Jo Blitz Slot by Playtech

The grinning joker splashed across these six reels isn't the Wild. It's the top-paying symbol, worth up to 1,050 coins on its own, and it lands in stacks, so a full column of jesters is what you're really chasing. The Wild is a separate icon that only appears on reels two through six and stands in for everything except the blue Diamond Scatter. Two jokers, two jobs.

Under the fruit-machine dressing sits Playtech's Buffalo Blitz engine, so wins pay 4096 ways: any matching symbols on neighbouring reels, counted left to right from reel one, regardless of which row they land on. Bells, cherries, grapes and card royals fill the grid against a deep-red backdrop with orange flames licking up the bottom edge.

Three or more Diamonds start the free games, and the count scales hard. Three hands you 8 spins, four gives 15, five gives 25, and six drops a full 100 in one shot. It retriggers with no cap, and even two Diamonds top up the tally mid-round, so a good run can stretch on. The payoff is the Wild, which during free games multiplies any win it completes by x2, x3 or x5 at random.

Sitting underneath all of it are four mystery progressives, Mini, Minor, Major and the top Blitz, that fire at random on any spin with no build-up. Trigger one and you drop into a pick round: a grid of 20 diamonds, click to reveal what's behind each, and match three identical jackpot markers to bank that tier. A timer runs while you pick, and stall too long and it starts flipping tiles for you. Fitting, for a slot this loud.