Joyful Joker Megaways

Get to spin classic fruit machine symbols across six dynamic reels on the slot from All41 Studios powered by Microgaming. Joyful Joker Megaways is taking you into the world of the laughing jester for a high-volatility reel show with wild substitutions, Rolling Reels, random Joker Spins and a Free Spins feature that can lead to wins of up to 23,000 times your bet.

Update 23rd April 2021: The game is exclusively available as an early release at brands from the CasinoRewards group. It will go global on 18th May 2021.

Slot Details

Joyful Joker Megaways is a cascading video slot with six dynamic reels, two to seven rows and 324 to 117,649 ways to win. Pays are awarded for two to six matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can play the classic slot on desktop, mobile and tablet from 0.20 to 20 credits per spin. The game has high volatility with an RTP of 96.25%.

Visually, the slot fits into the rudimentary design category that is inherent to fruit machines, although the colour of the simple background is changing during the bonus round that will also feature the joker standing on the side and cheering you on and celebrating big wins. The reels are naturally populated by typical fruit symbols while a generic soundtrack with an upbeat rhythm completes the slot design.

The pay symbols start a the low end with cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, grapes and melons, awarding from 1x to 1.5x your bet for a single six of a kind. They are followed by horseshoes, bells, BARs and red 7s. Hit six across the reels to win 2x to 50x your stake. A shiny diamond is the wild, appearing on the top tracker only and performing the usual substitutions duties, while the joker acts as the scatter.

Joyful Joker Megaways Slot Features

We are into year six of the Megaways era and while early protagonists such as Big Time Gaming themselves and early licensee Blueprint Gaming have all but halted their Megaways production lines, we have a number of other licensees picking up the mantle including Microgaming and its partner studios. This creation is coming from one of those partners, All41 Studios, who also gave us Shamrock Megaways and Forgotten Island Megaways. Let’s take a closer look to see what they included on this occasion.

As usual, at the centre of it all is the Megaways engine where the number of ways from 324 to the maximum is randomly determined for every spin. Each round starts with 2 to 7 symbols landing on reels one and six as well as 2 to 6 symbols on the four middle reels. Additionally, the game has a horizontal tracker at the top of the game window with four positions, extending from reel two to five, where more symbols appear on every spin.

Hitting any winning combination will trigger the reactive win feature which Microgaming calls Rolling Reels where all symbols from the combo will shatter to make room for new symbols to cascade into place, potentially starting a chain of wins within the same spin sequence. The process is repeated as long as new wins occur after a cascade.

In the base game, the laughing jester will make his presence first known when the Joker Spin feature is randomly triggered on a winning spin. The lucky wheel on the left (desktop) will spin once to award a win multiplier of x2, x3, x5 or x10 for the initial payout from the spin. Each consecutive cascading win in the same spin sequence will see the multiplier increase by x1, no limits. It will reset once the feature ends, however, triggering the main event on the same spin will carry over the last multiplier achieved during the Joker Spin, which could have a significant impact on your potential winnings.

Having four Joker scatters in view by the time a game round concludes will trigger 10 Free Spins with any further scatter adding +2 spins to the tally. Landing three or four scatters in the top tracker on a free spin will retrigger +5 and +10 spins respectively.

The round will start with either an x2 win multiplier or the one carried over from the base game. It will further increase by x1 after every Rolling Reels win, again, no limits. According to the brief, up to 23,000x bet can be won a single bonus feature.

Want to bypass the base game and head straight to the main event? Then the Buy Free Spins button is at your disposal to purchase a feature from a range of options. Worth noting is that Bonus Buys are restricted in some jurisdictions. For those, who can buy features, here a list of what’s on offer.

• 80x bet: Free Spins with an x2 starting win multiplier
• 120x bet: Free Spins with an x3 or x5 starting win multiplier
• 150x bet: Free Spins with an x5 or x10 starting win multiplier

Once you confirmed the chosen purchase, the game will start a spin that is guaranteed to land at least four scatters. The number of free spins is determined in the same fashion as on an organic trigger. For the latter two Bonus Buy options, a segmented wheel with the respective multipliers will appear and spin once to reveal the starting multiplier. Following that, you will proceed to play your free spins round.

Final Verdict

There is little new on Joyful Joker Megaways, but neither anything that has been overused on earlier games. The design is clean, the jester laughs wholeheartedly and the gameplay suspenseful enough to keep you spinning. The best moments to score mega wins will be those when a decent multiplier from a random Joker Spin will be carried over to the free spins round.

Joyful Joker Megaways – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. What is a Joker Spin on Joyful Joker Megaways?

The Joker Spin is a random feature that can trigger at any time in the base game on a winning spin. The wheel to the left will turn once to award a win multiplier between x2 and x10. Should you score consecutive Rolling Reels wins after the initial win, then the multiplier increases in x1 increments after every winning cascade.

2. Does Joyful Joker Megaways have different RTP settings?

No. Joyful Joker Megaways is offered with a single RTP setting of 96.25% only. Using the Bonus Buy options will not increase the overall RTP value.

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