Frozen Joker Slot by GameArt

A counter sits across the top of the reels, and on every base spin it locks to one value out of x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10. Whatever it shows multiplies that spin's win outright. So a small three-cherry line can suddenly pay ten times its usual amount, and on a 3x3 machine running just 5 lines, that counter is doing most of the heavy lifting between bonuses. Land a frosted lucky 7 or the stacked BAR/BAR/BAR while it's parked on x10 and the math gets interesting fast.

Two kinds of Wild work the icy reels. The plain Wild is the glassy X; it fills in for any paying symbol, and after it helps form a win it freezes in place for the following spin, sticking for exactly one extra round and no more. Three of those X Wilds lined up hand you the top paytable prize directly. The other Wild is the Frozen Joker himself, the sneering blue-haired ice-jester, and he only ever turns up on reel 3. When he does, he stretches to cover the whole reel, stays put, and kicks off a respin of reels 1 and 2 while he holds his ground.

The bigger payout comes from a Wheel of Fortune. Fill the grid with 9 matching symbols and a wheel spins up a multiplier from x5, x8, x10, x12, x20, x25 or x50, and here's the part that stacks: that wheel value gets multiplied again by whatever the top counter is showing, then applied to every win on the board. You can also buy the wheel straight from the gold BONUS coin parked on the left of the reels rather than wait for nine-of-a-kind to land on its own. Any win, wheel or otherwise, can be pushed through a card gamble, red or black to double, correct suit to quadruple, repeatable up to five times.

It all sits on an icy blue-violet stage streaked with light, the white reel frame rimed with frost and dripping icicles, ice-blue firework rockets standing either side. The fruit are the usual orange, lemon, plum, grapes and cherries, just frosted over, which keeps it a familiar winter-dressed fruit machine underneath all the cold neon. No free spins anywhere, no jackpots; the whole thing leans on that multiplier counter and the wheel to climb toward its 7,500x ceiling.