Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts Slot Review
Deep magenta wallpaper, tone-on-tone spades and hearts in a diagonal lattice, a dark cabinet edged in gold trim: Amatic‘s Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts dresses its fruit in the full purple-and-gloss casino look. The jester on the banner holds a gift box, and that box is the whole reason this slot exists.
It’s a 5×3 grid with five fixed paylines and an RTP of 96.99%. The format sits close to Fortune Joker 10 and Fortune Joker 20, with a joker, a fruit bowl and a scatter or two doing the familiar work. One gift box carries the entire feature set, and you pay for it on every spin.
Fruit, Sevens and a Middle-Reel Joker
The base game is classic stepper logic. Line wins pay leftmost to right on adjacent reels, only the highest combination counts per line, and wins from different lines add together. It’s a five-line format, so hits are thin on the ground by modern standards. When they land, the sevens do the heavy lifting.
Symbols stack on the reels, and a stacked joker can fill its reel entirely. The Joker is the wild: it appears only on reels two, three and four, and substitutes for everything except the scatters. Because it never strays onto the outer reels, the biggest line wins still need genuine sevens on the flanks, with the joker completing the middle.
Symbol pays are multiples of the line bet, and the ladder is short:
- 7 – 20x for two, 100x for three, 400x for four, 6,000x for five
- Horseshoe / Watermelon – 80x for three, 200x for four, 1,000x for five
- Grapes – 40x for three, 100x for four, 400x for five
- Mixed fruit (plum or cherries) – 20x for three, 60x for four, 200x for five
Two things about that ladder stand out. The seven pays from just two of a kind, which softens the dry stretches a little, and the mixed fruit row means plums and cherries combine into a single winning combination rather than needing a matching set. On five lines, every shortcut to a win counts.
Two scatters sit outside the line system, paying as multiples of the total bet rather than the line bet, on any position:
- Bell – 30x for three, 200x for four, 1,000x for five
- Star – 200x for three; appears only on reels one, three and five
Scatter wins are added to any line wins from the same spin. Only the highest scatter combination pays, so a screen full of mixed bells and stars returns the best single combination rather than the lot.
Gift symbols are the odd ones out. They land into the 15 reel positions in addition to the normal symbols, they don’t block the win lines, and they carry values from 1x up to 250x the standard bet. They’re fuel for the feature, not a paytable row.
Every paytable value tracks the current bet level, so the numbers shift automatically when the stake changes. Payouts only land when the exact required number of a kind shows up; a four-symbol line pays the four-symbol rate and nothing above it.
The Extra Bet and the Gift Spin Feature
Extra Gifts
The EXTRA BET is the switch that turns the whole feature on. Without it, Gift symbols are decoration. With it, the Gift Spin round becomes available, and a higher extra bet raises the odds of landing more valuable Gift symbols and Mystery Gifts.
The cost sits on top of the standard stake every spin, and the Gift values themselves – 1x to 250x the standard bet – don’t change with the level. What the extra bet buys is better odds on the valuable ones, plus access to the round at all.
Gift Spins
Land six or more Gift symbols anywhere with the extra bet active and the Gift Spin feature triggers. Three spins are awarded to start. Each of the 15 reel positions then spins independently, hold-and-win style, and line and scatter wins aren’t evaluated during the round.
Two things reset the counter:
- A Joker symbol landing on a feature spin resets the spins and adds one more, up to a ceiling of six
- Any new Gift symbol landing resets the remaining spins to the full count
The round ends when the spins run out or all 15 positions fill with Gifts. Fill the grid and the wins shown on every Gift symbol are doubled.
The values locked on the Gifts at the start of the feature are guaranteed; anything that lands during the round adds to the total.
It’s worth spelling out the shape of a typical run. Six Gifts trigger the round, nine positions are still empty, and each new Gift both resets the counter and locks another value in place. The Joker resets are the rarer treat: because each one adds a spin up to the six-spin ceiling, a Joker-rich round can outlast its original three-spin budget and give the grid time to fill.
Mystery Gifts
Mystery Gift symbols are the premium variant. Each one guarantees a win between 25x and 250x the standard bet, whatever extra bet level you’re running, and they open at the end of the feature. On a full grid with the doubling applied, they’re where the serious money in this game lives.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Playing this is mostly a wait. Five lines, a joker on the middle reels and the odd scatter keep the purple cabinet ticking over in small change while the gift boxes stack up in the background, and the reason anybody sits through that wait is the Gift Spin round at the end of it.
That round earns the patience. The Joker reset that grows the spin count to six is a genuinely generous mechanic, and the full-grid doubling gives the feature a proper target rather than a loose collection of coin values. The weakness is the price of admission: the round doesn’t exist without the extra bet, so every spin of the sparse base game carries a premium for a feature you might not reach for a long while.
This one suits players who grew up on steppers and want a modern hold-and-win layer bolted on, funded spin by spin. Anyone who measures a slot by its ways-to-win count or the variety of its bonus rounds will find five lines and a joker a thin diet. For the right player, though, the jester’s gift is a good one to keep paying for.
Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts FAQs
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What is the RTP of Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts?
The RTP is 96.99%. -
How many paylines does Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts have?
It’s played with 5 fixed paylines, and line wins pay leftmost to right on adjacent reels. -
What is the grid size of Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts?
The game runs on a 5×3 grid with 15 reel positions. -
When is Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts released?
Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts’ release date is 13 November 2023. -
Who makes Lucky Joker 5 Extra Gifts?
It’s made by Amatic. -
How do you trigger the Gift Spin feature?
Land 6 or more GIFT symbols anywhere on the reels, with the EXTRA BET activated. Without the extra bet, the feature can’t trigger at all. -
What does the Joker symbol do in the Gift Spin feature?
If a Joker lands on a feature spin, the number of remaining spins is reset and increased by 1, up to a maximum of 6. -
What is a Mystery Gift symbol worth?
A Mystery Gift guarantees a win between 25x and 250x the standard bet value, regardless of the extra bet level, and it’s opened at the end of the feature.
