Mega Joker here is NetEnt’s 2008 fruit machine with the Supermeter, not Novomatic’s later slot of the same name. It plays three reels and five lines on two reel sets: base game wins can be collected or played on at higher stakes on the top set, Jokers pay mystery prizes and a progressive jackpot grows with every spin. Its return reaches 99% with careful play. The free demo below is a similar joker pokie.
Mega Joker by NetEnt has two sets of three reels with three rows each: the basic game on the bottom, the Supermeter on top. There are five fixed lines. A spin costs one coin, which plays one line, or ten coins, which play all five and switch on the Supermeter. Coins run from 10 cents to $1, so a ten-coin spin costs $1 to $10, though some setups stop at 20-cent coins. NetEnt lists the RTP as 99.00% without naming a bet; reviews say that needs the ten-coin bet and give 76.9% at one coin, and one breakdown puts the ten-coin range at 89.1% to 99% depending on Supermeter play. Most databases rate volatility as high, and NetEnt gives a hit frequency of 17%, again without a bet level. The fixed top prize is 2,000 coins, which NetEnt states as 200 times the bet: $2,000 at the $10 maximum, with the progressive jackpot on top.
Mega Joker Pokies Characteristics
Every spin starts on the bottom reels, and a win needs three matching symbols on one of the five lines. At one coin only one line is live and wins go straight to your balance; at ten coins all five lines play and a win becomes a Supermeter credit. So the ten-coin bet is the only route to the Supermeter and the higher return, and reviews say bigger bets also improve the jackpot odds.
The Joker is not a normal wild: most sources say it does not substitute for other symbols, though one database calls it a wild; it pays mystery prizes instead. There are no free spins, multipliers, bonus games or bonus buys, and NetEnt describes no gamble feature.
NetEnt does not publish a per-bet paytable outside the game, so these are the coin pays for three of a kind that reviews agree on, with bottom-reel figures at the ten-coin bet.
Bells, watermelons, grapes and oranges pay between the cherries and the chest, but sources differ on their values and on whether oranges appear on the bottom reels at all, so trust the paytable printed on the machine. Pays also change with the coin level, as the Joker line shows. Most sources list no scatter pays and say three Jokers must land on a line; one says anywhere. Three chests, the top line, are worth 200 times the ten-coin bet; the 2,000x quoted by one database appears to count coins.
At ten coins, a win on the bottom reels moves you into Supermeter mode with the win as your credit; sources differ on whether a full 2,000-coin chest win counts. You then spin the top reels at 20, 40, 100 or 200 coins a time, paid from the credit, or press Collect to move it back to the basic game, which NetEnt allows at any stage. NetEnt caps a Supermeter win at 2,000 coins, and a win that size ends the session.
One player review says the 40-coin level has the best three-of-a-kind pays, while 100 and 200 add the Joker mystery prizes. Strategy tables suggest, for example, playing a 20-coin credit at 20, a 400-coin credit at 100, and collecting at 1,600 to 2,000 coins. These are player strategies, not NetEnt rules, but the top of the published RTP range assumes this kind of play.
The Joker’s prizes depend on where it lands and the bet. On the bottom reels three Jokers pay a random 20 to 400 coins at ten coins. In the Supermeter, NetEnt says a Joker on the middle reel pays 100 to 2,000 coins at the 100-coin level, and two reviews say a Joker on any reel does the same at 200. The top two levels cost more per spin, but they can pay without a full line.
The jackpot is a single progressive pool. NetEnt says it is awarded on a randomly selected game round, grows each time the basic game is played, and shows other active players a pop-up when it is won. Reviews put the contribution at 3% of every bet and agree that bigger bets improve the odds; one says only maximum basic-game bets qualify and calls it a local jackpot. NetEnt publishes no seed or typical value, and we found no verified record win.
At 99% the game keeps about 1 cent of every dollar bet over the long run. With poorly timed Supermeter play at ten coins it can drop to 89.1% by one estimate, about 11 cents in the dollar, and at one coin it is 76.9%, about 23 cents. High volatility and a 17% hit frequency mean long losing runs, with most of the movement coming from chest lines, Joker prizes and the Supermeter.
At 10-cent coins a full spin costs $1, so 200 spins is $200 of turnover, which over the long run costs about $2 at 99% and $21.80 at 89.1%. The same $200 at one coin a spin, 2,000 spins at 10 cents, costs about $46.20 at 76.9%. The one-coin bet looks careful and is the most expensive way to play.
Novomatic’s Mega Joker, online through Greentube, is an unrelated 5×4, 40-line fruit video slot with stacked Joker wilds, a star scatter, a gamble feature, a listed RTP of 95.05% and a 2,000x cap, but no jackpot or Supermeter. A Popok Gaming game called Mega Joker appears in one slot database; we could not check its details. NetEnt’s Jackpot 6000 is sometimes listed beside Mega Joker but is a separate classic, and we found no NetEnt sequel or remake. Databases dating the game to 2011, 2013, 2014 or 2018 rather than NetEnt’s 2008 may be recording re-releases.
Mega Joker is built to look like an old fruit machine: two reel sets one above the other, the paytable printed on the front and the jackpot in a green digital readout under the reels. The symbols are fruit, golden bells, sevens, a treasure chest and the Joker. There is no background music, only spin and reel-stop effects, a short fanfare on a win and a longer tune for three Jokers. The buttons are Spin, Max Bet, Bet and Collect, and the HTML5 version runs in mobile browsers.
Mega Joker is an online game, and we found no land-based version in Australian clubs, pubs or casinos, so there is no Mega Joker slot machine location to point to. NetEnt, now part of Evolution, does not offer its games to Australian players: its restriction list names Australia among the territories where none of its casino games may be offered. We could not confirm Mega Joker as playable from Australia at any offshore casino we review, and a NetEnt tile may be hidden or blocked for Australian accounts. Treat this page as a review of a famous classic, not a recommendation to play it for money. NetEnt lists an official free demo on its own site, though we have not tested it from Australia, and we found no official app.
Mega Joker suits players who like making decisions: whether to bet the full ten coins, which Supermeter level to use and when to collect. Anyone after free spins, bonus rounds or modern graphics will find it bare. The one thing to check is the bet, because the 99% only applies at ten coins with sensible Supermeter play. For Australians it is mostly a piece of pokie history, since NetEnt does not offer it here, but few pokies leave as many choices to the player.
NetEnt lists 99.00%, which reviews tie to the ten-coin bet with Supermeter play. One coin returns 76.9%, and one breakdown puts the ten-coin figure as low as 89.1%.
Bet ten coins. A win on the bottom reels then becomes a Supermeter credit to play on the top reels at 20, 40, 100 or 200 coins a spin, or to collect at any time.
The fixed top prize is 2,000 coins, or 200 times the bet: $2,000 at the $10 maximum spin. The progressive jackpot can pay more, but its usual size is not published.
Not in most descriptions. It does not substitute for other symbols; it pays mystery prizes, from 10 coins on the bottom reels up to 2,000 in the Supermeter.
Not officially. NetEnt lists Australia among the territories where its casino games may not be offered, and we could not confirm the game as playable from Australia at any casino we review.
No. It is a 5×4, 40-line video slot with Joker wilds, a star scatter, a gamble feature and a listed RTP of 95.05%, and it has no jackpot or Supermeter.
