Joker Tricks Free Games: what one or two awake performers change
Free Games is the lower of two bonus tiers on this slot, and the studio defines it by headcount rather than by content. One performer awake begins it. Two performers awake change what is happening inside it. All three is a different round with a different name, which has a page of its own.
There is also a second route in, and it is the one most of the screens of this game show: a Buy Bonus control sits beside the reels and sells entry directly, under names the studio's description never uses.
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One awake, and what the round is built around
Amigo Gaming puts it in four words: wake one and the Free Games begin. What the round then does is organised around that one performer's trick, which is the only thing the published record says about its content.
The practical reading is that this is not a single generic free-spins round with a fixed personality. Which performer woke decides which behaviour is live, so there are three versions of the same tier, and the game sells them under three separate names on its purchase menu. Somebody describing this slot as having one bonus round has flattened it by two thirds.
What a round contains is published. How long it runs, how it is retriggered and what it pays are not — for any of the three versions.
Two awake, and what mixing means
The studio's second sentence is that waking two gets the tricks mixed. That is a statement about scope: two behaviours are live inside one sequence instead of one. It is not a statement that the round is twice as long, twice as frequent or twice as valuable, and no source anywhere supports reading it that way.
It does make the tier genuinely different rather than merely bigger. A round in which, say, a sticky behaviour and a collecting behaviour are both running is a different thing to watch from a round with either alone, because the two interact on the same board. That interaction is the thing the studio is pointing at, and it is also the thing it declines to describe.
The three-at-once case is the top tier and has its own name and its own page. The jump from two to three is the only one of the three steps the studio says anything concrete about, which is that in it every special symbol fires together.
Buying the entry: the menu beside the reels
The Buy Bonus control is a permanent fixture of the game screen, pinned to the left edge of the reel field. Pressing it opens a menu of four cards: Extra Games, Sticky Games, Boost Games and Mixed Games. The first three carry one performer's portrait each, so the menu is also the clearest published statement of which trick belongs to whom. The fourth card shows all three performers and is the top tier sold directly.
Nothing on the menu in our captures carries a price, and no catalogue publishes one. That is not surprising — a purchase price is quoted as a multiple of the current stake and rendered in the operator's own currency, so it is not a property of the title that anybody could publish once.
Whether the control reaches you is decided above the game. A purchase feature ships inside the title as the studio built it, and operators and the markets they are licensed in decide what is presented. A page that tells you a bonus buy is available to you personally is guessing about your operator, not reporting on the slot.
What would make a purchase judgeable, and why none of it exists here
To weigh a bonus purchase honestly a reader needs three things: the price, the expected return on the purchase, and the return to player of the base game to compare it against. For Joker Tricks, all three are unpublished. The price is not in any source. No expected value for a purchase has ever been stated. And the base return to player does not exist — not as a range, not as a set of certified builds, not withheld. Nobody has published one.
That is a harder thing to say than quoting a percentage would be, and it is the honest state of the record. The studio's own page for the game has no return field at all; the largest catalogue carrying it prints the field twice and fills it with nothing both times; our own earlier pages never named one. Three places that would carry it, and three blanks.
So the only sentence this site will write about the value of the purchase is that it cannot be assessed from published information, and that the game's own information panel is the single place where figures for the copy in front of you might be shown. There is no game on this site, no demo window, and no link here dressed up as either.
Questions about the lower tier
- How do Free Games start?
By waking a performer. The studio says waking one begins them.
- What changes when a second performer wakes?
The tricks get mixed: two behaviours run in one sequence.
- Can the round be bought?
Yes, from a menu of four named entries beside the reels.
- What are the entries called?
Extra Games, Sticky Games, Boost Games and Mixed Games.
- What does a purchase cost?
Unpublished, and quoted in the operator's own currency in any case.
- How many free games are awarded?
No count is published by the studio or by any catalogue.
- Is the Buy Bonus offered everywhere?
It ships inside the game. Which operators present it is decided above the game.
Carry on from here
The three-performer round is on the Triple Games page. Who the performers are and which named entry belongs to each is on the performers page, and the behaviours that run inside the round are on the marks page.