Executive summary

Big Hot Flaming Pots is three generations, not one game. Light & Wonder announced the original — Tasty Treasures and Delicious Delights, designed by Qin You — on March 22, 2023 for the Indian Gaming Association show, on its new COSMIC cabinet; the mark went into commerce on April 14, 2023. The Super generation, Super Hot Flaming Pots – Mr. Lee and Mrs. Wong, was shown on the KASCADA Portrait cabinet at G2E Asia in May 2025 and was on a Maine casino floor by June 25, 2025. The third, Hot Hot Flaming Pots – Mr. Lee and Mrs. Wong, runs on the LIGHTWAVE SOLAR cabinet; its mark was first used on October 7, 2025 and registered on August 18, 2026, and in September 2026 Eilers-Fantini ranked its two titles second and third among new core video games.

Two help files publish more of the mathematics than the industry usually shows. Loto-Québec hosts Light & Wonder's own rules for two certified online builds. The first-generation file states a 44-credit base stake, a 95.52% return at any bet, a Major and a Grand that are progressive — funded by 0.35% and 0.40% of every bet and reset to 80,000 and 500,000 credits — and a fourteen-value prize ladder of 8 to 250 credits. The Super file, version 9 of March 11, 2026, states a 95.96% return, a ladder of 1 to 60 credits and four jackpots that are all fixed. Neither prints a symbol paytable, so the base-game pays in this volume rest on a game database, graded Tier 3; nothing is published for the third generation or for any land-based build.

The generations run different jackpot models behind identical placards. On the first generation the Major and Grand are meters; on the Super generation all four tiers are "fixed, are not progressive and are not multiplied by the bet multiplier," and a lantern can pay the Grand or the Major straight from the base game. A player who carries the jackpot behavior of one to the other is wrong on the manufacturer's own record.

The 44-credit stake is not a franchise constant. It reconciles every first-generation online figure: a $0.44 minimum, a $55 maximum that is exactly 125 stakes, and test bets of three and five stakes. Elsewhere it does not hold as a rule. Loto-Québec lists the Super online build at 10¢ to $7.50, below the 44¢ that a 44-credit stake needs at a one-cent credit; the catalog caps the first generation at 880 credits in North America but at 500 internationally, which is not a whole number of stakes; and floor bets of 76 and 388 credits fit no multiple of 44.17,18,19,20 A field configuration observed on a Class II floor fits none of the published conventions. The machine runs at 10¢ with a $38.80 maximum — 388 credits, a multiple of neither 44, 88 nor 38 — and shows a Grand resetting to $10,000, which is 100,000 credits: one fifth of the online 500,000-credit reset. Whether that Grand moves decides what the machine is. A growing Grand fits the first generation's progressive model and contradicts the only published Super rules; a Grand fixed at $10,000 fits the Super model. Section 8 works every convention against every observation and lists the three photographs that would settle it.

Both generations appear in both regulatory classes. Light & Wonder's catalog files the first generation as Class II, with a separate international build, and the Super generation as Class III; Indian Gaming Magazine's product listings give the reverse; and commercial floors in Massachusetts, Nevada and Maine carry random-number-generator builds of both. No one-to-one rule connects generation and class, and a Class II unit's return comes from a bingo pool to which neither 95.52% nor 95.96% applies.

The record is larger than a jackpot list. The largest documented payout is $109,361 on an $8.80 bet at 10¢ in the High Limit room of the Palms in Las Vegas in January 2026 — on Thursday, January 29, by two reports, and on January 30 by the reading of a third. Light & Wonder holds thirteen federal filings around the franchise, twelve "Flaming Pots" marks and STACK N' HIT, three of them registered. It reports no franchise revenue; an SEC full-text search for "Flaming Pots" returns nothing. Nothing on the cabinet is persistent state that an advantage player can price, and the pots are perceived progression, not state: Light & Wonder's rules for both generations disclaim them — "The appearance of pots and fire over time is for presentation only," in the Super help file — so a full pot is exactly as far from a feature as an empty one.

What the volume covers

Section 1 is the orientation: three math chassis, what they share and where they diverge, and where each is documented by channel and class. Section 2 covers Light & Wonder from the instant lottery ticket to the ASX, the designer's lineage, all three launches, the timeline and the trademark register. Section 3 maps the generations onto cabinets. Section 4 is the mechanical core — Reel Ways, the substitution layer, the trigger matrix, Stack N' Hit, the Super additions and what is public about the third generation. Section 5 is the mathematics: what the help files publish, the base stake, the prize ladders, the feature-length model, every return figure, and the register of bad figures in circulation. Section 6 is the census; Sections 7 through 10 cover the jackpots, the bet structure and the Class II field configuration, market position, and regulatory class. Appendix A grades every source; Appendix B shows every calculation; Appendix C is the persistent-state register, and §C.4 classifies every display that looks like progress.

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