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PlayPlay NowPragmatic Play · Released 18 March 2024
Pragmatic Play kept the candy board everybody already knew and rebuilt the maths underneath it. The 7×7 cluster grid and the tumbling wins are unchanged — but every multiplier spot now doubles all the way to x1,024, which is how a 5,000x slot became a 25,000x one.

Bet from £0.20 · Free spins from three Gumball Rocket scatters
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All three are licensed by the UK Gambling Commission and run the game on the standard 96.53% build. We rank them on how fast money leaves the account, how readable the bonus terms are, and how little friction there is between signing up and the first spin.

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At a glance
Every number below is taken from the in-game paytable and the provider's published data sheet. If a casino advertises a different RTP, it is running a reduced build of the game — check before you deposit.
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
|---|---|
| Release date | 18 March 2024 |
| Grid | 7×7, Cluster Pays |
| Winning cluster | 5 or more matching symbols joined left-right or up-down |
| RTP | 96.53% |
| Maximum win | 25,000x your stake |
| Volatility | Very High — 5/5 |
| Bet range | £0.20 – £240 per spin |
| Multiplier spots | x2 doubling up to x1,024 |
| Free spins | 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 from 3–7 scatters |
| Bonus buy | 100x stake (Free Spins) · 500x stake (Super Free Spins) |
| Wild symbol | None — the game pays on clusters only |
| Devices | Desktop, iOS and Android in the browser |
The game
A sequel that leaves the surface alone. Same candy grid, same tumbles, same gummy bears — and a completely different ceiling underneath.
Open Sugar Rush 1000 next to the 2022 original and you would struggle to tell them apart. The board is still seven columns by seven rows. Wins are still clusters — five or more of the same sweet touching left-to-right or top-to-bottom, no paylines anywhere. Every win still tumbles: the winning symbols pop, whatever sat above them drops down, and the sequence keeps going until nothing new connects.
The change sits in one number. In the original, a multiplier spot could double four times and stop at x128. Here it doubles ten times and stops at x1,024. That single adjustment is the whole sequel: the top prize moves from 5,000x to 25,000x your stake, five times what the first game could ever pay.
The trade is honest and worth understanding before you spin. A bigger ceiling on the same RTP means the money has to come from somewhere, and it comes from frequency. Sessions run colder for longer. The bonus is rarer. When Sugar Rush 1000 finally does connect a long tumble over a field of doubled spots, it pays on a scale the original simply could not reach.

Same sweets, same board — the sequel rewrites only the multiplier ladder.
| Sugar Rush (2022) | Sugar Rush 1000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maximum win | 5,000x | 25,000x |
| Multiplier ceiling | x128 | x1,024 |
| RTP | 96.50% | 96.53% |
| Grid | 7×7 cluster | 7×7 cluster |
| Bonus buy | 100x stake | 100x and 500x stake |
| Released | 2022 | March 2024 |
The core mechanic
This is the whole game. Understand the doubling ladder and everything else — the volatility, the dry spells, the size of the top prize — follows from it.
Ten doublings. A single square starts at x2 and finishes at x1,024 — and there are forty-nine squares on the board.
Five or more matching sweets connect. They pay, then vanish — and every square they occupied is marked with a x2 multiplier spot.
New symbols drop into the gaps. If a fresh cluster covers a marked square, that square doubles: x2 becomes x4, x4 becomes x8, and so on.
Every marked square sitting under a winning cluster is summed first, then applied to that win. Four x16 spots under one cluster means a x64 payout.
In the base game the marks clear when the spin ends. During free spins they persist across every spin of the round — that is where 25,000x lives.

A board deep into a free spins round — nearly every square carries a multiplier.
Why this matters for your bankroll: a multiplier spot is worth nothing until a second win lands on the same square. Short sessions rarely get there. The doubling ladder needs volume, and volume is the one thing you control.
The bonus round
One symbol decides whether a session is a grind or a story. Here is exactly how many spins each scatter count pays, and why the round behaves so differently from the base game.

A gold rocket packed with gumballs, stamped SCATTER. It lands on any of the seven reels, it does not need to touch anything, and it is the only symbol in the game that ignores the cluster rule entirely. Three of them anywhere on the screen opens the bonus.
In the base game, multiplier spots are wiped clean at the end of every spin. Whatever you built during a tumble sequence is gone the moment the sequence stops. The free spins round removes that reset — marks stay on the board for the entire feature.
Ten free spins is therefore not ten separate chances. It is one long, continuous build. Spin three drops a cluster onto a square that spin one already marked, and the x2 becomes x4. Spin seven lands on it again and it becomes x8. By the back half of a good round the grid is a minefield of stacked multipliers, and a single wide cluster can collect a dozen of them at once.
Land three or more rockets again during the round and you are topped up with a fresh batch of spins — with every multiplier you have already built still sitting exactly where you left it. Retriggers are where the genuinely large numbers come from.

Seven rockets on one screen — the maximum award of 30 spins.
Buy feature
The bonus arrives roughly once in 323 spins. If you would rather not sit through that, Pragmatic Play sells the round outright — at two very different prices.
100xyour current stake
At £0.20 a spin that is £20. At £1 a spin it is £100.
500xyour current stake
At £0.20 a spin that is £100. At £1 a spin it is £500.
A bought bonus costs a fixed amount and returns an entirely random one. Buying five rounds in a row at 100x means a guaranteed £100 out at £0.20 stakes, with no guarantee of anything coming back. Treat the buy price as the cost of a single spin, because that is mathematically what it is. Bonus buys are not available at every UK casino.
Paytable
Seven sweets, no wild, one scatter. Values below are multiples of your total stake for a single cluster — before any multiplier spot is applied.

Pink Candy
High pay
up to150x

Orange Heart
High pay
up to100x

Purple Jelly Bean
Mid pay
up to60x

Green Star
Mid pay
up to40x

Red Gummy Bear
Low pay
up to30x

Purple Gummy Bear
Low pay
up to25x

Orange Gummy Bear
Low pay
up to20x
| Symbol | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pink Candy | 1x | 1.5x | 1.75x | 2x | 2.5x | 5x | 7.5x | 15x | 35x | 70x | 150x |
Orange Heart | 0.75x | 1x | 1.25x | 1.5x | 2x | 4x | 6x | 12.5x | 30x | 60x | 100x |
Purple Jelly Bean | 0.5x | 0.75x | 1x | 1.25x | 1.5x | 3x | 4.5x | 10x | 20x | 40x | 60x |
Green Star | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.75x | 1x | 1.25x | 2x | 3x | 5x | 10x | 20x | 40x |
Red Gummy Bear | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.75x | 1x | 1.5x | 2.5x | 3.5x | 8x | 15x | 30x |
Purple Gummy Bear | 0.25x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.75x | 1.25x | 2x | 3x | 6x | 12x | 25x |
Orange Gummy Bear | 0.2x | 0.25x | 0.3x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 1x | 1.5x | 2.5x | 5x | 10x | 20x |
How to read it: the column heading is how many matching symbols are joined together. A cluster of ten Pink Candies at a £1 stake pays £5; the same ten at fifteen symbols or more pays £150. Anything above fifteen is treated identically — the ladder stops there.
The bit that changes everything: these are pre-multiplier figures. Land that ten-symbol Pink Candy cluster across four squares each carrying x64 and the multipliers sum to x256 before the payout is calculated. That is the difference between a £5 win and a four-figure one.
There is no wild symbol in Sugar Rush 1000. Nothing substitutes, nothing expands. Clusters are formed by identical sweets touching horizontally or vertically — diagonals never count.
Getting started
From a cold start to your first tumble. Nothing here takes longer than a coffee, and step three will save you more money than any strategy on this page.

The stake selector sits under the reels — set it before the first spin, not after a losing run.
Open a casino and playThe maths
Pragmatic Play rates it five out of five, which is the top of their own scale. These are the numbers behind that rating and what they mean for a real session.
34.48%
Base game hit rate
Roughly one winning spin in three — but most are small.
26.40%
Overall hit frequency
Counting the full session, wins land about once in four spins.
1 in 323 spins
Free spins trigger
Three rockets are rare. Plan your budget around this number.
1 in 12,800,000
Odds of the 25,000x cap
Real, documented, and effectively a lottery ticket.
A 26% hit frequency sounds respectable until you notice what most of those hits are worth. The bottom three symbols pay 0.2x to 0.3x for a minimum cluster. At a £1 stake that is twenty to thirty pence returned on a pound spent. Technically a win. In practice, a slow leak.
The real money is gated behind the free spins round, and that round arrives roughly once every 323 spins. Budget for three hundred spins and you are buying yourself approximately one look at the feature. Budget for fifty and you are, statistically speaking, buying nothing at all.
The 25,000x cap is genuine and it has been hit. It is also a roughly one-in-twelve-million outcome. No stake size, no time of day and no spin pattern moves that number — it is fixed in the game maths and unaffected by anything you do at the controls.
The verdict
An honest split. If the right-hand column does not put you off, this is a very good game for what it is.
Bankroll
No system beats a slot — the RTP is fixed and the outcomes are pre-determined. What you can control is how long your money survives, and that is entirely down to avoiding these.
The 25,000x figure tempts people into £2 spins on a £40 budget. That buys twenty spins against a feature that averages one in 323. Divide the budget by 300 and stake that.
Every spin is independent of the last. A cold run does not make the next spin warmer — it only means you now have less money to reach the feature with.
Multiplier spots build across the whole round. Quitting a free spins round at spin four throws away the exact structure the last spins are supposed to cash in.
A 100x buy is 100 spins of the same stake, spent at once, on one random outcome. Three failed buys and the session is over before the base game got a chance.
The original and the 1000 sit next to each other in most lobbies and look almost identical. One caps at 5,000x, the other at 25,000x. Check the title before you spin.
Operators can licence lower-RTP versions. Same art, same features, worse maths. The game info panel shows the figure — look at it once, on your first spin at a new casino.
Turbo shortens the animation, nothing else. All it really changes is how fast your budget is consumed — which on a game this volatile is the opposite of helpful.
Demo mode
The demo is not a watered-down version. It runs the same RTP, the same multiplier ladder and the same bonus — the only thing missing is money on either side of the transaction.
Play Sugar Rush 1000 in demo mode and you get the exact same certified game file a depositing player gets. The maths is not adjusted, the bonus is not made easier, and the multiplier spots build at the same rate. Anyone claiming demo mode is "set to pay more" to hook you is describing something that is not legal for a UKGC-licensed operator to do.
Its real value is calibration. Two hundred demo spins will show you, at no cost, how often the feature actually lands and how long the quiet stretches run. That is the single most useful thing you can learn about a five-out-of-five volatility slot before any real money is involved.
The one thing demo mode cannot teach you is how a losing run feels when the money is yours. Keep that in mind when the numbers look comfortable on play credits.

| Free demo | Real money | |
|---|---|---|
| Registration | Not required | Required, with ID verification |
| Deposit | None | From £10 at most UK casinos |
| RTP and maths | Identical — 96.53% | Identical — 96.53% |
| Multiplier spots | Full x2 → x1,024 ladder | Full x2 → x1,024 ladder |
| Bonus buy | Available, with play money | Available where the operator allows it |
| Winnings | Virtual credits only | Real money, withdrawable |
| Welcome bonus | Not eligible | Eligible |
| Deposit and loss limits | Not applicable | Full UK safer-gambling toolkit |
Player feedback
Comments sent in through our contact form over the past few months, lightly edited for length. Names shortened at the writers' request.
4.8
Average of 4 reader submissions
Marcus_H
Took me about four hundred spins at 20p before the rockets finally showed up, and I nearly gave up twice. Then the round built three squares up to x256 and the whole thing paid 740x. I have played the original for years and it has never done anything close to that.
ellie.w
What I like is that you can actually see the maths happening. The little multipliers stack up in front of you and you know exactly what a big cluster would be worth. Most slots hide all of that behind an animation. This one just shows you.
Dave R.
Brilliant game, but do not come at it with forty quid and big ideas. I ran two hundred demo spins first to see what the dry runs feel like and it completely changed how I set my stake. Best advice on this whole page, honestly.
priya_k
Plays beautifully on a phone in portrait — the grid stays big and the spin button is right where your thumb is. I have never bothered with a casino app because the browser version runs perfectly well on a Pixel.
Reader comments describe individual sessions and are not a guide to what any future session will do. Sugar Rush 1000 has a fixed RTP and fully random outcomes.
Every number on this page came from one of two places: the paytable and rules panel inside Sugar Rush 1000 itself, or Pragmatic Play's published data sheet. Where two sources disagreed, the in-game panel won. Nothing here is copied from another review, and nothing is estimated to fill a gap.
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FAQ
The things readers email us about most often.
The standard build returns 96.53%, slightly above the UK slot average. Pragmatic Play also licences alternative builds, and some operators run lower ones. The figure your casino is actually using is shown in the game's own information panel — check it once when you open the game at a new site.
25,000x your total stake, capped. At a £1 spin that is £25,000; at the £240 maximum it is the cap, not a multiple of it. The published odds of reaching it are roughly one in 12,800,000 spins.
Every square covered by a winning cluster is marked with a x2 multiplier. Win on that same square again and the mark doubles — x4, x8, x16, all the way to x1,024.
When a cluster lands, every marked square underneath it is added together first, then the total is applied to that win. In the base game the marks clear at the end of the spin. During free spins they stay for the whole round.
Three Gumball Rocket scatters award 10 free spins, four award 12, five award 15, six award 20 and seven award 30. Landing three or more again during the round tops you up with extra spins, and everything you have already built on the board stays exactly where it is.
No. Sugar Rush 1000 has seven paying sweets and one scatter, and nothing substitutes for anything else. Wins come only from five or more identical symbols joined horizontally or vertically — diagonal connections never count.
Standard Free Spins cost 100x your stake. Super Free Spins cost 500x and start with the entire 7×7 grid already carrying x2 multipliers. Not every UK casino offers the buy feature — where it is missing, that is an operator decision, not a fault with the game.
No, and they sit next to each other in most lobbies. The 2022 original caps at 5,000x with multipliers stopping at x128. Sugar Rush 1000 caps at 25,000x with multipliers reaching x1,024. Same art, same rules, very different variance — check the title before you spin.
Yes. The demo runs the same certified game file with the same RTP and the same bonus, using play credits. No registration or deposit is needed. It is the cheapest way to find out how long the quiet stretches really run before you stake anything.
It does. The game is HTML5 and runs in Safari, Chrome and the other mobile browsers without anything to install. There is no official Sugar Rush 1000 app — see our mobile and app guide for how to put a one-tap shortcut on your home screen instead.
No. We are an information service — we publish reviews, paytables and casino comparisons, and we never hold balances, take deposits or run player accounts. Playing for real money means registering at a licensed casino, which we explain step by step on the login and account guide.