Fortune Joker 10 Slot Review
Gold coins spill out of the scrollwork at the top corners of Fortune Joker 10’s cabinet, pooling above the bet plaque, while a faint watermark of hearts, clubs and diamonds drifts across the deep royal-blue behind the reels. It’s a classic fruit machine dressed up as a gilded casino parlour, and the dressing is genuinely lush: polished brass, heavy gilt, expensive-looking rather than cheap. What Amatic have put inside that frame is the argument, because it’s a 5×3 grid, ten fixed paylines, a Joker wild on the middle reels and nothing else.
In a market chasing collections, cascades and four bonus rounds, that’s a position, not an oversight. The little jester’s cap with its bells, perched on the purple side rail, makes the game a promise. Whether the reels keep it is another matter.
Base Game & Features
Five reels, three rows, ten fixed paylines. That’s one of the oldest configurations in the business, and Amatic haven’t tried to improve on it. Every line is always in play, so there’s nothing to adjust spin to spin.
The symbol set is pure tradition: the lucky 7 up top, a horseshoe, then watermelon, grapes, plum, orange, lemon and cherry. No card royals anywhere. For a fruit machine, that’s as canonical as it gets.
Those eight symbols sit on five pay tiers, because several of them share a ladder. Watermelon and grapes are one tier, plum and orange another, and lemon and cherry a third. It’s a compact structure: three premium symbols and three matched pairs of fruit.
The shared tiers have a practical effect worth understanding before you spin. Watermelon and grapes will always return the same amount for the same combination, wherever they land, and the same goes for both pairs below them. So while there are eight symbols on the reels, there are only five prize outcomes to keep track of. That’s part of the appeal: a paytable you can hold in your head.
The Joker handles the only special work in the base game:
- She lands only on reels two, three and four
- She replaces any symbol on the same reel
- With ten lines in play, a middle-reel wild can complete several combinations at once
That reel restriction shapes everything the wild can do. She can never open a line from reel one, and she can never close it on reel five. What she can do is turn a two-symbol start on the outer reels into a paying line, and one appearance can serve several lines at the same time when the neighbouring reels hold the right symbols.
Here’s what each tier returns as a multiple of your stake:
- 7: 0.5x for two, 4x for three, 20x for four, 200x for five
- Horseshoe: 2x for three, 10x for four, 40x for five
- Watermelon / Grapes: 1x for three, 4x for four, 20x for five
- Plum / Orange: 0.5x for a full line of three, rising through 2.5x and 15x for four and five
- Lemon / Cherry: the smallest prizes on the board, 0.5x up to a 10x ceiling for five
Two things stand out in that ladder. The 7 pays from two of a kind, an old-school touch most modern slots wouldn’t bother with, and it means the top symbol earns something almost every time it lands on the first two reels. Beyond that, the steps are gentle: no tier below the top one reaches a fraction of the 7’s five-of-a-kind prize, and the middle of the ladder stays close together.
There’s no published maximum win figure for this one. The 200x top prize on the ladder is the best the game offers.
Wins pay left to right, and only the highest combination on each line counts. If a line holds two different paying combinations, the better one takes the prize and the lesser pays nothing. That’s the full rulebook for the reels.
Fortune Joker 10 Bonus Features
The bonus side of the game is brief, so this section will be too. Fortune Joker 10 carries one option beyond the base game, and it’s a switch rather than a round. No free spins, no pick’em, no second screen.
Bonus Hunt
Tucked under the jester’s cap on the purple side rail sits the Bonus Hunt button. It works in three steps:
- Open the side panel and find the Bonus Hunt button
- Select an option to boost the bonus
- Confirm or cancel with the checkmark and cross beside the button
It’s a preference setting, not a feature you watch unfold. Players who like a hand on the dials get exactly one dial here. The checkmark and cross make the choice explicit, so the setting is never a surprise carried into the next spin.
The rest of the side panel is display rather than control. The ten-line count sits in the interface alongside the stake and running totals, and the left rail is decoration rather than function. Everything that matters in this game happens on the reels themselves.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Playing Fortune Joker 10 is like pulling up a stool at a machine that’s been in the same corner for forty years, except this corner has been regilded. You spin, the Joker fills a gap, you either win or you don’t. People choose a game like this for exactly that: no rounds to wait for, no rules to learn, and the 7 paying from two of a kind means even the top symbol chips in regularly rather than sulking until five land.
Its strength is that flat, honest paytable. Everything it pays is visible in one list, and the wild working three reels gives every spin a genuine chance of connecting. Its weakness is depth: one toggle is the whole bonus side, and anyone after a feature that unfolds rather than switches on will find this game over in ten minutes of play.
This is one for the classic-format faithful, the players who want their fruit machines quick, legible and dressed nicely, and it’s a poor fit for anyone who measures a slot by what its bonus round does. The parlour is gilded, but it’s a fruit machine standing in it, and a rather good one.
Fortune Joker 10 FAQs
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How many paylines does Fortune Joker 10 have?
Ten, and they’re all fixed. Every line is in play on every spin, so there’s no betline selection to fiddle with. -
What is the grid size of Fortune Joker 10?
It’s a 5×3 grid: five reels and three rows, with the Joker wild restricted to the middle three reels. -
Who makes Fortune Joker 10?
Fortune Joker 10 is made by Amatic, the Austrian studio behind a long line of classic-style fruit slots. -
What does the Wild Joker do in Fortune Joker 10?
She’s a substituting wild. Wherever she lands, she stands in for any other symbol on that reel, which on a ten-line game can complete more than one line at a time. -
Can the Joker appear on the first or fifth reel?
No. She only shows up on reels two, three and four, so the outer reels never carry a wild. -
What is Bonus Hunt in Fortune Joker 10?
Bonus Hunt is a toggle in the game’s side panel. Switch it on, select an option, and the bonus is boosted. It’s a preference setting rather than a bonus round. -
What is the highest-paying symbol in Fortune Joker 10?
The lucky 7. It starts paying from just two of a kind, and the five-of-a-kind prize is the best the game offers. -
Do watermelon and grapes pay the same in Fortune Joker 10?
Yes. They share a pay tier, as do plum with orange and lemon with cherry, so eight symbols across the reels resolve into five prize outcomes.
