Grow Your Own Cash with Piggy Bank Farm

Slots Online Published: tue 5 jan 2021 The New Year is often a time when many people like to do a little financial planning for the future. However, if budgets and balance sheets don't excite you, a new slot from Play'n GO gives you the perfect excuse to take a well-earned break. The new game is called Piggy Bank Farm, and it was actually released at the very end of last year, completing the company's pledge to release one game every week during 2020.

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

We've all been told that money doesn't grow on trees, and that's true. But in this game, it does grow in fields, albeit indirectly. Piggy Bank Farmer is all about a farmer called Joe who had the bright idea of planting piggy banks - each with a few coins inside - in his field. Mother nature did the rest, and before he knew it, he had a crop of many more coin-filled piggy banks just waiting to be harvested.

Format and Presentation

Piggy Bank Farm is a five-reel slot with 50 pay lines, and as you might expect, it takes place in the great outdoors. The background provides a great view of Farmer Joe's farm, and the reels are presented in a wooden frame in the foreground.

Each of the five semi-transparent reels is stocked with very well drawn cartoon-style symbols. These include the playing card ranks of 10, J, Q, K and A - all of which are fashioned from old planks of wood - a cow, a sheep, a sheepdog, a chicken and Farmer Joe himself. A golden coin showing the profile of a rich pig serves as a scatter symbol on the first, third and fifth reels, and a hammer (which is on the fifth reel only) can help you to make some cash from piggy bank symbols that can also appear on the reels.

The visuals are crisp and colourful and will brighten up even the gloomiest day. So too will the country music soundtrack that accompanies your farming adventure. Even so, it's the special features that will get you most excited.

Piggy Bank Spins Feature

When the hammer symbol lands on the screen, you will trigger a Piggy Bank Spins feature. Any piggy bank symbols that are already showing will be held in place, and you will be given three lives.

The reels will spin, and if no new piggy bank symbols land, you will lose a life. If one or more piggy bank symbols do land, they too will be held. If adjacent piggy bank symbols form a square, they will merge to become one bigger piggy bank. This means that you can get piggy banks measuring 1x1, 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4. It is also possible to get a 4x5 sized Mega Piggy Bank when every cell is full of piggy banks.

When you have used all three of your lives, the piggy banks that you have collected on the reels will be broken, and their contents revealed. You will then win the total of their contents. As you would expect, bigger piggy banks tend to have more cash inside than regular-sized ones, and the Mega Piggy Bank could give you as much as 500 times your bet.

Piggy Bank Farm Free Spins

Land three scatter symbols on the reels, and you will be awarded eight free spins. If you land an additional scatter at any point during this round, another three free spins will be awarded.

It is possible to land multiple hammers during free spins, and each hammer will increase a multiplier for Piggy Bank Spins, up to x10. Because the Mega Piggy Bank can pay up to 500 times your bet, getting a Mega Piggy Bank with a x10 multiplier would give you a payout of 5,000 times your bet. That won't make you 'filthy rich', but it should brighten your day quite considerably.