The Dog House Megaways: choose how the wilds behave
The Dog House Megaways gives you six changing reels and a choice between Sticky Wilds and Raining Wilds when at least three BONUS paws land. Keep doghouses on the reels through the feature, or take more free spins where up to six fresh wilds can be added per spin. The appeal is that choice: the same dog theme leads to two noticeably different feature sequences.
Pragmatic Play announced The Dog House Megaways in 2020. Its six reels offer between 64 and 117,649 available ways on a spin. Matching symbols pay from the leftmost reel across adjacent reels. In the EUR rules model, doghouse multipliers multiply when they contribute to the same winning combination. The feature choice, changing reel heights and multiplier calculation are the parts to understand before choosing a stake.
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Three BONUS paws open two different features
The ruby paw marked BONUS is the scatter. It can appear anywhere on the reels, and three, four, five or six paws trigger the free-spins selection. Their positions do not have to follow a winning way. The number of paws determines the starting allocation in each mode.
Sticky Wilds
- 3 BONUS paws
- 7 free spins
- 4 BONUS paws
- 12 free spins
- 5 BONUS paws
- 15 free spins
- 6 BONUS paws
- 20 free spins
Raining Wilds
- 3 BONUS paws
- 15 free spins
- 4 BONUS paws
- 18 free spins
- 5 BONUS paws
- 25 free spins
- 6 BONUS paws
- 30 free spins
Choose the behavior you want to follow. Sticky Wilds builds a persistent set of doghouses; Raining Wilds can add up to six fresh wilds per spin. Raining starts with more spins at every scatter count, while Sticky lets a useful wild participate again on later spins. The spin totals alone cannot tell you which feature will pay more.
Sticky Wilds keeps each landed doghouse
A wild that lands during Sticky Wilds stays until the feature finishes. Its displayed size changes as its reel changes height on later spins. That persistence is the reason the shorter spin allocation can still feel busy: an early doghouse can help another matching combination later.
A reel's symbol count cannot fall below the number of wilds locked on that reel. The feature allows up to seven sticky wilds per reel. The allocation rules describe sticky-symbol bounds of two to seven after three, four or five scatters, and three to seven after six scatters. Those bounds describe the feature's capacity; they do not promise that every spin will land that many wilds.
The Romanian help configuration gives feature wilds 1x, 2x or 3x multipliers. A 1x wild still substitutes for an ordinary symbol, but its factor leaves that combination's value unchanged. The multiplier labels shown in your game's help determine the applicable feature setting.
Raining Wilds changes the wild positions each spin
Raining Wilds can add up to six wilds on each free spin, with random positions and sizes. Any wilds added belong to that spin; they do not carry through the whole feature. The Romanian help configuration also lists 1x, 2x and 3x for these feature wilds.
This mode starts at 15 free spins for three paws, rising to 18, 25 or 30 as the scatter count increases. The interest is the next arrangement of wilds: a strong layout on one spin does not establish the positions for the next.
Both modes use the stake that triggered the feature and deduct no additional stake for those awarded free spins. Their winnings accumulate with any win on the triggering base spin. Neither mode retriggers, so another feature spin does not add a new batch of free spins.
Read the reel heights before the ways counter
Each reel displays two to seven symbols. Multiply all six visible counts to find the available ways. With two symbols on every reel, 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 gives 64 ways. With seven on every reel, 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 x 7 gives 117,649.
The changing heights mean the game has a new arrangement of ways on each spin. The fixed factor of 20 used in its stake calculation is not a set of 20 paylines: total stake is coin value x the coin/bet setting x 20. Use the displayed total stake when reading the payout figures.
To win with an ordinary symbol, start on reel one and find matching symbols on consecutive reels to the right. Three to six consecutive matches pay. Their vertical positions can differ. A matching symbol on a later reel cannot bridge a gap where the preceding reel has neither that symbol nor a substituting wild.
The highest matching length pays for a particular combination. A four-symbol combination earns its four-symbol award, rather than separate three- and four-symbol awards. Different winning combinations add to the spin's total. The ways counter counts routes through the display; a route becomes a winning combination only when its symbols satisfy these matching rules.
Every symbol payout uses your total stake
These payouts use the EUR game rules for version cv53-1.0.50650. Each number is a multiple of total stake for one winning combination, before contributing wild multipliers. Read the column for the consecutive matching length.
Rottweiler
- 3 matches
- 0.75x
- 4 matches
- 2x
- 5 matches
- 3x
- 6 matches
- 7.5x
Shih Tzu
- 3 matches
- 0.5x
- 4 matches
- 1x
- 5 matches
- 1.5x
- 6 matches
- 3x
Pug
- 3 matches
- 0.35x
- 4 matches
- 0.75x
- 5 matches
- 1x
- 6 matches
- 2x
Dachshund
- 3 matches
- 0.2x
- 4 matches
- 0.5x
- 5 matches
- 0.75x
- 6 matches
- 1.5x
Collar
- 3 matches
- 0.15x
- 4 matches
- 0.4x
- 5 matches
- 0.5x
- 6 matches
- 1.5x
Bone
- 3 matches
- 0.15x
- 4 matches
- 0.4x
- 5 matches
- 0.5x
- 6 matches
- 1.5x
A
- 3 matches
- 0.1x
- 4 matches
- 0.2x
- 5 matches
- 0.3x
- 6 matches
- 1x
K
- 3 matches
- 0.1x
- 4 matches
- 0.2x
- 5 matches
- 0.3x
- 6 matches
- 1x
Q
- 3 matches
- 0.1x
- 4 matches
- 0.2x
- 5 matches
- 0.3x
- 6 matches
- 1x
J
- 3 matches
- 0.05x
- 4 matches
- 0.1x
- 5 matches
- 0.2x
- 6 matches
- 0.5x
10
- 3 matches
- 0.05x
- 4 matches
- 0.1x
- 5 matches
- 0.2x
- 6 matches
- 0.5x
The Rottweiler has the highest ordinary award at every matching length. The collar and bone share a payout row, as do A, K and Q; J and 10 form the lowest-paying pair. These are separate symbol identities even where their awards match. A collar does not match a bone merely because they pay the same amount.
The two special symbols have different jobs. The doghouse wild has no standalone payout: it substitutes for every ordinary symbol, but never for the BONUS paw. Base-game doghouses appear only on reels two to five and carry a random 2x or 3x multiplier. The BONUS paw opens the feature at three to six scatters; it has no ordinary cash-payout row.
Some help screens express the same ordinary awards in base-bet units. For example, 150 for six Rottweilers in a base-bet table corresponds to 7.5x total stake when the stake factor is 20. Read the table's unit before multiplying: 150 base-bet units is not 150 times the displayed total stake.
Two multiplier wilds multiply one winning way
In the EUR version used for the payout examples, contributing doghouse multipliers multiply together. Two 3x wilds give a 9x factor on that combination. They do not add to six. A wild outside a particular winning way does not boost that way just because it is somewhere on the display.
Hypothetical example: set a total stake of EUR1 and take one four-symbol Rottweiler combination. Its ordinary award is 2x stake. If a 2x wild and a 3x wild contribute to that combination, the calculation is EUR1 x 2 x 2 x 3 = EUR12. The first factor of two is the four-match payout; the next two factors belong to the wilds.
Other winning ways are calculated individually and added to the spin total, subject to the game's win cap. The EUR12 example represents one combination, not a completed spin or an expected outcome. Using the same multipliers with a lower-paying symbol would change the first payout factor and therefore the amount.
Buying the feature costs 100 times the selected stake
The EUR version has Buy Free Spins at 100x total stake. Purchase activates a spin containing at least three scatters, then the same Sticky Wilds or Raining Wilds choice applies. The resulting scatter count determines the allocation; a purchase is not a promise of six scatters or the largest spin total.
At a hypothetical EUR1 stake, the feature entry costs EUR100. That is the price of entry, with no specified payout or profit. The purchase ceiling in this version is EUR5,000 at a EUR50 stake, although its ordinary base-game stake range goes higher.
Use the price shown on the purchase confirmation to distinguish the total charge from the underlying stake. Buying at 100x puts the cost of many base stakes into one feature. Choosing Sticky or Raining changes the wild behavior and starting spin allocation; it does not refund or reduce that purchase price. Buy availability can vary between game implementations.
RTP and maximum win belong to a configuration
Pragmatic Play's catalogue figure for The Dog House Megaways is 96.55% RTP. The Romanian help lists 94.55%, with 95.53% and 96.55% alternatives. These are theoretical settings for the game. The catalogue percentage does not identify which one a casino's copy uses.
RTP expresses theoretical return over extensive play. It does not give the chance that your next spin wins, the chance of triggering either feature or the amount a short session will return. The game's published high volatility label describes its payout style; it supplies no numerical hit frequency or prediction for a run of spins. More available ways also does not establish a higher RTP setting.
- Base-game total stake
- EUR0.20 to EUR100
- Feature entry
- 100x stake, up to EUR5,000 at EUR50 stake
- Total win cap
- 12,000x total stake
- Cap at the upper EUR100 stake
- EUR1,200,000
The 12,000x cap applies even if further winning combinations or feature spins remain. The launch-advertised potential was 12,305x, so a search result using that number does not establish a 12,305x limit for the EUR configuration above. A game's maximum is a theoretical ceiling within its rules, separate from a casino's withdrawal limits.
Megaways, fixed lines or several boards?
The original The Dog House uses a five-reel, three-row display with 20 fixed paylines, its own nine-to-27 free-spin selection and additive wild multipliers. It suits the reader who wants to follow fixed routes through a stable grid. The Dog House Megaways changes both the counting system and the feature choice: six variable reels, wild multiplication in the EUR rules model and Sticky or Raining modes.
The Dog House Multihold takes another direction, using several five-by-three boards and transferring multiplier wilds between boards. Its ordered board sequence needs its own rules. Similar dogs and doghouses do not make the reel system, wild calculation or free-spin count interchangeable.
Choose Megaways for the changing reel geometry and the choice between a wild that stays and more spins with possible fresh wild additions. Choose the original when fixed paylines are easier for you to follow. A title with an added edition name or number needs that edition's own feature rules and maximum; the figures above describe The Dog House Megaways.
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The provider's The Dog House Megaways product page is the exact destination for its game presentation and demo access. It takes you to Pragmatic Play rather than a casino registration form. The game is documented for desktop and mobile with the same rules, stakes and payouts; control placement adapts to the device.
Keep the full Megaways name in view when choosing a game from a casino catalogue. A promotion awarding free spins on the original The Dog House does not by itself award spins on this edition. The feature spins described here are triggered inside the game, while promotional free spins have the casino offer's own eligibility and wagering conditions.
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Questions and answers
How do Sticky Wilds and Raining Wilds differ?
With three BONUS paws, Sticky Wilds starts with seven spins and Raining Wilds with fifteen. Sticky doghouses stay until the feature finishes. Raining Wilds can add up to six fresh wilds per spin, and those wilds do not carry into the next spin. Neither feature retriggers.
Are doghouse wild multipliers added or multiplied?
In EUR version cv53-1.0.50650 of The Dog House Megaways, multipliers from doghouses contributing to the same winning combination multiply together. Two 3x wilds give that combination a 9x factor. A wild outside that particular winning way does not boost it.
Which RTP and maximum win apply to The Dog House Megaways?
Pragmatic Play lists 96.55% RTP; Romanian help also documents 94.55% and 95.53% settings. The EUR version cv53-1.0.50650 caps total wins at 12,000x total stake, even with combinations or feature spins remaining. Its cap is separate from the 12,305x launch-advertised potential and does not inherit that higher figure.
