Golden Jokers Wild Slot Machine
Golden Jokers Wild is a simple and straightforward slot machine from Greentube that has traditional cherries, lemons, oranges and red 7’s on the 3 reels, but spices things up a little with a special Joker symbol that helps to complete winning lines, while also triggering free respins. It’s clearly aimed at gamblers who like to sit back, chill out and spin up steady wins, so it’s a game that people will either love or hate, but even if you’re a fan of multi-round video slots with endless bonus rounds, don’t overlook Golden Jokers Wild, as it’s got some great winning potential.
The graphics are a little more sophisticated than many similar fruit machines, with each symbol being given a subtle 3D effect and even the smiling Joker character nods and blinks occasionally which could take you by surprise as it’s just a disembodied head. Stage lighting surrounds the reels and there’s a glowing red backdrop behind them, with the colourful game title above, which all adds up to an attractive slot within the fruit machine genre. Activate the soundtrack and it’s a pretty noisy one as well, with plenty of bells and celebratory sounds playing out along with a jingly background tune.
The Greentube casino games developer is part of Novomatic, one of the biggest names in the business. So far, they’ve released over 400 slots, table and card games for online and mobile optimised casinos from their various studios in Austria, Malta, The Netherlands, Great Britain and Canada. The whole range is fair, reliable and delivers high returns and while the Golden Jokers Wild video slot is a modest 3-reeler, they have plenty of advanced games in their portfolio including From Dusk Till Dawn and the DJ-themed Hardwell.
Golden Spins
Just 5 fixed paylines run from left to right across these reels, 3 of them are horizontal to match the 3 rows of symbols while lines 4 and 5 are the diagonals from top left to bottom right and bottom left to top right. You win by filling all 3 positions on a line with the same type of symbol and the amount claimed depends on which lands in place, with cherries returning a win equal to 2x the amount staked per line and lemons return 5x. There’s payouts of 10x and 15x for the oranges and plums, while a golden star is worth 20x the line bet and the BAR icon pays 25x.
It’s traditional for red 7 symbols to pay out the most and in Golden Jokers Wild, you win 50x the amount wagered on each payline when it stops across the reels, but those generous folk at Greentube have one more symbol to give us, and that’s the Joker, who pays the top prize of a huge 100x the line bet when he’s on reels 1, 2 and 3 at once.
Winning with Jokers
As well as paying out the best prizes, this friendly Joker is a wild symbol who can act as any other to complete winning lines of 3 symbols if he’s in the right places. But if you land a full reel of the Joker symbol, while you might not complete a payline right away, the main bonus feature of the game is triggered.
All wilds in view, even if there are others not in the same stack that triggered the round, will turn into special Golden Jokers which stay locked in place while any remaining symbols spin once more for free. An additional reel will appear to the right of the main ones during this respin feature and instead of symbols, it’s got multiplier values on it, which are applied to any winning combinations spun up in the free game.
If any more wild Jokers turned up in the reels respin, they will also turn gold and you get another spin, with another multiplier on any winnings and so on until you get no more wilds appearing. It’s a great feature that we found pretty easy to trigger and goes some way towards the impressive 97% Return to Player percentage of Golden Jokers Wild.
Golden Gambles
Coins can be valued from a low limit of just 0.04 for a total stake of 0.20 per spin and there’s 12 other bet levels that you can choose from, right up to the maximum of 40.00 per coin which gives you an overall stake of 200.00 for the spin.
It’s a simple bet system that should suit most bankrolls and while free Golden Jokers Wild video slots are provided, at such a low entry point it’s better to play for real cash and see what winnings you can collect right away.
Although it comes with an Autoplay option that sees the reels spinning on their own for as many times as you want, there’s no way to set cut-off points, such as when your bankroll hits minimum levels or you get a big win, so keep an eye on things as the Auto spins play out.
The Jokes on Other Slots
The Joker symbols is a particular favourite among slots players and Greentube seem to love this character, as a whole range of their games are named after him. Perhaps the biggest is Mega Joker, which is a 5-reel, 40-line game where the classic fruit symbols are in 4 rows. It’s got basic gameplay that has a star scatter symbol which pays out in any 3 or more places, while the Joker is a wild symbol which helps to complete winning lines but does little else.
While the Joker Pro video slot from NetEnt may look quite basic as well, there’s actually some impressive features to trigger as the 5 reels spin up symbols of luck, such as a horseshoe and four-leaf clover, along with the popular BARs, and 7’s. The Jokers’ hat is a scatter symbol that only needs to appear in a single spot on the middle 3 reels to turn the outer reels fully wild during a free respin. The hat that launched the feature will also be wild and if further wild symbols land in this spin, they will stick in place as the other symbols spin again.
Special Hot Spots are on the middle reels during the feature and landing 3 wilds on them will award punters with a prize equal to 1,000x their total stake, which has helped to make Joker Pro one of the biggest slot machines of its type.
The Verdict on Golden Jokers Wild
If Joker Pro can become such a huge hit, there’s no reason to believe that Golden Jokers Wild can’t follow in it’s multicoloured footsteps and become just as successful. It shares some related features, such as the respins with extra wild symbols, but there’s enough of a distinction between them to make this a unique game.
The graphics and animations, such as that winking Joker and the showers of coins that come out from the reels when you get a big win, are above par for a 3-reel slot machine and it’s fully mobile optimised to cater for the many players who now enjoy their gaming on Android, Windows, or Apple smartphones and tablet computers.
