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Piggy Fortunes Slot Review
Piggy Fortunes is a 5-reel, 25-payline video slot from Microgaming built around the Three Little Pigs fairy tale. Released in December 2015, it puts a spin on the classic story by making the Big Bad Wolf both your wild symbol and the engine behind the game's most rewarding feature. With an RTP of 95.93%, medium volatility, and a maximum win potential of 1,250x your total bet, it sits comfortably in the mid-range of Microgaming's catalogue - familiar enough for casual players, with enough depth to keep things interesting.
Theme and Design
The setting is a countryside scene - trees, green fields, a clear sky. It is not the most elaborate backdrop Microgaming has produced, but it works well enough for the theme. The reels carry a mix of thematic symbols and standard playing card icons. On the higher end you have the straw house, the wooden house, the brick house, the Big Bad Wolf, and all three pigs together on a single symbol. Below those sit the Jack, Queen, King and Ace cards.
There is animation tied to wins. The wolf performs a thumbs-up when he helps complete a payline, and the houses wobble and shift when involved in a win. The soundtrack leans into the theme with a banjo-heavy track. There is a mute button if that is not your thing.
Paylines and Betting
All 25 paylines are fixed, so every spin covers all of them. The betting range runs from £0.25 per spin up to £3.75, which keeps the game accessible but does not cater for players who prefer larger stakes. Coin sizes range from 0.01 to 0.20, and you can adjust coins per line between 1 and 15 to reach your preferred total stake.
Wins are paid left to right from the leftmost reel. The top-paying symbol in the base game is the three pigs symbol, with five on a payline paying 100x your total bet. House symbols follow behind, paying between 12x and 36x for five of a kind.
Wild and Scatter Symbols
The Big Bad Wolf is the wild. He substitutes for all symbols on the reels except the scatter, stepping in to complete paylines wherever he can. He does not carry a multiplier in the base game - he is purely a substitute - but his role expands considerably in the bonus round.
The Three Little Pigs symbol is the scatter. Landing three or more anywhere on the reels triggers the Blow Down bonus feature. Three scatter pigs also pay 5x your total bet as a scatter win on top of any feature payout. Landing five pig scatters pays 100x your total bet.
Autoplay
The autoplay function lets you set a run of automated spins with configurable stop conditions. You can set it to stop when you reach a set balance, drop below a loss limit, or hit a win above a certain amount. It handles itself sensibly and is useful if you want to run through a session without clicking each spin manually.
Blow Down Bonus Feature
This is where Piggy Fortunes earns most of its replay value. The Blow Down feature is not a standard free spins round with a fixed number of spins. Instead, it runs until the Big Bad Wolf succeeds in destroying all three houses - or until you manage to keep rebuilding them.
During the feature, the three houses (straw, wooden, brick) appear on the reels alongside the other symbols. When the wolf wild lands adjacent to a house, he blows it down. The destroyed house is removed from the reels and replaced with a wrecked version. While a house is in a wrecked state, it acts as a multiplier applied to any winning combination involving the wolf wild:
- Wrecked straw house - 2x multiplier
- Wrecked wooden house - 3x multiplier
- Wrecked brick house - 4x multiplier
If you land three pig scatters during the feature, the pigs rebuild one randomly selected destroyed house. This removes one multiplier but extends the feature by making it harder for the wolf to blow all three houses down again. The bonus ends only when all three houses are fully destroyed, so scatter landings during the feature directly lengthen your time in it.
A tracker in the top right corner of the screen shows the current state of each house so you can follow the progress of the feature at a glance.
Volatility and Max Win
Piggy Fortunes plays at medium volatility. The base game delivers regular small wins, while the bigger payouts come from the Blow Down feature - particularly when multiple houses are wrecked simultaneously and the wolf wild hits with stacked multipliers active. The maximum payout is 1,250x the total bet, reached under optimal bonus conditions.
The RTP of 95.93% is slightly below the current market average but not out of place for a Microgaming release from this era. It is worth noting the RTP is calculated over very long play sessions, so short-term results will vary considerably.
Our Take
Piggy Fortunes does not try to be more than it is. The Three Little Pigs theme is handled well, the Blow Down feature has a logical structure that ties the narrative directly to the gameplay mechanics, and the variable-length bonus round adds something that a standard fixed-spin feature would not. The betting ceiling of £3.75 per spin limits its appeal to higher-stakes players, and there are no additional bonus features beyond the main event. What is here works well though - the rebuild mechanic during the bonus round gives players agency and extends what could otherwise be a short feature into something more engaging.
It is a solid, focused slot that delivers on its theme without overcomplicating things.
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