Some slots hide their big idea. Not this one. Zhao Cai Zhu: Gettin' Piggy With It by IGT puts a golden piggy bank right on the stage and spends the whole game feeding it. Red lanterns sway overhead, gold ingots stack up on a five-reel, three-row grid, and 25 paylines do the scoring. Bets run from 0.44 up to 44.00, so it bends to both careful spinners and the reckless ones.
The base game leans on one trick. An expanding wild can drop on reels 2 through 5, and when it does, it swells to cover that whole reel. Every wild then flies into the piggy bank up top. Land enough of them and you might trigger Pig A Prize, a pick round where you keep choosing prizes until a Dragon shows up. Boost symbols toss 50 to 500 coins onto a handful of picks; the super symbol can hand you 250 to 2,500. It ends when the Dragon arrives, which sometimes feels too soon, honestly.
Then there's the main event. Three scatters across reels 1, 3 and 5 unlock 10 free games, and the lantern colour on reel 5 sets the tone. Blue guarantees 11 to 40 pigs, Green bumps it to 16 to 60, Red goes all the way to 26 to 100. Pigs jump onto positions and lock purple frames. Hit the same spot again and the frame climbs: Purple to Silver to Golden to Diamond. When a Dragon lands on reel 5, doors swing open over every framed slot to pay out. Reach a Diamond frame and the Grand can drop.
Four fixed jackpots sit on the left rail: Mini, Minor, Major, and that headline Grand worth around 2,273x your stake. Volatility is rated very high, which means the dry stretches bite. Don't want to wait around for scatters? A Bonus Buy button offers four prices, roughly 50x, 75x, 100x and 150x, to skip straight in. Is paying 150x for the richest pig count worth it? For some players, absolutely.