Piggy Holmes

Piggy Holmes Review

Piggy Holmes is an adventurous slot with 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 fixed pay-lines. It includes free spins, a respins feature and wild symbols. You can use the Autoplay and Turbo buttons. Play with wagers from 0.25 to €125 on all kinds of devices. The volatility is medium and the jackpot win is 1,000 times the stake. You get it from the Grand Jackpot available during the Piggy Respins. The max win from a full screen of the pistol in the base game pays 500 times your bet.

There are 6 Free Spins you can trigger and retrigger without restrictions. They play with Gigantic Symbols formed of the merged 3 middle reels. There is a different pay-table during the free games and it rewards 10 times less. The Piggy Respins includes sticky symbols with fixed cash rewards from the coins. There are 3 fixed jackpots worth from 50 to 200 times your stake, which values get summed up at the end. The largest payout from the respins and in the whole game is 1,000 times your bet. This is from the 4th fixed jackpot – the Grand Jackpot.

The Design

Piggy Holmes is set in a dark place with a dimly-lit interior. The reels are also dark and on them can land card royals and all kinds of items of the investigator. There are magnifying glasses, golden handcuffs, pistols and smoking pipes. The special symbols are the scatter, bonus symbol and wild.

The images appear elegant, precise, 3D, with a lot of gold and they all look great. You can land of the Golden Piggy Coins that trigger the bonus respins. The soundtrack is adventurous, immersive, melodic and dramatic. It is very suitable for the theme. On top of the 5 reels are displayed the 4 fixed jackpot prizes according to your bet size.

Piggy Holmes Gameplay

The pay-table of Piggy Holmes includes 4 cards at the low end and 4 premiums of the piggy investigator. The Piggy Holmes is the wild symbol, there is a scatter and a Golden Piggy Coin symbol. To get wins you need 3, 4 or 5 symbols of a kind to land on any of the 25 pay-lines from left to right.

The J and Q pay equally – 3, 4 and 5 on a line grant 0.20, 0.40 and 2 times the stake. The K pays 0.20, 0.80 and 2.80x stake. The A card ensures wins of 0.40, 1 and 4 times the stake for 3, 4 and 5 symbols.

The premiums include a smoking pipe that gives you 0.40, 1.60 and 8 times your bet. The magnifying glass pays 0.60, 2 and 12 times the stake. The golden handcuffs reward 0.80, 3.20 and 16 times the stake. The most rewarding symbol is the pistol. Hit 3, 4 or 5 of it on a pay-line from left to right to get 1, 4 or 20 times the bet.

Piggy Holmes looking through a magnifying glass is the wild symbol. It has the word itself and substitutes for the card and premiums. The scatter is the gold symbol with a lot of decorations and the words ‘PIGGY SCATTER’ on it. It activates the free spins. The Golden Piggy Coin triggers the Piggy Respins and resets them back to 3.

Piggy Holmes Features / Bonuses

Getting 3 scatters on a spin on reels 1, 3 and 5 grants 6 Free Spins and 3 times your bet win. During free spins, reels 2, 3 and 4 merge to form one Gigantic Symbol taking 9 positions space. This helps you score wins easier.

You will play with a different from the base game pay-table. It rewards for 4 and 5 of a kind combinations only on a pay-line landed from left to right. The J and Q pay 0.20 and 0.60x stake for 4 and 5 symbols. The K and A card grant 0.40 and 1x stake wins for 4 and 5 symbols.

The smoking pipe and magnifying glass return 1 and 4 times the stake for 4 and 5 symbols. The handcuffs grant 1.20 and 6 times the stake, while the pistol – 2 and 6 times your bet. Overall, the values of the symbols during free spins are 10 times lower than in the base game.

You can retrigger 3 extra free games by landing 1 Gigantic Scatter during these rounds. Then, you will be paid 1x stake as well. You can retrigger extra free games with the Giant scatter without limits.

Hit 6 or more Golden Piggy Coin symbols on a spin to activate the Piggy Respins. They start after you get paid for all your wins. You will play on another set of 5×3 reels, on which only Golden Piggy Coins can land. You get 3 respins at the start. Landing Golden Piggy Coin or Coins during the bonus game resets the number of respins back to 3. The Golden Piggy Coin symbols with cash values you have landed during the bonus game remain on their positions as sticky symbols.

The Gold Piggy Coins can contain bet multiplier cash prizes, which are predefined. They can also display the Mini, Minor or Major jackpots. You will win a total of all values on the Piggy Coin symbols summed up at the end of the bonus game. In case you cover all 15 positions with coin symbols, you will win the Grand Jackpot. The values of the 4 fixed jackpots available to win in the respins are:

Mini Jackpot – 50x stake;

Minor Jackpot – 100x stake;

Major Jackpot – 200x stake;

Grand Jackpot – 1,000x stake;

You will play the Piggy Respins as long as you have respins left or you have covered all positions with coins. You can trigger this feature both during the free spins and the base game.

The Conclusion

Piggy Holmes uses a fun theme with cartoonish characters. There are elegant, stylish and stunning graphics. The rounds are entertaining and the largest winning potential is in the respin bonus. During it, there are fixed cash prizes summed up at the end. The volatility is medium, so the game is suitable for a larger player base and for ordinary gamers.