Lucky Joker Xmas Dice Slot Review
Santa’s grotto has come to the card table: crimson wallpaper patterned with gingerbread men and gift boxes, tinsel strung between the columns, and a garland of pine and baubles over the top. Amatic‘s Lucky Joker Xmas Dice does something most festive reskins don’t: it pays 97.12%, a return you’d normally expect from a stripped-back classic, not a game with a collect round, two Scatters and a joker in a Santa hat on a 5×3, 10-line grid.
The headline attraction is the Xmas Bonus, a hold-and-collect round built around Gift symbols, sitting alongside Wild substitutions and two Scatter pays. It’s familiar territory for the studio, and players who know Fortune Joker 10 or Fortune Joker 20 will recognise the bones immediately. Whether the wrapping paper hides anything new is the question.
Dice on the Reels: Symbols and Pays
The reels carry a dice-themed take on classic slot symbols, rendered with a polished 3D finish. Symbols can land stacked, which matters more than it sounds on a 10-line grid: a fully stacked top symbol across the middle rows is where the big line wins come from. Wild substitutions and expanding Wilds round out the base reel set, alongside the two Scatters.
The premium icon is the White 7 Dice, which starts paying from just two of a kind. The rest of the ladder steps down through horseshoes and coloured dice.
- White 7 Dice – 2 pays 10x, 3 pays 50x, 4 pays 200x, 5 pays 3,000x the line bet
- Purple Horseshoe Dice – 3 pays 40x, 4 pays 100x, 5 pays 500x the line bet
- Green Dice – 3 pays 40x, 4 pays 100x, 5 pays 500x the line bet
- Cyan Dice – 3 pays 20x, 4 pays 50x, 5 pays 200x the line bet
- Multi-colour Small Dice (pink/yellow/red) – 3 pays 10x, 4 pays 30x, 5 pays 100x the line bet
- Bell Scatter – 3 pays 30x, 4 pays 200x, 5 pays 1,000x the total bet, on any position
- Star Scatter – 3 pays 200x the total bet, on any position
Line wins pay left to right on adjacent reels and are multiples of the line bet, with only the highest combination counting on each line. Wins from different lines are added together. The two Scatter symbols are different: they pay as multiples of the total bet and land anywhere on the grid, with their wins added on top of the line wins.
Only the highest Scatter combination is paid, so you can’t stack Bell and Star payouts on the same spin. The Star only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5, which keeps its 200x three-of-a-kind payout rarer than the Bell’s. The WILD, a Santa-clad joker, appears only on reels 2, 3 and 4 and substitutes for every symbol except the two Scatters.
Gift symbols behave unusually: they appear in addition to the reel symbols and don’t block the win lines at all. A Gift sitting on a payline doesn’t interrupt a win that runs through it, which is a sensible touch on a grid this compact. They carry values from 1x to 250x the standard bet, and their whole purpose is to feed the bonus round.
The Xmas Bonus Feature
This is the round the whole game is arranged around. Landing six or more Gift symbols anywhere on the grid triggers the Xmas Bonus, provided the EXTRA BET is active. Without it, the feature simply isn’t enabled, so the bet toggle is the first decision you make in every session.
Once inside, the round runs on a simple loop:
- Three spins are awarded at the start
- Each of the 15 reel positions spins independently
- Any extra Gift symbol that lands sticks in place and resets the remaining spins to three
- The round ends when the spins run out or all 15 positions are filled with Gift symbols
- Filling all 15 positions doubles the wins on every Gift symbol on the grid
The values shown on Gift symbols at the start of the feature are guaranteed wins, with a chance of additional values landing as the round goes on. When the last spin resolves, every visible value is counted up, any Mystery Gifts unwrap, and the total is paid as a multiple of the standard bet.
Filling the full grid of doubled Gifts is a demanding outcome: 15 sticky landings inside a round that resets to three spins, with every Gift on the board worth up to 250x the standard bet before the doubling.
Mystery Gifts and the EXTRA BET
MYSTERY GIFT symbols are the round’s most valuable parcels. Each one hides a guaranteed win between 25x and 250x the standard bet and only opens at the end of the feature, so a board with several of them keeps its total secret until the last spin resolves. The suspense is a deliberate part of the design.
The EXTRA BET itself is a stake bump rather than a one-off purchase. A higher EXTRA BET increases the chance of landing more valuable Gift symbols and Mystery Gifts, though it doesn’t change the value ranges: those stay at 1-250x and 25-250x respectively whatever you pay. What the extra stake buys, in effect, is better odds on the same parcels.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
This is a game of waiting, trimmed in tinsel. Most spins are the base reel set doing its modest work, and the reason anybody sits down at this particular table is the 97.12% return – on a simple 10-liner, that’s a genuinely generous number, and Amatic deserve credit for not using the festive dressing as an excuse to shave it.
The Xmas Bonus carries everything else, and the reset-to-three structure is the best thing in it: every landing restarts the clock, so a round that looks dead at two spins can suddenly run long. The weakness is that there’s only the one round, and it doesn’t exist unless the EXTRA BET is on. Switch it off and you’re playing a paytable with a locked door where the feature should be.
For players who like a straightforward fruit-machine rhythm with one well-built bonus at the end of it, and who’ll happily pay the higher stake to unlock it, this is easy company. Anyone who wants several rounds and layered mechanics will find the cupboard under this tree fairly bare. It’s a stocking-filler done properly: simple, honest, and better value than it looks.
Lucky Joker Xmas Dice FAQs
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How do you trigger the Xmas Bonus feature in Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
Land six or more Gift symbols anywhere on the grid. The feature only triggers if the EXTRA BET is active, so it’s disabled entirely on a standard bet. -
What do Mystery Gift symbols pay in Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
Each Mystery Gift hides a guaranteed win of between 25x and 250x the standard bet, and it stays wrapped until the feature finishes, opening only at the very end. -
Can the Xmas Bonus retrigger in Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
Yes, in effect. Every feature spin that lands at least one extra Gift symbol sets the remaining spins back to three, so a lucky run can keep the round going indefinitely until the board fills or the spins expire. -
What happens if you fill all 15 positions in the Xmas Bonus?
Every Gift win on the grid is doubled. -
What is the RTP of Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
The RTP is 97.12%, which is well above the typical online slot average. -
How many paylines does Lucky Joker Xmas Dice have?
There are 10 fixed paylines. Only the highest win on each line is paid, and wins from separate lines are added together. -
What does the Wild symbol do in Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
Santa takes the Wild role, standing in for every icon on the middle three reels except the Bell and Star Scatters. -
Who makes Lucky Joker Xmas Dice?
Amatic, the Austrian studio behind the Fortune Joker series, including Fortune Joker 10 and Fortune Joker 20.
