PHSWERTE Cluster Pays — How Sugar Rush and Sweet Bonanza Pay

A cluster pays slot drops the payline and pays for a group. Match enough of the same symbol on the grid, and the group wins wherever it sits. If you are still choosing what to play, the choosing a PHSWERTE slot rank every feature type, and this page explains how the cluster grid pays and how Sugar Rush turns it into a multiplier game.

How a cluster pays grid awards a win

A win follows the same five steps on every cluster grid, and only the numbers change.

1. The reels stop and the grid fills, with no fixed lines to check.
2. The game looks for matching symbols that touch, and a group of the required size pays.
3. The winning symbols are removed.
4. New symbols fall into the gaps, which starts the next check.
5. The spin ends when no group of the required size is left.

Steps 3 and 4 are the cascade, and the how cascading reels chain wins page follows what happens across those chains. A payline slot, in contrast, checks fixed paths, as the paylines meaning entry shows.

Cluster pays slots compared

These are the cluster pays slots in the data, all from Pragmatic Play, which publishes each figure. Only Sweet Bonanza 1000 was on the lobby’s shelves read on 29 September 2026, so search the Slots tab for the rest.

Slot	Grid	Group needed	RTP	Volatility	Max win
Sugar Rush grid	7x7	5 or more connected	96.50%	high	5000x
Fruit Party	7x7	5 or more connected	96.50%	high	5000x
Sweet Bonanza cluster	6x5	8 or more anywhere	96.48%	medium to high	21100x
Sweet Bonanza 1000 cluster	6x5	8 or more anywhere	96.53%	very high	25000x

The Sweet Bonanza pair counts symbols anywhere on the grid, and the two 7x7 games count connected groups. Read the group rule on the info screen before you stake.

How Sugar Rush uses the cluster grid

Sugar Rush ties its multiplier to the square instead of the symbol. Any square covered by a winning group gains a multiplier, and the multiplier doubles each further time a win covers that square, up to 128x. Say a square starts at 1x: seven doublings take it to 128x.

That changes how you read a session. A long cascade concentrated in one corner pays far better than the same number of wins scattered across the board, because the same squares keep doubling. Its free spins run up to 30 spins and can be retriggered, which is covered on the free spins slots page.

Choose a cluster pays slot by volatility

Cluster games run high on volatility, so match the slot to your budget first.

1. Choose Sweet Bonanza at medium to high volatility if you want the gentlest spread of the three.
2. Choose Sugar Rush at high volatility if you like a position-based multiplier that grows on repeat wins.
3. Choose Sweet Bonanza 1000 at very high volatility only with a small stake, because its 25000x ceiling sits behind rare rounds.