Sugar Rush 1000

Theme and Design

Another Sugar-Coated Wonderland To Dive Into

Pragmatic Play have not done much to adjust the look in Sugar Rush 1000 with the same ultra-high sugar content across the screen as you see in the original. It’s an onslaught of pinks, purples and reds and tons of jelly babies, gummy bears, icing and candy floss that will give you a sugar high just from looking at the game. If you enjoy your Sweet Bonanza and Sweet Alchemy slots then you’ll be happy with this one too.

RTP and Variance

Sugar Rush 1000 comes with 3 possible RTP settings – 97.5%, 96.53% and 95.5%. Which RTP the game runs on is at the discretion of the casino you choose. The top rate of 97.5% is excellent for any online slot and you should try to find somewhere that offers the game at this rate. My recommendation is MrQ from Lindar Media, a site that consistently runs slots at optimum RTP.

Just like the original Sugar Rush game, this one is a volatile slot. It can kick out some sizeable wins when in the right mood, but it can also be something of a grind. So it’s wise to exercise good bankroll management and choose a low stake relative to your balance to absorb those tough times!

Maximum Win

Where Sugar Rush 1000 shows a sizeable improvement on the first game is in maximum win potential. This has increased from just 5,000x right up to an attention-grabbing 25,000x. That puts Sugar Rush 1000 amongst Pragmatic Play’s highest max wins slots and makes it a must-play for scatter pays fans who enjoy chasing down the big wins.

Symbols and Paytable

The game plays out on a 7x7 grid. You’ll need to land clusters of 5 or more identical symbols in that connect horizontally or vertically in order to trigger a win. The exciting part about cluster pays of course is the chance of landing bigger and bigger clusters to set up huge payouts. In Sugar Rush 1000 the highest paying clusters are made up of 15 or more symbols.

There are 7 symbols in all. They are orange, purple and red gummy bears, a green star, a pink jelly bean, an orange heart, and a pink circle. They are valued at from 0.2x for 5 of the lowest paying gummy bears up to 150x for 15 or more of the top value pink circle.

There are no wilds in the game but there is a scatter symbol represented by the sweet dispenser. This does not have any pay value but does unlock the free spins. More on that in the next part of our review.

Features and Gameplay

The max payout and RTP might have been given a boost but the gameplay follows the same format as we find in Sugar Rush with tumbles, multipliers and free spins to boost your wins.

Tumbling Wins

This familiar feature triggers after EVERY win in base game and bonus round. Winning symbols disappear from the grid, existing ones drop down into the spaces left behind, and new symbols drop down onto the grid from above to fill the remaining gaps. Where further wins are triggered, the process repeats, and so on, until no more clusters are formed.

Multipliers Spots

If you’ve played Sugar Rush you will know all about the multipliers. In a sequence of tumbles, the second time a symbol is removed from a spot on the grid because it forms part of a winning cluster, then a 2x multiplier is activated on that spot. Each time a symbol landing on that spot forms part of a cluster and disappears, the multiplier increases by 1x.

These multipliers can grow as high as 1,024x and are applied to any winning cluster that covers the spot. When more than one multiplier is involved in a win they are added together first before being applied to the total payout value.

Multipliers keep growing until the current sequence of tumbles ends, then the whole grid re-sets.

Free Spins With Peristent Multiplier Spots 

If you’re wondering how to get close to that 25,000x max win, then think about the free spins round. The gameplay is the same as the base game but with one significant difference – the multiplier spots described above are now persistent. That means, they do NOT re-set between spins, but just keep on growing every time a winning cluster covers the spot.

You’ll need to land 3 or more of those Sweet Dispenser Scatters to trigger the feature, with 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 spins awarded for 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 scatters landing on one spin. And it is possible to re-trigger the spins with the same number of scatters as well.

In short, if you land 30 free spins and start growing some nice multipliers across the grid then the potential here is huge.