Fire Joker review
Play’n GO released Fire Joker on 13 June 2016 as a deliberate throwback to the fruit machine. It was the third game in the studio’s Joker series, later followed by Chronos Joker and Ice Joker, and the studio bills its fiery clown as the hottest in the pack. The grid is 3×3 with 5 paylines. There are two features and no free spins at all.
Fruit, the Joker and line pays
Everything on screen points back to the pub fruit machine. The symbols the studio lists are cherry, lemon, grape, plum, BAR, star and seven, with the Joker himself as the Wild. Flames frame the reels, and that is about it for decoration. Officially the game is filed under a food theme, which makes sense only because of the fruit; the mood is closer to a circus act.
A win needs three of the same symbol on one of the five lines. With only three reels, there are no shorter combinations to speak of. The Joker can land in any position on every reel and substitutes for any symbol, so one Wild can serve several lines at once.
Symbols can arrive in stacks that cover a whole reel, and both features are built around that. The studio page doesn’t publish per-symbol values, so use the paytable inside the game, which shows payouts converted to your current stake.
Fruit occupies the lower paytable tier, with BAR, star and seven higher. There are no progress meters or separate feature screens: both features work with stacks on the reels.
Respin of Fire and the Wheel of Multipliers
- Two reels show stacks of the same symbol.
- None of the paylines produces a win.
- The two stacks hold, and the remaining reel gets one free respin.
On the respin, one or two matching symbols or Wilds pay the lines passing through them; a matching full stack gives a full screen. Without a match there is no pay. Holding two stacks does not guarantee a match on the third reel.
When all nine positions show one symbol, the Wheel of Multipliers spins and multiplies the total win for that spin by up to x10. A full screen already pays on every line at once, so the wheel works on a sizeable base.
The wheel’s highest value is not guaranteed. Its multiplier applies to the current spin’s total win rather than the bet, and does not carry onward. There is no collect-or-gamble decision or extra wheel charge. Free spins, feature buys and ante are absent.
RTP builds and return distribution
The five RTP builds are 96.15%, 94.23%, 91.23%, 87.24% and 84.26%. The operator’s selected build appears in the rules; a short session’s result cannot identify it. Volatility is medium and the maximum 800x. Hit, respin and wheel frequencies, multiplier weights and each feature’s return share are unpublished.
Return here is shared between regular lines, respins and the wheel within the base game. By comparison, Evolution lists 68.6% base return for Dead or Alive 2, with nearly all the rest in free spins. Absence of a separate bonus alone does not prove shorter blank runs.
The Joker family and other retro slots
Chronos Joker — Released: November 2019; Grid and lines: 3 reels, 10 lines; Signature mechanic: Random multipliers x2–x10, super versions x4–x20, respin for two stacks.
Ice Joker — Released: December 2020; Grid and lines: —; Signature mechanic: Freezing reels, up to 50 respins, the Winter’s Wheel.
Chronos Joker’s respin triggers only without an active multiplier. Ice Joker develops freezing and chained repeats. Fire Joker Blitz arrived on 28 August 2025 with six reels and 4,096 ways.
Twin Spin by NetEnt arrived in 2013, with medium volatility and 96.55% RTP. The fruit-themed Fruit Shop has low volatility and 96.71% RTP. Play’n GO released Book of Dead in the same year, 2016, with free spins and an expanding symbol, a different format from respins and a wheel.
