Candy Rush

Candy Rush: Sugar Rush’s Grid With a Cooler Temper

Candy Rush is the slot Sugar Rush becomes after a seaside holiday. Same 7×7 grid, same tumbles, the exact same paytable down to the last decimal. Then the temperament shifts. The win cap triples to 15,000x, the volatility badge drops from five bolts to three, and the multipliers stop living on single cells.

Pragmatic Play released it in May 2026 as the closest relative the engine has yet produced, and our full Sugar Rush review covers everything the two share. This page sticks to what separates them, which is a shorter and stranger list.

Where the Recipe Actually Changes

Multiplier Zones from 2×2 to the Full Grid

At random moments in the base game an underlay appears beneath the symbols, anywhere from a 2×2 patch to a sheet covering all 49 positions, carrying a single 2x multiplier. Every winning symbol above it feeds into that value, and if at least one win touches the zone, the multiplier doubles after the tumble, climbing as high as 128x. One overlapping symbol is enough to boost an entire combination, so a large underlay can catch several separate wins on the same tumble. The original made you earn each multiplier cell through repeat hits on that exact position; here one lucky placement multiplies half the board at once. Once the tumbles from a spin settle, the zone vanishes and its value resets.

Two Free Spins Rounds Off One Trigger

Landing 3 to 7 of the rainbow lollipop BONUS symbols awards 10, 12, 15, 20 or 30 spins, and you’re never told which of the two rounds you’ll get until the trigger lands. The standard round drops an underlay of random size on every spin, no exceptions. The Super version commits the full 7×7 sheet each time, which means every win anywhere on the grid counts toward one shared multiplier. Retriggers follow the same 3-to-7 ladder for 10 to 30 extra spins, and the feature runs on its own reel strips. Pragmatic has already rebuilt this trigger once, around the scatter rework in Sugar Rush Super Scatter; Candy Rush leaves the trigger alone and rewires the multiplier instead. Reach the 15,000x cap mid-round, a limit it shares with Starlight Princess 1000, and the round ends on the spot with any remaining spins forfeited.

The Special Bets Sugar Rush Never Got

Three optional modes sit beside the standard stake, a menu the original never carried. The Ante Bet prices each spin at four times normal and makes a natural trigger ten times more likely, with extra BONUS symbols in play. Super Spin 1 costs ten times a standard spin and lays down an underlay on every spin, opening at 2x, 4x or 8x. Super Spin 2 costs a hundred times a standard spin, spreads the full 7×7 sheet every time, and can start the multiplier as high as 32x. Free spins can’t trigger while either Super Spin is active, so those two trade the bonus away for guaranteed zones.

Buying In at 100x, 300x or 750x

The 100x buy fixes 3 to 7 BONUS on the triggering spin and leaves the round type random, the same coin flip as a natural trigger. Paying 300x removes the doubt and opens Super Free Spins directly, with the BONUS count still drawn at random. The 750x option is the menu’s outlier, laying a random-sized underlay on every spin whose gains persist across the entire feature instead of resetting between spins, still capped at 128x. The rules reserve that persistence wording for this buy alone, so treat it as this round’s exclusive trick. Per-mode returns run 96.53% to 96.56% against the 96.58% headline, and operators can license the whole game at 95.57% or 94.53%, with the info pages listing the active build.