Fire and Roses Joker 2 All-In Slot – Free Demo

A diamond of 720 ways, paying in both directions

Jokers are on offer in this Triple Edge Studios game. Two earlier titles carry the same line, Fire and Roses Joker and Fire and Roses Joker King Millions. It is played on a diamond-shaped 3-4-5-4-3 reel set with 720 ways to win, paying both left-to-right and right-to-left, and it's a fairly basic slot that still provides an element of surprise, although it is far from inventive. Of my spins, 75 paid, and 38 of those returned less than the stake. Furthermore, the features contained in the game have all been tried and tested for years and are normally appreciated by players when done properly, but there are some drawbacks to it that I will get to in my summary. The longest gap I hit without a win was 19 spins, ending on spin 320.

Fire and Roses Joker 2 All-In is playable on all devices from between 0.20 and 50 a spin. I left the Win Booster off for the whole sitting and took no Feature Buy, so every spin cost a flat 50.00. It profits from a bonus game with a ways wheel as well as distinctive wilds.

Jokers stacked on the middle three reels

In the main game, players can profit from the Joker wild. Stacked Jokers filled reels 2, 3 and 4 on spin 73 and paid 1,150.00, 23 times the stake. It substitutes for the paying symbols and lands stacked on reels 2, 3 and 4, and Jolene, the joker figure, also teleports onto the three central reels to drop wilds there. On spin 214 a Jolene teleport put wilds on the centre reels for 850.00, 17 times the stake.

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There are five Must Hit By jackpots on top, one per reel, lifted by the golden coins that land on them. They run Mini, Minor, Major, Mega and Ultra, the largest of them sitting on reel three and having to pay by 1,000 times the bet. Each has a ceiling it has to pay by, and an optional Win Booster raises the free spins trigger odds. Turning the booster on doubles the stake for that spin. A Feature Buy gets you into the bonus immediately. It comes in two shapes: a fixed entry of 5 free spins at 1x, and an entry that opens with whatever the meters have stored at the time.

The Ways Wheel spins once and holds

Scatters landing on four of the five reels - short of the complete word - will collect free spins and multiplier on the two meters beside Jolene. Rising Rewards adds a spin and a multiplier step at a time up to 15 spins and 10x, and golden roses supply the spin meter too. My middle trigger came off meters that Rising Rewards had built to 12 spins and 3x. Landing the scatters across all five reels to spell J-O-K-E-R, however, will begin the round with whatever the meters hold, a minimum of 5 spins at 1x. My other two rounds opened at exactly that minimum, 5 spins at 1x.

In the bonus, a Free Spins Ways Wheel then sets the active ways for the round. It spins once, before the first free spin, and the number it lands on holds until the round ends. The results are 1,125, 1,280, 2,000 or 3,125. My three rounds drew 1,280, 2,000 and 1,125, in that order, and 3,125 never came up.

What is more, golden roses collected during the round add additional spins, and the multiplier keeps rising. Inside the round the spin count can reach 20 and the multiplier 15x.

Minty’s Expert Conclusion: Three free spins rounds over 350 spins paid 6,750.00 between them, 44% of everything the sitting won, and the wheel that opens each of those rounds decides how much of the grid is live before a single free spin is played.

What 350 spins at a flat 50.00 came to

Fire and Roses Joker 2 All-In is quite an average and basic slot lacking novelty and ambition, and in fact, it's rather dull and bland compared to many of the other games created by this studio. The best I got outside the bonus was 1,150.00 on spin 73, 23 times the stake. The potential is quite fine, though I do struggle to grasp why anyone would choose to hand a 720-ways reel set a paytable the studio won't release; in my view, at least, it's a bit of a contradiction. Spin 126 paid 1,000.00, twenty times the stake. Furthermore, the base game is tiresome and could really need a kick in the behind. My balance peaked at 102,290.00 on spin 192 and bottomed at 96,410.00.

On the positive, the bonus does show up. The first round came on spin 170 and the second 11 spins later, on spin 181. In my 350 spins at 50.00 a spin it arrived three times, and the interval between the second and the third stretched to 145 spins, so you may well have to wait a while for it to rescue you from the tedium of the base game. The third, on spin 326, paid 750.00, fifteen times the stake. Those three rounds paid 6,750.00 between them, 44% of everything I won. The other two paid 2,750.00 and 3,250.00, 55 and 65 times the stake. The session still finished at 87.7% with no Must Hit By jackpot falling.