Joker Jester

Joker Jester's 5 reels come with 20 paylines. The game was designed by NextGen and offers you wins up to $1,000 while allowing you to enjoy wild symbols and scatter features to help you hit those big wins.

The jester is the medieval equivalent of the stand-up comic or clown one would say, with his ability to entertain people by doing all sorts of things. He appears here as well, as a symbol and character. The entire game takes a cue from the jester's appearance and uses powerful colors of all kinds in the area from the background. You could call it abstract or psychedelic, but either way it mixes reds with yellow, green purple and pink. It's not an unpleasant slot though and it manages to transmit some of the medieval atmosphere. Hanging flags with wolves and chickens are at the top of the screen while the reels have a border colored in orange with the images on the consisting of playing cards and images of castles, barrels, egg baskets, jesters, balls and mandolins.

The top jackpot of 500 coins/$1,000 might not seem like much, but the line wager doesn't ask much from the player either. That single coin that you use to activate a payline has a value between $0.01 and $2, with wagers of up to $40 possible.

The wild jester symbol can appear on all the reels and when you have multiple images of this type on a line you can get prizes. When they appear on their own they contribute by substituting for other symbols and helping the player form new combinations. The prizes start at just 10 coins and they go up to 500 coins, depending on how many wilds are on the payline.

The scatter symbol with the three multi-colored balls awards payouts of up to 100 times the bet and that's pretty much all it does.

The barrel symbol is a bonus game trigger and that happens when there are symbols of this type on the 3rd, 4th and 5th reels. It's a simple picking game where you have to make a choice and you get a prize.

The basket symbol is another bonus round trigger. It's an image of a basket full of eggs that has to appear at the same time on the first three reels of the game.

Overall, Joker Jester is lots of fun and the jester theme with its colorful graphics manages to be a pleasant surprise.