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Sorbet Skies: a free Sweet Bonanza alternative

Built like Sweet Bonanza: a six by five grid that pays anywhere, tumbles, and opens into free spins with multipliers. Played with chips that are worth nothing, with the machine's real numbers and a session coach beside it.

Play chips

1,000

Bet

10

Win

0

Pick a bet and spin. 8 or more of one symbol anywhere pays.

8+ of a kind pays anywhere. A spin costs 10. Play chips only: no real money, no prizes.

Session coach

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your spins the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Decide the cost before you start

Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.

Next bet

10 chips at a 3.62% house edge: an expected cost of 0.4 chips.

This table is for practice and entertainment only. How to keep gambling safe

What the symbols pay

What 8 to 9, 10 to 11, and 12 or more of each symbol pay in chips at a bet of 10
Symbol8–910–1112+
Macaron120300600
Cone40120300
Meringue2560180
Mochi2040150
Peach12.5025120
Cherry1020100
Lemon7.501580
Kiwi61260
Berry4.501050

Chips paid at a bet of 10, for that many of the symbol anywhere on the grid. The dimmer figures are payouts smaller than the 10 chip spin: one of those on its own costs more than it returns. Winning symbols are removed, the rest fall, new ones drop in, and the grid is paid again until nothing new wins.

Sundae. Never removed by a tumble. 4, 5 and 6 or more in view pay 20, 50 and 500 chips and start 10 free spins. 3 or more on a free spin add 5 spins.

Ice pop. Free spins only. Each carries 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 25, 50 or 100, and the small numbers are far more common. When a free spin stops tumbling, the pops in view are added together and multiply that spin's win. A spin with no win gets nothing from them, and they do not carry to the next spin.

One round pays at most 21,100 times the bet, and ends the moment it gets there.

What this machine costs

Return to player
96.38%
The machine keeps 3.62%
Expected cost of a spin
−0.36
At 10 chips a spin
Spins that pay anything
42.9%
15.1% pay less than the spin cost
Spins that gain chips
24.1%
Free spins on 1 spin in 375
The three ways to pay for a round, side by side
Way to playCostsReturnsFree spins
Spin1096.38%1 in 375
Spin with ante12.5096.13%1 in 190
Buy1,00096.16%Every time

Simulated, not counted: 300,000,000 seeded spins of this engine for each of the first two rows and 20,000,000 buys for the third. 69% of buys return less than their price, and 27% of an ordinary spin's return comes through the free spins. See what a return like this does to a bankroll over a session

This session

Rounds
0
Chips staked
0
Net chips
0
Expected at this return
0
Rounds that paid
0
Paid less than they cost
0

The machine lights up for every paying round. The last figure is how many of those left you with fewer chips than before. A buy is counted as its full price staked.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Of the chips bet on an ordinary spin, paid back
96.38%
Of spins pay something
42.9%
Of spins pay more than they cost
24.1%
Of the return comes through the free spins
27%

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A tumbling grid with its numbers on show

Sorbet Skies is a free Sweet Bonanza alternative: our own slot machine, built to play the way Pragmatic Play's Sweet Bonanza plays.

A grid of 6 columns of 5 with no lines, where 8 or more of a symbol anywhere pays, winning symbols burst and the rest tumble down, and 4 scatters open 10 free spins in which multipliers land and add up. It has the same two optional extras: an ante that costs 25% more per spin, and a buy that starts the free spins for 100 times the bet. If you came looking for a free game like Sweet Bonanza, this is that mechanic. The name, the symbols, the sound, the weights and the pay table are ours.

8 of a symbol, anywhere in view

8 Berry symbols, no line between them, pay 0.45 times the bet: 4.50 chips back on a 10 chip spin, which is a loss of 5.50.

In view8 to 910 to 1112 or more
Macaron12x30x60x
Berry0.45x1x5x

The highest and the lowest of the 9 paying symbols, as multiples of the bet. Anything under 1x returns less than the spin cost.

What is different from Sweet Bonanza, and from any real machine, is everything a real machine leaves out.

This one returns 96.38% of the chips bet on it and keeps 3.62%, a figure simulated over 300 million seeded spins of the same code this page plays. 42.9% of spins pay something, and 35% of those pay less than the spin cost, so only 24.1% of spins leave you with more chips than before. The machine lights up for all of them, and a tumble can light up several times in one spin. The status line under the grid and the coach beside it tell you which kind of spin you just had.

One hundred ordinary spins
Pay nothing
57.1%
Pay something, and less than the spin cost
15.1%
Pay the bet back exactly
3.7%
Pay more than the spin cost
24.1%

Each dot is one spin in a hundred, rounded to whole spins. The machine lights up for every dot that is not dark, and 35% of those cost more than they return.

There is no decision in a slot to get better at.

What this page is for is entertainment, and seeing clearly what this kind of machine does: how a tumble turns one spin into what feels like a run of wins, how rare the free spins are and how much of the return sits in them (27%), and what the ante and the buy really cost.

Where the return comes from
Paid spins and their tumbles
73%
Free spins
27%

The free spins start on about 1 spin in 375. An average spin tumbles 0.75 times, and however many times the grid lights up, it is one spin at one price.

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Rules at this table

  • Ordinary spin

    Costs
    1 bet
    Free spins start
    1 spin in 375
    Return through free spins
    27%
    Rounds that return less than they cost
    72%

    The machine keeps

    3.62%

    of every chip staked this way, having paid back 96.38%

  • Spin with the ante

    Costs
    1.25 bets
    Free spins start
    1 spin in 190
    Return through free spins
    42%
    Rounds that return less than they cost
    81%

    The machine keeps

    3.87%

    of every chip staked this way, having paid back 96.13%

  • Buying the free spins

    Costs
    100 bets
    Free spins start
    At once
    Return through free spins
    All of it
    Rounds that return less than they cost
    69%

    The machine keeps

    3.84%

    of every chip staked this way, having paid back 96.16%

  • A grid of 6 columns of 5 and no lines. A spin is bet at 10, 20, 50 or 100 chips, and every pay is a multiple of that bet.
  • A symbol pays when 8 or more of it are anywhere in view, wherever they sit. There are three sizes of win: 8 to 9, 10 to 11, and 12 or more.
  • There are nine paying symbols. Macaron is the highest: 12 or more pay 60 times the bet. Berry is the lowest: 8 to 9 pay 0.45 times the bet, which is 4.50 chips back on a 10 chip spin.
  • After a win, the winning symbols are removed, the symbols above them fall, and new ones drop in from the top. The grid is paid again, and that repeats until a screen has no new win. Everything the tumbles paid is one spin's win.
  • The sundae is the scatter and is never removed by a tumble. When the tumbling stops, 4, 5, or 6 or more sundaes in view pay 2, 5 and 50 times the bet and start 10 free spins.
  • Ice pops land in free spins only, each carrying a number from 2 to 100. They stay in view through that spin's tumbles. When the tumbling stops, their numbers are added together and the spin's win is multiplied by the sum. A spin with no win gets nothing from them, and they do not carry to the next spin.
  • 3 or more sundaes on a free spin add 5 free spins, as often as that happens.
  • One round pays at most 21,100 times the bet. A round that reaches it ends there, with any free spins left unplayed.
  • The ante is optional. With it on, a spin costs 25% more, pays are still multiples of the bet, and more sundaes are in the draw.
  • The buy is optional. It costs 100 times the bet and starts 10 free spins at once, with no paid spin before them. It is not on offer while the ante is on, and it asks you to confirm the price in chips first.
  • Autoplay plays 10, 25, 50 or 100 spins at the current bet, with the ante if it is on. It needs a loss limit before it starts, and it stops at that limit, when the free spins begin, when the spins run out, or when you stop it. Tumbles play through. Autoplay never buys the free spins and never changes the bet.
  • Turbo shortens the animation. It does not change the odds, the return or any result.
  • The whole round, free spins included, is decided when Spin or Buy is pressed. The animation plays it back and cannot change it.

  • Sound starts on, and the Sound button switches it off.

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FAQ

Is this slot played for real money?
No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
What is the RTP of Sorbet Skies?
96.38% on an ordinary spin, 96.13% with the ante on, and 96.16% on a buy. Each is the share of the chips staked that the machine paid back in a simulation of 300 million spins (20 million for the buy), so each carries a small uncertainty: about 0.05 of a percentage point either way on the ordinary spin. At the smallest bet of 10 chips that works out at about 36 chips per 100 spins on average, with very wide swings around it in any one session.
How often does it pay?
42.9% of spins pay something, about 1 in 2.3. But 15.1% of spins pay less than the bet, which is a net loss that looks like a win. Only 24.1% of spins, about 1 in 4.2, pay more than they cost. The free spins start on about 1 spin in 375, and 27% of everything the machine pays back comes through them.
Is Sorbet Skies a free alternative to Sweet Bonanza?
Yes. It is built like Sweet Bonanza: a grid of 6 columns of 5 with no lines, 8 or more of a symbol paying anywhere, tumbles, 10 free spins from 4 or more scatters, multipliers of up to 100 that land in the free spins and are added together, an ante bet and a feature buy. It is free, it needs no account, and it is played with chips that have no value. It is not Sweet Bonanza itself, which is Pragmatic Play's game, and it is not made, licensed or endorsed by Pragmatic Play.
How is it different from Sweet Bonanza?
The mechanic is the same family and everything else is our own: the name, the art, the sound, the symbol weights and the pay table. So the numbers are different too. Sorbet Skies returns 96.38% with a 42.9% hit rate, and those are this machine's figures only. They say nothing about Sweet Bonanza's. The other difference is what sits beside the grid: the simulated figures for all three ways to play, a status line that calls a payout smaller than the stake a loss, and a session coach.
What do the ante and the buy really cost?
The ante makes a 10 chip spin cost 12.50. Free spins then start about 1 spin in 190 instead of 1 in 375, and the return is 96.13% against 96.38%: about 48 chips per 100 spins on average instead of 36, because the machine keeps its share of a bigger stake. The buy costs 1,000 chips at the smallest bet, as much as 100 spins, in one press. It returns 96.16% of its price on average, about 38 chips lost per buy, and 69% of buys pay back less than they cost.
Do autoplay and turbo change the odds?
No. Every spin is drawn the same way and the return stays 96.38%. What they change is speed: more spins fit into an hour, and the cost of an hour is the number of spins times the 3.62% the machine keeps on each. That is why autoplay here will not start without a loss limit, and why it stops when the free spins begin and hands that round's result to you.
Can I tell when a win or the free spins are coming?
No. Every cell is drawn on its own and a spin starts from nothing. A run of blank spins does not make a win due. Three sundaes, one short of the free spins, come up on about 1 spin in 57 and pay exactly what no sundaes pay: it is not a sign of anything.
What is the most a spin can pay?
21,100 times the bet. That is a cap built into the engine: a round that reaches it stops. In 300 million simulated spins the largest round paid 3,041 times the bet and none reached the cap. A round that pays 100 times the bet or more comes up about once in 1,145 spins.

How this game works

Every cell on the grid is its own draw from a weighted list, made with your browser's random number generator. On an ordinary spin the chance a cell is each symbol is: Macaron 3.3%, Cone 4.7%, Meringue 6.2%, Mochi 7.6%, Peach 11.8%, Cherry 13.7%, Lemon 15.1%, Kiwi 17.0%, Berry 18.9%, and Sundae 1.56%. With the ante on, the sundae's share rises to 1.90% and nothing else changes. In free spins the sundae is 1.09% and the ice pop 4.77%. A pop's number is a second weighted draw: 67% of pops carry 2, 3, 4 or 5, and 2.7% carry 100. The weights are printed in the code this page runs.

The figures are simulated, not counted. Tumbles redraw part of the screen after every win and the free spins can extend themselves, so there is no practical way to list every outcome. Instead the engine that runs the machine on this page was played 300,000,000 times as an ordinary spin, 300,000,000 times with the ante and 20,000,000 times as a buy, each from a fixed seed (20261003, split across 10 streams) so the run can be repeated exactly. An automated test replays a shorter seeded run and requires it to match its stored result count for count, so a change to a weight or a pay cannot leave these figures standing. The house edge on the common casino bets puts the 3.62% this machine keeps in context.

Because they are simulated, the returns carry a sampling error: one standard error is 0.05 percentage points on the ordinary spin's 96.38%, 0.05 on the ante's 96.13% and 0.03 on the buy's 96.16%. From the same runs: 42.9% of ordinary spins pay anything, 15.1% pay something smaller than the bet, and 24.1% pay more than the bet. An average spin tumbles 0.75 times. The free spins start on 0.27% of spins, run for 10.3 spins on average, pay 96 times the bet on average when they run, and account for 27% of the return.

This is a high-volatility machine. The spread of one spin's result has a standard deviation of 8.1 bets, against an average loss of 0.04 of a bet, so a session is mostly small losses and occasional small wins around a rare large one. With the ante on, free spins start on 0.53% of spins and carry 42% of the return. A buy pays 96 times the bet on average against a price of 100, with a standard deviation of 119 bets, and 69% of buys return less than the price.

The expected figure in the session panel is the share the machine keeps multiplied by the chips you have staked on finished rounds, with a buy counted at its full price. The coach's count of spins in the last minute is taken from when you pressed Spin.

Limits

  • The symbol weights and pay table were designed for this page. They are not a copy of Sweet Bonanza or of any other real machine, and these figures describe this machine only.
  • Sweet Bonanza is Pragmatic Play's game and its name belongs to its owner. Sorbet Skies is an independent alternative built on the same kind of mechanic. It is not made, licensed or endorsed by Pragmatic Play.
  • The figures are estimates from a simulation, each with the sampling error stated above. The rarest outcomes, the cap above all, are the least well measured: a run of this size sees few of them or none.
  • A real slot is usually shipped in several return settings and the casino chooses one. The same title can keep noticeably more than the figure quoted for it, and a real machine does not print its weights.
  • The cells are drawn by an ordinary browser random number generator. It is not an audited or certified generator, and nothing here should be read as a test of one.
  • Autoplay and turbo are here because Sweet Bonanza, the machine this one is modeled on, has autoplay and a turbo or quick spin mode. Both make a machine cost more per hour, so autoplay will not start without a loss limit, and the coach prices the pace while it runs.
  • Play chips do not feel like money. A long blank run, or a buy that returns a fraction of its price, is harder to sit through and to stop after with a real stake.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Sweet Bonanza, or any slot played with money, keeps its share of every spin, and no ante, buy or way of timing the spins changes that. On this machine 35% of the spins that pay anything still cost more than they return.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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