Piggy Bankers: Slot Overview

In online gambling, pigs are regularly linked with cash, banking, and luxury living. It’s a bit ironic, since real pigs are usually content splashing in mud and snacking on scraps, with no interest in riches at all. Maybe that’s why slot makers use them—to poke fun at bankers or the super-wealthy as… greedy little pigs? Whatever the motivation, pigs and money go hand in hand in slots, and this is another familiar example. Called Piggy Bankers, it’s a Pragmatic Play release that drops the pigs into a world of wealth, featuring a Banknote Reel, respins, roaming full reel wilds, and free spins.

The base game takes place in an extravagant living space—whether it’s a lounge, hallway, or reception room is hard to pin down. The rich are known for owning homes with far more rooms than they could ever use. Google even claims the biggest private residence is Brunei’s Istana Nurul Imam Palace, boasting 1,788 rooms and 257 bathrooms. That’s an awful lot of bathrooms. When free spins are triggered, the action shifts to a true money vault: a room piled high with gold coins, gems, and stacks of banknotes—plenty to excite anyone with a taste for cash.

Piggy Bankers runs on a 5×4 grid and includes a dedicated reel above the main area known as the Banknote Reel. It’s a highly volatile slot with an RTP of 96.05% or 96.03% when buying free spins, although lower RTP versions also exist. Stakes range from 20 p/c to $/€240 per paid spin, and purchasing the free spins feature costs 80 times the bet.

The luxury theme comes through in the premium symbols—cigars, a liquor bottle, scales, and a golden piggy bank—while the lower symbols are the 10 to A card ranks. The game uses 20 paylines, and a 5 OAK line win pays 2 to 3 times the bet with low symbols, or 4 to 12.5 times the bet with the higher picture symbols. The Piggy Banker and the Lady Piggy Banker each appear as their own wild symbol, substituting for any standard paying symbol. When wilds form line wins, they pay the same as the golden piggy bank. Wilds are 1×1, but when they stack they create big wilds, which comes next.

Piggy Bankers: Slot Features

This is where the purpose of the top reel becomes clear, along with the other additions like the Wild Respins feature and free spins.

Banknotes Reel

On any spin, Banknote symbols and blanks can randomly land on this top special reel. Banknotes show bet multipliers of 0.5x to 100x, and they can also display Free Spins. Any time a full vertical stack of wild symbols lands beneath a Banknote, that value is awarded.

Wild Respins Feature

Whenever a full vertical stack of wild symbols lands, it transforms into a big wild—either the Piggy Banker Wild or the Lady Piggy Banker Wild—and the respins feature begins. During repsins, the Piggy Banker Wild moves one reel to the right until it exits the screen, while the Lady Piggy Banker Wild moves one reel to the left until it leaves the screen. Respins keep going as long as big wilds remain visible on the grid, and they stop once no big wilds are left. If the Piggy Banker and the Lady Piggy Banker collide on the same reel, then free spins are triggered. If a Banknote sits above the reel where they collide, its value is awarded times 2.

Free Spins

Free spins start when the two different big wilds meet or when the free spins banknote is collected. In both cases, 5 free spins are granted. During free spins, a fresh banknote worth 1,000x can appear on the Banknote Reel.

The respin feature can also occur in free spins. When two big wilds meet, an extra free spin is awarded, then both wilds receive an x2 multiplier, and respins continue as they split apart, each travelling toward the edge of the grid. Split big wilds also carry an x2 multiplier. Big wilds with multipliers that meet any other big wild have their multiplier increase by +1 for each subsequent meet.

When free spins begin, any big wilds from the respin that triggered them are cleared from the grid, and once free spins finish, respins resume from the exact point where the round originally triggered. The free spins banknote is removed from the Banknote Reel for the duration of the free spins feature.

Buy Free Spins

By paying 80x the bet, players can purchase entry to the free spins round, which will be triggered by collecting a free spins banknote or by 2 big wilds meeting.

Piggy Bankers: Slot Verdict

Piggy Bankers gives the impression it may have branched off Pragmatic’s earlier title Piggy Bank Bills, but if that’s the case, the split was a major one. The two games play very differently, even if pigs, wealth, and the light use of banknotes provide a small connection. Piggy Bankers is the more traditional option, yet it still brings a fair amount of originality. It also has that familiar Pragmatic Play polish in both visuals and audio, making it easy to settle in and see how Piggy Bankers develops.

Overall, Piggy Bankers performed quite nicely, with multiple elements working together to keep things engaging. The roaming full reel wilds are more compelling than they might sound, partly because they can collect prizes from the Banknote Reel, and partly because they can, in a way, end up with multipliers. Banknote Reel rewards often feel like small consolation wins since the amounts can be pretty modest, though the better values are respectable, and there’s always the legendary 1,000x banknote appearing during free spins.

As for landing respins during free spins, the way multipliers are granted when big wilds collide is a smart addition, even if it proved to be a real challenge to make big wilds meet during the review—bonus buys included. It may not be something to expect often, so it’s best treated as a lucky break if it ever happens. Still, it seems like a decent amount of multiplier action would be needed to have a realistic shot at Piggy Bankers’ max win of 10,000x the bet.

After testing it out, it did feel like landing a major win could be difficult without multipliers (or the 1,000x banknote), since those moments don’t come around all that frequently. Even so, Piggy Bankers combines a few appealing mechanics into a solid, money-soaked piggy theme that should suit players who enjoy this kind of slot.