Dueling Jokers Dream Drop

Review Dueling Jokers Dream Drop

The Dueling Jokers Dream Drop online pokie is set in a rather undefined time and space, looking a lot like what we imagine from the retro disco clubs from the 70’s. This means heaps of neon lights as well as classical cherry pokie signs and upbeat disco disco beats taking the player to another dimension, a dimension with spectacular payouts that is. Four Leaf Gaming is a relatively new provider on the New Zealand online casino market, yet it successfully manages to come up with a game in the manner of leading companies. Graphically, you’ll be stunned by the 8×8 playing field, although one might wish for bigger symbols. The audio is exactly what you would expect from this kind of online pokie game.

How to Play

Dueling Jokers Dream Drop is played on a colourful 8×8 playing field and makes use of the popular cluster pays mechanic. This means that a win is formed by matching 5+ touching symbols, horizontally and/or vertically. Winning symbols then disappear from the reels and symbols cascade from top to bottom to conveniently fill the gaps. If you’re confident, ready to try, and up for a dance, this is how to play Dueling Jokers Dream Drop:

• Click on the Spin button to spin your way and make the reels move.
• Click the Turbo button to speed up the game.
• Choose autoplay if you want to sit back: activate either 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, or an infinite number of auto spins.
• Limits:
  • Make sure to set the loss limit.
  • Make sure to set the single-win limit.
  • Make sure to set the total win limit.
• Make use of the “+” and “-” buttons to set the bets.
• Make sure to read the paytable after clicking on the Menu button.

Symbol Wins

The game theme of Dueling Jokers Dream Drop is rather retro, with colourful neon symbols showing on a playing field that look like a glittery disco hall. Everything visual about the game is bright and beautiful with no other distractions apart from a wheel during the Super Spinner feature. As you’d probably expect, the audio is upbeat and disco disco-like. On the reels, the low values are the old school cherries and lemons. Then we have the four-leaf clover, the horseshoe and the diamond symbols.

These symbols are accompanied by the lucky pink 7 symbol, the most rewarding symbol of all. This one awards 6x your bet for combinations of 5 going all the way up to 100x your bet for combos of 15+. The wild in Dueling Jokers Dream Drop is a joker, which replaces all symbols except the Free Spin symbol whilst it also increases its multiplier by 1x every time it triggers a win. If 2 Joker Wilds land next to each other, they can duel to boost each of their multipliers by 1x. As part of any win, it’ll randomly jump to an adjacent position before the next cascade.

Bonus Features

Hold on tight because this online pokie has a huge number of features. Dueling Jokers Dream Drop uses the cluster pays mechanism and the waterfall mechanism which explains why there’s so much going on in this game. In addition to these 2 mechanisms, Dueling Jokers Dream Drop has quite a few other features to offer. We will go through them one by one so you’ve got a full picture of what to expect.

Nitro Spins

Nitro spins is an optional feature in Dueling Jokers Dream Drop, which you can activate if you feel the need. It increases your bet by 50%, but in return you have to collect fewer winning clusters to fill the joker meter. We will tell you below why this can turn out to be a big advantage.

Wild Joker

The wild joker is the wild symbol in Dueling Jokers Dream Drop. The symbol basically acts as a normal wild, but the symbol is not removed from the playing field if it is involved in a winning combination. Instead, it then moves to a random empty position on the grid. In addition, there is a win multiplier associated with the wild joker. Every time a wild joker is involved in a winning combination, its corresponding win multiplier increases by +1.

If 2 wild jokers land next to each other, they may start duelling, hence, the title of the pokie: Dueling Jokers Dream Drop. As a result, the win multipliers of both wild cards are increased by +1. A wild joker’s win multiplier is applied to all winning combinations that the symbol is part of.

Joker meters

A joker meter can be seen on the side of the playing field, which you can fill by spinning winning clusters. After an X number of winning clusters collected, additional wild jokers are added to the grid:

• After the 1st collected winning cluster.
• After the 4th collected winning cluster. If you have activated nitro spins you only need to collect 3 winning clusters.
• After the 7th collected winning cluster. If you have activated nitro spins you only need to collect 6 winning clusters.

Dream Drop Jackpot

This game is clearly all about the Dream Drop jackpot which gives you a jackpot spin at any time during the game. If during this single jackpot spin 4 dream drop wild symbols land, the dream drop bonus feature is activated. The five jackpots you can win here are all progressive and have no fixed max value. They can get very high, but as soon as someone wins it, the value of the jackpot is reset to the seed value. The jackpots seed at:

• Rapid jackpot: $ 1.
• Mini jackpot: $ 5.
• Max jackpot: $ 100.
• Major jackpot: $ 25,000.
• Mega jackpot: $ 500,000.

Super Spinner

You can also collect coins in Dueling Jokers Dream Drop. In this case each collected coin can activate the super spinner. This can result in different prices:

• A cash prize of a minimum of 80x and a maximum of 5,000x the bet.
• 8 to 14 free spins.
• 10 to 25 nitro spins.
• 10 to 25x the fortune maker.

Dueling Jokers Dream Drop Free Spins

You can earn 6 free spins by spinning 3 scatters in Dueling Jokers Dream Drop. 3 wild jokers appear at random positions on the playing field. They start with a multiplier of 1x, but that can of course be increased by involving the wild jokers in winning combinations.

The joker meter is not reset between spins during the free spins feature. After 10, 20 and 30 collected winning clusters you will be rewarded with 2 extra free spins. There are 3 special gamble features in the free spins feature of Dueling Jokers Dream Drop:

• Bonus Booster: make an extra gamble with (part of) your free spins giving you the chance to earn 1, 2 or 3 extra free spins. The more free spins you wager, the greater the chance of winning extra free spins. However, your wagered free spins can also be lost. You can play the bonus booster as many times in a row as you like, unless you have lost all your free spins or reached the maximum of 25 free spins.
• Fortune Maker: if the free spins feature gives you winnings that are below a certain threshold, you have the opportunity to play the fortune maker. In this case you can choose how much of your winnings you want to risk. During this feature, a ball is brought into play which ideally ends up in a winning ring. In total there are 16 rings on the screen, of which 12 are winning and 4 are losing rings. A winning ring increases your bet, whilst a losing ring will make you lose the bet.
• Bonus Replay: if the free spins feature gives you winnings that are below a certain threshold, you can play the bonus replay. You then play with the total prize money won in the free spins feature. A wheel then appears on the screen, which can have 2 outcomes:
  • You lose your wagered money.
  • You will have another chance to play the free spins feature. The prize money from the 1st time moves on to the 2nd free spins feature.

Payout Metrics

The RTP of Dueling Jokers Dream Drop is set at 94%, which is kinda low but somewhat expected when you consider that the game comes with a major progressive jackpot. We therefore have no issue whatsoever with the RTP being 94% as this is after all a progressive jackpot pokie. Out of this RTP, 12% is set aside for the jackpot contributions. When it comes to variance, it is very high and labelled as 5 out of 5 by the developer. The hit frequency in this game is 19.51% which is lower than average. This basically means that just under a fifth of all spins on average will lead to a winning cluster. The max win is 50,046x the bet from a non-jackpot point of view. The top prize is best achieved in the Free Spins feature with the multipliers that come into play. If you’re lucky enough to land the big progressive jackpot, the win could run into the millions of NZ dollars.

Summary

Four Leaf Gaming might not be the most well known provider out there, but they surely have not disappointed in this Dueling Jokers Dream Drop instalment. With many different gambling, ante bets and other features, this is a very original game by Relax Gaming and Four Leaf Gaming. Dueling Jokers is yet another game that is part of the Dream Drop network, which can lead to millions of NZ dollars in prizes. With the Mega jackpot seeding at $ 500,000 there are lots of reasons to try out this game by Relax Gaming. Even the top prizes outside of the jackpot are impressive to say the very least: the 50,000x max win potential is very solid as well, and you can win up to 45,362x your bet from a single spin.  We can’t wait to see some more work of Four Leaf Gaming and Relax Gaming combined.