Which slots are best for a bonus hunt?

There is no such ranking, and we do not publish one. A game is either usable in a hunt — it accepts your stake and its feature round can be parked — or it is not. Beyond that, the selection criteria players report are about session length and familiarity, and none of them affect outcomes.

Does high volatility make a better hunt?

It makes a different one. Volatility describes how spread out a game's outcomes are, so a high-volatility line-up produces longer quiet stretches and rarer large rounds. It does not change the expected result of the session.

How many different slots should be in a line-up?

Whatever the budget and the parking rules allow. Players often spread across several studios so a single provider's rules cannot end the hunt, and to avoid repeating the same feature mechanic through the whole opening phase.

Can you check whether a slot's feature can be saved?

Our provider rules reference records this at studio level for the providers in our database, and each provider page carries what we hold. Where we have no confirmed value we say so rather than guessing.

Which slots players put in a bonus hunt

This is a description of how hunt line-ups are actually built — the constraints that rule games in or out, and the reasons players give for their choices. It is not advice about which games to play, and nothing here indicates how any game will perform.

Last checked 19 August 2026

Two constraints that are not preferences

Before taste enters, a hunt imposes two hard requirements. A game that fails either is out of the line-up regardless of what anyone thinks of it.

The game has to accept your stake

Every game has a stake range, and hunts run at a single fixed stake. A title whose minimum is above your chosen bet size cannot be in the line-up, and a title whose maximum is below it cannot either. This alone removes a surprising share of any shortlist, particularly at the low stakes small budgets require.

The feature round has to be parkable

A hunt depends on collecting a triggered feature and opening it later. Some studios allow a triggered round to be left unplayed and resumed; others start it immediately or drop it when you close the game. A title from a studio that does not support parking cannot be collected, only played.

This is decided by the game provider, not the casino, and it is the most common reason a planned hunt falls apart in the first ten minutes. Our provider rules reference lists what we hold for each studio in our database.

What players report selecting on

Beyond those two constraints, the criteria that come up repeatedly in hunt line-ups are these. Each is listed with the reason players give for it — the reason is theirs, not our endorsement of it.

A spread of volatility: Line-ups usually mix high-volatility titles with a few lower-volatility ones. The reason given is session shape rather than outcome: a line-up entirely of high-volatility games produces long stretches of nothing, which players find harder to sit through.
Feature length: Rounds that resolve in a minute or two versus rounds that run for several. A line-up of twenty long features is a very long opening phase, and players building for an audience or a limited evening plan around that.
Trigger frequency at the chosen stake: How often the feature arrives in the base game determines how much of the budget each collected round consumes. Players use it to estimate how many rounds a budget will support, not to estimate what those rounds will do.
Familiarity: Knowing what a feature is going to do procedurally — how it is structured, how long it lasts, what the screens mean — is the most commonly cited criterion of all, and it is entirely about being able to follow the session.
Variety across studios: Line-ups drawn from one studio tend to contain the same mechanic several times over. Spreading across providers is a presentation choice, and it also reduces the risk of the whole line-up sharing one parking rule.
Newness: Recently released titles appear disproportionately in hunts, for the plain reason that a hunt is a way to see several new games in one session.

What the numbers on a slot page do and do not tell you

Our slot pages carry return-to-player, volatility and maximum-win figures. These are published game characteristics and they are useful for planning a session's shape. They are not predictive of a session.

Figure	What it describes	What it does not tell you
Return to player (RTP)	The theoretical long-run return of the game across an enormous number of spins.	Anything about a single session, a single round, or your hunt. The long run is far longer than any hunt.
Volatility	How spread out the outcomes are — whether returns tend to arrive in small frequent pieces or rare large ones.	Whether large outcomes will occur. High volatility describes the shape of the distribution, not a promise about its tail.
Maximum win	The largest multiple of stake the game is capable of paying, as a design ceiling.	Anything about how attainable it is. The ceiling on most titles is reached so rarely that it is effectively decorative.
Trigger frequency	Roughly how often the feature round occurs in the base game.	When the next one will occur. Spins are independent; a game that has been slow is not owed a round.

You can browse the catalogue by provider or filter the slot list by volatility and stake range to build a shortlist that satisfies the two hard constraints. That is the part of selection where data genuinely helps.

The selection myths worth naming

A game being "due" a feature. Spins are independent. A long dry run does not raise the chance of the next spin triggering anything.
A line-up that is "balanced" being safer. Mixing volatility changes how a session feels, not what it returns.
Ordering the line-up to "save the good ones". The order you open in cannot affect the outcomes, which is exactly why the collection-order convention costs nothing.
Higher stakes producing better rounds. Multipliers are relative to stake; raising the stake raises both the cost and the returns proportionally, and shortens the session.

Common questions

Which slots are best for a bonus hunt?: There is no such ranking, and we do not publish one. A game is either usable in a hunt — it accepts your stake and its feature round can be parked — or it is not. Beyond that, the selection criteria players report are about session length and familiarity, and none of them affect outcomes.
Does high volatility make a better hunt?: It makes a different one. Volatility describes how spread out a game's outcomes are, so a high-volatility line-up produces longer quiet stretches and rarer large rounds. It does not change the expected result of the session.
How many different slots should be in a line-up?: Whatever the budget and the parking rules allow. Players often spread across several studios so a single provider's rules cannot end the hunt, and to avoid repeating the same feature mechanic through the whole opening phase.
Can you check whether a slot's feature can be saved?: Our provider rules reference records this at studio level for the providers in our database, and each provider page carries what we hold. Where we have no confirmed value we say so rather than guessing.