The one that started a slot series bearing its name, Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play is a treat for the eyes on more than one level. This slot game, which has a 5×6 reel grid and a pays-anywhere feature, offers a sugary breath of fresh air by representing a departure from the traditional way of playing slots. Equipped with a complementary tumble feature and the chance to win over 21,100x the bet amount, the game unsurprisingly has a large fan base and more than earned having sequels.
How to Play Sweet Bonanza by Pragmatic Play
Your first step to playing Sweet Bonanza should be to select your bet amount per spin. One way of doing this is to click the small minus (-) or plus (+) buttons on the left or right of the big spin button. This will open a small window where you can fully customize your bet amount by bet number, coin value and total bet amount. The smallest bet amount you can use is $0.20 while the biggest possible amount is $100 which you can choose with one click of the ‘Bet Max’ button. Another simpler albeit less specific way of choosing your bet amount is to click the Settings button where you will be able to control the total bet amount without the other two options.
After you have finalized your bet amount, simply click the giant spin button to start playing. You can also choose to activate the Autoplay feature by clicking the ‘Autoplay’ button directly under the spin button which will bring up several options. The Turbo Spin and Quick Spin options will speed up your spins with Turbo Spin being the fastest while the Skip Screens option will automatically skip the feature introduction and end screens after a short period of time. The slider can be used to control the number of autoplay spins with the minimum being 10 and the maximum being 1,000. To stop the Autoplay feature manually, simply click the spin button which turns into a red stop button while the feature is active.
Unlike traditional slot games, your goal in Sweet Bonanza is to have a certain number of symbols land anywhere on the reels without the need to adhere to any specific paylines. For almost all paying symbols, a minimum of eight are needed while the sole exception, which is the Scatter symbol, only requires a minimum of four to award a payout.
On that note, the regular paying symbols are, in descending order in terms of value, a heart-shaped red candy, a squarish purple candy, a pentagonal green candy, a rectangular blue candy, an apple, a plum, a watermelon, a bunch of grapes and a banana. Meanwhile, the Scatter symbols are a red and white swirl lollipop and a rainbow-colored bomb
Special Features of Sweet Bonanza
To go with the game’s pays-anywhere feature, Sweet Bonanza has a Tumble feature where symbols involved in winning combinations are removed from the reels after their payouts have been recorded. This allows the symbols above them to fall down into the now empty spaces and new symbols will then fall from the top to fill the reels completely again. Any new winning combinations will be calculated before their symbols are once again removed. This process will continue until there are no more winning combinations.
For those who are willing to put down bigger bets for bigger chances of winning, there are two ante bet options to choose from. When switched on, one will increase the base bet multiplier by 5x and double your chances of triggering the free spins bonus round by increasing the chances of lollipop Scatter symbols landing on the reels. It should be noted that activating this feature will disable the Buy Free Spins feature.
The Buy Free Spins feature costs 100x your current bet amount and will trigger the free spins bonus round when you purchase it.
Aside from using the Buy Free Spins feature, you can trigger the free spins bonus round when you have at least four lollipop Scatter symbols landing on the reels. Regardless of the method, you will be awarded 10 free spins. Whenever three or more lollipop Scatter symbols land on the reels during this bonus period, you will be awarded 5 more free spins.