Jumbo Joker Slot – Free Demo

Collect or Transfer on the Bottom Reels

Studio Betsoft goes to the fruit machine for a fruit styled slot named Jumbo Joker. The title connects in part to the Jokers forming the Mystery Prize. Normal play happens on the Bottom reels, and the Top reels are reached only through the Jumbo Meter. In part, it connects to the manner the Jumbo Meter pushes wins up to the Top reels, and when they do, punters gain from a second set of reels as well as the standard 5 paylines on each. A 1-coin bet plays a single line, while 10 coins cover all five lines and use a paytable that pays larger.

Play happens by choosing a bet from 0.01 to 10 per spin, and the RTP is 95.00%. The session behind this review ran at a stake of 1.20 from a starting balance of 1,000.00. The slot is a highly volatile one. Only 23 of 310 spins paid, though none of them paid less than the stake. A high score of 5 out of 6 signals it can throw a sharp swing now and then. Over those 310 spins, 372.00 was wagered and 348.00 came back, a session return of 93.5%.

Wins arrive in Jumbo Joker when three identical symbols settle on a payline. When this occurs, a Bottom reel win of 20 coins or more can be collected. Or it can be transferred to the Jumbo Meter, potentially turning into Top reel spins. The meter is funded only by wins the player chooses to transfer, and the choice appears on each qualifying win. Pay symbols start with cherries and lemons, and higher value is located in the watermelons and bells. In the session, three watermelons paid 48.00 twice, 40 times the 1.20 stake, while three cherries or three lemons paid 12.00, 10 times the stake.

The Jumbo Meter and the Top Reels

Central to Jumbo Joker is the second set of reels stretching across the top, and Top reel spins are financed there by the Jumbo Meter as punters hit winning combos. The Top reels add oranges, grapes and sevens to the symbols found on the Bottom reels. The Top reels can be run at the following tiers on each spin: 20, 40, 100 or 200 coins. Each Top reel spin is paid for from the meter, every Top reel win goes back into it, and the meter can be collected at any time.

Now, 3 Jokers grant a Mystery Prize if they surface on a payline, like so:

• Joker – 3 on a payline grant a Mystery Prize. It is scaled by the wager tier. No Joker line landed in the session, so no Mystery Prize was awarded.
• Scatter pays – every Joker anywhere on the reels grants a Mystery Prize at the 100 and 200 coin tiers. Since those tiers are Top reel bet levels, the scatter pays apply only on the Top reels.

Our Minty Verdict: The Jumbo Meter is amusing, but it appears the studio hasn’t quite achieved a big game changer using it. In the session every qualifying win was collected, and the Jumbo Meter was never funded.

A Meter That Was Never Funded

Many studios have been tinkering with diverse methods on how to showcase traditional fruit reels to punters for quite some time now. Fruitbat Crazy and 7 Fortune Frenzy are also Betsoft games.

The action is sort of intriguing, and some may favour the more classic looking layout, not attempting to belittle Jumbo Joker here. The game has no free spins, no wilds and no multipliers.

Jumbo Joker offers returns of up to 160 times the stake, talking of upside. At the 1.20 stake used in the session, that ceiling works out to 192.00.

When you tally everything up, Jumbo Joker contrives to read as something a bit different, though it doesn’t seem like a landmark slot. The session closed on a run of 69 spins without a win. It is more of a curiosity. It may thrill some punters as much as it leaves others feeling chilly.