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Super Piggy Inferno OverviewSuper Piggy Inferno is Platipus taking its treasure-hunting pigs somewhere considerably warmer. The reels sit in a volcanic cavern, walled in by black basalt columns and lit from below by a river of molten rock that glows orange along the bottom of the screen. The palette is almost entirely red, gold and black, the logo above the grid is set in flaming yellow letters, and the whole thing has the cheerful, cartoonish menace of a Saturday-morning underworld rather than anything genuinely sinister. Symbols and the Imp WildThe symbol set follows the same joke. A flaming red 7 sits at the top, followed by a golden devil’s trident wreathed in fire, a golden bell and a pair of burning dice. Beneath them come A, K, Q and J royals cut from the same molten gold. Presiding over all of it is a grinning red imp with horns, who acts as the game’s wild and is by some distance the best-drawn thing on screen. As the wild he substitutes for the regular symbols to complete lines, and on a 25-line grid that is worth more than it sounds – a single well-placed imp can turn two or three near-misses into paying combinations at once. A Deliberately Modest PaytableAt a 10.00 stake, five flaming sevens returned 50.00 – just 5x the bet – with the trident, bell and dice all paying 25.00 for five, and the royals 10.00. That is deliberate: this is a coin-collection slot, and the paytable exists only to keep the reels ticking while you wait for the coins. Grid and Bet SettingsThe layout is a 5x3 grid with 25 fixed paylines, a conventional structure that pays from the leftmost reel to the right. Stakes run from 0.2 to 20 per spin, and there is a Hold for Turbo control on the right of the reels for players who would rather not watch each spin play out. The choice of 25 fixed lines rather than a ways-based structure is worth noting. Ways games scatter small wins constantly; a 25-line grid is quieter and more deliberate, and the reels can go several spins in a row showing nothing at all. Platipus has clearly chosen that on purpose – a busy base game would compete with the coins for attention, and here nothing is allowed to. The Jackpot LadderDown the left-hand side of the screen runs the jackpot ladder, four coloured plaques stacked one above the other: Grand, Major, Minor and Mini. At a 10.00 stake they read 5,000, 1,000, 300 and 150; at 20.00 they read 10,000, 2,000, 600 and 300. In other words they are fixed multipliers of the bet – 500x, 100x, 30x and 15x – that scale with whatever you are staking, and they stay on screen through every single spin. The Three CauldronsAbove the reels sit the three things that make this game its own: a row of pig-faced cauldrons, each with a name printed beneath it. On the left is Boost, a yellow pig with curled horns. In the middle, bubbling over an open flame, is Extra, a red devil-pig with a wide grin. On the right is Multi, a blue pig with a sullen stare. These are the game’s modifiers, and the ones that are lit when the bonus round begins determine how that round plays. Boost adds to the values printed on the coins. Multi applies a multiplier to a jackpot. Extra hands out more of the round itself. Which cauldrons are active is visible before you ever reach the feature, so you always know roughly what version of the bonus you are heading into. The Hold and Win RoundThe bonus is a hold and win respin round, and it is where the game finally opens up. The reels clear to a dark blue board and golden coins begin locking into position, each stamped with its own value – 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 and upward. A counter beneath the grid tracks three respins, and every fresh coin that lands resets it to three. What lifts it above the standard version of this feature is the multipliers scattered across the board. Individual positions carry x2 or x3 markers, and a coin landing on one is worth double or triple its printed value. The arithmetic is immediate and visible: a 15 landing on a x2 tile is worth 30, and three or four of those in one round is the difference between a modest return and a genuinely good one. The round can also grow. Expanding reels widen the board as the feature progresses and sticky symbols hold what you have already collected, so a run that starts well tends to keep building rather than stalling. Filling the board is what puts the Grand within reach. Buy FeatureA Buy Feature is available for players who would rather pay to start the bonus immediately. Given how quiet the base game is by design, it is a more tempting proposition here than in most slots – though buying in does not guarantee which cauldrons will be lit. RTP, Volatility and Max WinThe RTP is 96.09%, the volatility is high, and the top prize is 9,675x the stake – a figure far above the 500x Grand jackpot that can only come from a well-filled bonus board with the multipliers landing on the right coins. One practical warning: the RTP is also released in 96.18% and 96.27% versions. Which one you are playing depends on the casino, and the game does not advertise it prominently, so it is worth checking the info screen at whichever site you play. Session Shape and BankrollLong stretches pass with the royals and the occasional trident paying back a fraction of the stake, the balance drifting down, and the jackpot plaques glowing on the left as a reminder of what you are actually here for. Then the coins arrive, the board clears, and everything that has happened for the last twenty minutes becomes irrelevant. The cartoon pigs suggest something gentle, but the numbers underneath belong to a genuinely swingy game. The practical advice is to stake lower than instinct suggests and plan for a longer session. The jackpots are fixed multipliers, so there is no advantage to betting high to unlock them – and with a base game paying 5x at best, what you most need is enough spins to reach the feature more than once. Who It Is ForIt suits players who already know the hold and win format and want a version with a bit more machinery behind it – the three cauldrons genuinely change how the round plays, rather than being decoration. Anyone looking for a base game that pays its own way should look elsewhere, because this one very deliberately does not. It is worth spinning the free demo on the left to get a feel for the game before committing real money. You can try this game on AztecParadise Online Casino. There’s a unique casino bonus offer of 300% up to £2000 for a limited time. |