Sugar Rush 1000 looks like a mobile game you’d play on your commute and forget about long ago, but it isn’t! Behind the gummy bears and candy-pink colour palette sits a 7×7 cluster pays grid with multipliers that double up to x1,024 per position and a 25,000x max win that puts it among Pragmatic Play’s most aggressive releases. If you played the original Sugar Rush, this is the same sugar shop with the shelves restocked and the prices cranked up five times higher. The demo alone will show you why the “1000” in the title isn’t marketing fluff!
The feature set here is deceptively simple. There are only three systems at work, but they interact in ways that create serious compounding potential.
Every winning cluster explodes off the grid. The remaining symbols fall to the bottom, and new ones drop in from above to fill the gaps. If another winning cluster forms, it pays out and tumbles again. This chain continues until no new wins appear. It’s the same cascading system found across Pragmatic Play’s catalogue, and on a 7×7 grid with 49 positions, the chains can run deep.
This is the engine that powers the game’s biggest payouts. Whenever a winning symbol explodes, it marks that position on the grid. If a second symbol explodes on the same spot, a x2 multiplier appears. Every subsequent explosion on that spot doubles the multiplier, scaling from x2 to x4, x8, x16, and all the way up to x1,024. When a winning cluster lands on a multiplier spot, the multiplier applies to the payout. If a cluster covers multiple multiplier spots, their values are added together. During standard play, all marked spots and multipliers clear at the end of each tumble sequence. During free spins, they persist across every spin in the round.
Landing 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 scatter symbols anywhere on the grid awards 10, 12, 15, 20, or 30 free spins respectively. The scatter is a colourful candy dispenser that appears on all reels. During the round, multiplier spots remain in place and continue to grow with every tumble. This persistence is what separates the free spins from standard play and where the game’s 25,000x potential lives. Landing 3 or more scatters during the round awards the same number of additional spins, so retriggers are possible. Special reels are also in play during the feature, which adjusts symbol distribution.
The game offers two bonus buy options. The standard Buy Free Spins costs 100x your total bet and triggers a free spins round with a random number of scatters on the triggering spin. The RTP when using this option is 96.52%. The Super Free Spins costs 500x your bet and triggers a special round where every position on the grid starts with a pre-loaded multiplier. The centre of the grid begins at x16, with surrounding rings at x8, x4, and x2. The RTP for this option is 96.44%. Neither buy option is available during Autoplay.
Worth noting for players coming from other slots. Sugar Rush 1000 has no wild symbols. Wins are formed entirely through cluster matching and boosted by the multiplier spot system.
The game uses a 7×7 grid with cluster pays. Wins are formed by landing 5 or more identical symbols connected horizontally or vertically. There are no traditional paylines or ways to win. The paytable scales from 5-symbol clusters up to 15+ symbol clusters, with payouts increasing significantly at the higher end. Bets range from $0.20 to $240 across 48 denominations. With high volatility and a hit frequency around 26%, roughly one in four spins returns something, though many of those hits will be small. The bigger payouts come from tumble chains that build multiplier spots, particularly during free spins where those multipliers stick around.
All values below are shown at a $2.00 total bet. The paytable is dynamic and adjusts to your current bet.
| Symbol | 15+ | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pink Lollipop | $300.00 | $140.00 | $70.00 | $30.00 | $15.00 | $10.00 | $5.00 | $4.00 | $3.50 | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Orange Heart | $200.00 | $120.00 | $60.00 | $25.00 | $12.00 | $8.00 | $4.00 | $3.00 | $2.50 | $2.00 | $1.50 |
| Pink Jellybean | $120.00 | $80.00 | $40.00 | $20.00 | $9.00 | $6.00 | $3.00 | $2.50 | $2.00 | $1.50 | $1.00 |
| Symbol | 15+ | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Star | $80.00 | $40.00 | $20.00 | $10.00 | $6.00 | $4.00 | $2.50 | $2.00 | $1.50 | $1.00 | $0.80 |
| Red Bear | $60.00 | $30.00 | $16.00 | $7.00 | $5.00 | $3.00 | $2.00 | $1.50 | $1.00 | $0.80 | $0.60 |
| Purple Bear | $50.00 | $24.00 | $12.00 | $6.00 | $4.00 | $2.50 | $1.50 | $1.00 | $0.80 | $0.60 | $0.50 |
| Orange Bear | $40.00 | $20.00 | $10.00 | $5.00 | $3.00 | $2.00 | $1.00 | $0.80 | $0.50 | $0.40 | $0.40 |
Sugar Rush 1000 takes the original's simple formula and supercharges it. The tumble-and-multiply loop is addictive, the free spins round delivers genuine tension as multiplier spots compound across the grid, and the 25,000x ceiling gives the game real teeth. The candy theme won't appeal to everyone, and the background music does wear thin, but the underlying design is sharp. If you enjoy cluster pays games with volatile bonus rounds, this demo belongs on your shortlist.
First impressions are pure Candy Crush nostalgia. The 7×7 grid is packed with gummy bears, jellybeans, lollipops, and hearts, all rendered in that glossy, hyper-saturated style that mobile gaming made famous over a decade ago. The backdrop is a candy wonderland with swirled lollipops and frosted rooftops. It looks exactly like what it is: a sweet shop designed to pull you in and keep you spinning.
The soundtrack is light and bouncy, somewhere between elevator music and a children’s TV show. It works for the first five minutes. After ten, it starts to grate. The win sound effects are better, adding a satisfying pop of energy when clusters connect and tumbles chain together. If you’re planning a longer session, turning the music down and keeping the effects on is the way to go.
Standard play moves at a good pace. The 26% hit frequency means you’re seeing wins on roughly one in four spins, which keeps things ticking along nicely. Most of those hits are small, returning less than your bet, but the tumble chains occasionally stack up and build multiplier spots that give a flash of the game’s real potential. Unlike a lot of high volatility games, Sugar Rush 1000 doesn’t feel like a complete grind between features. There’s enough happening on each spin to hold your attention.
Free spins triggered reasonably quickly during my session, and when they did, the whole experience shifted. I landed 10 free spins and walked away with $306.30 from a $2 bet, a solid 153x return. The magic is in the persistent multipliers. Every spot that gets hit during the round keeps its multiplier for the remaining spins, and those multipliers keep doubling with each new explosion on the same position. By the end of the round, you can have a grid scattered with x4, x8, and x16 multiplier spots that turn even modest clusters into significant payouts. It’s genuinely tense in a way that most free spins rounds aren’t.
The game clearly targets a casual audience, and there’s a strong argument that the candy theme appeals particularly to players who find darker or more aggressive slot themes off-putting. But underneath that sugary exterior is a seriously volatile game with real depth. If you enjoy watching multipliers compound and chains build across a wide grid, the Sugar Rush 1000 demo is one of the most satisfying cluster pays experiences available.
