Ice Joker

Ice Joker Slot Review

An arctic night, a grid framed by faceted blue ice pillars, and a pale jester’s face peeking out from the frost in the corner. Ice Joker looks like two games at once – a classic fruit machine and a frozen feature slot – but it’s really only one. The fruit, the 7s and the bars pay the bills, and every moment worth remembering comes from the same frozen wild arriving on the middle reels. The frost isn’t decoration; it’s the entire bonus structure.

Play’n GO builds it on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines, 96.23% RTP and mid volatility, with wins up to 3,000x the bet – a smaller ceiling than Fire Joker Freeze or Frozen Gems, and far below Legend of the Ice Dragon. For a fruit machine built around one frozen idea, that’s the bargain on offer.

Reels, Lines and Symbols

Ice Joker pays left to right across 20 fixed lines, with only the highest combination counting on each one and multiple line wins added together in a single round. It’s the classic setup, and the game doesn’t complicate it. Wins need three or more matching symbols from the leftmost reel, with no gaps in the run.

All winning combinations are paid out at the end of a game round, and anything won in the features is added on top of the payline wins. Free spins run at the same bet and the same number of lines as the round that triggered them. The bet can’t be changed while a round is in progress.

The Ice Joker herself is the wild. She lands only on reels two, three and four, substitutes for everything except the scatter, and pays like the top symbol when she lines up. The scatter is a snowflake, which lands on reels one, three and five.

Symbol values, as multiples of the total bet:

• 7 – 2.5x for three, 10x for four, 50x for five
• Star – 1.5x for three, 5x for four, 10x for five
• Bar – 1x for three, 2.5x for four, 5x for five
• Plum / Grapes – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 2.5x for five
• Lemon / Cherry – 0.25x for three, 0.75x for four, 1.5x for five
• Ice Joker (wild) – 2.5x for three, 10x for four, 50x for five

The wild matches the 7 at the top of the table, so a full line of Jokers pays the same 50x as a full line of 7s. Below the fruit, the paytable thins out quickly: five lemons pays 1.5x the bet.

Everything above the modest stuff has to come from the two bonus rounds. That top-heavy shape is normal for a mid volatility game, and it tells you where to look. The base reels grind out small line wins, the wild covers the middle, and the real arithmetic sits in the features. Two of them share the same frozen wild, which is the thread the whole game hangs on.

Frozen Free Spins

Landing an Ice Joker anywhere on the middle three reels awards three Frozen Free Spins. The triggering Joker freezes in place and then expands by one position with each free spin, creeping along the reel until she has filled it – at which point she’s removed.

The round works step by step:

• An Ice Joker lands on reels two, three or four and awards three free spins
• The Joker locks in place and expands by one position on every free spin
• Once she has filled the reel, she is removed
• Landing additional Ice Jokers adds three more free spins each time
• New Jokers freeze and expand in the same way

Because a Joker only expands on spins the round actually grants, those three free spins are doing a lot of work: one to grow her, one to grow her further, and one with her at her widest before she fills the reel and clears off.

Retrigers are what turn a modest round into a long one, since each new Joker restarts the clock with its own three spins. Fill the screen with 7s and the game pays out 1,000x the bet in one hit. That grid of 7s is exactly what the round is built to chase.

Winters Wild Wheel

Three snowflake scatters – one on each of reels one, three and five – activate the Winters Wild Wheel. The wheel spins and collects Ice Jokers, up to seven of them, which then get fed onto the reels.

The loop runs like this:

• The wheel awards a free spin with a stock of up to seven collected Ice Jokers
• Land an Ice Joker on that spin and the Frozen Free Spins round begins
• If none land, one of the collected Jokers is placed on the reels instead
• The collected count drops by one each time a Joker is added
• When no collected Jokers remain to be added, the feature ends

Every scatter trigger guarantees at least one frozen wild going to work, because the collected stock exists precisely to cover the spins where nothing lands naturally. A full wheel of seven Jokers can string together several rounds in a row, each one handing the baton back to the Frozen Free Spins rules before the stock runs dry.

The game’s ceiling of 3,000x the bet lives here, built from expanding wilds stacking across the middle reels while the paylines fill with 7s. It’s a feature that rations its own momentum: the wheel decides how many chances you get, and the free spins decide what each one is worth.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.2/10

Playing Ice Joker is mostly a quiet game of patience on a classic 20-liner, waiting for a Joker to freeze herself onto the middle reels and start creeping outward. That slow spread is the one reason to pick it: it’s a small piece of theatre that most fruit machines never attempt.

The wheel is the smartest thing here. Because the collected stock always reaches the reels, a scatter trigger can’t leave you empty-handed, and a full stock of seven strings the rounds together beautifully. The ceiling is the drag: 3,000x is small by modern standards, and with just three spins per Joker, the 7-filled grid the game dangles stays firmly out of reach most sessions.

This is one for players who enjoy old symbols done with patience and one good idea, rather than anyone hunting five-figure potential. If the frost creeping across the frame appeals, the reels will feel the same way.

Ice Joker FAQs

• What is the RTP of Ice Joker?

  Ice Joker runs at an RTP of 96.23%.
• Is Ice Joker high volatility?

  No. Ice Joker is a mid volatility slot, so wins tend to come at a steadier pace than in high volatility games.
• How many paylines does Ice Joker have?

  Ice Joker has 20 paylines, all paying left to right from the leftmost reel. Only the highest win counts on each line, and wins on multiple lines in the same round are added together.
• What is the maximum win on Ice Joker?

  The maximum win is 3,000x your bet. A grid full of 7s during the Frozen Free Spins pays 1,000x the bet on its own.
• How do you trigger the Winters Wild Wheel in Ice Joker?

  You need three snowflake scatters, one on each of reels one, three and five. The wheel then collects up to seven Ice Jokers, which are added to the reels to start Frozen Free Spins.
• What does the Ice Joker wild do?

  The Ice Joker is a special wild that only lands on reels two, three and four. She substitutes for all symbols except the scatter, and landing her awards three Frozen Free Spins in which she freezes in place and expands with each spin until she fills the reel.
• Can you retrigger Frozen Free Spins in Ice Joker?

  Yes. Landing additional Ice Jokers during the round awards three more free spins each time, and the new Jokers freeze and expand in the same way as the original.
• When is Ice Joker released?

  Ice Joker’s release date is 3 December 2020.