Piggy Luck

Piggy Luck: Slot Overview

Did you know that saying the word 'pig' on a boat is considered by some people to be bad luck on account of pigs not being able to swim? Dropping the p-word on a boat could lead to a smack on the nose since drawing blood is believed by some to be one way of reversing the curse. In the gambling world, it's quite the opposite, where pigs are commonly associated with cash and high living. Hopefully, our porky pals are lucky as they take centre stage in an online slot from Microgaming partner and independent developer Gong Gaming Technologies, titled Piggy Luck.

Pigs are no strangers to the reels and are often portrayed as upper-class members of society. Piggy Bank Bills and Piggy Riches Megaways are two examples of pigs living it up in mansions, surrounded by the finer things in life. Piggy Luck isn't like that. It's more about bright colours, simply laid out to exude a positive attitude. Sad to say, a few spins in, our positivity crumbled fast. Essentially, players get a 5x3 grid matrix, a glowing logo down below, plus three pigs with meters up top.

Possibly to help distract players from the lack of visual cues, Piggy Luck has a high hit rate of 49.19%, so nearly every second spin will theoretically be a winner. This flurry of hits is combined with a low volatile math model and a maximum return to player value of 95.12%, with 58.62% allocated to the base game and the rest to the features. Piggy Luck is available to play on any device and has bet choices of 20 p/c to $/€25 per spin.

In the spirit of minimalism, just six pay symbols are used in the game, forming wins when matching tiles land on one of the 20 paylines, beginning from the left side of the panel. The three lower pay symbols are Q, K, and A, while the higher pays are crowns, stars, and diamonds. Landing five of a kind awards players 5x the bet for the low pays, or 7.5-12.5x the bet for the three high pays. Wilds are worth even more, up to 50x the bet for a line of five of them, plus they can be used to replace any normal pay symbol to complete a winning line.

Piggy Luck: Slot Features

The three piggy personalities displayed above the reels represent the features triggerable in Piggy Luck – Golden Path, free spins, and Cash Collect. In addition, players can activate a Wheel of Luck feature to gamble their way to the three bonus rounds.

Golden Path

Landing 3 Piggy King symbols on reels 2, 3, and 4 triggers the Golden Path feature. A ladder of prizes appears, as does a 6-segment wheel with the numbers 1-6 on each segment. The wheel spins, showing players how many steps they move along the prize ladder. After every spin, the lowest number on the wheel turns to Collect. The feature ends when the arrow on the ladder lands on Collect. Where players are on the ladder is the prize amount awarded.

Free Spins

A total of 3 Piggy Queen symbols in view on reels 3, 4, and 5 awards 15 free spins. While the feature is active, landing 3 Piggy Queen symbols retriggers an additional +15 free spins. That's pretty much all there is to the free spins game.

Cash Collect

Hit 3 Piggy Joker symbols on reels 1, 2, and 3 to trigger the Cash Collect feature. Here, 20 coins are placed on the screen. Players pick them one by one to reveal multipliers of the bet. The feature ends when a picked coin reveals a cash value and a tick. Then the sum of all multipliers is awarded.

Wheel of Luck

On top of the grid in the base game are 3 wheels, each one corresponding to the free spins, Cash Collect, and Golden Path features. Each wheel has 2 segments – a trigger area and a non-feature area. Players collect Joker, King, and Piggy Queen symbols to increase the respective trigger area on the wheel. Each wheel can be spun for the cost of 10x the bet, and if the wheel arrow stops in the trigger area of the wheel, the feature will begin. Filling in the trigger area of a Wheel automatically starts the feature. One more thing to look out for is the wolf's paw symbol. This symbol resets the trigger area of the wheel it lands beneath.

Piggy Luck: Slot Verdict

Piggy Luck looked kind of brightly fun, to begin with, but this perception quickly morphed into one of exasperated tedium in a short space of time. The low volatile math model and low bonus round award values meant relatively fast feature triggers that tended to go nowhere. In some cases, not nowhere fast. For example, the first free spins trigger produced three further retriggers, and the total was 60 of the dullest free spins we'd ploughed through in a while. The end result wasn't exactly a kick in the teeth, but 60 spins to mount a 79.6x the bet win felt more like work than fun. As mentioned in the game sheet, free spins can theoretically be retriggered 'infinitely', which is a frightening thought.

The Cash Collect felt just as pointless. You do know you are going to win something; however, you also know you are going to win something small. Go all the way to max The Cash Collect out by successfully picking all of the coins, and you're looking at a top prize of 39x the bet.

Lastly, we've got the Golden Path, which does have a decent top prize. Yet, something doesn't sit right when you do the maths. The ladder has 36 steps, yet when adding all the numbers on the wheel, the total comes to 21. Perhaps filling the Golden Path meter in the base game helps players progress, but this wasn't the way the demo functioned, and by then, it was sort of a moot point anyway.

Have you ever been driving along a straight piece of road and felt like you were going backwards when the car was, in reality, moving forwards? There was a similar sense produced while playing Piggy Luck. If you don't like its light, frequent style, it's hard to throw off the impression Piggy Luck is a waste of time.