How to play
This guide is the tap order: set a stake, read a tumble, decide on Ante, and walk one $1 example. How to play Sweet Bonanza for real money in Canada starts here. Specs and the 8.4 stay on the review. Bombs and retriggers sit on free spins.
The board
You pay once. The 6×5 fills with fruit and candy. If eight or more matching symbols sit anywhere, they pay and vanish. New symbols drop in. That loop is a tumble. Lollipops are scatters. Rainbow bombs wait for free spins. Hit-rate notes sit in the review mechanics.
If the help screen disagrees with this page, the help screen is the rule.
Stake
Open the licensed game, not a screenshot. Tap plus and minus until the stake is one you can repeat. Catalog steps often start near 0.20 and top out around 100; Ante makes that spin cost 1.25×. Currency and caps are in Bets & payouts.
Licensed Canadian operator, CAD wallet, help-screen RTP. Catalog default is 96.48–96.51%. Leave if the figure is quietly cut. That panel is the number that pays.
High volatility punishes oversized bets. Use the on-screen stepper. Bonus terms can cap you below the game max.
Confirm Ante, Buy, and the 21,175× class before the first real-money spin. Then close it. Play on the grid, not on the PDF.
One tap, one stake. Autoplay is an operator control. If you use it, still set a loss cap first.
Tumble animation eats time. A clock and a loss cap matter more than one more spin.
Tumble
One stake. The board can pay more than once. Eight or more matching symbols anywhere start the loop — not a left-to-right line. Specs stay on the review mechanics. Catalog × bands stay on the paytable.
After a winning combination, that cluster is credited at the catalog multiplier for its size. The spin is not over yet.
Those paying icons are removed. Nothing else is wiped. Lollipops and empty fruit stay until they are part of a win or the refill covers them.
Symbols above fall into the gaps. Empty cells fill from the top. You do not tap again. This is still the same stake.
If another eight-of-a-kind is sitting anywhere, it pays and the collapse repeats. Consecutive tumbles are extra evaluations, not extra bets.
When a drop produces no new 8+, that spin is over. Each paying collapse uses its own cluster ×. Those amounts add up for the spin. Bombs still wait for free spins and apply once to that sequence — see the free spins guide.
The hero board on the review is a mock of this timing, not the studio client. If the lobby help disagrees with this page, the help screen is the rule.
Bonus
Four or more lollipops anywhere start 10 free spins. Four pay 3× total bet, five pay 5×, six pay 100×, and you still get those 10 spins. During the round, 4+ scatters typically add 5 more. No extra cluster is required for the lollipop.
If you are still on a paid spin, there is no rainbow number. In free spins the bomb sits in any of the thirty cells. Add the values after the collapse; the next free spin starts clean. How bombs add: free spins — bombs.
Levers
Ante is a toggle in the bet panel, not a second game. Buy, where it exists, is a one-tap purchase. You still need 4+ lollipops either way. Neither changes how bombs add. The CAD 1.25 sits in the calculator below.
Ante Bet
1.25×
More scatter looks on the same 6×5. Catalog talk is “roughly double” lollipops — not a published 1-in-N, and not a drop from four to three. Not a better RTP. Bombs still wait for free spins. If the lobby hides the control or recasts the premium, the help screen is the rule.
Bonus Buy
100×
Where it exists, the purchase is typically 100× the stake. On iGaming Ontario clients the button is usually missing. Plan for a natural or Ante trigger. Do not sit waiting for a $100 button.
On iGO the 100× Buy is usually missing. Ante is the legal way to lean toward the bonus clock without a purchase — only if the 1.25 stake is still a stake you can repeat. Ontario 19+ and geolocation: Canada notes — Ontario.
If you want more unpaid base-game tumbles, or the 25% premium would force you down a coin size you hate, leave the toggle dark. Quiet fruit is still the 2019 loop. RNG still decides whether four lollipops arrive.
How bombs add stays on free spins — bombs.
CAD
This calculator is illustrative CAD arithmetic, not a PlayNow or iGO screenshot. It does not promise a return. Theoretical ceiling uses 21,175× — extremely rare, not a session forecast. Ante debit is stake × 1.25. Catalog max is often around 100; that stake with Ante costs 125 unless the help screen caps you sooner. What the lobby actually asks, including Interac, is on Canada notes — CAD wallet.
If ceiling hit (not a forecast)
$21,175
Wallet debit with Ante
$1.25
What the wallet is asked to pay
Stake is the number on the plus/minus. Debit is what leaves the CAD balance. Ante on is not a bigger win — it is a dearer spin. Figures below are illustrative; lobbies skip steps and bonus terms can sit under the catalog max.
Phone
No app store build. Open the licensed lobby in Safari or Chrome. Stake buttons stay large. Paytable is one tap. Portrait 6×5 is the intended view. Longer notes on thumbs and data sit in the review mobile section.
Walkthrough
Stake $1. Eight grapes pay a small × from the catalog sheet and vanish. Two more grapes tumble in. Nothing else matches. The spin ends. No bomb. That is a normal base-game beat. Timing on credits, not this numbered walk, lives on the review’s mock tumble board.
Same $1. Four scatters anywhere pay $3 and start 10 free spins. You do not need eight lollipops in a cluster.
A watermelon cluster pays. Two bombs show 10× and 25×. Add them: 35× on that sequence’s win. The next free spin does not keep the 35×.
