Respin Joker Slot
The Respin Joker video slot is a classic 3-reeler that has various fruity symbols and a simple, but effective bonus feature, typical of casino slot machines from games developer SYNOT. For a traditional fruit machine, the design is quite appealing and SYNOT have clearly spent some time and effort giving the symbols a subtle 3D effect, while placing the reels against a backdrop of slowly moving reflections. It’s a nostalgic slot that’s easy on the eye, simple to follow, and has a calming soundtrack to accompany the mechanical noises of tumbling reels.
Just 5 paylines cross these reels, with 1 running across each of the 3 rows of symbols and the others going from top left to bottom right, and bottom left to top right. Full runs of 3 matching symbols will be needed to create a winning line, but if a whole reel is filled with the same type of symbol, the value of the win is doubled.
Free Respin Joker video slots are provided, but this is a fairly simple game to learn, so it won’t be long before punters are ready to play for real cash and the minimum stake is just 0.20 per spin, so it’s not taking much of a risk to play for real money. A high limit of 100.00 is possible, and an Autoplay function gets the game running on its own for up to 1000 spins.
Playing Respin Joker
Payouts are multiplied by the total stake, with anyone landing the cherries across a line winning a prize equal to 2x the triggering bet, but of course if the cherries are also filling all 3 places on any reel, they win 4x. Other standard wins are 4x for the lemon symbol, 6x for the oranges, 8x for the plums, 10x for the grapes and the watermelon symbol returns a prize of 15x the total bet. The top wins come from the golden bell symbol and when this appears across any payline, the win is 50x the triggering bet.
The name of this slot machine wouldn’t make much sense unless we had a Joker somewhere in the mix, and here it is, acting as a wild symbol to help complete winning lines. It’s a black and white Joker mask with gold accents, and like the rest of the symbols has been nicely designed, with subtle shading and lighting effects to make it quite realistic.
The wild doesn’t have any actual value on its own, so even landing it right across a payline won’t be worth a prize, but when it’s in the right place, it will be able to stand in for anything else and fill in any gaps in a line of matching symbols.
Wild Respins Feature
We’ve covered the Joker part of the Respin Joker video slot name, now it’s time to have a look at the main bonus reels respin feature, which explains the rest of the title. Whenever the wild symbol appears, and it completes a winning combination, it will stay locked in place while all other reel positions spin once more for free.
While this isn’t guaranteed to create another winning spin, it’s still a nice bonus to have, and if the wild becomes part of a win-line, the reels respin again, potentially several times over until there’s no more combinations with the wild in them. In theory, this wild re-spins bonus feature can go on forever, which would be nice, but somewhat unlikely, and we found that getting 2 or more in a single round is about the upper limit, but you could get lucky and have a few more.
Gamble Feature
Like all slot machines from SYNOT, the Respin Joker game has a gamble feature which players can choose to enter after any winning spin. To double the amount just won, they will need to correctly guess whether a face-down playing card is going to be from a red or black suit, although there’s also the option to cash out or gamble just half of the win if they don’t want to risk losing it all.
If the pick was correct, players can keep going, doubling the win over and over until the gamble limit is reached, but like all double-or-nothing games, a single wrong guess along the way loses anything gained in the round, along with the original win.
Is the Joke on Players?
It’s hard to add any unique twists to 3-reel fruit machines, but SYNOT have managed to give the Respin Joker video slot something a little different. The design is certainly a step ahead of most games of this type, and the detailed fruit, bell and Joker symbols make it stand out from most other traditional slots.
There’s really not much to criticise, this is very much a case of ‘What you see, is what you get’ with the nice design accompanied by those interesting bonus features.
It’s mobile-optimised and comes with a built-in high return to player percentage of up to 98%. While many people steer clear of these older-style games, fans of them will find the Respin Joker slot machine to be a high quality addition to the SYNOT range that we are happy to recommend.
