Sweet Bonanza

Indulge your sweet tooth with candy as far as the eye can see in this online slot from Pragmatic Play. With unusual play mechanisms switching things up a bit, you’ll be trying to land matching goodies in Sweet Bonanza in return for real cash prizes. If you manage to collect the maximum prize, you’ll be stuffed full with a payout worth x21,175. 

There are lots of food-themed slots around, perhaps triggered by the success of Candy Crush many years ago? Whatever the reason, if you enjoy playing sweet-themed slots, you'll have no shortage of choice. Sweet Alchemy (Play'n GO), Sugar Parade (Microgaming), Sugar Pop (Betsoft) and Candy Dreams (Microgaming) are just a handful of the delectable slots you can play online.  

Sweet Bonanza is played on a larger grid than usual with a 6x5 board that's filled with delicious candy-themed treats. However, unlike most slots, you don't need to land the symbols in a specific pattern to win prizes. There are no paylines, no ways to win and no clusters - all of the symbols are treated almost like scatters and count no matter where on the board they land. Innovative! You can spin the reels from 0.20 to 125.00, so the betting range is quite broad. Volatility is medium to high, so you'll have to wait a while to fill up on cash wins, but with a top prize of x21,275, it's worth sticking around.

With soft pastels in the background and a landscape formed out of edibles, it's just as if you've wandered into Willy Wonka's world. There might not be any Oompa Loompas here, but there are just as many sweet treats that any candy-lover will feel seriously tempted by! 

On the reels, the symbols all look simply delicious, with candies in all shapes and colours. But just to balance things up and make sure you get your five a day, there are fruit symbols too with a banana, watermelon, plum, red apple and watermelon accompanying the pile of sweeties. The red heart-shaped candy is the most valuable, paying out x50 if you manage to land 12 or more.  

There isn't a wild in this slot, but you won't miss this too much as you can land the symbols anywhere on the reels.

Sweet Bonanza includes the tumbling reels feature that you may have played on other Pragmatic slots such as Phoenix Forge. This gives you the opportunity to collect more wins without having to spend more money.  

With tumbling reels, every time you land a win, the symbols involved will disappear from the reels. This leaves spaces for the remaining symbols to move down into new positions while replacement symbols will fall into position from above. The game will then check for more wins and repeat the cycle again as many times as it takes until there are no more visible matches.  

The lollipop is the scatter, and if you land four or more on a single spin, you'll open the free spins bonus. You'll receive ten free spins and a payout of up to x100, depending on how many scatters you land.  

During the free spins round, the candy bomb symbol is active. These add a multiplier of x2 to x100 to any win; if more than one candy bomb lands, the multipliers are added together. 

You can retrigger the free spins round by landing three scatters during bonus play.  

If you're struggling to unlock the bonus round due to the high volatility, you can buy your way in. This costs x100, but it's a feature that's not available in every country of play. 

Sweet Bonanza from Pragmatic Play is a delightful candy-themed slot that offers a different way to play than the norm. The reels aren't especially overloaded with extras, but the uniqueness of being able to land matches anywhere provides enough distractions to keep players interested on every spin. The medium-high volatility allows a fairly regular stream of prizes, plus the chance to win the top payout of x21,275 is hard to resist.