Piggy Gold is about as small as a PG Soft slot gets: three reels, one line, no free spins. The demo starts at 0.60 a spin, and I kept that for 100 spins. Twenty-one of them won, every win was either 1.80 or 3.00, and the balance ended 18.60 down at 99,981.40. The x10 pig wild landed in the middle three times, each time with nothing to multiply. PG Soft released the game in January 2019.
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One line under a pagoda roof
The reels sit in a red temple gate, with the paytable fixed on a board above them and a pig in a red jacket below. Only the middle row pays, left to right across all three reels. With a single line there is no base bet to divide by: the stake equals size times level, anywhere from 0.03 up to 9.00, and every paytable figure is multiplied by that stake. At 0.60 each point was worth 0.60.
| Three of a kind | Points | At 0.60 |
|---|---|---|
| Pig wild | 500 | 300.00 |
| Golden piggy bank | 50 | 30.00 |
| Gold ingot | 20 | 12.00 |
| Jade money bag | 15 | 9.00 |
| Triple firecracker | 10 | 6.00 |
| Double firecracker | 8 | 4.80 |
| Single firecracker | 5 | 3.00 |
| Any three firecrackers | 3 | 1.80 |
The pig wild replaces any symbol. On the middle reel it can come with x2, x5 or x10, and then it multiplies the line win. Three wilds pay 500 times the bet, and with x10 in the middle that is the 5,000x quoted as the top win.
All 21 wins
Eighteen wins were mixed firecrackers, the lowest line, at 1.80. Three were a full row of single firecrackers at 3.00, on spins 9, 10 and 48.
After spin 10 the balance was back at 100,000.00, the only time it got there after the start. Nothing above the firecracker lines ever paid: no ingots, money bags or piggy banks in a row. With 60.00 staked and 41.40 returned, the demo gave back 69% of the money, well below the 95.86% PG Soft states for the game over the long run.
| Result | Spins |
|---|---|
| Any three firecrackers, 1.80 | 18 |
| Three single firecrackers, 3.00 | 3 |
| No win | 79 |
The x10 wild without a partner
Spins 40, 87 and 98 each stopped with the x10 pig on the line in the middle reel. A wild in the middle only needs the two outer reels to match, or to show two firecrackers of any kind, and on all three spins they did not.
With that wild between them, the single firecrackers of spin 9 would have paid 30.00, and two ingots 120.00.
The pig's double symbols
The other feature is the pig under the reels. While the reels spin, it can put the same symbol on reels one and three, shown with a red background. I saw it five times. On spins 32 and 74 it brought double firecrackers and the middle reel showed nothing to go with them; on spins 55 and 94 a different firecracker in the middle made it the 1.80 line, and on spin 10 a third single firecracker made it 3.00.
A match on the outer reels plus a wild in the middle is how this game pays big, and in 100 spins the two halves never met.
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Provider | PG Soft |
| Released | January 2019 |
| Board | 3 reels, 1 fixed line |
| Bet | 0.03 to 9.00 |
| Wild | Pig, any reel; x2, x5 or x10 on reel 2 |
| Double Symbol | Same symbol added on reels 1 and 3 |
| Free spins | None |
| RTP | 95.86% (PG Soft) |
| Max win | 5,000x the bet |
Piggy Gold FAQ
Does Piggy Gold have free spins?
How is the 5,000x maximum reached?
What did 100 spins return?
PG Soft's later pig, Lucky Piggy, is the opposite kind of game: six reels, 2,304 ways and a multiplier that grows with every cascade.
My other PG Soft test sessions are collected on the home page.