Piggy Bank is a slot game that does not take itself very seriously, and the result is just as funny for the players. The reels are hovering over a background that evokes a young.
| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Casino games |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1958 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Bernard Shapiro |
| Parent | Century Gaming |
| Website | unitedcoin.com |
United Coin Machine Co. is an American slot route operator based in Paradise, Nevada. It operates slot machines in locations such as bars, convenience stores, and grocery stores. It is owned by Century Gaming, a Montana-based slot route operator. For many years, United Coin was the largest slot route operator in Nevada.
History[edit]
United Coin was founded in 1958.[1] Bernard Shapiro, who had owned a coin machine business in Northern California, and a small stake in the Royal Nevada casino, started the company after the Royal Nevada went out of business.[2]
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Advanced Patent Technology purchased the company in 1979.[3]
In 1980, Advanced Patent reached an agreement to sell United Coin to Bristol Silver Mines Co. for $13 million in cash and stock.[4] Advanced Patent withdrew from the offer three months later, though, saying that United Coin was now 'more desirable'.[5]
In 2000, United Coin's parent, now known as Alliance Gaming, agreed to sell the company for $112 million in cash plus $6 million in preferred stock to gaming developers Michael Luzich and Daniel Kehl.[6] Alliance canceled the deal a year later due to increased profits at United Coin.[7]
In 2004, Century Gaming bought United Coin for $100 million cash plus $5 million in assumed debt.[8]
The company sold off its operations in Northern Nevada to another slot route operator in 2013, but then returned to the region in 2015, placing machines at a chain of sports bars.[9]
In July 2014, the company dropped the United Coin name and rebranded its operations in Nevada and Montana as Century Gaming Technologies.[10]
References[edit]
- ^Liz Benston (July 3, 2003). 'New owner to retain United Coin employees'. Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ^Tex Maule (April 29, 1963). 'Players are not just people'. Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ^Robert Metz (September 3, 1980). 'Advanced Patent's future'. New York Times. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^'Advanced Patent says Bristol Silver Mines gets option for a unit'. Wall Street Journal. April 4, 1980. ProQuest134383954. – via ProQuest (subscription required)
- ^'Advanced Patent says SEC seeks information on stock sales'. Dow Jones News Service. July 2, 1980. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^'Las Vegas-based slot route operation sold for $118 million'. Las Vegas Sun. July 10, 2000. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ^David Strow (June 26, 2001). 'Financial turnaround prompts cancellation of slot route deal'. Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ^Kevin Rademacher (July 1, 2004). 'Shake-up under way at Alliance'. Las Vegas Sun. – via Factiva (subscription required)
- ^Howard Stutz (March 3, 2015). 'Century Gaming wary of proposed new slot machine tax'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ^Howard Stutz (July 14, 2014). 'United Coin Machine changes name to Century Gaming Technologies'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
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Piggy Gold is a standard slot game that has a theme about wealth and about ancient China, it’s that red-and-gold theme we’re all familiar with, it’s just that the main character is a very cute Piggy. And the background isn’t red, but green, which is easier on the eyes, especially as there’s a lot of red already. All the high-win symbols are golden, and Piggy really stands out on your reels.
The game has 243 ways to win so any combination of adjacent symbols starting from the leftmost reel will award a win, if there are at least three symbols in the combination. You basically pay 20 coins to play these 243 ways to win, which is a decent offer, and your bet per spin can range from €0.20 to €40.
Main game and paytable
Piggy is the Wild and it appears on reels 2, 3 and 4 only. It’s a non-paying symbol, unlike Scatter which can pay up to 15x your bet and is the best-paying symbol in the game as the others are really poor. The best prize you can hope for from ten normal symbols is to – get your stake back. Two of the five high-win symbols will pay 1x your bet for five-of-a-kind, while three more will pay 0.75x, and the card symbols will pay between 0.6x and 0.5x. Interestingly, four-of-a-kind prizes are decent in comparison, and in case of high-win symbols are 75-80% of the five-of-a-kind prize.
If one or more Wilds appear on the screen, the win can be multiplied, and you need it to be multiplied since the paytable is this poor. The multiplier can be x2, x3, x5 or x8 and that’s the only way to make some money from a payline win in the base game. The multiplier doesn’t land every time.
Bonus features
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Scatter is a paying symbol, and any win will trigger the Free Game Choice. You’ll be given six choices plus a Mystery Choice, and you can get from 6 to 25 free spins with a win multiplier between x38 and x2 when you land a Piggy Wild. Also, during the free spins, Wild will always trigger the Rich Pig Feature with win multipliers. That means that you’re basically choosing what win multiplier you’ll get when a Piggy Wild lands, and the lower number is the most important.
For example, the lowest variance option is 25 free spins with a x5, x3 or x2 win multiplier. That means you’ll get x2 at the very least whenever a Piggy Wild lands. On the other end of the spectrum you get only 6 free spins, but with win multipliers of x38, x28 or x18. So you’ll get at least x18 on your Piggy Wild, which is plenty. Choose wisely! The multipliers don’t multiply each other, by the way.
Piggy Gold Slots RTP
Theoretical return to player (RTP) is 96.46%, which is excellent, but more importantly, the game is set up in a way that condenses all the big wins into a bonus feature. Most of the big wins in this game will be coming during the free spins, and the rest will happen when you land a Piggy Wild during the base game but also get a win multiplier. Despite the very ugly paytable, this game pays well.
Conclusion
When you develop a game with a really dominant symbol that is good enough to carry the entire game, you got a winner, and that’s exactly the case with our Piggy Wild. It brings you riches and a very cute animation, and it looks realistic, too. This is an excellent game that can pay huge wins because of those win multipliers, so find a good online casino with this game and play it for real money.