Three colourful piggy banks sitting above the reels tell you almost everything you need to know about 3 Magic Piggy Banks. Pink, gold and purple Lucky Hammers charge their matching banks, and each one has a completely different feature waiting inside. The result is a slot where there is usually more than one thing worth watching, even during an otherwise ordinary spin.
Hacksaw Gaming has not built the concept entirely from scratch, though. The structure closely follows 3 Cursed Chests: Hold & Win, replacing its darker treasure-hunting theme with cartoon pigs, piles of cash and a much lighter vault setting. The mechanics are still varied enough to work, but anyone familiar with that game will recognise the formula immediately.
At the centre of the game are 5 reels, 3 rows and 17 fixed paylines, while the three Piggy Banks sit above them waiting to be charged. The default RTP is 96.30%, volatility is medium at 3/5 and the maximum win is 2,500x the bet. Stakes can range from 0.05 up to 400.
Lucky Hammers can land in pink, gold or purple, with each colour feeding the matching Piggy Bank. Once charged, a bank has a chance to activate after the regular wins have been resolved, although only one Piggy Bank can trigger on a single spin. Pink focuses on multiplier Wilds, gold delivers the Hold & Win action and purple provides the route toward the two main free spins bonuses.
Each Piggy Bank has its own feature, giving the base game three separate targets to chase.
The Pink Piggy Bank activates Magic Wild Respin. During the respin, Wild Multipliers can land with values from 2x to 100x. If several contribute to the same win, their values are added together before the final multiplier is applied.
The Gold Piggy Bank opens Magic Coins Bonus, which is the game’s Hold & Win feature. It starts with three lives, while sticky Coins carry values from 0.2x up to 1,000x the bet. Every new Coin resets the counter back to three, and the round ends when the lives run out or every position has been filled.
Finally, the Purple Piggy Bank launches Magic FS Respin. Only FS symbols and blank symbols appear here. Collecting seven FS symbols opens Swindle and Swine, while six FS symbols together with an FS Upgrade symbol unlock Epig Heist. The collected FS symbols also determine how many free spins you start with.
Swindle and Swine keeps all three Piggy Banks active during free spins, but makes them easier to trigger. The third Lucky Hammer of the same colour guarantees that its corresponding bank activates, although a bank can still fire earlier by chance.
Magic FS Respins can also appear again and add more free spins. More importantly, landing an FS Upgrade promotes the remaining round into Epig Heist, with the existing spins carrying over. If Magic Coins Bonus activates during free spins, the entire Hold & Win sequence uses only one free spin.
Epig Heist removes most of the waiting from the Piggy Bank system. Every Lucky Hammer immediately activates the corresponding Piggy Bank on that spin, so Magic Wild Respins, Magic Coins and additional FS Respins can arrive much more frequently.
It is essentially the fully powered-up version of the game. The underlying features remain the same, but automatic Piggy Bank activations make the bonus considerably busier and give the three-bank concept much more room to show what it can do.
There are four paid feature options, ranging from an inexpensive boost to the purple Piggy Bank all the way to direct access to the strongest free spins round.
The menu gives the game a nice spread of options: the cheaper FeatureSpins modify the base game, while the two larger purchases skip straight to the bonuses where the Piggy Banks become much more active.
3 Magic Piggy Banks has a good feature set hiding inside a very familiar Hacksaw framework. Having three separate banks gives the base game several small objectives at once, and the Gold Piggy Bank’s Hold & Win works especially well alongside the more unpredictable Wild and free spins features.
Epig Heist is where everything finally comes together, as automatic bank activations make the concept feel considerably more energetic. The downside is the lack of originality and a 2,500x max win that feels modest by modern Hacksaw standards. Fun enough to keep the piggies busy, but not quite magical enough to stand among the studio’s best.
Our rating: 6.5/10
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