Sizzling Hot Deluxe is Novomatic’s fruit slot in its plainest form, online through Greentube and most often dated 2007. It plays five reels and five lines with no wild and no free spins: fruit symbols, a red Seven that carries the top prizes, a star scatter that pays anywhere and a red or black gamble. It returns 95.66% at medium volatility. The free demo below is a similar hot fruit pokie, with no download.
Sizzling Hot Deluxe runs on five reels and three rows with 5 fixed lines that pay left to right and cannot be switched off. Stakes are set by the casino: published ranges start between 0.02 and 0.20 a spin and top out anywhere from 5 to 250 in the casino’s currency. The standard return to player is 95.66%, but several settings exist, and databases report lower builds of 92.28% and 90.02%. Most sources rate volatility as medium, with outliers from low to high. Published hit frequencies are 12% to 13%, so roughly one spin in eight pays something. The top line, five Sevens, pays 1,000x the total bet, and a full screen of Sevens, which wins on all five lines at once, pays 5,000x the total bet.
Sizzling Hot Deluxe Pokies Characteristics
Wins pay left to right from reel 1 along the five fixed lines and need three of a kind, except cherries, which pay for two. There are eight symbols: the Seven, watermelon, grapes, plum, orange, lemon, cherries and the gold star. There is no wild, so nothing substitutes, and every line win is made from the symbols themselves. The star is the only scatter, and it pays wherever it lands.
There are no free spins, no bonus round, no jackpot and no bonus buy. Some database spec boxes tick multipliers or bonus rounds, but their own text says there are none. Autoplay is available, and the gamble switches off while it runs. The result is a game that pays on about one spin in eight and relies on the Seven line and the star for its bigger wins.
Wins below are multiples of the total bet, with all five lines played, for three, four and five of a kind; multiply by 5 for multiples of the line bet.
A database, a review site and the coin values on a third site give the same figures. One site reads them as line-bet multiples, but the total-bet reading is the one most sources support. Five Sevens, the top line, are worth 1,000x the total bet, or 5,000x the line bet, and a screen full of Sevens wins on all five lines for 5,000x the total bet. No official Greentube paytable was found outside the game, so the in-game table is the final word.
The gold star is the game’s only special symbol. Three, four or five anywhere on the screen pay 2x, 10x and 50x the total bet, whatever the lines show, and one review adds that a scatter win is paid on top of any line wins on the same spin. The star does not start free spins, a bonus or anything else. On a game with no wild and only five lines, it is the one symbol that can pay from any position.
After any win you can take the gamble: a card is dealt face down, the right colour doubles the win and the wrong one loses it, and you can collect instead at any point. Two sources say a win can be gambled up to five times in a row, which would make it 32 times its original size, and the gamble is not offered during autoplay. One source notes the casino has to enable it in the version it offers, so it may be missing. On a fair card the gamble leaves the long-run return unchanged; it only makes a win bigger or makes it disappear.
At 95.66% the game keeps about 4.3 cents of every dollar bet over the long run. The 92.28% build keeps nearly 8 cents and the 90.02% build about 10, which is a large difference for an identical-looking game. Medium volatility with a hit frequency of 12% to 13% means about seven spins in eight return nothing, and a session is carried by the occasional Seven line or a handful of stars.
At 10 cents a spin, which is 2 cents a line, $20 buys 200 spins, about 25 of which pay something. The expected cost of those 200 spins is about 87 cents at 95.66% and about $2 at 90.02%, though short sessions swing far more than that. At that stake five Sevens pay $100 and a full screen $500. At $1 a spin the same $20 lasts 20 spins, barely a sample on a game that pays this rarely.
The original Sizzling Hot is the same 5×3, five-line game with the star scatter and the gamble, and a 2017 article sums up the Deluxe as mostly updated graphics; one database lists the classic at 95.66% as well. If a lobby shows both, the choice comes down mostly to looks.
Greentube has since stretched the name a long way. Twin Spinner Sizzling Hot deluxe (July 2021) runs two 5×3 reel sets with five lines each, a Bet Balancer splits the stake between them, and five Sevens still top the table at 1,000x the bet. 25 Sizzling Hot Deluxe (2021) moves to 25 fixed lines with the same star scatter and no free spins. Sizzling Hot 6 extra gold, Sizzling Hot Quattro, Sizzling Hot 7 Deluxe and the jackpot-linked Sizzling Hot Cash Connection are further titles, and one source also names Sizzling Hot Deluxe 10 Win Ways and Top Spin. Sizzling Gems (2014) is a related five-line Greentube game that, unlike the Deluxe, has wilds.
Sizzling Hot Deluxe is a deliberately bare fruit machine: cherries, lemons, oranges, plums, grapes, watermelons, a fiery red Seven and a gold star on a 5×3 grid, with nothing else on the reels. There is no feature screen to wait for, so play is spin, collect and, if you choose, gamble on a card colour. Trade coverage of the 2021 Twin Spinner remake still called Sizzling Hot an old favourite, and the appeal is that it has barely changed. It runs on desktop and mobile, including iOS and Android browsers.
No evidence was found that Sizzling Hot or the Deluxe ran in Australian pubs, clubs or casinos: the ACT approval records checked list no Novomatic games, though that was a spot check. Novomatic’s Australian link is its majority stake in Ainsworth Game Technology, the ASX-listed pokie maker founded in Australia in 1995; its bid to take Ainsworth private fell short in February 2026, and none of the reporting says Novomatic games are sold here through Ainsworth. Online, Greentube is described as focused on regulated markets, no Greentube list of restricted countries could be found, and one database counts the game in 81 countries without naming Australia. Availability varies, so the lobby search is the way to check. No official free demo from Novomatic or Greentube could be found; a free app of the same name is offered on the App Store, but it pays no real money and its publisher’s link to Novomatic is not established.
Sizzling Hot Deluxe is about as simple as a pokie gets: five lines, one scatter, one gamble and a Seven that carries the game. It suits players who want classic fruit symbols, quick spins and no rules to learn, and who accept that most spins pay nothing. It does not suit anyone after free spins, wilds or a long feature; for Novomatic’s classic style with a free games round, Book of Ra Deluxe and Dolphin’s Pearl Deluxe, both reviewed on this site, are the better fit. The one thing to check is the return in the information screen, because 95.66% and 90.02% are very different prices for the same game.
95.66% in the standard version. Databases also report builds at 92.28% and 90.02%, so check the information screen.
After a win, guess whether a face-down card is red or black: right doubles the win, wrong loses it. Two sources say you can repeat it up to five times per win, and it is not available during autoplay.
Five Sevens on a line pay 1,000x the total bet, and a full screen of Sevens wins on all five lines for 5,000x the total bet. Five stars anywhere pay 50x.
No to both. The star scatter pays 2x, 10x or 50x the total bet but starts no feature, and only cherries pay for two of a kind.
No record of it in Australian pubs or clubs was found, and no Greentube list of restricted countries could be found either. Online availability varies, so check the lobby search.
Mostly the graphics. Both are 5×3 fruit games with five lines, a star scatter and a red or black gamble, and the Deluxe is the one databases list most.
