The studio
Pragmatic Play slots: the mechanic behind each game, not the theme
The studio builds a handful of maths skeletons and dresses them in candy, gods, dogs and fishermen. Below the themes, Pragmatic Play slots split into five families: tumble grids that pay anywhere, the 1000 editions, one Megaways title, the Super Scatter pair, and payline games where the wild carries the multiplier.
The catalogue
Every Pragmatic Play slot we cover
Tick a mechanic to keep only that family. Scatter pays is the tumble grids, Megaways is the one dog game, Bonus buy is the titles that sell the feature.
Family one
Tumble and scatter pays: the grid that made the studio
Gates of Olympus, Sweet Bonanza, Starlight Princess 1000 and the Gates 1000 edition share one skeleton: a six-by-five grid with no paylines, where 8 to 30 matching symbols anywhere on the screen pay, the winners vanish, and the columns tumble down to fill the gaps until nothing new connects. Multiplier symbols land alongside: up to 500x on Gates of Olympus, 2x to 100x on Sweet Bonanza, and in the free spins every multiplier that lands on a winning tumble is added to a running total for that spin.
Sugar Rush 1000 and Sugar Rush Super Scatter use the cousin mechanic, cluster pays on a seven-by-seven grid: five or more adjacent symbols form a win, and each spot where a win explodes gets marked, doubling its multiplier on every repeat from 2x up to 1,024x. The feature starts with at least ten free games on the 1000 edition and the marked spots stay in place until the round ends.
| Grid | 6x5 pay anywhere, or 7x7 cluster pays |
|---|---|
| Win | 8+ matching symbols anywhere, or 5+ adjacent |
| Tumble | winners removed, columns refill, repeat |
| Multipliers | up to 500x orbs on Gates, 1,024x spots on Sugar Rush |
| Free spins | 15 on Gates, 10 on Sweet Bonanza, 10+ on Sugar Rush 1000 |
Family two
What the 1000 editions change on the same skeleton
A 1000 edition keeps the grid, the tumble and the free spin count of the original and raises the ceiling of the multiplier. Gates of Olympus 1000 lifts the orbs from 500x to 1,000x and the max win from 5,000x to 15,000x at the same 96.50% return. Sweet Bonanza 1000 swaps the 2x to 100x candy bombs for bombs worth up to 1,000x and moves the max win from 21,100x to 25,000x; its volatility label rises from Med-High to High. Sugar Rush 1000 is the base version of that title in our catalogue, with its 25,000x ceiling and the 1,024x multiplier spots, and Starlight Princess 1000 carries the same 2x to 1,000x orbs as Gates 1000 on an anime board with a 15,000x cap.
Big Bass Bonanza 1000 is the odd one: it is a payline fishing game, not a tumble grid. The original pays money symbols worth up to 2,000x, which the wild fisherman collects in 10 to 20 free spins with retrigger multipliers up to 10x, and caps at 2,100x. The 1000 edition prints money symbols up to 1,000x, adds a buy button and raises the ceiling to 20,000x; the studio return stays at 96.51% against 96.71% on the original. A 1000 in the name means a higher ceiling and a longer wait, not a better return.
Family three
The one Megaways title, and the two bonus games inside it
The Dog House Megaways is the studio's licensed Megaways game in our catalogue: six reels that each show a different number of symbols on every spin, up to seven, so the ways counter moves between spins and tops out at 117,649. Wilds on reels two to five carry a 2x or 3x multiplier as in the original. Three to six scatters open a choice of two features: Sticky Wilds gives 7 to 20 free spins with up to seven sticky wilds per reel that resize as the ways change, and Raining Wilds gives 15 to 30 free spins with up to six wilds dropping in random positions each spin. The max win is 12,305x, the buy on the panel reads 2000 on a bet of 20. The Megaways page explains the ways arithmetic with the counter values from the screenshots.
Family four
Super Scatter: the instant award that lifts the ceiling to 50,000x
Gates of Olympus Super Scatter and Sugar Rush Super Scatter add one symbol to the original grid. When the bonus triggers, each Super Scatter among the triggering symbols pays an instant award: one is 100x the bet, two is 500x, three is 5,000x, and four is the 50,000x maximum, paid before a single free spin is played. Everything else is the original game: the 500x multiplier orbs and 15 free spins on the Gates edition, the 1,024x marked spots and up to 30 free spins on the Sugar Rush edition.
The record shows what that ceiling costs. Gates of Olympus Super Scatter has a hit frequency of 27.77 and triggers its free spins once every 437.62 spins on average, and the record prices the maximum win at one in 666,666,667. Sugar Rush Super Scatter hits at 32.26. Neither game has a public demo in our record, so the base game is best learned on the originals; the studio page for the Gates edition also leaves the RTP field empty, and a review site prints 96.50%, 95.50% and 94.50% for the three builds.
Family five
Payline games where the wild carries the multiplier
The Dog House, Wild West Gold, Hot Fiesta, The Hand of Midas, Cleocatra, Heroic Spins and Zeus VS Hades are classic reel games, and the studio's signature on them is the multiplier wild. The Dog House puts 2x or 3x wilds on reels two, three and four and makes them sticky in the free spins, on 20 lines with a 6,750x cap. Wild West Gold raises the wilds to 2x, 3x or 5x, adds them together when several land, opens with 8 free spins and awards 4 to 20 more for further scatters; its record prints a hit frequency of 33.33 and a bonus once every 177 spins. Hot Fiesta uses the same 2x, 3x and 5x on piñata wilds in the free spins across 25 lines.
The Hand of Midas guarantees a minimum bonus win of 10x, 20x or 30x depending on the triggering scatters and hands out up to 45 free spins in mini reels. Cleocatra makes every wild 2x or 3x and turns a full stack of cats in reel one into a respin with sticky wilds. Heroic Spins expands its wilds to fill the reel and lifts the multiplier from 2x to 4x or 6x when two or three land on one reel, with a wheel that sets the spin count and multiplier before the feature. Zeus VS Hades is the outlier: you choose Olympus for a bonus that triggers more often with a lower average, or Hades for the rarer, heavier one, with expanding wilds up to 100x and a 15,000x cap.
The volatility label reads High on every one of these except the two Big Bass games at Med-High, which is the studio house style. Slot volatility puts those labels in numbers; slots with bonus rounds ranks the features by what they hand you.
Quick answers
What is the difference between Gates of Olympus and Gates of Olympus 1000
The grid, the tumble and the 15 free spins are the same. The original caps its multiplier orbs at 500x and its max win at 5,000x; the 1000 edition raises the orbs to 1,000x and the max win to 15,000x, with the same 96.50% studio return. The 1000 edition is the swingier game on the same maths skeleton.
Which Pragmatic Play slot has the highest max win
Gates of Olympus Super Scatter and Sugar Rush Super Scatter share the 50,000x ceiling, reached only when four Super Scatters land while the bonus triggers. Sugar Rush 1000 and Sweet Bonanza 1000 follow at 25,000x, Big Bass Bonanza 1000 at 20,000x. The original Big Bass Bonanza stops at 2,100x.
Do all Pragmatic Play slots sell the bonus
No. The buy button exists on the tumble games, the 1000 editions, the Megaways title and most of the payline games, but The Dog House, Hot Fiesta, Heroic Spins, Zeus VS Hades and Big Bass Bonanza have no buy in our record. Wild West Gold prices its buy at 100x the bet, and the tile filter Bonus buy isolates the games that sell one.
Is Pragmatic Play the studio behind the no deposit spins
On most cards, yes. The Dog House carries the free spins at Vavada Casino, Cactus Casino, Auf Casino, Cryptoboss Casino and Unlim Casino, and Gates of Olympus is inside the game list at Martin Casino. The spins run on the configuration the casino loaded, so the RTP panel inside the account is the one to read.