Lucky Joker 40 Slot Review
Deep purple table felt, tiled with a faint repeating pattern of card suits, a glowing orange-gold frame and the gold-and-pink Lucky Joker 40 wordmark curled between two ornamental flourishes. The bet this game makes is that an old fruit machine gets better, not just busier, when you double its lines.
Most classics run ten or twenty; this one runs forty across a 5×4 board. It’s the forty-line entry in Amatic‘s crowded Lucky Joker line, sitting alongside Lucky Joker 20 Extra Gifts and the tinsel-wrapped Lucky Joker Xmas. The format is 40 fixed paylines and a return of 96.94%, generous for a classic fruit slot.
There’s no free spins round. The joker does all his work in the base game, and the extra lines are either the whole point of the game or its entire problem.
The 5×4 Board and Its 40 Lines
The game plays out on a five-reel, four-row grid across 40 fixed lines. Line wins pay leftmost to right on adjacent reels, and only the highest line win counts on each line played. Wins from different lines are added together, and all of them are multiples of the line bet.
Scatters are the one exception: they pay on any position and their wins are added on top of the line total. Symbols stack in full columns across the reels, so a board can go from quiet to crowded in a single spin.
The Joker wild appears only on reels two, three and four, replaces any symbol on the same reel, and substitutes for everything except the scatters. It expands to fill its reel, which on a four-row grid means a full column of substitution with up to 40 lines running through it.
The bet level carries across all 40 lines at once, and the paytable rescales automatically whenever it changes. Autoplay is built in, with options for the number of games and a credit-based stop. A turbo mode spins the reels and win animations faster for players who want the pace up.
Symbol Values
Symbol pays are multiples of the line bet, and the seven does the heavy lifting at the top of the ladder:
- 7 – two: 0.25x, three: 1.25x, four: 5x, five: 75x
- Horseshoe / Watermelon – three: 1x, four: 2.5x, five: 12.5x
- Grapes – three: 0.5x, four: 1.25x, five: 5x
- Plums, lemons, cherries – three: 0.25x, four: 0.75x, five: 2.5x
That bottom tier is a mixed-fruit group rather than three separate symbols, which softens the low end: plums, lemons and cherries all count towards the same combination. Payouts are made only when the specified number of a kind lands, so a two-symbol fruit hit pays nothing at all.
Expanding Wilds and Scatter Pays
There’s no bonus round in Lucky Joker 40. The feature set is three modifiers, all working inside the base game:
- Expanding Wild – the Joker fills its reel on two, three or four
- Bell and Star scatters – both pay in any position, as multiples of the total bet
- Stacked symbols – full reel columns that load multiple lines at once
The Expanding Wild
When the Joker lands on reel two, three or four, it expands to occupy the full column. It substitutes for every symbol except the Bell and Star scatters, so a single expanding Joker can complete line wins across a large slice of the 40 lines at once.
Because the wild only ever appears on the middle three reels, it can never head a line win itself. Its work is always substitution, plugging the gap in a chain of sevens or fruit that would otherwise fall one symbol short.
Bell and Star Scatters
The Bell and Star are both scatters, and both pay in any position regardless of the lines. Scatter wins are multiples of the total bet, they’re added to line wins, and only the highest scatter combination pays.
- Bell – three: 3x, four: 20x, five: 100x
- Star – three: 20x
Five Bells at 100x the total bet is the richest combination in the game, comfortably ahead of the seven’s 75x. A 20x three-of-a-kind arriving from just three reels is the sleeper of the paytable.
The Star appears only on reels one, three and five, so it can never form a left-to-right chain; it exists purely as a scatter.
Stacked Symbols
Full columns of a single symbol define how this game plays. Stacked fruit fills lines quietly, one small win stacked on another, and several lines can pay from the same column when the matching symbols land behind it.
Stacked sevens with an expanding Joker in the middle are the other face of it: a single spin can sweep a dozen lines at once.
Return and Top Pays
The return to player is 96.94%, and that holds up well against almost anything in the classic-fruit category. No volatility rating is stated for this game, so none is claimed here; nothing about the modifiers forces the point either way.
The richest single combination in the paytable is the five-Bell scatter at 100x, with the seven’s 75x for five and multi-line stacked wins underneath it. A big session here is built from accumulated line wins and a well-timed scatter rather than one towering hit, and the paytable’s shape makes that clear from the first look.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
Sitting at this felt is like playing the fruit machines you already know, except the board never goes quiet. Stacked columns land constantly, and with 40 lines running through them, small wins arrive in bundles rather than one at a time.
That busyness is the reason to choose it over the ten-line cabinets in the same family. The strength is the return: 96.94% beats most modern slots, never mind classic fruit.
The weakness is the top end: the biggest prize in the paytable is the five-Bell scatter at 100x the total bet, and the game states no maximum win figure. Everything is built, never chased, and the joker expanding across his middle reel is as dramatic as it gets.
This is a game for the classic-fruit regular who wants a fast, well-paid grind and doesn’t miss the feature theatre. Anyone after free spins rounds or a countdown worth watching has plenty of louder cabinets on the same floor. Forty lines on purple felt: an honest table, and a well-paid one.
Lucky Joker 40 FAQs
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What is the RTP of Lucky Joker 40?
Lucky Joker 40 runs at 96.94% RTP, which is the total expected return for the game and a generous figure for a classic fruit slot. -
Does Lucky Joker 40 have free spins?
No. There’s no free spins round or bonus game. The features are three base-game modifiers: an expanding wild, two scatter symbols that pay anywhere, and stacked symbols. -
How do the expanding wilds work in Lucky Joker 40?
The Joker wild appears only on reels two, three and four. When it lands, it expands to fill its entire reel column and substitutes for every symbol except the Bell and Star scatters, so it can complete wins across many of the 40 lines at once. -
What do the Bell and Star scatters pay in Lucky Joker 40?
Both are scatters that pay in any position. The Bell pays 3x for three, 20x for four and 100x your total bet for five. The Star pays 20x for three and appears only on reels one, three and five. Only the highest scatter combination is paid. -
How many paylines does Lucky Joker 40 have?
Lucky Joker 40 is played with 40 fixed paylines, and every one of them is active on every spin. Wins pay from the left on adjacent reels, and line wins from different lines are added together. -
What is the grid size of Lucky Joker 40?
Lucky Joker 40 uses a 5×4 grid: five reels and four rows, with symbols stacking in full columns across the board. -
Can the wild symbol complete a five-of-a-kind win in Lucky Joker 40?
No. The Joker wild only appears on reels two, three and four, so it can never sit on the first reel. It substitutes on the lines it covers, but the leftmost symbol of any winning chain has to be a regular paying symbol. -
Do the plums, lemons and cherries pay separately in Lucky Joker 40?
No. They share one paytable tier as a mixed-fruit group, so any combination of plums, lemons and cherries counts towards the same combination: 0.25x for three, 0.75x for four and 2.5x for five. -
Who makes Lucky Joker 40?
Lucky Joker 40 is made by Amatic, the Austrian studio behind the wider Lucky Joker family, including Lucky Joker 10 Cash Spins and Lucky Joker 20 Extra Gifts.
