Lucky Joker 10 Cash Spins Slot – Free Demo

Coins that stay where they land

Lucky Joker 10 Cash Spins is built around a Coin symbol that locks where it lands and keeps a bonus round alive for as long as new ones keep arriving. The term "Joker" may already be recognizable to you if you're a card gamer. Wins here are read from the leftmost reel rightwards, across ten fixed paylines. If you're like me, however, you would likely have to research what it's doing on a set of reels at all. My expertise on all things slots reaches no further than what has been gleaned from shoving coins into a pub cabinet. My own run was at a stake of 10.00 from a starting balance of 10,000.00.

A swift search shows that the joker is thought to have arisen from American euchre in the 1860s. The notion of a wild card, though, is thought to date back much further, and as it turns out, "Joker" is truly just a fancy name for a card that stands in for any other. The reels carry fruit symbols, a 7, a bell and a star, alongside the Coin and the joker. It is the obvious candidate for a slot's wild symbol. The longest I went without a win was eight spins, ending on spin 259.

At first, Lucky Joker 10 Cash Spins may come across as mildly puzzling. It is in fact a fairly straightforward game with heavy emphasis on coin collection that applies in both the base game and bonus. The balance ended at 10,141.00 from the 10,000.00 I started with.

A joker that only reaches three reels

Pivotal to the game is the Coin symbol; each one bears a value of its own, and collecting them is what fuels the game's top end. A locked Coin pays the value it shows, together with any jackpot prize that landed with it.

The wild is depicted by the joker. It may only show on reels 2, 3 and 4, and it substitutes for everything except the scatter. Reels 1 and 5 never hold one, so the leftmost reel always has to do its own work before a wild can help. When that produces a win, it expands over its reel. On spin 246 one did that on reel 3 and carried four of the ten lines.

Six coins in, three spins out

If you land six or more Coin symbols in the base game, 3 cash spins are awarded. My three triggers came on spins 12, 74 and 119, with 62 spins between the first two and 45 between the next. It's all about the Coin symbol here, but while the basic functionality is identical, it comes with a couple of extra rules, and the spins operate on a distinct reel set containing only blanks and Coins. With the fruit gone, the only thing a cash spin can add is another Coin. More crucially, the triggering Coins lock in place throughout the feature. Amatic's own Blazing Coins 40 and Playson's More Energy Coins: Hold and Win also lock coin symbols in place. Every fresh Coin that locks resets the spin counter back to 3. That happened once in my run, on the second cash spin of the round on spin 119, which took it to six cash spins in all.

The feature continues until all 15 positions hold a Coin or the spins run out. The three rounds together paid 780.00, a quarter of everything I won. Over 310 spins I triggered it three times. Two of them locked nothing new after the trigger and ended at three spins. The best of them filled 7 of the 15 positions for 35 times the stake, and no round came near filling the grid, so the Grand Jackpot awarded for all 15 positions never showed up. It is the only jackpot the game names.

The Minty Breakdown: The three cash spin rounds paid 780.00 of the 3,241.00 that came back over 310 spins, and the largest single payout of the run was not one of them but an expanded joker on reel 3, worth 67 times the stake. The feature is where the design puts its ceiling; the base game is where most of the money moved.

Three triggers across 310 spins

It's a bit startling to see Amatic cling to this kind of low-ceiling design, and my 310 spins returned 104.5%, a sliver over what went in. The low along the way was 9,506.00 and the high 10,285.00, reached on spin 119. There were 123 paying spins, of which 69 paid less than the stake, with a single expanded joker on reel 3 for 67 times the stake as the peak of the whole thing.