Piggy Bankers Slot Review
Most slots put their money in the bonus round and make you wait for it. Pigxy Bankers takes the rarer route: it sets the whole game inside a marble bank hall, gilt and daylight and a red carpet to the reels, and then leaves the cash where you can see it, hanging on an extra reel above the grid on every spin. It’s Pragmatic Play betting that visible money is more fun than promised money, and the banknote reel is the reason to sit down at this one.
The game runs on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines, 96.05% RTP and high volatility, with a win cap of 10,000x the bet. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 a spin.
The banking thread runs through the studio’s catalogue, with Money Stacks and Reel Banks both playing in the same territory. This one keeps its money in plain sight from the first spin. The cash never leaves the frame.
Base Game & Features
All symbols pay left to right across the 20 paylines, starting from the leftmost reel. Only the highest win counts on each line, and wins on multiple lines add together. It’s a conventional setup. Everything unconventional here happens above and around it.
Symbols and Pays
Pays are multiples of the total bet, for three, four and five of a kind from the leftmost reel:
- Piggy (gold piggy bank): 2.5x, 5x, 12.5x
- Scales: 1.25x, 2.5x, 7.5x
- Whiskey bottle and glass: 1x, 2x, 5x
- Cigar box: 0.75x, 1.5x, 4x
- A and K: 0.5x, 1x, 3x
- Q and J: 0.25x, 0.5x, 2x
- 10: 0.25x, 0.25x, 2x
The Piggy Banker and Lady Piggy Banker wilds substitute for all symbols and pay like the top symbol. They also do a great deal more than substitute, which is where the game proper begins.
Banknotes Reel
An extra horizontal reel sits on top of the game. On any spin it can carry banknote symbols or blanks, and the banknotes carry cash values from 0.5x up to 100x the total bet, plus a FREE SPINS banknote that triggers the bonus round.
A banknote only pays out when a full vertical stack of wild symbols lands directly beneath it, at which point its value is awarded. The full set of banknote values is:
- 0.5x total bet
- 1x total bet
- 2x total bet
- 5x total bet
- 10x total bet
- 20x total bet
- 50x total bet
- 100x total bet
- FREE SPINS banknote – triggers the free spins round
Wild Respins
Whenever a full vertical stack of wilds lands, the stack transforms into a single big WILD and the respin feature starts. On each respin, the Piggy Banker big wild moves one reel to the right and the Lady Piggy Banker big wild moves one reel to the left.
Respins continue for as long as any big wild remains on screen, and end when the last one leaves. If the two wilds meet on the same reel, the free spins round is awarded, and if there’s a banknote collection on the reel where they met, its value pays out twice.
Piggy Bankers Free Spins & Bonus Features
The free spins round starts one of two ways: a FREE SPINS banknote is collected from the top reel, or two big wilds meet during a respin. Either route awards the same round, which begins with five free spins.
The respin feature runs during free spins too. When two big wilds meet on the same reel inside the round, one extra free spin is awarded and both wilds pick up a 2x multiplier. They then split and move apart again, towards the left and right edges of the screen.
The split wilds keep their multipliers, and a multiplied wild that meets any other big wild has its multiplier increased by +1 for each subsequent meeting. Meets, splits and re-meets are how a five-spin round stretches into something much longer.
A new banknote worth 1000x the total bet appears only during free spins. The FREE SPINS banknote itself can’t appear on the reel during the round, so the trigger that started it is off the table until it ends.
When the round starts, any big wilds from the triggering base-game respin are cleared. When it ends, that base-game respin resumes from where the wilds were before the round began – a finished bonus doesn’t kill a chase still in progress.
Special reels are in play during the feature. The round runs to the same 10,000x cap as everything else: if the total win of a round reaches it, the round ends immediately, the win is awarded and all remaining features are forfeited.
Buy Free Spins
The free spins round can be triggered instantly from the base game by buying it. The buy works through either trigger route – collecting a FREE SPINS banknote or two big wilds meeting – and it costs:
- BUY FREE SPINS: 80x current total bet
- RTP when buying: 96.03%
At 80x, the buy sits at the pricier end of the scale for a five-spin opening round. What it buys isn’t five spins so much as the multiplier-building loop the round exists to feed.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.8/10
This is a game about watching money sit still and hoping something lands under it, and that turns out to be more fun than it sounds. The banknote reel gives the base game a pulse that high-volatility slots usually reserve for their bonus, and the two pigs marching across the reels towards each other is the reason anybody picks this one over the studio’s glossier output.
What’s genuinely good here is the bonus round’s engine: wilds that split, walk and multiply on every reunion, so a five-spin award keeps growing legs. What isn’t is the paytable underneath, which tops out at 12.5x for five of the best symbol and makes the walking wilds carry nearly all the value on their own backs.
It’s for players who enjoy a chase and don’t need the reels themselves to pay for it. If you want a base game that earns while you wait for the bonus, the hall here is grand but the pays are thin. The pigs are worth the visit anyway.
Piggy Bankers FAQs
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What is the RTP of Piggy Bankers?
The RTP is 96.05%. If you use the Buy Free Spins option, the RTP is 96.03%. -
How do you trigger free spins in Piggy Bankers?
Two ways: collect a FREE SPINS banknote from the top reel, or get the Piggy Banker and Lady Piggy Banker big wilds to meet on the same reel during a respin. You can also buy the round for 80x your total bet. -
How many free spins do you get in Piggy Bankers?
The round starts with five free spins. When two big wilds meet on the same reel during the round, one extra spin is awarded and both wilds get a 2x multiplier before splitting and moving apart again. -
How does the Banknotes reel work in Piggy Bankers?
An extra horizontal reel sits above the grid and can show banknotes or blanks on any spin. A banknote’s value – from 0.5x up to 100x the total bet – is awarded when a full vertical stack of wild symbols lands beneath it. -
What is the maximum win on Piggy Bankers?
The maximum win is capped at 10,000x the bet. If the total win of a round reaches that cap, the round ends immediately and the win is paid. -
Is Piggy Bankers high volatility?
Yes, it’s a high volatility game, which means payouts come less often on average but the potential for big wins in a short session is higher. -
What are the bet limits on Piggy Bankers?
Stakes run from 0.20 to 240.00 per spin, and the game plays on a 5×3 grid with 20 paylines. -
What happens if the wilds meet on a reel with banknotes?
When the two big wilds meet on the same reel during a base-game respin, free spins are awarded and the value of any banknote collection on that reel is paid out twice.
