Piggies and the Bank PowerPlay Jackpot Slot by Playtech

Six or more gold Coins are what set the Mega Fire Blaze round going, and when they do the board changes shape. The five standard reels stretch into a 5x9 wall and a hold-and-respin takes over. Every fresh coin that sticks resets the respin count. Collect two coins carrying a Key and a new row unlocks above the current one, and the higher rows are the ones that matter: row 7 doubles every coin value, row 8 multiplies it by five (Stars excepted), and row 9 turns a plain Coin into a Star Coin. Hold a Star Coin when the respins run out and it hands over one of four fixed prizes, from the Mini at 20x up through Minor and Major to the Grand at 2,000x your bet.

The base game has its own respin trick built around the Stacked Gold Wild. A Gold Wild that covers a full reel expands, freezes, and starts a run of respins, then walks one reel to the left on each one. Land more Gold Wilds and they lock and stretch the run further, and any Cash Coin on the board flips to a Wild while the round lasts. It's the closest the reels come to a guaranteed screen-filler outside the coin bonus.

Free games run off the red Scatter, which pays 50x on its own before doing anything else. Three of them award 8 spins, a retrigger adds 8 more, and any Gold Wild that drops during the round expands and starts the stacked respins again. Sitting over all of this are three networked PowerPlay progressives, Mega, Peak and Mini, that land at random on any paid spin. The catch: they only run on real-money play, so the demo greys them out and you'll never see them move in free play.

The look is loud cartoon money. Grinning gold and pink piggy banks in little top hats, gold bars, fat cash wads and a blue safe, all raining notes inside a bright vault. It's Playtech bolting its Fire Blaze jackpot engine onto a piggy-bank-and-cash theme that has been done to death across the genre, so nothing about the setting will surprise you. The reason to load it is the row-climbing coin bonus, not the pigs.