Joker Rush: Cash Collect Slot by Playtech

The reels are pure fruit machine - a sliced watermelon, a purple plum, an orange, a lemon, red cherries, a golden bell and a BAR - but the host is a grinning red-and-cream Joker in a horned jester's cap, hands pointing at each side of a hot orange, harlequin-diamond backdrop. That Joker is the Wild. He drops in stacks and stands in for every fruit, though he pays nothing on his own and won't touch the coins or the collector.

Coins do all the work. Gold Cash discs carry a set value from x1 up to x500 the total bet, and they just sit there doing nothing until a blue-and-gold Cash Collect medallion lands on reel 5. When it does, it sweeps every coin in view at once - Cash discs, jackpot Prize coins and Free Game coins alike. Lose a base spin and you still might get bailed out: the Nudge can slide a Cash Collect into place on reel 5 and fire the collect anyway, a random rescue that turns a dead spin into a paying one.

The four jackpots ride on a purple-diamond Prize coin. Collect one and it hands you a fixed tier at random, Mini 20x, Minor 50x, Major 200x or Grand 500x the total bet. None of them climb. They're flat, bet-based amounts, so the Grand caps at 500x rather than the runaway progressive some coin-collectors dangle.

Free Game coins carry a +N, anywhere from +1 to +15, and a Cash Collect on reel 5 scoops them up and starts the round with spins equal to their combined total. This is where it opens up. Cash Collect symbols now land across all five reels, and each one that hits freezes in place for up to ten spins, so a hot start keeps chaining collects while a wheel drops extra awards on top. There's no buy button to skip ahead and no ante bet, you wait the coins out the honest way. The ceiling works out to around 1,755x the bet.