How to play 3 Piggies of Bank

Step 1: pick your bet#

This decision matters more than the volatility rating suggests, and it is the only one you make before the reels start. The slider runs from EUR 0.10 to EUR 20.00 and opens on EUR 1.00, which is also the stake the in-game pay table prints at by default.

Read that table from right to left rather than left to right. The buy price is the number that shapes your evening, because 3 Piggies of Bank is a game whose range lives inside a bonus round: at EUR 0.10 the whole menu of purchases is an evening’s entertainment, and at EUR 20.00 a single one of them is a serious sum. Pick the stake at which you would be comfortable buying a bank twice, and the base game will look after itself.

There is a second reason to settle this first. The bet is the only variable you control in the entire game: all 25 lines are permanently active, nothing is unlocked by playing longer, and no setting anywhere changes what a symbol pays relative to the stake. Everything you will read below scales from the number you choose here, which is why the page starts with it rather than with the reels.

One more thing to do before the first spin: open game info and read the RTP line. The game ships in four configurations and the operator chooses which one sits in its lobby, so the figure at your casino is a fact about your table rather than about the game in general. Our RTP page explains what each build changes.

Step 2: how the 25 lines pay#

Left to right, one win per line. Combinations build from the leftmost reel, they have to be continuous, and only the highest combination on any given line is paid. If a line carries three gold bars and, further along, two more symbols that would also form a pair, the game pays the gold bars and stops. That single rule answers most of the questions a new player asks about a spin that looked better than it paid.

At the EUR 1.00 bet the table reads in cash:

Those figures are dynamic: the client prints them at whatever stake you have set, so at EUR 0.10 every number above divides by ten and at EUR 20.00 it multiplies by twenty. Notice the shape of the table rather than the individual values. The step from four symbols to five is the big one everywhere, the vault goes from EUR 3.00 to EUR 15.00, while three and four symbol wins are small and constant. With a 25.2% hit frequency, the small ones are what you will actually be collecting most of the time.

Step 3: Mamma Pig and Blow it Down#

Beyond the paying symbols, two names change what a round is worth.

Mamma Pig is the Wild, and she expands. Each stage of that expansion carries its own multiplier, 1x for a single symbol, 2x for two rows and 3x for a full reel, and where several expanded Wilds land together those multipliers are added and applied to the total win rather than to one line. The published ceiling is 15x, which a board of five fully expanded Wilds carries. A Scatter or a Coin blocks her expansion, so a reel carrying one of those keeps her at the size she landed. She also pays in her own right, at the same rate as the vault: EUR 15.00 for five at the EUR 1.00 bet. When she lands in the middle of a near-miss, the two effects work together, which is why a spin can resolve considerably better than it first looked.

Blow it Down is the Scatter, and it lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 only. Three of them award 10 free spins. Three more during the feature add another 10. It is an uncomplicated retrigger with no extra conditions, and the free spins run on the same 25 lines and the same pay table as the base game.

Worth knowing: the Free Spins are not for sale. All five bonus buys lead into Lock ’em & Load ’em, and the Scatter round arrives only through the reels. The features page covers both in full.

The two symbols also behave differently towards your bankroll. Mamma Pig improves a spin you were already having; Blow it Down replaces the next ten spins with free ones at the same 25 lines and the same pay table. Neither of them is a multiplier on the bonus round, and neither interacts with the Coins, which is worth internalising early, because it keeps the two halves of the game separate in your head. The reels pay lines; the Coins pay the board. A session that reads both at once is a session that stops being surprised.

Step 4: the Coins and Lock ’em & Load ’em#

Six Coins open the door. Here is the sequence, in order:

1. Wolf Coins accumulate. Each carries 1x to 10x the bet. On their own they do nothing; they are the raw material of the bonus.
2. A Piggie Coin arrives. Six or more Wolf Coins together with a single Piggie Coin trigger Lock ’em & Load ’em. The game can also open the round at random while you are collecting Piggie Coins, so a board that is short of six is still in play.
3. The colour is read. Green means the Collect bank: every green Coin takes a value equal to the sum of all the other Coins on the board. Blue means Double: every Coin value on the board is multiplied by x2 and the blue Coin takes a random 1x to 150x itself. Red means Mystery: each red Coin turns into one of six values, 15x, 30x, 50x, 75x, 100x or 150x the bet.
4. One free spin, then five respins. Coins lock where they fall. The respin counter goes back to five every time a new Coin lands, so the round keeps extending itself for as long as the board keeps producing.
5. The close. Zero respins or fifteen filled positions ends it. A full board of 15 Coins pays the Grand at 1,000x the bet, and under the Grand in the same column stand Major 200x, Minor 50x and Mini 15x, which are paid when a special Coin lands during the round rather than for filling anything.

Keep one eye on that column while the respins run. It is printed in cash at your stake, so at EUR 1.00 you are watching EUR 1,000, EUR 200.00, EUR 50.00 and EUR 15.00, and at EUR 0.10 the same four prizes read EUR 100.00, EUR 20.00, EUR 5.00 and EUR 1.50. The point of reading it live is that it tells you what the round is still capable of: a board with empty positions left on it is a board that can still reach the Grand, and the counter going back to five on a new Coin is the thing that keeps that possible.

That structure explains the game’s ceiling. The round cap of 5,625x the bet is reached by a board that fills (Coin values, a late Double and the Grand together) rather than by any single symbol paying enormously. If you would rather skip the waiting, the buy panel starts at 120x for the Collect bank and runs to 250x for all three, and your own client shows which of the five its market carries.

The game panel: Autoplay, Turbo and history#

The panel does more than start the reels, and one rule in it covers the accident.

Autoplay. The panel carries an Autoplay control and the game menu an Auto Spin entry. It is a pacing tool: it sets a number of spins running at a fixed bet so you are not clicking. It changes nothing about the odds of a spin, and it is worth using with a limit attached rather than as a way to stop thinking about the session.

Turbo Mode. Turbo Mode and the space-to-spin shortcut are in the build and appear on the markets that allow them, which is the provider’s own wording and the honest explanation for why two players can see two different panels in front of the same game. If either is missing from your client, nothing has been removed from the slot itself. Our where to play page has the rules behind it.

Game History. The menu carries a Game History entry that displays the last spins with an option to rewatch them. In a game where a bonus board fills in a few seconds, that button is worth more than it looks: if a round resolved in a way you did not follow, replay it rather than guessing.

Interrupted rounds. A round cut short during play can be replayed within one hour of the interruption, and after that the winnings are credited to the account automatically. Losing a connection mid-bonus is an inconvenience rather than a loss. Our responsible gambling page covers the session limits that sit alongside these controls.

Common mistakes and how to avoid them#

These are the ones that cost people money in this particular game.

Betting for the ceiling instead of the session. The 5,625x cap scales with the stake, which tempts people upward. But the base game is low-volatility and cheap by design, and its job is to keep you at the table until the bonus arrives. A stake that lets you buy a bank without flinching is a better choice than one that maximises a number you may never see.

Reading a line right to left. Wins build from the leftmost reel. A strong symbol landing on reels 3, 4 and 5 with nothing behind it pays nothing, and that catches people out constantly in their first session.

Waiting for a Scatter on reel 2. Blow it Down lands on reels 1, 3 and 5 only, so the trigger always looks the same. Once you know that, you stop watching the even reels for it.

Treating a buy price as a frequency. Collect at 120x means the round costs the same as 120 base spins at your stake. It says nothing about how often the feature arrives on its own, and reading it that way leads to bad budgeting. Practise the whole thing on the free demo first, then bring the plan to the hub page and the strategy page.