You Can Piggy Bank on It

You Can Piggy Bank on It: Slot Overview

Money symbol collection slots sell like hotcakes, and few have had as much success with this particular form of gambling as Pragmatic Play partner Reel Kingdom. The studio's Big Bass Bonanza range has become an institution in the online gambling industry, a runaway freight train that, like rogue AI, is hard to tell if humans are still in charge of it or not. Whilst not a Big Bass Bonanza release as such, the studio has designed You Can Piggy Bank on It, an offshoot of the popular fishing series, that uses pigs instead of their aquatic cousins and has a Money symbol collection focus with a unique twist injected into the free spins phase of play.

A couple of happy pigs accompany players as they attempt to crack the vault open, and why shouldn't they be, since they've successfully busted into the bank and are grabbing the loot? Then again, breaking in is only part of the job. These naughty piggies still have to get out, find a safe spot to lie low, then start processing their ill-gotten gains - provided the cops don't catch them first. Ah well, what's the harm in piggies (responsibly) enjoying wealth while they've got it, preferably attained through legitimate channels, though. No such thing as a victimless crime and all that.

You Can Piggy Bank on It's play area is a 5x3, 10-payline main grid, and a 5x3 mini-grid kept in the vault during the base game but opened when the bonus round is active. Stakes of 10 c to $/€250 are available, as is an ante bet, which increases the stake by 50% to provide a higher chance of winning the free spins feature. Stashed away in the back is a highly volatile math model, producing a theoretical RTP at the highest setting of 96.53%.

The game's pay symbols are 10-A card ranks, Money symbols, gold bars, bags, safes, and a bank symbol. Five-of-a-kind royal wins pay 10x the bet, while the high pays award 20x to 200x for 5 OAK. Money symbols land bearing a value of 0.2x to 200x the bet, which can only be won during free spins. Free spins are where the TNT Wild appears, on all reels, not only substituting for any regular paying symbols but also able to award Money symbol values.

You Can Piggy Bank on It: Slot Features

Like other collector slots Reel Kingdom has made, not much occurs during You Can Piggy Bank on It's base game. However, hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatters triggers the bonus round and 10, 15, or 20 free spins, respectively, are awarded. At the beginning of the round, the vault on top of the main reels opens to reveal 14 Money symbols. Money symbols in the vault have values of 0.2x to 10x the bet.

During the feature, whenever the Wild TNT hits, it first collects and awards the values of all Money symbols on the grid. Next, the middle position on the main grid transforms into a special position that initially displays a Pigs symbol. In addition, the Money symbols from the vault drop onto the main grid and are collected. After this, the middle position spins and lands either Pigs or a Police symbol. If Pigs hit, the values from the vault are collected, the symbols in the vault change to random values, and the game respins the middle position. If a Police symbol lands on the middle position, respins end. Players win an extra +10 free spins should 3 scatter symbols land during the feature. Scatters are present on all reels in the base game but only on the leftmost, middle, and rightmost reels in the bonus.

Feature Buy

The bonus round can be instantly triggered by buying it for 100x the bet, which lands 3, 4, or 5 scatters to activate the feature.

You Can Piggy Bank on It: Slot Verdict

For better or for worse, few do high volatile, low potential Money symbol collector slots quite like Reel Kingdom. Obviously, You Can Piggy Bank on It is no fish slot, but there are definite parallels to be drawn between this and the Big Bass Bonanza blitz. Like its cousin, You Can Piggy Bank on It's base game lacks excitement since TNT Wilds are not able to land there. As we've seen in the past, however, pay symbol values aren't half bad, and gamblers may need a few of the bigger hits to tide them over till free spins activate and the Money symbol collecting may begin.

Free spins are also where You Can Piggy Bank on It introduces its mechanical ingenuity. This is the mini-grid of prize values stashed in the vault above the main reels. The prizes it stores aren't huge, to be fair. If, for example, each one of them was worth 10x, then the total win would be less than a max 200x Money symbol on the main reels. However, the way vault values can be consecutively collected, as long as Pig symbols land on the middle position, might help make up for the shortfall and provide the odd adrenal bump. On a less thrilling note, You Can Piggy Bank on It is not a high potential slot, possessing the same win cap as the original Big Bass Bonanza of 2,100x the bet, though this one's max win probability is much more favourable.

At the end of the day, You Can Piggy Bank on It is an okay-at-best Money collector game. It's built by a team that knows the genre inside and out and will likely attract attention from a certain gambling audience. It's far from being a particularly good slot, though. The winning potential is meagre in the grand scheme of things, and the high volatility feels like an odd coupling. But a similar combination worked for Big Bass Bonanza, so who knows?