Benny the Beer: Slot Overview

If you’ve been keeping up with Hacksaw Gaming, you’ll already know Canny the Can, the studio’s cartoon mascot who’s cropped up in titles like Stick ‘Em, Stack ‘Em, and Drop ‘Em. This time, there’s another face joining the lineup: Benny the Beer. There’s no word on whether Benny and Canny are connected—or even aware of each other—but if we had to guess, Benny feels like Canny’s hilarious uncle: the one who brews his own beer in a garden shed, always has a joke ready (even if it’s a bit groan-worthy), and wears a proudly earned beer belly. Benny headlines the online slot Benny the Beer, a hearty mix that combines Hacksaw Gaming’s Stackways mechanic with classic ‘book of’ gameplay.

Much like Stack ‘Em, Benny the Beer is set in a peaceful outdoor scene—the sort of place where you settle into thick green grass under a tree, set your drink down, and watch the breeze move through the leaves. It’s a world away from a packed bier haus, although the lively oompah soundtrack and crowd cheers for big wins keep Benny’s Biergarten spirit close by. Benny bounces on the left side of the screen, contentedly clutching his belly, while an old-school camera buddy stands to the right, rounding out a cosy, unmistakably Hacksaw Gaming-style setup.

Benny the Beer is a 5-reel, 4-row game offering 1,024 all the way up to 100,000 ways to win when fully expanded. That huge swing in ways is driven by the Stackways mechanic—more on that shortly. Standard wins pay left to right starting from the leftmost reel, and they land at a frequency of 37.79% on the 96.17% RTP model, with three lower configurations also available. With a 3/5 rating, volatility is medium overall, and players can set stakes from 10 p/c $/€100 per spin.

The 8 standard pay symbols include J-A card ranks plus a padlock, an alarm clock, a camera, a bomb, and Benny himself. Five-of-a-kind combinations of the royals return 0.7 times the bet, while the character symbols pay 2 to 4 times the bet for five across. Those are fairly modest figures for a ‘book of’ style slot, but there are still a few ways to boost results. Wilds won’t help, however, because Benny the Beer includes no wilds at any point.

Benny the Beer: Slot Features

Stackways symbols appear in two varieties: Normal Stackways and Revealing Stackways. Alongside these special symbols, the game also includes the Book of Stackways round, the Super Book of Stackways round, and bonus buys.

Stackways

Regular Stackways symbols can land showing values of 2, 3, or 4, while Revealing Stackways symbols come with values of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10. The displayed number is the number of symbols the Stackways symbols fill the reel with. The symbol that Stackways transform into is the one which would create the longest winning combination from the symbols currently on the reels when Stackways triggers. If more than one symbol qualifies, one is chosen randomly from the available options. Stacking only happens when it would produce a win.

Book of Stackways

Hitting 3 FS symbols in the base game starts this feature with 10 free spins. At the start, 2 pay symbols are randomly chosen to be the Special symbols. Whenever Special symbols land on at least 3 reels simultaneously, a number appears on the corresponding reels from 2-10. Those reels are then stacked with the amount of symbols shown by the number. Stacked symbols pay as though they connect left to right. If more than 1 Special symbol lands on 3 or more reels at the same time, they stack and pay one after the other. Landing 2 FS symbols grants +2 free spins, while landing 3 FS symbols grants +4 free spins. If you land 4 FS symbols, the round is upgraded to Super Book of Stacks, and 4 free spins are added.

Super Book of Stackways

When it’s triggered from the base game, you’ll need 4 FS symbols to activate it. The rules match Book of Stackways, except 4 symbols are randomly chosen to be Special symbols rather than only 2.

Bonus Buy

Benny the Beer offers 5 feature buy options:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins – 3x the bet where each spin is 5x more likely to trigger a bonus game. Highly volatile, with a default RTP of 96.39%.
• Double Stack FeatureSpins – 25x the bet where each spin guarantees at least 2 Stackways symbols land. Highly volatile, with a default RTP of 96.35%.
• Triple Stack FeatureSpins – 75x the bet where each spin guarantees at least 3 Stackways symbols land. Very highly volatile, with a default RTP of 96.38%.
• Book of Stackways – 120x the bet. Highly volatile, with a default RTP of 96.29%.
• Super Book of Stackways – 300x the bet. Highly volatile, with a default RTP of 96.33%.

Benny the Beer: Slot Verdict

Benny the Beer feels unmistakably like Hacksaw Gaming in every detail: the outdoor backdrop, the friendly characters, the woody, slightly retro (almost 1970s) symbol styling, the signature bleeps, and the upbeat atmosphere. It comes across as effortlessly put together—not because it’s simplistic or half-finished, but because it’s the work of a studio that clearly knows what it’s doing, with a strong back catalogue and a toolkit of proven, entertaining mechanics it can revisit while still pushing forward. Think of a developer fully in flow: headphones on, The Algorithm blasting, hands moving across the keyboard like Frédéric Chopin.

The play style is equally on-brand, and Benny the Beer may be the most fun implementation of Stackways to date. FeatureSpins are there for anyone who wants StackWays to appear every spin, though they’re best approached carefully because the results can feel brutally hit-or-miss. They’re expensive too (up to 75x per spin, ouch). Still, since they’re optional, they can drain a bankroll quickly—but they can also occasionally produce a flood of Stackways and a solid payout. Pairing Stackways with ‘book of’ pay anywhere rules is also a natural fit, and the free spins deliver a strong old-meets-new vibe. Traditionalists get that classic feel, while ‘book’ fans hunting for a fresh spin on the formula get something new to dig into. Hacksaw Gaming’s maths team has balanced the chance of generating a massive number of ways—far beyond the usual 10 or so—against the lower symbol values typical of this genre, while keeping a win cap of 10,000x the bet. That top win is achievable in both bonus rounds and in the base game too, with enough luck (or a lot of it).

It’s interesting—expanding pay anywhere symbols have been around forever, yet the way some developers continue to reinvent the concept is genuinely impressive, and Benny the Beer is a great showcase of that.