Pragmatic Play shipped a Sugar Rush variant on JSHO on 18 December. The tumbling engine is unchanged, the visual art carries a Manila-street-festival layer over the original pastel theme, and the RTP holds at 96.50% — identical to the base game. Bonus-buy is disabled for the Philippines market per PAGCOR consultation.
What's new in the variant
The multiplier ladder during tumble cascades gets a small tweak: base-game multipliers cap at 128× (up from 64× on the original Sugar Rush), but the 128× multiplier is gated behind a 6-cascade streak, making it rare enough to not shift the observed RTP. Free-spins feature is identical — 15 spins with carry-over multipliers that lock during the round.
How the Philippine market fit works
Pragmatic Play indicated that Philippine players prefer cluster-pays tempo during bingo breaks (per their own operator data), which is why the variant shipped here first. Sweet Bonanza at 96.48% RTP and Gates of Olympus at 96.50% RTP continue to run alongside the original Sugar Rush on JSHO — Pragmatic Play confirmed no variant plans for those two titles yet.
JSHO bench data (first 1,800 spins)
Early bench: 1,812 spins accumulated 96.43% observed RTP — within typical variance of the Pragmatic spec. Max multiplier hit so far 96× (twice). The JSHO desk will publish a full 10,000-spin bench by mid-February, following the same methodology used for Super Ace (23,000-spin bench, 97.02% observed RTP).
Bingo-break fit
Sugar Rush variants run well in the 14:00 afternoon Bingo Plus window. The tumble cascade resolves in under 30 seconds per trigger, making a 180-spin session realistic inside a 12-minute intermission at ₱5/spin. If you favour more action per intermission, Sweet Bonanza fires tumbles more frequently per spin at the cost of slightly lower RTP.