Big Piggy Bank (Inspired Gaming) Slot Demo & Review

When it comes to slots based around pigs, there are already endless options to choose from – we’ve even had offshoots such as Slingo Piggy Bank by now, and you’ll find plenty of parodies such as Piggy Blinders and straight-up no-nonsense pig-based action such as that provided by Playtech’s Piggies and the Bank. Sometimes these games can be fun, and sometimes they seem a little bit cheap and uninspired, but it would be a little ironic to call an Inspired slot about pigs uninspired, wouldn’t it? I almost feel like I should do it anyway! One thing’s for sure, there’s nothing particularly outstanding about this machine, and as we’re about to discover with the payouts, it doesn’t exactly rank well compared to other ten-line games either.

See, the highest-paying symbols are the Dollar Signs, which also have a token payout for two symbols, but they only pay 20x the total bet for a full payline of five of a kind. Then you have the Briefcase symbol – only 15x for all five of those. The Gold Bars return 10x, the Stacks of Cash have a return of 5x, and that’s it as far as the high-paying symbols are concerned. As for the low-paying royal symbols, we only get 2x the bet for any of those, from the Aces right down to the tens. It’s a disappointing state of affairs for a ten-line game, with the only redeeming feature here being that the piggy bank symbols do appear in stacks – it seems those are your route to winning big here, not the regular line hits.

At least there is nothing to complain about regarding the betting range – you can play for as little as €0.10 per spin or as much as €100.00, and plenty of other permitted wagers are in between the two limits.

There are two main games in Inspired Gaming’s Big Piggy Bank slot – the default game plus the Fortune Spins version, which costs the same to play but operates quite differently. Inspired has been adding these types of features to their slots ever since the UK Gambling Commission outlawed Bonus Buy Facilities, and a cynic may well suggest this is a sneaky way of dodging regulations!

Both modes use a five-reel, three-row layout, however, and both operate with ten paylines – the difference is in the reel strips. We’ll talk more about the Fortune Spins mode in a moment:

Piggy Bank Cash Symbols

These special symbols appear in stacks and can be worth 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 50x, or 100x each. You’ll need a collect symbol (or a bonus symbol) on reel five to collect the prizes, but this is still preferable to all fishing slots where the cash symbols are completely useless during the base game!

Fortune Spins

Activating the Fortune Spins mode doesn’t affect the RTP as far as the information pages are concerned, although I find that hard to believe. Perhaps it has just been very well designed though. In this mode, the standard reels are replaced with new strips that contain only piggy banks, blanks, collector symbols, and bonus scatters. Landing four or more cash symbols plus a bonus entry symbol will win you entry to the same Golden Bank Free Spins as the regular game, and the piggy bank symbols retain the same values listed in the section above.

Whilst most online slots require you to hit three or more scatters to access their bonus rounds, this machine instead asks that you hit a piggy bank on reels one through four, plus a collector or bonus symbol on reel five. Manage this, and you will win eight free spins.

Free Spins Feature

The big difference in this part of the game is that there are now four jackpot tokens added to the reels – collecting three MINI tokens will win you the corresponding jackpot, and you’ll need four MINOR, five MAJOR, or six GRAND tokens to win those prizes. Unfortunately, these values are not explained anywhere either inside the game or on the Inspired website – The game specifies that these are not progressive jackpots and that you can win them multiple times.