Paylines
Cluster Pays (5+ symbols)
Relax Gaming dropped Joker Split in September 2023 as the third entry in the Jump and Split lineup, and honestly it's the one that finally clicks. The board is a 6×6 cluster grid, pays land when 5 or more matching symbols sit adjacent, and the medieval royal dressing (think castle towers, moon, Joker jester) gives the spins a proper night-court atmosphere. There's even a day/night cycle that flips between sessions, which is a small touch but it stops the visuals going stale after an hour.
The headline mechanic does what the name promises. Every winning wild splits into two wilds before the next symbol drop, so a single sticky can snowball into three, four, six wilds across consecutive cascades. And here's the bit that matters: any wild that fails to join a winning cluster doesn't vanish. It gets banked on the Dead Wilds pole running down the side of the reels. They sit there, accumulating across spins, waiting.
Trigger free spins (you need 3 or more scatters) and the entire banked stash dumps onto the grid at once. That's where 20,000x runs come from. No banked wilds, no fireworks. Build the pole high during base, hit the bonus, watch chaos unfold. You can also buy in directly for 100x stake, which bumps the RTP from 96.10% to 96.50% and skips the grinding phase entirely.
Math-wise it's flagged high volatility, and yeah, it plays like it. Long dry stretches, then a cluster cascade chain that pays for the session twice over. Symbol caps are tighter than you might expect: Joker tops out at 30x for clusters of 11+ symbols, mid-pays at 20x, lows at 10x. The big numbers come from cluster size plus wild multiplication, not single-symbol jackpots.
One thing worth flagging, bet range is 0.10 to 50 EUR per spin. That's lower than the usual 0.20 to 100 ceiling Relax uses elsewhere. Higher rollers will notice. For everyone else it's a non-issue.
Is Joker Split better than the original Money Train? Different beast. But for cluster-mechanic fans who want something with real bonus potential and a banking gimmick that actually rewards patience, this one earns the bankroll time.