Wigan's Karl Pryce dives in for his side's third try in their Magic Weekend victory over Huddersfield
Rampant Wigan powered their way back to the top of Super League at Murrayfield less than 24 hours after being temporarily displaced by Warrington.
After being rocked by an early Lee Gilmour try, Darrell Goulding responded for Wigan to level it up.
It took a burst of three tries in eight second-half minutes from Sam Tomkins, Karl Pryce and George Carmont to turn the game injury-hit Wigan's way.
Thomas Leuluai added a fifth try, Eorl Crabtree grabbing a Giants consolation.
Wigan had already been dealt one blow at Murrayfield this weekend, having been knocked off the top thanks to Warrington's 68-16 trouncing of Salford on Saturday evening.
Michael Maguire reacted to his side's 38-26 defeat by Quins by axing four players, including full-back Cameron Phelps, and he got just the response he wanted.
It looked like there might be a hangover from that painful defeat for Wigan when acting skipper Kevin Brown, one of four ex-Wigan man in the Giants line-up, fed second row Gilmour, who powered over in the left corner to open the scoring.
But Goulding levelled seven minutes later - his 12th try of the season. And the right winger might have had another had young centre Steffan Marsh not opted to go it alone five minutes later, only to be forced into touch.
But, seven minutes into the second half, Wigan did go ahead for the first time when Sam Tomkins got a lucky break in chasing his own grubber kick and was first to react to the loose ball.
Pat Richards, having failed with his first kick was unlikely to miss this conversion, duly adding the extras. And, just two minutes later, the Wigan fans were cheering wildly again when left winger Pryce crashed over in the corner.
With Richards appearing to be carrying an injury, having limped back from his previous pot at goal, substitute Mark Riddell took over kicking duties and nailed a superb kick from the left touchline.
Six minutes later, Wigan scored again when a high kick fell nicely for centre Carmont and then scrum-half Leuluai got in on the act on 65 minutes, Sam Tomkins successfully taking over kicking duties on each occasion.
Huddersfield got some late reward when Eorl Crabtree crossed seven minutes from time - but, even with so many of their big names still out, and with the league's top points scorer Richards struggling, there was no stopping Wigan.
Wigan coach Michael Maguire said: "Last week's defeat against Quins was a wake-up call for us. For three weeks leading up to it, we were a little off.
"But we've worked hard at getting back to basics, it came off for us today and now we just need to keep working hard.
"The team changes were basically down to performance, but Martin Gleeson got injured yesterday and young Steffan Marsh came in and did a good job.
"Pat Richards has bumped his knee but he's okay."
Wigan: Richards, Goulding, Marsh, Carmont, Pryce, S. Tomkins, Leuluai, Fielden, McIlorum, Coley, Bailey, J. Tomkins, S. O'Loughlin. Replacements: Riddell, Paleaaesina, O'Carroll, Farrell.
E-mail this to a friend 
Printable version 
Bookmark with:
What are these?