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Cards Slots

Daniel Mertens
Written byDaniel MertensVerified authorSlots Editor• 200+ slots tested
Cards slots

Card symbols are everywhere in casino slots, and a handful of titles lean on them hard enough to earn the "Cards" tag in the catalog. Card slots pair the familiar ten, jack, queen, king and ace faces with a game layout that reads fast. Regulars of video slots recognize the paytable at a glance. Below is the current list of card-tagged slots, plus a side-by-side look at five of them.

List of Best Cards Slots:

Slot reel with ten, jack, queen, king and ace symbols
Ten, jack, queen, king and ace symbols are the shared paytable language of card-tagged slots.

Cards Slots Compared

Not every title tagged Cards wears the theme on its sleeve. Some run card symbols as paytable fillers under a different visual theme entirely. The table below lines up five card-tagged slots from the catalog by studio, RTP and disclosed win ceiling.

SlotRTPMax Win
Baron Samedi
Yggdrasil · 2018 · 25 paylines
97.00%2,179x
Madame Destiny Megaways
Pragmatic Play · Megaways
96.56%5,000x
Cazino Cosmos
Yggdrasil · 2019 · 20 paylines
96.00%11,821x
Ace Of Spades
Play'n GO · 2015
95.87%2,500x
Empire Fortune
Yggdrasil · 2016 · 20 paylines
94.30%4,000x

Baron Samedi's 97.00% is the highest RTP of the five, yet it carries the lowest disclosed win ceiling, 2,179x the stake. Cazino Cosmos sits in the middle of the RTP range but discloses the widest ceiling by a large margin. Its 11,821x tops Madame Destiny Megaways' 5,000x by more than double and Empire Fortune's 4,000x by nearly three times. RTP and max win do not move together in this group. A steady payout rate on one title says nothing about how high its disclosed ceiling runs on another.

Bar chart comparing RTP across five card-tagged slots
RTP side by side. Baron Samedi leads the group while Empire Fortune trails at 94.30%.

Attractive Features

The five titles above share some catalogued features and split on others, including how literally each one plays the card theme.

  • Wild Symbol on every title, Free Spins on four of five

All five games are catalogued with a Wild Symbol. Baron Samedi, Madame Destiny Megaways, Cazino Cosmos and Empire Fortune add Free Spins and Scatters on top; Ace Of Spades is the only one of the five without either, running Multipliers and a Wild Symbol instead. Baron Samedi is also the only title here catalogued with Bonus Rounds.

  • Card theme and card symbols are different tags

Baron Samedi, Ace Of Spades and Madame Destiny Megaways carry Cards as an actual theme tag alongside their other genre tags (Horror and Mystery for Baron Samedi, Fortune for Ace Of Spades, Cats and Magic for Madame Destiny Megaways). Cazino Cosmos and Empire Fortune earn the Cards tag from their paytable symbols only. Their visual theme runs Sci-Fi & Space and Diamond/Fortune/Gold respectively. Either way the ten-through-ace paytable is on screen. The skin around it is not.

Bar chart comparing disclosed max win across five card-tagged slots
Cazino Cosmos discloses the widest win ceiling of the group at 11,821x the stake.
  • A release spread from 2015 to 2019

Ace Of Spades is the oldest title on this list (2015) and sits mid-table on RTP. Cazino Cosmos is the newest dated release (2019) and posts the widest disclosed win ceiling of the group. Release year on its own does not track with either RTP or max win here.

Final Thoughts and Games to Try

Card slots give players a few different ways into the same paytable language. Baron Samedi's top-of-group RTP and Cazino Cosmos's wide disclosed win ceiling sit at opposite ends of what this group offers, while Ace Of Spades keeps things simpler with Multipliers over Free Spins. Madame Destiny Megaways and Empire Fortune round out the group with their own mix of Scatters and Free Spins. Check each game page for a demo before you play.