33% over 30,000 rounds, still under the printed 96.53%. Free spins came 26 times against 22 and 21 and paid 89.01x on average against 82.04x and 65.61x, with the page's record moving to 652.65x on round 8845; the fifty tickets came back at 1.028x of price after 1.1895x and 0.9155x, with two past 5x where run two had none.
3 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-04, 2026-09-21, 2026-09-29): 30000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 150 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.53%); 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
7 questions · answered from the logDid the third run change the Sweet Bonanza 1000 picture?
Yes, it lifted the pooled figure from 89.81% to 92.33%: run three returned 97.37% with 26 features at 89.01x on average, against 22 and 21 features at 82.04x and 65.61x in runs one and two, and its 652.65x round 8845 became the page record. The base game did not move, a hit on 42.35% of spins against 42.94% and 43.14%.
Which single free spin paid the most under bombs?
The sixth spin of round 8845 in run three paid 462.5x under the accumulated bombs and its third spin 118.8x, inside a ten-spin feature worth 652.65x as a whole round, 641.05x from the free spins alone; among purchases, the sixth spin of ticket 40 paid 933.4x under a 212x bomb total and the fifth spin of ticket 26 paid 750x, both in run three.
Are the lollipop triggers evenly spaced?
No: 69 triggers in 30,000 spins, one per 435 on average, 2.3 per 1,000 rounds, but the gaps ran from two spins, rounds 5999 and 6001 of run one, to 2,512 trigger-free spins in the same run; run two waited 1,853 spins at the longest and run three 946.
What caps a round without free spins?
At the paytable: 28.85x on round 5076 of run one, 26.65x on round 6945 of run two and 28.6x on round 5236 of run three were the best scatter-free rounds, because multiplier bombs appear only inside the feature. The typical paying spin was 0.9x in runs one and two and 1.0x in run three.
After 150 buys, is the ticket paying its way?
By average yes, 1.044x of price, 104.44%; by ticket mostly no, 107 losing tickets of 150 and a median of USD 102.35. Three tickets carried it: 22.562x on purchase 32 of run one, 10.53x on purchase 40 and 7.577x on purchase 26, both in run three, and run two's fifty came back at 0.9155x with no ticket past 5x.
What length do the features usually run?
Mostly ten: 59 of the 69 natural features stopped at the starting award and ten gained five spins per retrigger, the longest reaching twenty-five on round 8484 of run one; bought rounds averaged 11.3 spins over 150 tickets, with 29 extended and one, purchase 31 of run three, running thirty.
Would Ante have changed these figures?
Yes, at least the trigger rates: Ante adds 25% to the stake, doubles the natural trigger rate and switches both buy buttons off; the declared return is 96.5% with ante against 96.53% without, and none of the three runs used it, so the trigger rates on this page are the plain ones.
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