The Definitive Ranking Of Online Huff N’ Puff Slots

The basic idea behind Light & Wonder’s Huff N’ Puff game sounds simple and silly, bordering on stupid: a slot machine themed around the tale of the three little pigs, with piggy symbols, a big bad wolf, and a bonus round featuring houses made of straw, stick, and brick.

But with slots, sometimes silly and simple, bordering on stupid, is exactly what works best.

The original Huff N’ Puff is only available at brick-and-mortar casinos, but variations on the game began appearing at FanDuel Casino one year ago, in February 2025, and since then, four more spinoffs have come online, and they’re no longer FanDuel-exclusive and can be found at nearly every regulated iCasino.

And they’re among the most popular (and heavily promoted) games out there in the regulated U.S. market.

Having played all five games in the online franchise (some of them far more than I should probably admit), I now offer my rankings, from forgettable to best, of the available Huff N’ Puff iCasino games:

5. Huff N’ Lots of Puff

Maybe it’s just me, but my least favorite style of bonus-round triggers is when it appears the player is building toward a hit over time, but in fact the arrival of that hit remains completely random.

The basic concept behind reaching a Huff N’ Puff bonus is to either hit at least six hard hats or at least three buzzsaws. The former gets you free spins, the latter various fancier bonus games.

In Huff N’ Lots of Puff — which debuted online last September — you can get fewer than six hard hats but have the game randomly spew out the extra hard hats you need to get to six, or you can score just one or two buzzsaws and have extra buzzsaws randomly added.

Yes, I realize that any sort of slot spin’s result is random, but this approach feels different. It renders counting hard hats or buzzsaws as the reels spin somewhat moot.

Then there’s the bonus wheel spin element of Huff N’ Lots of Puff, which is exciting in theory but often maddening in practice. As you play the game, you build up better spots on the bonus wheel, upgrading from smaller jackpots and basic games to bigger jackpots and “super” versions of the games. Randomly score that wheel spin, however, and there’s always a chance you’ll land on a non-upgraded spot, then see the entire wheel reset, and all your hard “work” is undone.

Huff N’ Lots of Puff is still a fun game, mind you. It’s just less fulfilling, and more frustrating, than any of the other variants.

4. Huff N’ Puff Money Mansion

With the fourth online iteration, released last December, the game got a new coat of paint, although the updated look and new twists were more a case of style upgrade than substance upgrade.

One notable change that complicates the basic spin is that there’s a row of possible hard-hat pop-ups above the main 5×3 grid that count toward the pursuit of six hard hats.

And instead of buzzsaws, there are now property deeds, three of which unlock the money mansion, which is sort of like a wheel spin, but without a wheel — rather, it’s a highlighted box bouncing around spots on the mansion, offering jackpot amounts or bonus games.

Ridiculous as this may sound, the physical sight of a wheel spinning is more satisfying, even though it’s all controlled by the same algorithms and the results are just as random.

On top of that, the bonus games specific to Money Mansion aren’t particular inventive. The Touch-Up Feature is just a different way of doing the Mega Hat Feature from previous versions of Huff N’ Puff, and the Home Improvement Feature takes the same concept but expands from a 5×3 grid to 5×4. Then there’s a Mansion Feature — always the one you want in any Huff N’ Puff game, as all houses are of the brick (by far the most valuable) variety — and it’s exactly the same as the Mansion Feature in other Huff N’ Puffs.

Credit to the designers for some different looks, but to me, the Money Mansion is full of empty rooms.

3. Huff N’ More Puff

This is not quite the original game — that’s Huff N’ Puff, sans the word “More” — but it’s the original online version. It’s the most basic (which is not necessarily a bad thing) and it’s by far the least volatile (which can be seen as either a good or a bad thing, depending on what you’re looking for).

The line pays in the standard game here are noticeably better than in any of the Huff N’ Puff variants that came after. A small hit on a $1 spin that might return 20 cents in one of the other Huff N’ Puffs will return 40 cents here. In other words, the potential drain on your bankroll due to a long, cold streak between bonus rounds is felt less in Huff N’ More Puff.

The tradeoff is that the bonus rounds aren’t as potentially lucrative as in other games. The free spins are standard, no fancy elements in terms of hard hats offering special features. And the wheel spin is also straight-forward, with jackpots and three possible bonus games (Mega Hat Feature, Buzzsaw Feature, and Mansion Feature), but no “Super” versions of those games, no upgraded wheels.

It just feels right to rank this version of the game third out of five. It shouldn’t be anyone’s favorite, but it shouldn’t be anyone’s least favorite either. It is, to mix up fables featuring sets of three animals, the porridge that Goldilocks chose.

2. Huff N’ Puff Highrise

I offered an audio review of this newest game — just released in January — on the latest episode of Low Rollers, and I’ll repeat here what I said there: It’s a lot. Highrise is the most complicated Huff N’ Puff, by a wide distance, and also seems to be the most volatile.

At times it feels like there’s too much going on, with a 5×3 grid that can expand to a 5×4, 5×5, or 5×6, with light blue hard hats needed to unlock those extra rows, with pigs sitting above the grid sometimes random dropping down extra hard hats to send you to the bonus game, with hard hats that can turn into buzzsaws, and with one kind of hard hat that turns every hard hat into a buzzsaw.

If you’re not into chaos, this version of Huff N’ Puff is not for you. If you’re not into the potential to go hundreds of spins without any meaningful wins, this version of Huff N’ Puff is not for you.

But if you don’t mind those elements as a tradeoff for bonus rounds where massive wins can happen, where a 200x return is not at all uncommon, this version of Huff N’ Puff is for you.

Maybe this is just a little bit of early run-good talking, but I find Highrise to be a delightful (if also headache-inducing and frequently exasperating) form of chaos.

1. Huff N’ Even More Puff

The second version to come to the regulated iCasinos, launching in June 2025, tops the list because it takes the simplicity of Huff N’ More Puff and builds on it with just one layer of complication — and in turn one layer of potentially much bigger bonuses.

Six hard hats results in six free spins, where you hope to build straw, stick, and brick houses. Same old same old there.

And three buzzsaws still gets you a wheel spin. But that wheel includes a slot that reads “Upgrade,” which takes you to a second spin on the upgraded wheel, featuring bigger jackpots and “Super” versions of the Mega Hat, Buzzsaw, and Mansion features. There’s also the potential in the basic game to go direct to the upgraded wheel, by getting three buzzsaws and having the buzzsaw in the fifth column be a golden buzzsaw.

You know how it goes in all forms of entertainment: They start with a formula that works, they build on it in a way that makes it better, and then they start building on it so much that shark-jumping starts to become an inevitability.

A slots enthusiast could make the case that the big, bad wolf turned into a shark with either Highrise, Money Mansion, or Lots of Puff. But not with Huff N’ Even More Puff. This is the version that improved on its predecessor without any wacky twists that threaten to blow the house in.