House of Fun in Canada: Ownership, Coin Prices and Why It Never Pays Out

House of Fun is a free social slots app owned by Playtika, the company behind Slotomania, and Canadians can download it from the Canadian App Store and Google Play or play it in a browser. Like its sister app, it runs on virtual Coins that you collect for free or buy, and nothing won inside it can ever be cashed out.

Who owns House of Fun, and can Canadians play it?

House of Fun launched in 2011 from a developer called Pacific Interactive. In February 2014, Caesars Interactive Entertainment bought Pacific Interactive UK Limited and folded the team into Playtika, which it owned at the time; the game then ran on Facebook, iOS, Android and Amazon. Playtika’s 2025 annual report still describes House of Fun as one of its games, and Slotomania is its stablemate.

As of October 2026, the official website links to the App Store and Google Play and offers browser play with an email or Facebook sign-in, and Google Play’s listing also marks the game as available on Windows. Both Canadian stores carry it with prices in Canadian dollars. Playtika’s terms, updated June 2026, contain no clause excluding Canada but set the game’s minimum age at 21 unless Playtika says otherwise.

The stores are looser. The Canadian App Store rates House of Fun 18+ for frequent simulated gambling and contests and flags loot boxes, ads, chat and user-generated content, while Google Play shows the ESRB Teen rating. Our age ratings and parental controls guide explains what those labels mean on a family device. For players in Quebec, the App Store lists the app in English only, although the official website has a French-language version.

What are House of Fun Coins, and what is the game known for?

Coins fund every spin, and Playtika’s terms treat them exactly as they treat Slotomania’s: licensed, not owned, worth nothing in real money, never redeemable, and not to be sold or traded outside the game. Our explainer on why in-app currencies have no cash value goes into the reasons.

What sets House of Fun apart, going by its store listings:

• The HoF Album: card packs fill albums for Coin rewards, with Joker Cards that stand in for missing cards, Lucky Cards that trigger a bonus mini-game, and a Star Market where duplicates are traded for bonuses. See card collections and albums for how these systems are built.
• The Wheel of Fun: a daily free spin for Coins, plus gifts that land in your mailbox, covered on our daily bonus mechanics page.
• Tournaments and mini-games with leaderboards, the format explained in tournaments, events and quests.
• Casino-branded slots inspired by Las Vegas names such as Caesars, Bellagio, MGM and Harrah’s.
• Playtika Rewards, the loyalty program it shares with Slotomania, which works like the tiers in our guide to levels, XP and VIP status.

What costs money in House of Fun?

The download is free. As listed in the Canadian App Store on October 13, 2026, its ten in-app purchase items ran from $0.99 to $129.99 (CAD), the top item being a “Huge pack” of Coins. Google Play’s Canadian listing gave $0.19 to $549.99 per item on the same day. Treat both as a snapshot; packs and sale prices change often.

Playtika’s store description says purchases can include random items, and Apple’s rating flags loot boxes; the listing notes, for example, that the rare Premium Card can turn up in any card pack. Purchases also earn Playtika Rewards status points, with bigger purchases earning more, so the loyalty ladder is tied to spending.

Read how in-app purchases are priced and offered and how to set your own spending limits before you buy, and keep our refunds guide handy in case a purchase goes wrong.

Is House of Fun legit, and what is the catch?

It is a genuine app from a large, publicly listed publisher, and it does not hide what it is: its own website states that it offers no real-money gambling and no real prizes. The catch is that there is no way to win money, ever; all a purchase can buy you is more play.

House of Fun was also one of the games named in Wilson v. Playtika, a 2018 US class action alleging that Playtika’s social casino games broke Washington State’s gambling and consumer protection laws. Playtika and Caesars Interactive agreed to a combined US$38 million settlement fund, which the court approved in February 2021.

On February 3, 2026, Washington’s Attorney General filed suit against Playtika and Aristocrat over 16 apps, House of Fun among them. Those claims are unproven; Playtika says it will defend the case, which its August 2026 quarterly report described as at a preliminary stage.

Both are US matters under Washington law, building on a 2018 federal appeals court ruling about virtual chips. Neither was brought under Canadian law.

For the safe ways to top up your balance, see free House of Fun Coins from official sources. To compare it with a rival, our Big Fish Casino page covers the game at the centre of that 2018 ruling.