Piggy Bonanza

Piggy Bonanza Slot Review

A fat pink piggy bank sits on a green-and-gold trophy plinth, sunk to its chin in loose gold coins, with more coins stacked in towers along the top of the cabinet. Piggy Bonanza from Snowborn Games is one of the few collection slots that refuses to reset you between bonuses, and that stubbornness is the whole reason to play it. Everything the base game banks carries forward into the next one.

It runs on a 5×3 grid with 243 ways, pays at 96.00% RTP with medium volatility, and stakes run from 0.10 to 20.00. Snowborn’s back catalogue is full of coin-collecting builds, with titles like Peaky Pigs and Massive Gold working the same loop. Six separate features share one set of currencies here, which is either the appeal or the clutter, depending on your taste for meters.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across 243 ways, with matching symbols on adjacent reels from the left. Only the highest combination counts per way, and the total payout is the sum of all way wins on a spin. Standard stuff, and the ways count does most of the work in keeping the base game ticking over at a 27.88% hit frequency.

Wild symbols appear on reels 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the base game and substitute for everything except the Bonus, Cash Coin, Cash Diamond and Collect symbols. That’s the whole story on wilds.

The paytable is top-heavy. The Safe is the premium symbol by a distance, and the royals trail a long way behind it:

• Safe – 6x, 11x, 25x bet for three, four, five
• Gold Bar – 1x, 2x, 6.2x
• Money Bag – 1x, 2x, 5.8x
• Red Coin Purse – 1x, 2x, 5.5x
• Cash Stack – 1x, 2x, 5.2x
• A – 0.4x, 1.2x, 2.6x
• K – 0.3x, 1x, 2.1x
• Q – 0.2x, 0.6x, 1.6x
• J – 0.2x, 0.5x, 1.3x

Cash Coins and the Collect Symbol

Cash Coin symbols land on reels 1 to 4, and on their own they pay nothing. Their values step up a familiar ladder:

• Cash Coin – 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 15x, 50x or 200x bet

The Collect symbol lands on reel 5 only. When it arrives on a spin that also carries at least one Cash Coin, the payout equals the sum of every Cash Coin value on the reels. The number of Coins on any spin is random.

So a Collect hit can be pocket change or a 200x coin swept up with friends. You won’t know which until the reel stops.

Piggy Booster

The Piggy Booster is a meter that starts empty and fills to a maximum of eight tokens. Landing the Bonus symbol on reels 1 and 3 moves the meter up half a token, so a full token needs two hits. Changing your bet doesn’t affect the meter, which is a decent touch.

Before the Bonus starts, Piggy Booster tokens convert one-for-one into Collection tokens and distribute across the four Collection meters inside the feature. Half-filled tokens are discarded, so the meter only pays out in whole numbers. Whatever Collection tokens go unused during the Bonus return to the Piggy Booster afterwards.

That return rule means progress between bonuses carries forward rather than resetting. It’s the detail that makes the meter worth watching.

Piggy Extra Chance

At random in the base game, Piggy himself can lean in and press a button. If Bonus symbols landed on reels 1 and 3 but not 5, he respins reel 5 for another shot at the third Bonus symbol. The same trick applies to a Cash Diamond on reel 1 waiting for its partner on 5.

The third case is Cash Coins on the reels with no Collect symbol in view, where he nudges reel 5 to reveal one. Any of the three can set up the Bonus, the Diamond Respin or the Collect feature. It’s the game’s way of softening near-misses, and on a 243-ways grid those near-misses are visible often enough that it earns its place.

Bet Booost

The Bet Booost is a toggle that raises your total bet by 20% and, in exchange, improves the odds of triggering the Bonus. Payouts themselves don’t change, and the boost switches off during bonus spins. With Booost active the RTP rises to 96.33%, a small but genuine edge for the extra outlay.

Piggy Bonanza Bonus Features

The Bonus Game

Landing 3 Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 starts the Bonus with 3 bonus spins. Cash Coins, Collection symbols and blanks land on any reel, and any Cash Coin or Collection symbol resets the spins back to 3. Cash Coins stick in position for the rest of the feature.

So the round becomes a question of how long you can keep the resets coming before the grid goes quiet. Four Collection features run inside the Bonus, each with its own meter fed by its own Collection symbol:

• Doubler – multiplies all Cash Coin and unwon Prizer Diamond values by 2x. Can trigger twice.
• Spinner – awards one extra spin per trigger, on top of the reset rule. Can trigger twice.
• Expander – first trigger adds a row above the grid, second adds a row below, opening more landing positions. Can trigger twice.
• Prizer – replaces the triggering symbol with a Prizer Diamond. Can trigger four times.

Each Collection feature fires when its third corresponding symbol lands. Once used, that meter resets and the count starts again, so a long bonus can fire the same feature multiple times within its two or four trigger caps.

Prizer Diamonds and Hot Cells

The Prizer Diamond is the feature’s prize ladder. On the first Prizer trigger it’s worth 15x bet, then 50x, 200x and 1,000x on the second, third and fourth. It sticks like a Cash Coin and pays at the end of the round with everything else.

Hot Cells appear on the reel area during bonus spins and raise the chance that a Collection symbol lands on that position. They’re the quiet mechanic that makes the ladder reachable, because Prizer Diamonds don’t happen without Collection symbols coming in threes.

The round ends when the spins run out without a reset or every landing position fills. All symbol values on the grid then total up and pay as one sum.

Diamond Respin

Landing Cash Diamond symbols on reels 1 and 5 triggers the Diamond Respin. The Cash Diamonds lock in place, both carrying values from the same ladder as the Cash Coins, and the reels spin exactly once with Cash Coin, 1UP and blank symbols in play.

Each 1UP that lands adds 1x to a feature multiplier that starts at 1x and caps at 5x. At the end of the single respin, every Cash Coin and Cash Diamond value on the reels is totalled and multiplied by that figure. It’s a one-shot round, over quickly, but the multiplier gives it a punch the Collect feature lacks.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Playing Piggy Bonanza is feeding a piggy bank: small deposits, most spins, in the honest belief the lump sum is coming. The one reason to choose it over plainer collection slots is that nothing here is wasted – every half-token the base game earns either pre-loads your next bonus or comes back to you when it’s done.

Its biggest strength is the bonus round’s depth. Four features that reset, retrigger and feed a 1,000x ladder give the round a genuine ceiling rather than a coin-count and a prayer. Its biggest weakness is the wait: the base game pays in scraps, and the Diamond Respin is a curio that never grows into anything.

This is one for the patient collector, the sort who enjoys watching a meter fill and cashing in a session’s worth of work in one round. It isn’t one for anyone after instant fireworks or a headline jackpot. But the piggy bank is honest, and by the end of a sitting there’s usually something rattling inside it.

Piggy Bonanza FAQs

• What is the RTP of Piggy Bonanza?

  The RTP is 96.00%. If you switch on the Bet Booost, which raises your stake by 20% to improve the Bonus trigger odds, the RTP rises slightly to 96.33%.
• Is Piggy Bonanza high volatility?

  No, it’s a medium volatility slot. Wins land at a 27.88% hit frequency, so the base game pays out reasonably often, with the bigger results coming from the bonus features.
• How do you trigger the bonus in Piggy Bonanza?

  Land 3 Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. You start with 3 bonus spins, and any Cash Coin or Collection symbol that lands resets the spins back to 3.
• What does the Piggy Booster do?

  The Piggy Booster is a meter that fills by half a token each time Bonus symbols land on reels 1 and 3. Before the bonus starts, full tokens convert into Collection tokens that pre-load the Doubler, Spinner, Expander and Prizer meters, and unused tokens return to the meter afterwards.
• What is the Diamond Respin in Piggy Bonanza?

  It’s a one-spin round that fires when Cash Diamonds appear on both outer reels. The diamonds lock in place, and 1UP symbols add 1x each to a multiplier that starts at 1x and caps at 5x. All coin and diamond values are then multiplied by that figure.
• How many paylines does Piggy Bonanza have?

  It has 243 ways to win on a 5×3 grid. Wins pay left to right when matching symbols land on adjacent reels from the first reel, and only the highest combination counts per way.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Piggy Bonanza?

  Stakes run from 0.10 to 20.00 per spin. The Bet Booost option adds 20% to your total bet in exchange for better odds of triggering the Bonus.
• Who makes Piggy Bonanza?

  Piggy Bonanza is made by Snowborn Games, the studio behind titles like Peaky Pigs and the Massive Gold series. Its release date is 16 December 2024.