Wild Wild Joker

The joker usually works as a doorman: it stands in for the right symbol, closes a line, takes a bow and disappears. In Wild Wild Joker it has been handed a more serious job — here it shuffles the rules rather than just patching up combinations. The main oddity is obvious at once: the middle reel is deliberately stripped of wilds. The whole intrigue is whether the wilds from the edges can reach the money symbols in the centre and gather a chain — not whether a pretty figure lands on a line.

The grid is unusual — five reels of height 3-4-5-4-3, paying by 720 ways both ways (left to right and right to left). Base RTP is 96.49%, volatility is high, the ceiling sits at 5,000x your bet, the range runs 0.20–240 EUR (360 EUR with Ante Bet). Released in 2025 by Pragmatic Play. Under the fruity signboard with a joker sits a Money-symbol system, two kinds of wild transformation and two free-spin modes, so the only thing classic here is the picture.

Why was the middle reel left without wilds?

Straight to the mechanic the slot is launched for. Money symbols carry random values from 0.5x to 100x your bet, but on their own they just sit on the field. A wild brings them to life: when a wild neighbours a chain of Money symbols, the slot collects the values of all connected ones into a single win. And here is the key nuance — wilds land on every reel except the middle, third one. They substitute for everything except the free-spins scatter.

This is where the whole geometry of the game comes from. Money symbols most often gather in the centre of the tall part of the grid, and only a wild that reaches there from the edges can collect them. The third reel is a neutral strip the chain has to stretch across. So the value of a spin is decided not by the number of wilds but by how well they are positioned on the flanks relative to the money cluster.

What does a wild on the edge turn into?

A wild on the first or fifth reel does not stay ordinary — the slot randomly turns it into one of two versions, and that makes every edge wild a small lottery. Boost Wild raises all Money symbols on screen by one tier at once: a field where symbols sat at 1x–2x is re-valued upward after the boost, and the gathered chain is worth noticeably more. Respin Wild works differently — the reels with a wild lock in place while the rest spin again, giving another attempt to build a chain around the already-fixed wild.

The pairing is sly. Boost drags the whole current layout upward, Respin hands an extra throw with the wild kept — and both trigger only from the edges, which is exactly where the wilds sit in this maths. But I will be honest about bankroll: most of the time an edge wild simply gathers a modest chain with no transformation, and Boost or Respin arrive rarely and not back to back. This is a slot where the big money builds up at the junction of a lucky transformation and a lucky field geometry, and such junctions are infrequent.

If you want one more joker-themed run with a completely different mechanic — we have a review of 6 Jokers, where the joker works not as a money chain from the edges but as a counter across six reels.

How do Super free spins differ from the regular ones?

Free spins are triggered by wilds on the flanks plus a Free Spins scatter on the third reel — the very one with no wilds. Wilds on reels 1-2 or 4-5 together with the scatter in the centre give 8 free spins. But if wilds land on all four flank reels at once (1, 2, 4, 5) plus the scatter on the third — Super Free Spins kick in: 10 free spins with a progressive retrigger multiplier that climbs in tiers x2 / x3 / x5 / x10.

The difference is not only in the number of spins. In the Super mode every retrigger lifts the multiplier to the next tier, and it is exactly this ramp-up to x10 that is the real route to the ceiling. The plain 8 free spins give no generous multiplier — that is the base mode in a free wrapper.

Will your wild reach the centre, or stall on the flank?