Sweet Rush Bonanza

Sweet Rush Bonanza Review

Marrying two of its sweetest online slots, Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza, Pragmatic Play has created a Frankenstein that’s full of life and colour. Let’s take a look at it in our Sugar Rush Bonanza review. 

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s symbols and payouts

We start our slot reviews by looking at a game’s basics. First, we define the game’s main symbols, paylines, payouts, maximum win amount, RTP, and volatility, as we will do here for our Sweet Rush Bonanza review.

Game symbols

Sweet Rush Bonanza has 9 main symbols: a banana, grapes, an apple, an orange gummy bear, a blue gummy bear, a red gummy bear, a green candy, a purple candy, and a red candy. The game also has a scatter symbol, which we will discuss in the special features section of this Sweet Rush Bonanza review.

Number of paylines

Sweet Rush Bonanza does not have paylines. Instead, Pragmatic Play took (as opposed to the block or cluster mechanisms the Sugar Rush series employs) the scatter pay mechanism employed in the Sweet Bonanza series: symbols payout when 8 or more symbols match anywhere on the game’s 5×6 grid.  

Payouts

The symbols used in Sweet Rush Bonanza payout in this ascending order: the banana pays the least, followed by the grapes and then the apple; the orange gummy bear comes next, followed by the blue gummy bear, and then the red gummy bear; finally, the candy symbols payout, with the red candy, then purple candy, and the red candy paying out the most. The scatter symbol also pays out, but we will look at that below.

Min/max bet and maximum win

The minimum bet in Sweet Rush Bonanza is $0.10, and the game’s maximum bet is $240.

With its maximum payout of 5,000x the bet, players can win as much as $1,200,000 playing Sweet Rush Bonanza. 

RTP and volatility

The 95.5% RTP of Sweet Rush Bonanza puts the game in the high-RTP slots category. It’s also a game that belongs in the high volatility slots category, as players are likely to require patience to win.

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s slot special features

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s payout mechanism, lifted from the Sweet Bonanza series, is merely one of the game’s vibrant features. Let’s focus our Sweet Rush Bonanza review on the game’s special features: the tumble feature, multipliers, scatter symbol, free spins round, and bonus buy options. 

Tumble feature

Most casino players, especially those who have played games from the Sweet Bonanza series, are familiar with the tumble mechanism Sweet Rush Bonanza employs. 

8 or more matching symbols result in a payout, but the symbols also explode when they match. When they do, the symbols above tumble down the reel to the empty spaces, with new symbols filling in the top positions. The new symbols allow for new matches to be made on the same spin. That spin continues until no new matches are made, and the spin pays out the total amount collected from every tumble.

Multipliers

Sweet Rush Bonanza follows Sugar Rush’s lead and takes the tumble feature to the next level, though. Exploding symbols leave a reel position open, but they also leave a multiplier in the reel position. If subsequent tumbles result in new matches that involve reel positions with multipliers, then the multiplier is added to the win. Moreover, every time a multiplier is used, it doubles its amount for subsequent tumbles.

Scatter symbol

Sweet Rush Bonanza, as we alluded to above, has a scatter symbol. The symbol is the now iconic lollipop with a pink and red swirl from the Sweet Bonanza series. When 4 or more appear anywhere on the board, the scatter symbol not only pays out (0.1x with 4, 0.25x with 5, and 5x with 6 or more matches), but it also activates the free spins round.

Free spins round

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s free spins round gives players 10 free spins. If 4 or more scatter symbols appear during the free spins round, then 10 additional free spins are awarded.  

During the free spins round, multipliers stick to their reel position for the entire free spins round, which can make for some truly massive payouts. 

Buy feature

Bonus buy slots are what we expect to see nowadays, and Pragmatic Play happily accommodates our expectations with Sweet Rush Bonanza and its many bonus buy options:

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s graphics and sound

Sweet Rush Bonanza looks exactly as you expect if you are familiar with Pragmatic Play’s Sugar Rush or Sweet Bonanza. The colours are bright in the candyworld the game takes place in. If the look of Sweet Rush Bonanza doesn’t make you happy, then we’re not sure what will.

The music and sound effects are there to match that feeling. An upbeat, jolly melody floats along with the game action as familiar casino sounds chime whenever features or wins are triggered. 

Together, the graphics and sound are the perfect complements to produce excitement.

Sweet Rush Bonanza’s mobile experience

Pragmatic Play can always be relied on to deliver games that compare to all of the best mobile slots in Ontario, and our Sweet Rush Bonanza review was not disappointed on this account. 

Whether you’re on your phone or tablet, Sweet Rush Bonanza looks almost edible: the candies and fruit leap off the smaller screen. At the same time, the design accommodates touchscreen technology well, ensuring the game’s controls are easily accessed and within thumb/finger reach at the bottom of the screen. 

The mobile experience of Sweet Rush Bonanza remains consistent with its experience on a computer.

Sweet Rush Bonanza pros and cons

There are a lot of pros to Sweet Rush Bonanza, relative to other online slots in Ontario, but, as our Sweet Rush Bonanza review found, it still comes with a few cons. 

Best online casinos to play Sweet Rush Bonanza in Ontario

Finding online casinos in Ontario that offer Pragmatic Play games is the first step a player should take if they want to find Sweet Rush Bonanza in Ontario. As one of the industry’s biggest studios, Pragmatic Play can be found at the majority of casinos in Ontario. Check out these casinos first if you want our recommendation: 

1. ToonieBet
2. BetMGM
3. LeoVegas
   

Solutions if you have issues with Sweet Rush Bonanza

This Sweet Rush Bonanza review looked into what to do when players face the most common roadblocks playing the game, and here’s what it found:

1. Game interruption: restart Sweet Rush Bonanza if the game is interrupted, and it will resume at its last point of play. 
2. Game off: if you leave the game in the middle of a round, the round will be paused until you return or will be void after one day, returning the bet to the player’s account.
3. Malfunction voids all pays and plays.
4. Contact Pragmatic Play’s support team if your issue is not included above.
   

Frankenstein is not a monster

Taking multiple aspects of two successes and joining them into one is a project that Pragmatic Play might prove to be best for if Sweet Rush Bonanza has anything to say about it. The game combines Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza into one enticing package that ends up as the friendliest Frankenstein we’ve ever seen.

Games that employ the tumble feature are some of our favourites, so when we saw that Sweet Rush Bonanza added multipliers to the mechanism, we were giddy like kids in a candy store, which really makes a lot of sense, given the context. To find out that those multipliers stick during the game’s free spins round left us either bouncing off the wall or simply drooling in the corner.

We thoroughly enjoyed the game, which is clearly made so much more enjoyable when you skip the wait and take advantage of the bonus buy options Pragmatic Play has loaded into Sweet Rush Bonanza.

The game is very much like its parents, though, which tempers our excitement quite a bit. Not that Sweet Rush Bonanza is bad because of it, but it just isn’t that special.

Still, Pragmatic Play has made a loveable Frankenstein, so our Sweet Rush Bonanza review figures an 86 out of 100 final score is fair.

Other slots to play if you like the Sweet Rush Bonanza slot

Fans of Sweet Rush Bonanza should try the game’s parents, Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza, if they haven’t, along with other games in each respective series. If they want more candy-themed or fruit-themed slots, they can try these colourful games available at various online casinos in Ontario:

• Candy Jar Clusters
• Fruit Party
• Candy Bonanza 3 Megaways
• Magic Fruits
• Fruit Shop Megaways