Mad Hit Jokester

Mad Hit Jokester Overview

Mad Hit Jokester is a RubyPlay slot on a five-by-three grid with 10 paylines, set in a circus tent with a grinning jester leaning over the top of the reels. Its free games round is built on a collection that pays twice over.

The trigger screen states it in one line: the jester collects rubber ducks for extra wins – and each completed set awards ten more spins and a higher multiplier.

Theme and Graphics

The base game is staged against a striped circus backdrop in amber and gold, with large gold stars scattered across it. During the free games the curtain turns violet and the stars go pink.

The jester himself, in a red-and-gold belled cap, leans over the top of the reel frame throughout and appears on the reels as a card marked MAD HIT. The symbols beneath him are classic machine stock: a red 7, gold bells, watermelon, grapes and card letters, with little red-and-white circus tents and yellow rubber ducks joining them during the feature.

A green BUY FEATURE plate sits to the left of the reels. All figures below come from demo play at a 10.00 EUR total bet.

The celebration animation deserves a mention: a completed collection fills the entire screen with red, orange and purple balloons, obscuring the reels entirely for a moment. It is a genuinely charming piece of work, and unusual on a game whose symbol set is otherwise as plain as a bar machine’s.

The Paytable

The bells lead the readable part of the table at 1,000.00 for five, 100.00 for four and 50.00 for three – against the stake that is 100x, 10x and 5x.

The watermelon and the grapes share a rung at 250.00 / 50.00 / 25.00 – 25x at the top – and then the letters. The ace, king, queen, jack and ten all pay 50.00 for five and 20.00 for four, identical to the cent, with the top three adding 5.00 for three.

Against the 10.00 bet those are 5x, 2x and 0.5x. Five of the eight symbols on the board are interchangeable, and a complete five-symbol line of any of them returns five times the stake.

So the game has four real prize levels: the bells at 100x, the fruit at 25x, the letters at 5x, and the 7 somewhere above the bells. The gap between the bells and everything beneath them is a factor of four.

What the Base Game Pays

The demo’s ordinary results at the 10.00 stake run 16.00, 50.00 and 52.50 – 1.6x, 5x and 5.25x the bet. The middle of those is reported as line 9 pays 50.00, a full line of red sevens.

Then there is the exception. One board carries four gold bells with a MAD HIT jester in the middle, reported as line 6 pays 1,000.00, for a spin total of 1,050.00.

That is 105 times the stake from a single base-game spin, and it is a good illustration of what the jester does: it substituted into the fifth bell position and turned a four-bell line worth 10x into a five-bell line worth 100x.

One symbol, one position, and the prize multiplied by ten.

That is the practical value of a wild on a game with a steep paytable. On a flat table a wild converts a 5x line into another 5x line; here it moved a combination across the single largest step the paytable contains.

The Free Games and the Ducks

The round opens on a fairground sign: CONGRATULATIONS! 10 FREE GAMES, with a line beneath showing the jester and a rubber duck – collects ducks for extra wins.

Inside the round a strip runs along the bottom of the screen carrying a row of stars and three plates reading +10 FREE GAMES ×2, +10 FREE GAMES ×3 and +10 FREE GAMES ×4.

That is the whole mechanic laid out in advance. Filling the star row awards ten more spins and moves the multiplier up a step – and the three plates tell you, before you start, exactly what the second and third completions are worth.

The demo catches the round at 15 of 20 free games, so one set had already been completed and the ten extra spins added. Above each reel sits its own multiplier badge, reading x2, x1, x3, x2 and x4 across the five columns.

Per-reel multipliers on a ten-line game means a combination running through the third and fifth reels picks up both, which is how the round builds. That board paid 455.00 – 45.5 times the stake – with a MAD HIT card carrying a value of 108 on the first reel.

Note that one of the five badges reads x1. The multipliers are assigned per column and not all of them are worth having, so where a combination falls matters as much as what it is made of – a line through the second reel is picking up nothing at all.

The Circus Tents

Outside the free games the demo shows another set of symbols: little red-and-white striped tents landing across the reels, with yellow rubber ducks marked 2 and x2 beside them, and a scoreboard reading 5 and x2 on the fourth reel.

That board paid 52.50, and the mix of counters suggests the collection runs in the base game too rather than only inside the round – the ducks gathered there presumably carrying into the feature when it triggers.

Buying the Round

The green plate prices the feature at 750.00, which at the 10.00 bet is 75 times the stake.

That is worth setting against what the round produced. The demo’s feature was at 45.5x with five spins still to run and a multiplier ladder that had not finished climbing, so a completed round plausibly clears the purchase price – but only if the ducks arrive.

Seventy-five times the bet also sits below the hundred-times price RubyPlay charges on several of its other titles, which makes this one of the cheaper buys in the studio’s range.

RTP, Volatility and Max Win

The RTP is 96.46%, comfortably above the modern standard and a genuine point in the game’s favour. Volatility is rated High, and RubyPlay does not publish a maximum win multiplier for this title, so that field is left empty here rather than guessed at.

High is the right call despite the generous return. Ten lines over a paytable where five symbols share a 5x rung produce frequent small results – the demo’s 16.00 on a 10.00 spin is typical – while the two events that matter, a bell line completed by the jester and a fully collected free games round, are rare and large.

The 105x base spin in the captures is the clearest illustration of that shape: one board in the whole session was worth more than twenty of the others put together.

It is a bright, well-organised game with an unusually transparent feature. Printing the three collection rewards on screen before the round starts is a small thing, and it is more than most studios bother to do.

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