Magic Piggy Slot by Hacksaw Gaming

The Magic Hat Makes Everything Happen

Magic Piggy runs on a 5x5 grid with 19 paylines, and the core mechanic centers on two linked symbols. Golden Piggy symbols sit on the reels doing nothing until a Magic Hat lands. When it does, every Piggy on screen transforms - either all become wilds or all become Bill Stacks (cash values). No mixing. It's one or the other, decided randomly when the Hat appears.

Bill Stack values range from 1 to 1,000 coins. With a baseBetLevel of 10, that top coin value translates to 100x your bet from a single symbol. And Multiplier Coins (2x through 5x) get layered on top, each one boosting 1-5 Bill Stack values. The same stack gets hit by multiple multipliers if you're lucky.

Two Bonuses, One Critical Difference

Three FS scatters trigger the Pig Bonus - 10 free spins. During the bonus, Star symbols add 1-5 Piggy Points to the meter above the reel they land on. Super Stars add points to all five meters at once. When a Magic Hat drops, Piggy symbols equal to the meter total fill that reel. Then the meters reset to zero.

Four FS scatters trigger the Epig Bonus instead. Same 10 spins, same Piggy Points collection. But here the points never reset. Every Magic Hat trigger stacks on top of the previous one, so by the end of the feature, reels fill with more and more Piggies each time a Hat appears. Fill all five meters completely and the game adds another 10 spins on top.

The gap between these two modes is substantial. Pig Bonus resets your progress after each Hat, which limits how loaded any single reveal gets. Epig Bonus lets momentum build. Landing 3 FS symbols during either bonus adds 4 extra spins, and hitting 4 FS during the Pig Bonus upgrades you to Epig mid-feature.

Five Tiers of Buy Bonus

Hacksaw offers an unusually deep buy menu here. BonusHunt at 3x bet just increases trigger frequency by about 5x. Magical at 20x guarantees at least 3 Magic Piggies plus a Magic Hat every spin. More Magical at 40x bumps that to 8+ Piggies per spin. Then the direct triggers - Pig Bonus at 100x and Epig Bonus at 200x your bet.

That 200x Epig buy is steep. At a €2 base bet, you're paying €400 for 10 spins with progressive meters. The 7,500x cap means maximum return on that buy is around 37.5x the purchase price - decent but far from the 50-100x ratios you see on other Hacksaw titles.

Stage Show Presentation

The visual theme is a game show stage with purple-blue lighting and stacks of gold coins flanking the grid. Golden cartoon pigs with blue eyes serve as both mascot and key mechanic symbol. High-pay symbols include plums, cherries, horseshoes, and crystals. Low-pays are green card letters (10, J, Q, K). The "EPIG WIN" splash screen on the volatility card hints at what Hacksaw considers the main event.

Paytable-wise, the wild and HIGH_5 both pay 30x for five of a kind. The low end sits at 0.1x for three of a kind on the weakest symbols, which means plenty of dead spins between meaningful hits at this volatility level.