Sweet Bonanza 1000 Dice Slot by Pragmatic Play

Same Engine, Different Dice

Sweet Bonanza 1000 Dice is exactly what the name suggests: Sweet Bonanza 1000 with dice instead of fruit. The 6x5 grid, scatter pays system, tumble mechanic, and multiplier bombs all carry over unchanged. Pragmatic Play built this variant for regulated markets where the original Sweet Bonanza 1000 can't operate. If you already have access to the fruit version, there's no mechanical reason to switch.

That said, the engine underneath is one of Pragmatic Play's best. The 25,000x max win, 96.53% top-tier RTP, and the 1,000x multiplier bomb make this one of the highest-ceiling slots in their catalog.

How the Tumble System Works

Scatter pays count identical symbols anywhere on the 30-position grid. Land 8 or more of the same dice symbol and it pays regardless of position. Winning symbols disappear, everything above drops down, and new symbols fill the gaps. Tumbling continues until no more wins form. Every win in the sequence adds up before being multiplied at the end.

Nine dice types fill the grid, each decorated with different face symbols: hearts, stars, moons, diamonds. The paytable is flat across all types: 2 of a kind pays 3x, 3 pays 10x, 4 pays 40x, and 5 or more pays 100x bet. That uniformity simplifies the math - any symbol cluster of the same size pays the same.

Multiplier Bombs Are Everything

Free spins trigger when 4 or more lollipop scatters land on a single spin. You get 10 free spins, with 3 scatters during the round awarding 5 more. The trigger is rare - roughly once every 450 spins at default RTP - which is the game's biggest frustration and the reason the buy options exist.

During free spins, multiplier bomb symbols appear alongside regular dice. They don't pay on their own. Instead, they sit on the grid through the entire tumble sequence. When the tumbling stops, all bomb values on screen are summed together and applied to the total win from that sequence. Bomb values range from 2x through 25x, 50x, 100x, and up to the signature 1,000x.

A single 1,000x bomb turning a modest tumble sequence into a massive payout is the slot's entire identity. Multiple bombs stacking is even better: three bombs showing 25x, 50x, and 100x combine for a 175x multiplier on whatever the tumbles produced. The 25,000x cap exists because these combinations get out of hand.

Buy Options and Ante Bet

The 100x buy triggers standard free spins with 4+ scatters guaranteed. The 500x Super Free Spins buy guarantees that every multiplier bomb carries a minimum 20x value. No 2x or 3x duds - every bomb hits hard. At five times the price, the Super buy dramatically compresses the variance by removing low-value outcomes from the multiplier pool.

The ante bet increases your stake by 25% (from 20x to 25x base multiplier) and doubles the chance of naturally triggering free spins. It disables the regular Buy Feature when active. Given the 1-in-450 base trigger rate, the ante brings that closer to 1-in-225 - still infrequent, but meaningfully better for grinders who don't want to buy.

The Reskin Question

Pragmatic Play's strategy with Sweet Bonanza variants is transparent: release mechanically identical games with different skins for different regulatory environments. The original Sweet Bonanza Dice capped multipliers at 100x and had a lower max win. This version imports the 1,000x bomb and 25,000x ceiling from Sweet Bonanza 1000. If you've played either version, you know exactly what you're getting here. The only question is whether dice or fruit symbols sit on your grid. For a slot that fires a win roughly every 2.3 spins during base game, the visual variety matters less than it would in a slower game.