Piggy Bank Hold & Win Slot Review
Three ceramic pigs stand guard over a red-velvet cabinet in a violet glow, and they are guarding nearly everything this game has to give. Piggy Bank Hold & Win makes the unusual call of paying almost nothing outside its bonus round: BGaming have built a slot where the base reels are purely a countdown, and whether that works is the whole question of the game.
It runs on a 3×3 grid at 96.98% RTP with mid-low volatility, and most of the symbols on the reels are coins that only pay once the bonus game begins. That’s a bold structure for a small game, and it mostly works, in the same pocket-sized way as BGaming’s Chicken Rush 2 and Fruit Million, though it hasn’t the spread of Alien Fruits 3.
Smash the bank open and see what falls out.
How the Base Game Pays
There’s no conventional paytable here. Most of the symbols in the game are Coin symbols, each carrying its own value, and every one of them pays only inside the Hold & Win bonus game. A base spin either brings you closer to that round or it doesn’t.
The coin values themselves are modest, stake-fraction stuff rather than headline prizes. Values in play run from small fractions of the bet to a few multiples of it:
- x0.2, x0.4, x0.6, x0.8
- x1, x1.2, x2
There’s no wild and no scatter either. The special symbols all serve the collection mechanic, and the bonus is triggered when three symbols land on the central horizontal reel.
The Sticky Coin
The Sticky Coin appears in the main game with a value between 5x and 9x the bet. That makes it the most valuable coin on the reels by some distance, and the only one worth anything before the bonus arrives.
It sticks where it lands and carries over into the bonus game when the round triggers naturally, so a Sticky Coin on the board is a guaranteed head start: one cell of the field already filled, with a hefty value attached, before a single bonus coin has landed.
Buy the bonus and the rules change: a Sticky Coin held before the purchase isn’t transferred, and once the purchased round ends it returns to the reels and becomes sticky again. It’s a small wrinkle that quietly rewards patience over purchasing.
The Hold & Win Bonus Game
Three symbols on the central horizontal reel starts the bonus game, and this is where the whole game lives. The round plays out as a filling exercise: coins land with their values attached, each one locks into a cell, and the stakes rise as the field fills towards the jackpot thresholds.
The round can keep going until you win, rather than cutting out on a losing spin, which is one of the piggies’ promised surprises and a genuinely unusual rule for the format. A spin counter ticks down in the corner while you play, tracking how much room is left before the round resolves.
The bonus field starts as a 3×3 grid and can extend to 3×5. That extension matters, because the two top jackpots are tied to the two different field sizes.
The Piggies
Three piggies, green, pink and blue, sit above the playing field and activate at random when the bonus game triggers. They’re named Save, X Shoot and Extend, and each is stencilled across its own ceramic flank.
The green piggy’s job is to increase the number of coins in play. What X Shoot and Extend do isn’t spelled out anywhere, but the names point at shooting coins off the board for their value and widening the field, and Extend is the natural companion to the 3×5 Royal field. When one wakes up, the round changes shape around it.
Mystery Symbols and the Collect Symbol
Mystery symbols hold their secret until the end of the bonus game, then reveal themselves as any symbol except the Sticky Coin. That covers the whole coin range as well as the jackpot symbols, so a late reveal can be the difference between a modest round and a good one.
The Mystery Jackpot is the same idea with a prize attached: it can turn into the Mini, Minor or Major Jackpot, resolved when the round closes rather than when it lands.
The Collect symbol does exactly what its name promises. It appears during the bonus game and gathers the values of every symbol on the reels in one sweep, sticky coins and mystery coins included.
Grand and Royal Jackpots
Fill the bonus field completely and the top prizes land. Every cell of the 3×3 field filled with symbols pays the Grand Jackpot at 500x the bet. Fill the extended 3×5 field and the Royal Jackpot pays 2500x. That Royal is the ceiling of the game, and it asks a lot: fifteen cells, every one occupied.
Below the two top prizes sits a ladder of smaller ones. The ladder values are credit amounts that scale with your stake, not fixed properties, so they’re quoted here at a 2.00 total bet:
- Royal – 2000 at a 2.00 bet
- Grand – 500 at a 2.00 bet
- Major – 50 at a 2.00 bet
- Minor – 20 at a 2.00 bet
- Mini – 10 at a 2.00 bet
The gap between tiers is steep, and it widens as you climb: the jump from Mini to Minor doubles the prize, Minor to Major is two and a half times, while the leap from Major up to Grand multiplies it tenfold, so the Mini and Minor are round-savers, the Major is a respectable result, and everything above it is the reason you keep spinning a game that pays nothing in between.
The Mystery Jackpot feeds this ladder too, revealing itself as a Mini, Minor or Major prize at the close of the round.
Buy Bonus
A Buy Bonus button sits beside the reels, and it comes in three variants, each with its own return figure:
- Piggy Surprise – 96.98% RTP
- Piggy Trio – 97.02% RTP
- Piggy Frenzy – 96.99% RTP
All three sit at or fractionally above the base game’s 96.98%, so there’s no RTP penalty for buying your way in. Piggy Trio is the pick of the three on the numbers, marginally, though the difference is a rounding error rather than a reason.
Remember the Sticky Coin rule, though: a coin held before purchase stays out of the round and only returns to the reels once it’s finished. Buying in with a Sticky Coin parked on the board means the strongest symbol in the game sits the round out.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.1/10
Most of your time here is spent rattling the piggy bank without opening it. That’s the honest shape of the game: you spin, coins pile up on the board paying nothing, and the whole point of the session is the moment three symbols line up on the middle row and the vault finally cracks.
The bonus round earns that wait better than most games this size manage. It’s dense with things happening at once: piggies waking at random, mystery symbols holding their secret until the last second, a Collect sweep that can pull the whole board’s value in one go. The rule that the round keeps going until you win means a trigger is never a dead loss.
The flip side is that everything above the Major is a mirage for most sessions, and the base game gives you nothing but anticipation in the meantime. This suits players who like the slow build of a hold-and-win done properly, at stakes where patience is cheap. Anyone after regular wins or serious ceiling should save their coins for a bigger bank.
Piggy Bank Hold & Win FAQs
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What is the RTP of Piggy Bank Hold & Win?
96.98%. -
Is Piggy Bank Hold & Win high volatility?
No. It’s a mid-low volatility game, built around steady collection rather than large swings. -
What is the grid size of Piggy Bank Hold & Win?
A 3×3 grid in the base game. The Hold & Win bonus field can extend to 3×5 when the Royal Jackpot is in play. -
How do you trigger the Hold & Win bonus game?
Three symbols landing on the central horizontal reel trigger the bonus game. Alternatively, you can buy one of three bonus variants. -
Can you buy the bonus on Piggy Bank Hold & Win?
Yes. A Buy Bonus button offers Piggy Surprise (96.98% RTP), Piggy Trio (97.02%) and Piggy Frenzy (96.99%). -
What does the Sticky Coin do?
It appears in the main game with a value of 5x to 9x the bet, sticks in place until the bonus game starts and transfers into it. If you buy the bonus, a held Sticky Coin isn’t transferred; it returns to the reels once the purchased round ends. -
When is Piggy Bank Hold & Win released?
Piggy Bank Hold & Win’s release date is 19 March 2026. -
Who makes Piggy Bank Hold & Win?
BGaming.
