Sweet Bonanza 1000: Bigger Bombs, a Shorter Feature, 25,000x

Forecast: the same terrain, sharper storms. Sweet Bonanza 1000, Pragmatic Play’s 2024 release, changes two settings in the six-reel, five-row cluster-pays game: multiplier bombs now reach 1000x, and the feature now starts with 10 free spins where the original gave 15, with three more scatters adding five. Published RTP is 96.53%, volatility very high, maximum win 25,000x. When you want a calmer session, the original Sweet Bonanza is the better choice.

What changes in Sweet Bonanza 1000

Read the first and last rows together. The multiplier ceiling rises tenfold while the top win rises by less than a fifth, which means the extra headroom goes into rarer rounds rather than into larger ones. Cluster pays and tumbles work exactly as they did: eight or more matching symbols anywhere, cleared and refilled.

The shorter feature reshapes a session more than the bigger bombs do. Five fewer starting spins means five fewer chances for a bomb to meet a win, so many features finish modestly and a few finish very large. The retrigger softens that a little: three more scatters during the round add five spins. The bombs still appear only in free spins, exactly as in the original, so the base game stays the quiet half.

On paper the 1000 edition’s top RTP sits 0.05 points above the original’s, 96.53% against 96.48%. That gap is far smaller than the spread between builds of either game, so let volatility, not RTP, decide which one you open.

When the original is the calmer pick

Problem: a short session on a small budget. Fix: play the original. Fifteen feature spins and a medium-to-high label spread outcomes more evenly, and the original Sweet Bonanza report has its full figures.

Problem: you want the largest possible single round. Fix: the 1000 edition fits, provided you accept more features that end small. Size the stake so that several of those small features fit inside the budget before it runs out, rather than one or two.

Problem: comparing RTP between the two. Fix: both are tiered. The 1000’s builds step down from 96.53% to 95.52% and on to 94.51%, and the original’s documented builds run lower still, so the rules screen decides, not the name.

Another 1000x title with a different engine is Gates of Olympus 1000, which banks its multipliers on a meter instead of spending them bomb by bomb.

Sweet Bonanza 1000 on the PP card: the neighbours

The lobby’s PP card places Sweet Bonanza 1000 beside Sweet Bonanza 2500, POP, Super Scatter and Xmas, plus Sugar Rush 1000, a separate game from the same studio. Each edition runs its own rules.

• Clear: the 2024 figures above, as Pragmatic publishes them.
• Watch: long runs of features that land small; that is the very high label at work.
• Bring: a stake sized for many base spins, a fixed stop time, and the calm to let a small feature pass without raising the bet.

All eight reported titles and their published RTPs are on the Pragmatic Play studio overview, and the rest of the reels are in the slot games section.