About Piggy Riches Megaways
Piggy Riches Megaways has three separate genealogies. The Piggy Riches brand is a NetEnt asset. The Megaways mechanic belongs to Big Time Gaming, which designed it, patented it in the United States and licensed it to Red Tiger on 8 October 2018 according to CasinoBeats. And Red Tiger itself was bought by NetEnt on 5 September 2019 for £220m, four and a half months before this title shipped on 22 January 2020. Everything has since converged: Evolution bought NetEnt and then Big Time Gaming, closing the latter deal on 30 June 2021 for €450m. Licensor and licensee now sit inside the same group.
The Megaways principle remains Big Time Gaming's: six reels whose height varies from 2 to 7 symbols on every spin. The number of ways to win is the product of the six heights — at maximum 7 to the power of 6, or 117,649, at minimum 2 to the power of 6, or 64. Wins pay left to right on adjacent reels, and each win triggers a cascade: paid symbols vanish, the rest drop, and the sequence resumes as long as a win forms.
The game's own mechanic is the Mega Wild. Evolution describes the gentleman pig as a wild that takes up an entire reel and carries a ways multiplier of up to 7x. Up to three Mega Wilds can appear at once, and their multipliers are then combined. On exactly how they combine, sources diverge: SlotCatalog and AskGamblers write that three 7x Mega Wilds multiply each other up to 343x on a single spin, while Evolution's official page refers to a joint ways multiplier without publishing a formula. We flag the gap rather than picking a side.
Three scatter symbols — the lady pig — open a bonus wheel that sets the starting configuration. AskGamblers gives the range: 7 to 22 free spins, with a starting multiplier between 1x and 10x. Evolution confirms the top of that range: up to 22 spins and 10x to start. During the feature the multiplier climbs by +1 with every Megaways win and, an important detail from the official page, it resets only when the free spins end, not between spins. Twenty-two spins all winning would therefore carry a 10x starting multiplier up to 32x. Extra scatters award additional spins.
The official RTP is 95.71%, a figure published by both Red Tiger and Evolution: the house keeps £4.29 per £100 staked. SlotCatalog lists 94.72%, or £5.28, a 99p gap per £100 wagered, or £99 across £10,000 of cumulative stakes.
The hit frequency published by Red Tiger is 37.63%, roughly one paying spin in 2.66. It is the highest of the five Red Tiger games for which we could verify this data point, ahead of Dragon's Fire Megaways (37.13%) and Vault of Anubis (36%). Evolution indeed labels the title high volatility and high hit rate, an unusual combination.
The maximum win raises an awkward attribution problem: Red Tiger quotes 10,474x on its product page, Evolution quotes 10,000x on its own. Two pages, same group, two numbers. We keep 10,474x, the value also carried by SlotCatalog and AskGamblers. At official stakes of £0.10 to £50, that is £1,047.40 at the minimum, £10,474 at £1 and £523,500 at £50. Starting from the Mega Wilds' 343x maximum, you would still need a 30.5x base win to reach the ceiling.
On the bonus buy, AskGamblers states it is offered at some casinos only. No price is published anywhere, and the option remains banned in the United Kingdom.
