Part One: Still 6×5 + Scatter Pays
Sweet Bonanza's board is likewise 6×5, 30 cells total, and the payout style is likewise scatter pays: bananas, grapes, watermelons, candies — as long as you land 8 or more across the whole board it pays, no position, no lines. You read the board exactly like Gates of Olympus — count quantity, don't hunt for lines.
Part Two: The Same Tumbling Reels
After winning symbols settle they disappear, candies above drop down to refill, new ones come in from the top, and it counts again. As long as 8 can still be mustered, it continues. One paid spin tumbling several rounds in a row is the norm — mechanically no different from Gates of Olympus.
Board, payout style, tumbling — all three parts are the same as Gates of Olympus. The theme skin changed; the skeleton didn't.
Part Three: Bomb Multipliers (the Signature Part)
Sweet Bonanza's signature part is the bomb-shaped multiplier symbol, appearing mainly in free spins. It works on the same idea as Gates of Olympus's multiplier orbs: it doesn't take part in the count-based payout, but amplifies that round's win by a multiplier when a run of tumbles ends; when multiple bombs are on the board at once, the multipliers sum.
It's exactly these stackable bomb multipliers that push its max win to the 21100× level — the figure recorded in our library; go by the operator interface for specifics.
Bombs drop at random and their multiplier size is out of your control. They explain why this machine can occasionally deliver a huge round, but they don't change its high-volatility nature, with the house edge always present.
Part Four: Buy Bonus, the Direct Purchase
Compared with Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza adds one explicit Buy Bonus option: pay about 100× your stake to skip the base game and go straight into the bomb-multiplier free spins. What it saves is waiting time, not money — the purchase price already includes the free spins' expected value with the house edge fully baked in, and the buy-in RTP is usually close to normal play, sometimes even slightly lower.
After Taking It Apart: A Sample of "New Skin, Same Bones"
Put Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus side by side: a 6×5 board, scatter pays, tumbling reels, and stackable multiplier symbols in free spins — the four core parts are practically identical. The real differences are the theme skin (candy vs. Zeus), the shape of the multiplier symbols (bombs vs. orbs), and tuned figures like the max win.
That's one key to understanding PP's catalog: many "new games" are really the same skeleton with a new theme skin. Understand one signature machine and you understand a whole family — next time you meet a PP slot with an unfamiliar art style labeled "6×5, Scatter Pays, Tumble," you already know roughly how it works.