What is Bonus Hunt?

A bonus hunt is a session in which a player spins a set of high-volatility slots at a fixed stake with one purpose: to trigger the bonus round in each of them and save the round to open later. Nothing is played out at the time; the collected features are stacked up and then run in one sitting, usually recorded. The appeal is that it isolates the part of a slot that pays. Base-game spins on a modern high-volatility title return very little on their own — the maths is loaded into the feature — so playing only features looks like skipping the boring part. Streamers popularised the format because a stack of twenty unopened bonuses is watchable in a way that two hours of dead spins is not. The arithmetic underneath is unchanged and worth stating plainly. Every spin taken while hunting is a spin at the game's ordinary house edge, and the cost of collecting the features is exactly the cost of the spins it took. A hunt that opens well feels like a win because the payout arrives in a block; the hours of base game that funded it happened earlier, and are already spent.