Pragmatic Play · 2019 · tested 2026-10-06
Sweet Bonanza
Every Sweet Bonanza bomb stayed out of the base game in the first demo run: the best ordinary tumble chain paid 28x, and the 2x to 100x multipliers landed only in free spins.
- RTP measured / declared 94.1% 96.49%
- Hit frequency 43%
- Max win · no bonus 34x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.86x
- Free spins, natural 96 / 50,000
- Bonus frequency 1.9 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 94.1% against 96.49% declared over 50,000 logged rounds in 5 runs; 42.9% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 521 rounds (96 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 67.3x the stake, mean 102.6x, trigger spin included; 250 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.86x of their price on average, 68% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 649.0x; the longest dry run was 21 spins.
Test card
50,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 50,000 · 5 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.49% |
| RTP measured | 94.11% (approximate 95% CI 88.3–99.9) |
| Hit frequency | 43% · every 2.33 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 21 / 2.34 |
| Median hit | 0.90x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 34.1x · run 3, round 2876 |
| Free spins, natural | 96 · 1.9 bHz · every 520.8 spins · mean bonus round payout 102.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 94,108 |
- 012026-09-0310,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓87.28%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-1810,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓94.77%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2110,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓86.00%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 042026-09-2610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓98.21%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 052026-10-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓104.28%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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PRAGMATIC PLAY · official demo · same math as real play
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Sweet Bonanza available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
Cafe Casino runs the same Sweet Bonanza 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
250 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.86x · median 0.636× price (USD 127.20) · 171 of 250 below price · best 4.48x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 11.1 / 10–25 |
| Retriggered | 18% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 2% |
Each purchased feature began with ten free spins. During the feature, at least three lollipops award five more.
- Spent
- USD 50,000250 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 42,939.3085.88% · approximate 95% CI 76–95%
- Net
- −USD 7,060.70−35.3 buys
- Break-even or better
- 79 / 25032%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 21 / 2508%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~521 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 521 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 5 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 326 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 425 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 1477 |
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
Sweet Bonanza scores by count, not by lines: eight or more copies of one candy or fruit, anywhere on the 6x5 grid, pay. Those symbols then leave the board, new ones occupy the empty cells from the top, and the count repeats. A spin continues until a layout scores nothing. In the first run, rounds 1321 and 9369 each paid on twelve screens in a row before the board stopped scoring; round 9369 paid USD 56, or 28x the stake.
Bombs belong to free spins only. Each shows a multiplier from 2x to 100x; after tumbling stops, every bomb on screen is added and that sum multiplies the spin's win. A bomb adds nothing when the entire spin produces no symbol or scatter payout. Purchase 1 of the first run returned USD 88.40 despite an 81x multiplier on its seventh free spin: that spin multiplied USD 0.80 into USD 64.80.
The lollipop is the scatter. At least four lollipops award 10 free spins regardless of position; three or more during the feature add five; four, five or six lollipops also pay 3x, 5x or 100x the bet on their own. Five of the first run's 21 natural bonuses retriggered to 15 spins.
Two paid levers exist: Ante adds 25% to the stake and doubles the chance of triggering free spins naturally, and a 100x purchase starts the feature immediately. The server reported 96.49% RTP for the build in these logs and also lists a 96.60% profile. The opening screen advertises wins over 21,100x the bet; these rules do not state an exact maximum.
Cascading reels
Multiplier
Free spins
Retrigger
Scatter symbol
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
15 frames from the demo session
Verdict
A 0.9x median in every runThe median paying round was 0.9x the stake in every session. A return occurred on 42.86% of the 50,000 ordinary rounds. Excluding every feature-triggering round leaves a top payout of 34.1x. Ordinary-play RTP nevertheless varied across the five sessions: 87.28%, 94.77%, 86.00%, 98.21%, 104.28%, combining to 94.11%.
Lollipops started 96 natural features: 21, 21, 16, 20, 18 by session. Counting the trigger spins, the bonus rounds supplied 20.9% of all ordinary-round payouts. Each began with ten spins and 20 gained five more, yet none passed 15 in any session, while purchases reached 25.
For the bonus buy, the median payout was USD 127.20 against a USD 200 price. 171 of 250 purchases finished below that price and 79 exceeded it. Purchase returns by session were 86.17%, 72.73%, 85.75%, 92.54%, 92.19%. The complete purchase sample paid USD 42,939.30 from USD 50,000.00 spent, a return of 85.88%.
- 39 ordinary rounds returned at least 100 times the stake
- Paying rounds made up 42.86% of the 50,000-round sample
- Extra spins extended 20 natural features and 46 purchased features
- The fifth run returned 104.28%, the only one of five above the stake
- The median paying ordinary round returned 0.9x the USD 2 stake
- 171 purchases paid less than the USD 200 entry charge
- 28,568 ordinary rounds produced no payout
- 11 of 16 free spins that ended on a 100x bomb paid nothing, because no symbol won under it
Run 01·2026-09-03·87.28%
1. Constant motion, small coins. A hit landed on 42% of spins in every 2,000-spin block, but those hits were small: the median win was 0.9x, three base-game rounds cleared 20x in ten thousand, and the balance drifted down 1,272 bets by the end. Fifty bets lasted 326 spins, a hundred lasted 425, two hundred lasted 1,477.
2. The feature supplied the largest rounds. Twenty-one triggers, 67.8x the bet each on average, three of them under 20x and four above 100x: 278x on round 5959, 148x on round 5132, 132x on round 566, 112x on round 7304. All of it together was 16.3% of the game's total return. The USD 20,000 staked across 21 triggers amounts to about USD 952.38 of turnover per trigger, before subtracting payouts; it is not a net entry cost.
3. Paying 100x for entry lost money. At 100x the bet, fifty purchases averaged 0.86x of their cost, the median was 0.649x, 33 lost, 21 lost more than half, and three paid nothing beyond the trigger spin. The best of them, buy 31, retriggered to 20 spins with a 205x bomb total and paid 3.79x; eight of the fifty retriggered at all.
Run 02·2026-09-18·94.77%
The second run repeated the shape with better luck in the feature. Return came in at 94.77% with an 83.0–106.5% band that holds the printed figure; the 21 natural triggers arrived one per 476 spins again and paid 98x the bet on average, topped by a 348x round on spin 1,531, while the base game peaked at 25x. Purchases were worse than in run one: 0.73x of price, median 0.48x, 37 of 50 below cost, best 2.76x.
Run 03·2026-09-21·86.00%
Run three fell back below the first run: 86.00% of stake against the printed 96.49%, an approximate 95% band of 76.7 to 95.3% that stops short of it, and a close 1,400 bets down after never standing more than 12 bets ahead (spin 7); the low of 1,552 down came on spin 9446, fifty bets lasted 87 spins, a hundred 257 and two hundred 814, and the 2,000-spin blocks returned 71.1%, 81.6%, 92.3%, 89.6% and 95.3%. A hit landed on 42.5% of spins at a 0.9x median, no drought reached 20 spins (the longest was 16, rounds 6078 to 6093), and the base game set the series' best with a 34.1x eleven-step chain on round 2876.
Sixteen natural features, the fewest of the three runs, waited 2,049 spins for the first and 1,301 for the longest gap after round 2748, one per 625 overall; they paid 84.26x the stake on average for the whole round and 51.58x in the middle, 15.7% of everything returned, with six above 100x and four under 20x, the weakest 9.4x on round 4708. Round 5049 led at USD 430.90, 215.45x, a retriggered 15-spin round that saw a 100x bomb on its fourteenth spin; without it the other 9,999 rounds returned 83.85%. Fifty purchases at USD 200 came back at 0.8575x of price, 85.75%, with a 0.684x median, USD 136.80, 35 tickets below price and none blank after the trigger; sixteen retriggered, buy 43 ran 25 spins for 2.679x, buy 22 led at 3.251x, USD 650.20, and buy 33 returned 0.058x.
Run 04·2026-09-26·98.21%
Fourth series, 10,000 spins at USD 2: 98.21% of stake returned, approximate 95% CI 83.91 to 112.51%, the second band on this page to hold the printed 96.49% after run two, and the balance closed 179 stakes down after peaking 488 up at spin 3970. The 2,000-spin blocks went 109.4%, 113.9%, 86.2%, 96.0% and 85.6%; the low was 263 stakes down at spin 1202, one spin before the first feature, and fixed bankrolls of 50, 100 and 200 stakes ran out at spins 99, 496 and 969. A hit landed on 42.64% of spins at a 0.9x median, 5,736 rounds paid nothing, the longest dry stretch was 18 spins from round 4169, and the base game topped out at 27.1x on round 4747 over nine tumbles.
Twenty natural features arrived one per 500 spins, 2.0 bHz (natural features per 1,000 rounds), the first only on round 1203 and the longest wait 1,969 spins between rounds 3968 and 5938; five of them retriggered to 15 spins. Counted as whole rounds they averaged 119.41x, median 103.2x, USD 206.40, made 24.3% of everything paid, and ten cleared 100x, the most of any run here, while four stayed under 20x. Round 1675 was the strangest of the twenty: nine spins paid USD 44.60 between them, then the tenth landed a 12x, a 3x and a 15x bomb under USD 24 of symbol wins and turned them into USD 720, so 93% of the free-spin money in a 400.9x round came from its final spin. Round 9498 shows the other face: a 100x bomb on its second spin sat over nothing, seven spins wasted 180x of bombs, and the round closed at 54.5x.
Fifty tickets at USD 200 returned 0.9254x of price, 92.54%, the best purchase result of the four runs, with a 0.75625x median, USD 151.25; 34 lost money, 16 returned under half, four doubled and none reached 5x. Buy 18 led at 3.2255x, USD 645.10, from a 15-spin round whose twelfth spin paid USD 386.40 under 214x of bombs in total, while buy 7 collected the largest bomb total of the fifty, 283x, and returned only 1.89x; three tickets saw a 100x bomb and one of them, buy 15, paid 0.274x. Without the best ticket the other 49 averaged 0.8785x.
Run 05·2026-10-06·104.28%
Free spin 8 of ordinary round 6759 paid USD 508.80. Its USD 21.20 payout before multiplication met bombs worth 2x, 10x, 12x, giving a combined 24x for that spin. The complete round paid USD 1,297.90, including USD 23.00 before the free spins started.
USD 20,856.60 came back from 10,000 USD 2 stakes, with 18 naturally triggered features. Purchased features cost a separate USD 10,000; their payouts totalled USD 9,219.00, with 32 of the 50 purchases below cost and a USD 115.75 median.
Test record
5 runs · 50,000 rounds · 250 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 5 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.
- 50,000rounds, all runs
- 43%rounds that paid
- 649xbiggest round
- 1 / 521natural bonus rate
- 0.86xmean of 250 buys
- 21longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-03 measured return87.28%-9.2 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 78.5–96.1%
- rounds that paid
- 42%
- biggest round
- 278x · round 5,959
- longest dry streak
- 20
- natural bonuses
- 21 · one per 476 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.86x · median 0.649x · 66% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,456
- deepest drawdown
- 1,295x
02run Run 022026-09-18 lab note measured return94.77%-1.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 83.0–106.5%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 348x · round 1,531
- longest dry streak
- 14
- natural bonuses
- 21 · one per 476 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.73x · median 0.484x · 74% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,953
- deepest drawdown
- 1,308x
Second run, fifteen days after the first: the return rose from 87.28% to 94.77%, and the 83.0–106.5% band now holds the printed 96.49%. Free spins landed 21 times again, one per 476 rounds to the spin, but paid more, 98x the bet on average, with a 348x round on spin 1,531. The 50 purchases went the other way: 0.73x of price, 37 of 50 below cost, best 2.76x; the 100 buys of both runs now sit at 0.79x.
03run Run 032026-09-21 lab note measured return86.00%-10.5 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 76.7–95.3%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 215x · round 5,049
- longest dry streak
- 16
- natural bonuses
- 16 · one per 625 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.86x · median 0.684x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,199
- deepest drawdown
- 1,564x
Third run, three days after the second: the return dropped from 94.77% to 86.00%, under the first run's 87.28%, and the pooled 83.6–95.1% band no longer holds the printed 96.49%. Free spins came 16 times against 21 and paid 84x the stake on average against 98x, with the first trigger only on round 2050; the 50 buys improved from 0.73x to 0.86x of price on sixteen retriggers, and the base game's best rose to 34.1x.
04run Run 042026-09-26 lab note measured return98.21%+1.7 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 83.9–112.5%
- rounds that paid
- 43%
- biggest round
- 401x · round 1,675
- longest dry streak
- 18
- natural bonuses
- 20 · one per 500 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.93x · median 0.756x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,643
- deepest drawdown
- 671x
Five days after the third series, the fourth came in at 98.21%, the highest of the four and the first since run two whose band reaches the printed 96.49%; pooled over 40,000 spins the game now measures 91.56%. Twenty features against 16 paid 119.41x on average against 84.26x, ten of them over 100x, and the fifty buys improved from 0.8575x to 0.9254x of price with the fewest tickets below half price yet, 16.
05run Run 052026-10-06 lab note measured return104.28%+7.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 86.1–122.5%
- rounds that paid
- 44%
- biggest round
- 649x · round 6,759
- longest dry streak
- 21
- natural bonuses
- 18 · one per 556 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.92x · median 0.579x · 64% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 100,857
- deepest drawdown
- 655x
Ten days after the fourth series, the fifth returned 104.28%, the only run of five above the stake, against 98.21% in run four. Free spins came 18 times against 20, and round 6759 set the page record at 648.95x the stake; the fifty buys moved from 0.9254x to 0.9219x of price. Pooled bonus totals count the whole round, trigger-spin payouts included, so run four's bonus share reads 24.3% there and in its own text.
5 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-03, 2026-09-18, 2026-09-21, 2026-09-26, 2026-10-06): 50,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 250 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.49%); 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
5 questions · answered from the logDoes Sweet Bonanza's demo return its listed 96.49% RTP?
No. Across 50,000 rounds at USD 2 the demo returned USD 94,107.90 of USD 100,000, or 94.11%, with sessions between 86.00% and 104.28%. The approximate 95% CI for that mean, 88.32% to 99.90%, still includes the listed 96.49%.
Do Sweet Bonanza bombs multiply the whole bonus or one spin?
One spin. Bomb values on screen are added once that free spin stops tumbling and multiply only its own win; nothing carries into the next spin. The largest total applied in five runs was 120x, on free spin 12 of round 5938 in the fourth run, where USD 3.80 became USD 456.
Without a buy, how often do Sweet Bonanza free spins start?
About one natural feature per 521 spins: 96 in 50,000 rounds, between 16 and 21 per 10,000-spin session. All began with ten free spins; three or more lollipops later added five to 20 of them.
Does buying the Sweet Bonanza bonus usually break even?
No. A payout of at least USD 200 occurred in 79 of the 250 purchases. The median paid USD 127.20, while the largest paid USD 896.80. Across the full purchase sample, payouts recovered 85.88% of the USD 50,000.00 spent.
Which Sweet Bonanza round paid the most in these tests?
Round 6759 of the fifth run paid USD 1,297.90 on a USD 2 stake, 648.95x, after its natural free spins were extended from 10 to 15. Without free spins, no round in 50,000 paid more than 34.1x; the opening screen advertises wins over 21,100x the bet.
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