Joker’s Revenge
Joker’s Revenge Stats
Free Spins & Bonus
- Free Spins
- 3 bonus symbols = 5 spins
- Bonus Buy
- Free Spins 40x · Super Free Spins 1 180x · Super Free Spins 2 1,000x
Two Volatility Bolts, Low?
Pragmatic Play has stamped Joker’s Revenge with a two-bolt volatility badge and given the slot the same 10,000x cap. The whole game lives in the gap between those figures, bridging it one free spin at a time.
The Jester’s Slow-Burn Ladder
A Bonus Prize That Reprices Every Spin
Three crown symbols on the middle reels open the round with a 1x payout and five free spins, and from there the game’s one real idea takes over. Every spin of the round raises what the next crown hit is worth, starting at 2x the total bet and climbing through 20x, 200x and 2,000x as the count grows. Land two or more crowns or wilds in any combination, and they pay the current rung. Land three and the round also gains one extra spin. Because the ladder never steps back down, each added spin is a ticket to a bigger number, all the way to the 10,000x cap, where the round stops on the spot, pays the capped amount and forfeits whatever was left. Sugar Rush spreads its escalation across a whole grid of multiplier spots. This jester runs a single price upwards instead.
A Wild Working Two Jobs
The jester herself is the wild, restricted to reels 2, 3 and 4. In regular play, she substitutes for every symbol except the crown and carries no pay of her own, so she can never complete a line unaided. Once free spins begin, she covers the crown as well, counting toward both the rung collects and the retriggers, which is why rounds tend to gather momentum once they get going.
Bonus Buy Prices
The rules pages sell the feature at three tiers. Forty times the bet buys the standard five spins, 180x buys Super Free Spins 1 with seven, and 1,000x buys Super Free Spins 2 with nine. Published returns barely move across them, at 96.51%, 96.52% and 96.53%, so the dearer options purchase extra rungs of the climb rather than better maths.
How to Play
The paytable never leaves the screen in Joker’s Revenge. A strip above the reels carries every symbol’s values while you spin, a sensible touch in a game with five lines and nine paying symbols. Wins run left to right from the first reel, line wins multiply the bet per line, and crown pays multiply the total bet from any position. Five paylines is sparse even for a classic layout, half of what Big Bass Bonanza works with. Stakes are built the old-fashioned way, coins per line times coin value, from $0.05 to $250 a spin, and a spin-speed button cycles normal, quick and turbo if free play at standard pace feels sedate.
Joker’s Revenge Paytable
Line by line. Five money bags across a line pay 500x the total bet, the top prize outside the feature; the demo loads at a $2 stake and the strip’s figures move with every bet change.
| Symbol | Two on a line | Three | Four | Five |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money bag | 1x | 10x | 50x | 500x |
| Golden chalice | 0.4x | 5x | 10x | 100x |
| Scroll | 0.4x | 5x | 10x | 50x |
| Blue diamond | – | 2x | 5x | 30x |
| Green gem | – | 2x | 5x | 30x |
| A | – | 1x | 2x | 25x |
| K | – | 1x | 2x | 20x |
| Q | – | 1x | 2x | 15x |
The crown Bonus sits outside the table’s logic, paying 0.4x for two and 1x for three from any positions on reels 2, 3 and 4, with three also triggering the free spins. The wild displays no values anywhere, on the strip or in the rules.
Ultimate Slots Verdict
Joker's Revenge lists the same 10,000x cap as Pragmatic's most volatile games on a two-bolt engine, and bridges the distance with one clever decision, a Bonus prize that reprices upward on every free spin. The ladder is the whole show; around it sits a tidy, plain five-line classic. Some people may come from the 'different' looking jester, we prefer not to comment!
✓ What We Like
- The Bonus pay ladder puts a visibly higher price on every extra spin, topping out at 10,000x the bet per hit
- Wilds double as Bonus symbols during the round, so rung collects and retriggers come easier once you're in
- Buying spins barely moves the maths, with published returns of 96.51%, 96.52% and 96.53% across the three options
- An always-on paytable strip and five straight lines make it unusually easy to read at a glance
✗ What Could Be Better
- Everything above the 200x rung needs chained retriggers, one added spin at a time, so the top tiers stay theoretical for most rounds
- Outside the feature it's a bare five-liner whose best prize is 500x and whose wild never touches reels 1 or 5
- A natural trigger's five spins only ever reach the 20x rung unless retriggers arrive
Detailed Review
Reading the Climb
Here’s the ladder in full, because this review hangs on it.
| Free spin | Bonus pay (× total bet) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2x |
| 2 | 5x |
| 3 | 10x |
| 4 | 15x |
| 5 | 20x |
| 6 | 50x |
| 7 | 100x |
| 8 | 150x |
| 9 | 200x |
| 10 | 1,000x |
| 11 | 2,000x |
| Every spin after the 12th | 10,000x |
Now the arithmetic. A natural trigger grants five spins, which reaches the 20x rung and no further. The dearest buy starts at nine, worth 200x a hit by the end. Everything above that line has to be earned mid-round, one retrigger at a time, three crowns or wilds per extra spin. Stringing together the four extensions that separate spin nine from the 10,000x tier is possible in the way most printed maximums are possible. The demo will show you the shape of the climb long before it shows you the top of it.
And still the idea works. Two crowns or wilds across three middle reels isn’t a rare sight, so the ladder pays out constantly at its lower rungs — which is how a two-bolt volatility rating and this cap share a rules page. What changes is the temperature. By the fifth spin you know the next pair is worth 20x rather than 2x, and a retrigger stops being a nicety and starts being the whole plot. When a round dies at spin five with one 2x hit banked, the deflation is part of the design too. Few low volatility games make you watch the clock like this.
Pragmatic already owns the loud road to this number. Zeus vs Hades hits 10,000x with raging multipliers and variance to match, and it feels like a war. Joker’s Revenge books the same destination as a slow lottery draw, five plain lines ticking over while one figure creeps up in the corner.
Most rounds will live and die between the 2x and 20x rungs, and the game is honest about it. The ladder just makes sure you can see exactly what sits further up.
