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Sweet Bonanza 1000 Slot Review

The 2019 candy set, with a hotter bomb. Eight matching sweets anywhere pay. Four lollipops open ten free spins. Bombs from 2x to 1,000x land in that bonus, not on a paid spin. The ceiling is 25,000×.

Last updated 17 August 2026 By Alex Jovanovic
Sweet Bonanza 1000 intro screen: a 6x5 candy and fruit grid, the title on the right, the bar under the board reads Symbols pay anywhere on the screen, and the volatility meter shows five lightning bolts
Grid 6 × 5, 30 symbols
Duel RTP 96.53%
Max win 25,000×
Candy bombs 2x to 1,000x in FS
Volatility High / 5 bolts on intro
Stakes 0.20 to 240
Candy grid

Eight sweets, no lines

Thirty symbols. Eight of the same anywhere pay. Twelve hearts are 50x. That is a symbol line, not the 25,000× roof.

Thirty cells, no lines

Six reels, five rows. One free-play sheet writes the layout as 5-5-5-5-5-5. Same thirty cells. There is no classic payline.

Wins fall out

Winning symbols leave. New ones drop from above. The sequence stops when nothing new connects. The game calls this a tumble.

Scatter only

The lollipop does not substitute. It sits on every reel and pays on any position. There is no wild candy.

The set is the same swirly candy land as the mid-2019 original. Pink cream hills, ice-cream peaks, giant lollipops under a blue sky. The intro screen sells the rule in one line: symbols pay anywhere on the screen. Five lightning bolts sit in the corner. I am printing those bolts. Write-ups call the math high, and one body says very high. The studio product page leaves the word blank.

Sweet Bonanza 1000 board: a 6x5 candy grid under a Win up to 25,000x bet banner, left rail shows Buy Free Spins at $200, Buy Super Free Spins at $1,000, and Ante Bet $2.50 off, stake $2

The studio announced the title in June 2024. A news line prints 3 June. I will not treat that day as the only date in the set. The lobby rail at a $2 stake is honest about the extras: buy at $200, super buy at $1,000, Ante at $2.50 sitting off.

Candy bombs

Bombs stay off the paid spin

This is not Olympus 1000. Orbs do not drop in the base game. The 1,000x candy waits for free spins.

When a bomb lands in the bonus it stays on the grid through the tumble chain. When the chain ends, the values in view add up. That sum multiplies the sequence win, and only if the sequence actually paid. A dead finish does not cash a lonely bomb.

The printed range is 2x to 1,000x. That is ten times the original's 100x top bomb. One sheet lists steps through 100x and then says "up to 1,000x". I will not invent 250x or 500x as printed steps. The super buy raises the floor to 20x. A natural bonus does not start there.

The lollipops

Four sticks, ten spins

1

Trigger. Four, five or six lollipops start 10 free spins. More sticks do not buy a longer first award. They do pay 3x, 5x or 100x on the way in.

2

During the round. Bombs from 2x to 1,000x can land. They stay through tumbles, then add and multiply the sequence. Three or more lollipops add five extra spins. Sheets in this set agree on +5. Nobody here wrote a reset-to-10 rule.

3

Ante. Plus 25% on the stake. The chance of four or more lollipops doubles. Pays still sit on the base stake, not the extra quarter. Turning Ante on hides the buy button. You can switch it off.

4

Buy. 100× the stake for a normal bonus with the full bomb range. At $2 that is the $200 button. 500× buys Super Free Spins with a 20x bomb floor. At $2 that is the $1,000 button. I will not say every lobby ships the rail. One licensed panel I read does not mention a buy at all, and caps the stake at $24.

Published frequencies, not a session I ran: a hit about 1 in 2.33. Free spins about 1 in 450. Max-win frequency 1 in 71,428,571. Treat those as a spec sheet, not a Duel measurement.

Page 1 of 7

The heart is 50x. The roof is not

Eight to nine of a kind pay 0.25x to 10x. Twelve or more pay 2x to 50x. The banana sits at the floor. The red heart sits at the top.

Sweet Bonanza 1000 Game Rules page 1 of 7: nine pay symbols plus lollipop scatter. The header reads Symbols pay anywhere on the screen. At this stake the heart pays $100 for 12 or more and six scatters pay $200
In-game rules, page 1 of 7. Cash cells are at a $2 stake: heart $100 is the 50x line, six lollipops $200 is the 100x scatter. The tables below are the same sheet in multiples of stake.
Symbol 8–9 10–11 12+
Red heart 10x 25x 50x
Purple candy 2.5x 10x 25x
Green candy 2x 5x 15x
Blue candy 1.5x 2x 12x
Apple 1x 1.5x 10x
Plum 0.8x 1.2x 8x
Watermelon 0.5x 1x 5x
Grapes 0.4x 0.9x 4x
Banana 0.25x 0.75x 2x
Lollipops Pay Bonus
4 3x 10 free spins
5 5x 10 free spins
6 100x 10 free spins
Which return

Three returns, one candy land

I will not pick 96.53% or 94.51% and call it every casino. Duel keeps the top figure. Other lobbies can ship the quieter builds.

Panel Figure What it is
Duel Casino library 96.53% Highest setting Pragmatic ships. Duel loads the max RTP on every studio slot
Official default 96.53% The studio figure on the product page
Other shipped configs 96.53% · 95.52% · 94.51% Three settings operators can load
Ante 96.5% Listed on the +25% mode. A hair under the default
100× buy 96.52% Standard free-spins buy
500× super buy 96.55% Super Free Spins with the 20x bomb floor

Stakes on the pages that agree run 0.20 to 240. One licensed casino prints a $24 max. That is an operator cap, not the studio limit. Volatility is called high in the write-ups. The intro screen in the hero shows five lightning bolts. I am printing both.

This lobby

96.53% sits in the Duel library

Three possible returns. This lobby keeps the highest one on every studio slot.

96.53%
Duel library RTP

The studio max, not a trimmed panel

Duel 96.53% 95.52% 94.51%

Pragmatic certifies 96.53% as the top return. Operators can also load 95.52% or 94.51%. The candy and the bombs stay the same. The long-run pay does not.

Duel Casino keeps the highest setting on every studio slot. That is house policy, not a one-title exception. Sweet Bonanza 1000 therefore loads 96.53%, the same way Olympus 1000 and Fury of Anubis do.

Slots on Duel still return 50% of the house edge as instant rakeback. This is a studio slot, not a Duel Original. A screenshot from another casino is not this lobby.

Side by side

Sweet Bonanza 1000 vs the 2019 original

Same swirl. Same eight-of-a-kind rule. The 1000 in the title is the bomb, not a jackpot.

Rule Sweet Bonanza 1000 2019 original
Launch June 2024 Mid-2019
Grid 6×5, 30 symbols 6×5, pays anywhere
How it pays 8+ anywhere 8–12+ anywhere, top regular 50x
Wilds None None on the sheets I used
Bombs 2x to 1,000x in free spins 2x to 100x in the feature
Free spins 4+ lollipops, 10 spins, +5 on 3+ 4–6 scatters, 10 spins, up to 100x
Max win 25,000× 21,100× on the 1000 review
Default RTP 96.53% 96.48%

One write-up says the original 21,100× "appears not to be achievable", and that 25,000× on this version is. That is a reviewer line, not a lab pair. I am keeping it as opinion.

After the sugar

Same swirl, hotter bombs

You already know this hill. Pink cream, ice-cream peaks, a blue sky with lollipops stuck in it. Pragmatic did not rebuild the town in 2024. They left the 2019 streets and changed the one candy that used to top out at 100x.

A paid spin still wants eight of a kind. Twelve hearts are 50x and that is the best the sheet pays before anyone talks about bombs. The 1,000x candy does not drop on that spin. It waits behind four lollipops. Ten free spins, bombs that cling through the tumble, then the values add and the sum hits the sequence. That is the whole lift: a quieter base, a louder bonus.

Five bolts sit on the intro. Sheets say high. The product page prints no volatility word, so I will not invent one. Sit with a stack that can wait for the sticks. On Duel the return is 96.53%, the top figure Pragmatic certifies, because this lobby ships the maximum on every studio slot. Slots still return 50% of the house edge as instant rakeback. This is not a Duel Original. The rest of the candy aisle is on the games page and in the casino review.

What I keep

  • The 1,000x bomb is a tenfold lift on the old 100x candy
  • Four sticks still mean ten spins. The extra heat is the stack, not a longer first award
  • At $2 the heart is $100 and six lollipops are $200. The sheet is readable
  • Duel ships 96.53%, the highest figure Pragmatic certifies

What I leave on the table

  • The base game has no bombs. Eight bananas can tumble and still feel like 2019
  • Other lobbies can load 95.52% or 94.51%
  • The 500× super buy only floors bombs at 20x. It does not hand you 1,000x
  • If you came for a new candy world, you will leave with the old one
Questions

What I get asked

25,000 times the stake. The heart's 50x line is a symbol pay. There is no progressive jackpot.
The default is 96.53%. Operators also ship 95.52% and 94.51%. Duel Casino loads the top setting on every studio slot. Ante is listed at 96.5%, the 100× buy at 96.52%, the 500× super buy at 96.55%.
96.53%, the highest setting Pragmatic ships. Duel loads the maximum RTP on every studio slot. That is the library setting, not a trimmed 95.52% or 94.51% panel.
Four or more lollipops. You get 10 spins. Four, five and six also pay 3x, 5x and 100x. Three or more lollipops during the bonus add five extra spins.
No. Candy bombs from 2x to 1,000x land in free spins. They stay through tumbles, then add and multiply the sequence win.
It costs 25% extra and doubles the chance of four or more lollipops. Pays still sit on the base stake. The paytable multipliers stay the same.
Pragmatic Play is already in the Duel lobby
Duel loads the 96.53% library setting on this title. Accounts and bets stay on the licensed casino.
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