Six Pig Coins trigger the Hold and Win round in Sugar Piggy. If one of those six is a rainbow Super Coin, you enter the Super Bonus instead, where the Super Coin acts as a wild and multipliers can climb to x20, rather than the standard x10. It is the same coin round underneath, and whether a Super Coin sits among your six decides which version you play. Around it sits a sweet shop of lollipops, hearts and gumdrops that pay when 8 or more match and collapse for another go, with a golden piggy bank to the left that tops up your coins as you spin.
Wins land in clusters here, not across paylines. Get 8 or more matching candies anywhere on the grid and they pay, with higher payouts kicking in at 10 and 12 symbols; 7 or fewer pay nothing. Winning candies then burst, letting the sweets above tumble into the gaps, so one spin can keep paying as fresh matches drop into place. The W candy acts as a wild on the reels, standing in for any sweet symbol, but never for a coin.
The coins are pig faces in four colours. Get 6 or more in view to open the bonus. In the coin round that follows, only coins, jackpots and multipliers can appear. Each coin carries a cash value from 0.5x to 5x your bet.
You start with 3 respins, and every new symbol that sticks, whether it is a coin, jackpot or multiplier, resets the count to 3. A steady run can keep the round alive. It ends when the respins run out or the grid fills, then every value on the board pays at once.
Coins have a colour trick too. When 8 coins of one shade are in view, they merge into one larger coin, keeping your winnings, but freeing space for more symbols to land. A colour-coded multiplier can also appear, boosting every coin of its own colour by x2, x3, x5 or x10.
Four fixed jackpots also sit above the grid: Mini, Minor, Major, and the top-tier Grand.
One coin can reshape the round. The Super Coin is the pig framed in shifting colours, and if it appears among the 6 coins that trigger the feature, the Super Bonus opens instead of the regular round.
Inside the bonus, it acts as a wild, combining with coins of any colour, while any multiplier can attach to it regardless of colour. The multiplier range is stronger here too, stretching beyond the regular x10 to include x15 and x20.
The golden pig is more than decoration. Any coin arriving in normal play can wake it, and when it stirs, it swells and throws fresh coins onto the reels, at times enough to make up the six a bonus needs. Set it off with a Super Coin, and the coins it brings point you toward the Super Bonus.
Two shortcuts sit around the reels for players in a hurry. The Higher Chance of Bonus toggle raises how often both bonus rounds trigger, for a little more on your stake. Or you can buy in directly, one price for the ordinary Hold and Win and a dearer one for the Super Bonus with its wild coin and larger multipliers.
You can stake as little as £0.20 or as much as £50.00 a spin, though the demo carries no currency of its own, so the figures read as bare credits. Press Hold for Turbo and the spins run faster, while the extra-bet toggle sits beside the reels to shorten the wait for a round.
Sugar Piggy ignores paylines completely. A win is a group of one candy showing across the 6×5 grid, so position does not matter. Small groups pay nothing, though, as you need at least eight matching symbols before a win counts.
Each win then clears the way for the cascade to bring new sweets in, which can chain a few times before a spin settles.
The candy values below are based on a 1.00 spin. Coins and jackpots are not included, as they only pay once the bonus round has started.
| Candy | 12 or more | 10–11 | 8–9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Lollipop | 50x | 10x | 5x |
| Green Sweet | 20x | 5x | 2x |
| Pink Lollipop | 15x | 4x | 1.5x |
| Blue Drop | 10x | 2x | 1x |
| Red Heart | 5x | 1.5x | 0.75x |
| Green Triangle | 4x | 1.25x | 0.5x |
| Pink Diamond | 2.5x | 1x | 0.4x |
| Blue Gumdrop | 1.5x | 0.75x | 0.25x |
| Orange Lozenge | 1x | 0.5x | 0.2x |
The tiers climb in steps, so a top red lollipop pays ten times more for 12 of a kind than for a first winning group of 8.
Sugar Piggy is a Playson Hold and Win with a cascade game bolted to its front, and the join works better than it should. The cascade feeds a coin round worth reaching, and between the pig, the extra bet and the two buy buttons you are not far from it. The Super Bonus is a real step up too, with its Super Coin playing wild and higher multiplier potential than the regular round. It stays fast and lively throughout, a familiar engine doing its job well.
The best thing about Sugar Piggy is that both sides of the game pull their weight. The candy cascade can land wins on its own, while the pig topping up the reels gives every spin something to watch. It all builds toward the coin round, which is the real draw, and the bright, jolly soundtrack ties everything together without becoming grating.
None of the mechanics are new. This is Playson’s coin Hold and Win under a sweet wrapper, and if you have played one of its jackpot-coin games, you know the shape of this one. Even when the bonus lands, the version you get still comes down to a coin you cannot choose unless you use the buy feature. The cascades rarely run for more than a couple of hits, so quiet spells can settle in before a bonus arrives. There is also a small visual hitch in the spinning backdrop, which resets with a noticeable jump every quarter-turn instead of looping cleanly.
Sugar Piggy really offers two takes on one round, and the line dividing them is thin. Six pig coins bring the plain Hold and Win. Slip a Super Coin into that six and you land the Super Bonus, the coin now wild and the multipliers rising. Board, respins and merging all behave alike either way. That one coin is all that keeps them apart, which is why the two buy buttons, at 100x and 200x, are really pricing one symbol.
That does not make the Super round a gimmick. A wild coin that folds in with any colour is a real asset in a round built on gathering one shade, and the taller multipliers give the top end somewhere to go. Our best plain round, three spins into the session, filled 19 of the cells and paid 33.50 from a 1.00 spin. A fair return, and one that came nowhere near what a wild coin and its multiplier could have done with the grid it had.
Getting into a round is where Sugar Piggy is unusually giving. The pig on the left keeps refilling the reels, and it does real work. On one spin it turned three coins into six by itself and dropped us into a round that grew to 52.00, doubling a 4.00 coin the whole way up to 16.00. Put the two buys and the extra bet on top, and the ways into the bonus stack up.
One small touch makes the downtime nicer to sit with. A purple panel beside the pig lists how many of each sweet you struck and what it paid, so a cascade that pays two or three times in a row is easy to follow, not a blur of collapsing candy. The sweet-shop look is bright without turning sickly.
We ended the session on a bought Super Bonus at 200x: the dearer round, with the wild coin, x20 multipliers, and the same 10,000x cap as every other round. The merge feature did its job, with red, blue and purple coins folding into bigger values to clear space. A lone x2 multiplier helped, and Mini and Minor jackpot coins landed along the way. The round finished at 161.75x, short of the 200x it cost.
A ceiling that high only pays in full rarely, and most sessions will be made up of the ordinary rounds that lead toward it. Even so, Sugar Piggy is easy to like. It plays quickly, keeps you close to the coins, and stays light in mood from start to finish. We spent this review in free play, watching how the pig behaves before staking a penny.
