Sweet Bonanza POP

Sweet Bonanza POP is a Pragmatic Play slot set for release on October 20, 2026, taking the candy-land Sweet Bonanza setting and rebuilding it around a narrower 3-reel, 5-row vertical grid. Landing 5 or more matching symbols anywhere on the grid forms a win under Pragmatic Play’s Scatter Pays and Tumble mechanics, clearing winning symbols and dropping new ones in behind them. The RTP is 97.05%, with reduced operator tiers at 96.58%, 95.59%, and 94.56%, volatility is medium, and the win cap is 25,000x the bet.

The vertical format is a deliberate departure from the original Sweet Bonanza’s wide 6×5 layout, built for portrait play on mobile, while keeping the same fruit and candy symbol set players already know from the series.

Three Fixed Jackpots

POP symbols landing on a spin trigger one of three fixed jackpots, each set as a multiple of the total bet: a single POP awards Spark at 50x, two POP symbols award Snap at 500x, and three POP symbols award Burst at 25,000x, the same figure as the game’s overall max win. Because every tier scales directly with the stake rather than paying a fixed cash amount, the displayed jackpot values in the base game change with whatever bet size is selected.

Free Spins and Candy Bomb Multipliers

Landing 3 POP or scatter symbols awards 10 free spins, and landing 2 or 3 more during the round retriggers an additional 5 or 10 spins respectively. Candy Bomb Multiplier symbols, worth 2x up to 1000x, can appear during free spins, and every multiplier value that lands within the same tumble sequence adds together before applying to that sequence’s total win. No bonus buy option has surfaced for this title so far.

Sweet Bonanza POP Review

Sweet Bonanza POP is a genuinely different way to play the Sweet Bonanza format rather than a simple mobile reskin, since narrowing the grid to 3 columns changes how often a win actually forms even before any multiplier gets involved. Folding three jackpot tiers directly into ordinary base-game spins is the more interesting design choice here, since Spark and Snap give players a small, frequent reason to watch for POP symbols outside the free spins round entirely, while Burst sitting at exactly the game’s stated max win means the single biggest possible outcome doubles as the top jackpot tier rather than a separate, disconnected feature. Medium volatility fits a game whose most reliable value comes from the two smaller, more frequent jackpot tiers rather than chasing Burst specifically, and the reduced RTP tiers below the 97.05% default give this title one of the wider configurable ranges in Pragmatic Play’s current catalog. The Candy Bomb Multiplier system inside free spins is where the series’ familiar high-ceiling potential survives the format change, since summing every multiplier that lands within one tumble before applying it means a cluttered grid can still produce the kind of number the Sweet Bonanza name is known for. The game has not launched yet, so every figure here comes from the pre-release demo and Pragmatic Play’s own materials rather than confirmed live-market data, and this review will be updated once the game is live and any operator-specific RTP configurations are known. Fans of the original should find the vertical format an easy adjustment given how much of the underlying candy-tumble identity survives the redesign intact.