Play Random Joker for Free

Everyone knows that it's important to get your five fruits per day, or so the experts say. But, if you are a fan of retro style video slots, then you will also appreciate just how important it can be to line up five fruits in a row for those extra big wins. That is exactly what might happen in this fruit machine themed slot machine by Merkur Gaming, which presents spinners with a grocery store's worth of delicious fruit symbols.

There some traditional arcade slot fruits on show, such as cherries, oranges and watermelons, but the game isn't afraid to shake up the flavours with some less common fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, limes, peaches and pineapples.

There is also one icon involved in the spinning action which isn't particularly fruity in form, but will still offer some very juicy winning potential – that is the wild joker symbol which will substitute for all symbols to complete winning sequences.

It is evident that this 5-reel fruit machine isn't afraid to do something different when it comes to shaking up the thematic expectations. And this continues with the game's design itself, because each and every fruit is rendered in quite a uniquely stylised way, which appears quite different from the normal fruit symbols that you might find upon classically inclined gambling games.

Unusually for a Merkur Gaming slot machine, players are given the opportunity to choose whether they want to play with all of the available paylines, or a smaller amount. In fact, the payline options are 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10, which effectively allows casual punters to limit their losses by paying bets on fewer lines while big risk takers can go all out with 10 paylines in play. The bet per line options available range from 0.01 to 2.00 credits.

However many paylines you choose to play with, the value of the prizes remain the same. That is because all wins are calculated as line bet multipliers whenever three or more of the same symbols align from left to right on any active payline. The smallest of those line bet prizes is a 10x multiplier while the biggest is worth 500x. You can see every potential win and its respective symbol sequence in the following paytable:

Let's be honest, a top line bet multiplier of 500x is far from being to most lucrative of wins in the business. However, players might find that Random Joker offers a decent range of winning potential to boost their betting balance. That is thanks to the titular “Random Joker” bonus feature which is triggered whenever a stack of three wild joker symbols appear to cover the entirety of the fifth reel. This will cause a random number of wild jokers to be added to every other reel on the screen which, as you can probably imagine, has the potential to set off many paylines at once.

Even if you find that you are stuck with smaller wins in this game, then you do have the chance to boost them with one of to gamble games. There is a simple 50/50 card based gamble which offers double-or-nothing stakes for players who attempt to guess the colour of a turned over playing card. The other game presents a ladder of prizes, giving punters the chance to risk climbing up to higher prizes or falling down to lower prizes.