The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot Review

The Great Pigsby Megapays Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

Using the Megaways mechanic from Big Time Gaming, The Great Pigsby Megapays slot has 6 reels and up to 117,649 ways to win. You’ll see between 2 and 7 symbols active on each reel. Randomly determined, the more symbols per reel will lead to more ways to win.

To play with 117,649 ways to win, you need to see 7 symbols on each of the reels. A winning combination is created when 3 or more matching symbols land on consecutive reels, in any position, beginning from reel 1.

Stakes vary between 20p to £50 per spin. There’s a ‘Bet’ section below the reels to the left of the main Spin button (on the desktop version). Click on the plus and minus buttons to adjust your bet. Alternatively, click on the Bet amount to see a list of all available stakes. Outside the UK, you’ll find an Autoplay function for autospins as well as a Turbo Mode for quicker spins.

In terms of return rates, The Great Pigsby Megapays RTP is 96.19%. Higher than the 96% slots average, the actual RTP is 86.75%. This is because 9.44% of this return is for the 4 Megapays jackpots. When spinning, 1.1% of your bet goes towards to the Mega Jackpot with 1.2%, 1.3% or 1.5% contributing to the Major, Midi and Mini jackpots respectively.

High volatility (5/5), expect a win every 3.65 spins on average as the hit frequency rate is 27.42%. The maximum win per spin is 20,000 x your total bet. This can be won on any spin but more likely from the Wild Respin feature. You can win a lot more from the 4 Megapays jackpots with the Mega Jackpot offering at least €300,000.

Theme – head back to the golden age of film

With a 30s/pig theme, The Great Pigsby Megapays slot is set in the golden age of film. Immerse yourself in glad rags and glitz in this sophisticated and glamorous offering. Following on from the original The Great Pigsby game, it’s inspired clearly by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby 1925 novel.

With an art deco feel, a mansion forms the backdrop is accompanied by a jazz soundtrack. Symbols on the reels include A, K, Q, J and 10 royals. The higher value symbols you’ll see include bourbon tumblers and cigars, phonographs, Charleston headpieces and piggy characters who look like Daisy Buchanan (Lady Pigsby) and Jay Gatsby. The male piggy character, Pigsby, is the best paying symbol with 3, 4, 5 or 6 awarding 0.7, 1, 1.5 or 3 x your total stake. He does look like a porky version of Leonardo Di Caprio in the 2013 The Gatsby film.

The piggy bank coin is the wild symbol and substitutes for all symbols on the reels. It appears on all reels bar reel 1. When it lands, it expands to cover the whole reel (i.e. expanding wild). Each wild reel has a multiplier value which shows how many wilds the wild reel represents.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x stake
J	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x stake
Q	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x stake
K	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x stake
A	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 x stake
Bourbon Tumbler and Cigar	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 or 0.5 x stake
Phonograph	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 or 0.8 x stake
Charleston Headpiece	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 or 1 x stake
Lady Pigsby	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.5, 0.8, 1 or 2 x stake
Pigsby	3, 4, 5 or 6 = 0.7, 1, 1.5 or 3 x stake
Piggy Bank Coin Wild	Substitutes for symbols above, expands + has multiplier
Envelope Scatter	Only appears during free spins

The Great Pigsby Megapays Mobile

Relax Gaming produce all their slots using HTML5 technology. Whilst The Great Pigsby Megapays may be set in the 30s, it’s available to play on all devices including mobiles, tablets, laptops and PCs. With up 7 symbols per reel, a bigger screen is always preferred in my opinion.

The Great Pigsby Megapays Bonus Features

The Great Pigsby Megapays slot has 4 bonus features. 3 of the features will come from the piggy bank. When a wild lands and expands, it’s collected in the piggy bank above the reel area. Each collected wild gives you the chance to trigger the Free Spins, Great Pigsby Respin or Wild Respin features.

Wild Respin feature

In the Wild Respin feature, you are awarded a respin where 2 to 5 reels are turned fully wild before the reel stop. The multiplier value on the wild reels shows how many wild symbols the wild reel has. For example, 3 wild reels with a 3x multiplier each sees the multiplier values added together (i.e. 27x).

Great Pigsby feature

The Great Pigsby Respin feature awards 1 respin with a number of Pigsby symbols placed as overlay symbols on the reel area before any reels stop. Basically, a number of high value symbols are added to the reels for a chance of bigger wins.

Free Spins feature

The Free Spins feature awards 10 free spins. When an envelope scatter lands, 2 extra free spins are awarded with 1 of the royal symbols removed from play. In future free spins, all instances of that symbol will be replaced by a high or medium value symbol. This can lead to more valuable symbols on the reels.

First, the 10 royal is removed and so forth (J, Q, K and A). Once all royals are removed, a new scatter landing will still give you 2 additional free spins. This can lead to unlimited free spins. Unfortunately, no wilds seem to appear which means no wild reels or multipliers.

Megapays feature

Like with other Megapays slots, there’s a randomly-triggered Megapays feature. You head to Las Vegas where 1 royal symbol is reveal to be the Megapays symbol. A respin then is awarded.

If 1 or more instances of the Megapays symbol appears, it will lock in position and another respin is won. Respins continue until no new instances of the Megapays symbol lands or until the Mega Jackpot is won. The more Megapays symbols you land, the bigger your prize. You will see a Megapays Ladder which keeps track of how many Megapays symbol instances have appeared.

You need 4 to win the Mini Jackpot with 15 or more giving your Mega Jackpot. The actual Mega Jackpot is worth £395,795.67. Here’s a table showing what you need to do and what the minimum jackpot amount (seed) is that you’ll win:

The Great Pigsby Megapays Review Summary – relive the golden age with multiplier wilds + jackpots

Superbly designed, The Great Pigsby Megaways slot has a lot to offer. Oozing class and sophistication, it looks a little of NetEnt’s Piggy Riches. In terms of gameplay, the bonus features are triggered fairly frequently. The piggy bank coin wild is key as it gives you wild reels with multipliers as well as the chance to trigger 3 of the 4 bonus features.

With the free spins benefitting from richer reels due to royals being removed, the best of the extras is the Wild Respin feature. This is because up to 5 reels can become fully wild which multipliers which then combine. This extra will give you the best chance of landing 20,000 x bet max wins per spin.

You also have the added bonus of the Megapays jackpots which can award 4 progressive jackpots. The Mega Jackpot is by far the biggest and guaranteed to award €300,000. The real-time Mega Jackpot will pay £395,795.67.

The jackpots offered in The Great Pigsby Megapays are the same found in some Big Time Gaming slots like Who Wants to be a Millionaire Megapays and Star Clusters Megapays. It’s a credit to Relax Gaming that this game is the first non-BTG slot to be part of the Megapays jackpot network.