Piggy Monte

Piggy Monte is a 3D top-down shell game. You track a golden coin as piggy banks hop and cross a table, then choose which bank holds it. A correct pick earns money for your vault; a wrong one sends your pot flying from the snout of the piggy that held the coin.

Follow the coin

You push chips onto the felt and watch the coin drop into a piggy bank. The banks then move through straight swaps, feints that travel out and back, three-way cycles, and formations that carry them across and up and down the board. When you pick correctly, a steel hammer winds up, pauses and slams the bank, which caves in, fractures and bursts in coins, cash and confetti. Your winnings go into the vault, counted with a rising ding.

Stakes and payouts

A win pays a narrow margin over your stake, while a loss costs the whole pot. The game is priced for players who follow the coin: tracking it can build your money over time, while guessing works against you. It takes six or seven correct reads to make back one mistake.

Fourteen rooms

You begin at THE KITCHEN TABLE with $500 and hundred-dollar chips. Thirteen rooms lie above it, each with its own felt, wood, trim, lighting and lamp rather than a recoloured version of the same table. Each door costs about three hands at that room’s top limit, so rooms open every few minutes, though reaching the top takes all evening. At THE LAST TABLE, nine banks move at once, with three moves in the air and no colour left in the room.

Special rounds

Four special hands can change the stakes or the table:

• GOLDEN ROUND: the table, including the crowns, turns solid gold, and a win pays six times as much.
• LUCKY RUSH: the felt turns green, dollar signs appear in every piggy’s eyes, and the hand plays for triple stakes in both directions.
• PAY DADDY: the floor drops away and a vault door blows off its frame. You have ten seconds alone with a tractor beam and an acre of gold.
• SMASH RUN: piggies run loose across the felt for twelve seconds while you wield one hammer.

Back-room upgrades

The back room contains fifteen upgrades, stocked permanently in a fixed order. None are randomised or hidden, so you can plan a run around a particular build. Several help you see the coin’s movement: a slower shuffle, an X-ray flash halfway through, a tell on the loaded bank and one free re-pick after a wrong guess.

Play money only

Every model, sound and note of music is generated in code at startup. The game is a single file with no installer, runtime or asset folder. It uses play money only: nothing can be wagered, bought or cashed out.