Sweet Bonanza

Sweet Bonanza starts with a glass jar six columns wide and eight rows deep and a queue of sweets waiting to go in — think candy land, but tighter. Tap any column and the sweet at the front of the queue falls to the lowest free space in it. Line up three or more of the same sweet in a row, a column or either diagonal and they burst like a scatter hit; everything above them tumbles down into the gap, and if that landing makes another line the tumble keeps going.

Because the sweet always falls to the bottom of the column you choose, every drop is a placement problem rather than a matching problem. The queue shows the next two sweets after the current one, so a careful player builds a shape now that will pay off two drops later. Chained tumbles multiply the score of every sweet in them — a sweet rush Bonanza moment — and the longest tumble of a round is recorded on its own counter, which makes hunting a five step collapse worth far more than clearing three lines cleanly. Chase that 1000x feel without a slot or casino table: just the jar, the queue, and the next drop.

Every sweet that bursts charges the burst meter under the queue — your one Sweet Bonanza bonus. When the meter is full the burst button lights up, and pressing it lets you tap any sweet on the field to remove every single sweet of that colour at once. It is the only tool in the Sweet Bonanza game app and it does not refill on its own, so spending it on a jam packed jar late in a round is usually worth far more than firing it the moment it lights up. Save it for a pragmatic clear when the board is locked and a jackpot-style wipe actually matters.

The round ends when the jar is completely full and the next sweet has nowhere to go. Eight treats mark the milestones, from a first solid score to a five step avalanche, a hundred and fifty dropped sweets and five uses of the burst. The top ten screen ranks your best round against the regulars of the sweet shop — no real money, no Xmas event timer, no 1000 slot noise.

Sweet Bonanza is played in portrait and works with no connection. There is no account, no advertising, no purchase of any kind and no timer. Everything the game remembers stays on your device, and the settings screen holds a single clear data button that removes all of it.