3 Piggies of Bank features

Mamma Pig: the Wild that grows#

Mamma Pig is the banker of the story and the Wild of the game, and she does not simply substitute. When she lands she expands across her reel, and each stage of that expansion carries its own multiplier: 1x as a single symbol, 2x across two rows, 3x on a full reel. Where more than one expanded Wild lands, those multipliers are added and the total is applied to the whole win rather than to a single line. The published ceiling is 15x, and it belongs to a board carrying five fully expanded Wilds. She cannot expand over a Scatter or a Coin symbol, which is the one restriction worth remembering.

That is the largest multiplier in 3 Piggies of Bank outside the Coin mechanics, and it belongs entirely to the base game. It is also the reason the Wild doubles as a top symbol: five Mamma Pigs on a line pay EUR 15.00 at the EUR 1.00 bet, level with five safes and ahead of everything else on the reels. Catch her fully expanded in the middle of a vault line and that EUR 15.00 line reads EUR 45.00, which is the shape of a good base-game spin here: three times a full line rather than a leap onto the ladder, where the Major alone pays EUR 200.00.

Practically, she is what makes the quiet stretches of this slot bearable. The base game pays on roughly one spin in four, mostly in card suits worth EUR 0.20 to EUR 2.00, and Mamma Pig is the symbol that occasionally turns one of those spins into something worth watching. The how-to-play page covers how she behaves alongside the 25 fixed lines.

The studio agrees with that reading, incidentally. The splash screen before the first spin carries exactly two callouts, the Grand Prize and the Expanding WILD with multipliers, which is the game telling you where its attention went.

Blow it Down and the Free Spins#

Ten spins for a trio, and ten more if you can find another. Blow it Down is the Scatter, and it has a restriction worth knowing: it lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 only. Reels 2 and 4 stay out of it, which means every free-spins trigger in this game looks exactly the same: one Scatter on each of the odd reels.

Three of them award 10 Free Spins. Three more during the feature add another 10 on top. That is a clean, old-fashioned retrigger with no conditions attached, and it runs on the same 25 fixed lines as the base game, so the pay table you already know applies unchanged.

The Free Spins arrive through Blow it Down in the game itself, and they sit outside the buy menu entirely: all five purchases lead into Lock ’em & Load ’em, not into the Scatter round. That separation is deliberate on Yggdrasil’s part. It keeps one feature as something the reels give you and the other as something you can choose to pay for.

Lock ’em & Load ’em step by step#

This is the feature the game is built around, and the sequence never varies.

1. The trigger. Six or more Wolf Coins land together with a single Piggie Coin. The game can also open the bonus at random while you are collecting individual Piggie Coins, so a board that looks short of six can still turn into a round.
2. The colour is read. Whichever Piggie Coin came in (green, blue or red) sets which of the three bank houses is paying for the rest of the round. This single fact decides more about the outcome than anything else in the feature.
3. One free spin. The round opens with a free spin carrying the six-plus Wolf Coins you arrived with. Each of those carries 1x to 10x the bet in its own right, so the floor of the round is set immediately.
4. Five respins, resetting. Then come five respins, and the counter goes back to five every time a new Coin lands anywhere on the board. Coins lock where they fall. A round that starts thin keeps buying itself more time for as long as new Coins keep landing.
5. The close. The feature ends when the respins run out or when all 15 positions are full. A full board is what the Grand at 1,000x the bet is for, and it is the single most valuable thing that can happen inside the round.

The resetting counter is what makes the mechanic worth watching rather than merely worth having. Every Coin that lands hands the round five fresh respins, so the board is not counting down against you while it is still producing, and a board with room left on it is a board still working. Try one in the free demo before you buy one.

The three banks: Collect, Double and Mystery#

The colour of the Coin decides everything. Above the reels the houses read DOUBLE, MYSTERY and COLLECT from left to right, and the behaviour each one imposes is genuinely different:

Their maths pull in different directions. Collect rewards patience and position: a green Coin landing early is worth almost nothing, while one landing on a board that is already half full can be the largest single value in the round. Double is multiplicative and front-loads its risk: the x2 applies to whatever is there when the blue Coin lands, so an early Double doubles very little and a late one doubles everything. Mystery is the flat one: six known values, no dependency on the board at all, and a reliable 15x floor on every red Coin.

That spread is why the buy menu exists in the shape it does. You are not buying a better version of the same round; you are buying a different distribution. Our strategy page works through what each of those shapes asks of a bankroll.

The prize ladder and what it asks for#

The ladder is a column down the left of the screen, Grand over Major over Minor over Mini, printed in cash at your stake: 1,000x, 200x, 50x and 15x the bet. They are fixed bet multiples paid inside the bonus, so the figures standing beside the grid are exactly what a round can award, no more and no less, whatever the lobby around it looks like.

At the EUR 1.00 default that column reads EUR 1,000, EUR 200.00, EUR 50.00 and EUR 15.00. At the EUR 0.10 floor it is EUR 100.00, EUR 20.00, EUR 5.00 and EUR 1.50. At the EUR 20.00 maximum the Grand alone is worth EUR 20,000, and even the Mini at the bottom of the column is EUR 300.00.

Three of the four are drawn rather than earned: Mini, Minor and Major are paid when a special Coin lands during the bonus. The Grand is the one with a condition you can watch approaching, and it is a single unambiguous one: all 15 positions filled with Coin symbols. Nothing partial gets you close, which is why the respin counter matters so much on a board that is nearly full. That is also what links the ladder to the game’s ceiling: the round cap of 5,625x the bet is reached by a board that fills, with Coin values and the Grand arriving together, rather than by any one symbol paying enormously.

The symbols and what they pay#

The whole cast fits in one sentence: hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades at the bottom; cash stacks, silver bars, gold bars and the vault above them; Mamma Pig as Wild, Blow it Down as Scatter, the Wolf Coin as the money and three Piggie Coins as the keys.

The hierarchy is unusually tight. At the EUR 1.00 bet, five card suits pay EUR 2.00 and five cash stacks pay EUR 6.00: a factor of three between the worst full line and the cheapest of the high symbols. From there it climbs steadily: silver EUR 8.00, gold EUR 10.00, vault and Mamma Pig EUR 15.00. Every symbol on this board carries a paying line, which is part of why the hit frequency sits at 25.2%.

It is worth noting what the four-symbol rows do. The vault pays EUR 3.00 for four and EUR 0.80 for three; the card suits pay EUR 0.40 and EUR 0.20. Those shorter combinations are the real texture of a session, because they arrive constantly and they are what keeps a balance moving between features. The full lines are the exception, not the rhythm.

How the banks read against the ladder#

The ladder is worth reading against the Coin values, because the comparison explains why a bonus round here builds rather than arrives.

The Mystery bank’s best single Coin is 150x the bet. The Major on the ladder is 200x. So the strongest red Coin in the game is three quarters of a Major, and no individual Coin value reaches the Grand at 1,000x on its own: the Grand is paid for filling all fifteen positions, not for landing one good symbol.

The Collect bank works from the other direction. Each green Coin takes a value equal to the sum of all the other Coins on the board, so its worth is a function of what is already down. A green Coin arriving on a nearly empty board is a small prize; the same Coin arriving on a board of ten Wolf Coins at 1x to 10x apiece is the largest single value in the round.

Double sits between the two. The x2 applies to every Coin value on the board at the moment the blue Coin lands, then the Coin itself takes 1x to 150x. Late is better than early for exactly the same reason it is with Collect, and that shared logic is why the resetting respin counter matters so much: a board with room left on it is a board that can still improve.

Set against the Mini at 15x and the Minor at 50x, the picture is complete. Those two are the small end of what a special Coin can deal you during the round, worth EUR 15.00 and EUR 50.00 at the EUR 1.00 bet; the Grand at 1,000x is the one the board itself has to earn by filling.

The bonus buys: the price list#

The BUY BONUS panel prices every path into the same bonus, in the open:

Every one of them carries a theoretical return of 94.0%, which is a long-run average rather than a statement about any round you buy. Read alongside each other, the prices tell you what Yggdrasil thinks the banks are worth relative to one another: Double at 180x is exactly one and a half times Collect at 120x, and the all-banks ticket at 250x costs less than Collect and Double bought separately, which would come to 300x.

Read the left-hand column as a price rather than a rhythm. Collect at 120x means the round costs the same as 120 base spins at your current stake; it is not a statement about how often the feature turns up on its own. The panel in your own client is the final word on which of the five it offers, since that part is a market decision rather than a game one. The hub page has the rest of the slot, and the full review puts a score on all of it.