The Dog House Megaways

The Dog House Megaways is Pragmatic Play's 2020 Megaways version of its dog slot, not the later 1000 edition. Up to 117,649 ways run across six reels, dog-house wilds on reels 2 to 5 multiply each other, and three or more paws open a choice of Sticky Wilds or Raining Wilds free spins, also sold for 100x. The rules give a 96.55% RTP and medium volatility but no maximum win. We played 100 spins of The Dog House Megaways slot demo at $1 and bought the round twice.

What is The Dog House Megaways slot about?

The reels sit inside a wooden kennel under a bone-shaped logo, with a blue bird on the roof and a sunny street of houses and picket fences behind. A board beside the logo counts the ways on each spin, and free spins turn the scene to night.

Each spin redraws all six reels at up to seven symbols tall, and the ways are the heights multiplied: the 432 on our board below came from reels of 3, 3, 2, 4, 3 and 2. Wins pay left to right from reel 1 for three to six of a kind, the best win per way counts, and the rules describe no tumble.

At a $1 bet six Rottweilers pay $7.50, Shih Tzus $3, pugs $2 and dachshunds $1.50; the rules picture the dogs without names. Collars and bones also pay $1.50 for six, A, K and Q pay $1, and J and 10 pay $0.50, down to $0.05 for three.

After spin 100 at $1: reels of 3, 3, 2, 4, 3 and 2 symbols make 432 ways. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

The Dog House Megaways bonus features

Wilds on reels 2 to 5 that multiply

The dog-house wild lands only on reels 2 to 5 and stands in for every symbol except the paw. A landing wild can carry a random 2x or 3x, though not every one does: our first spin showed a plain WILD beside a 2X and a 3X.

Several wilds in one win multiply each other. A 2x and a 3x make 6x, and 3x wilds on all four of reels 2 to 5 would multiply a base-game win by 81.

The rules: wilds only on reels 2 to 5, and several in one win multiply each other. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

Paw scatters and the free spins choice

The red paw lands on all six reels, and three or more anywhere start free spins. Before the first spin you pick a round, and the offer grows with the paws: 7 Sticky Wilds or 15 Raining Wilds spins for three, 12 or 18 for four, 15 or 25 for five, and 20 or 30 for six.

Both rounds use special reels, and neither can be retriggered, although one review site we checked says extra paws add spins.

Three paws from our first buy: 7 Sticky Wilds spins or 15 Raining Wilds spins. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

Sticky Wilds or Raining Wilds

In Sticky Wilds every wild that lands takes a 1x, 2x or 3x and stays to the end, resizing with its reel, and a reel never shrinks below the number of sticky wilds on it. Multipliers only pile up, but three paws give just 7 spins to collect them.

Raining Wilds runs 15 to 30 spins and keeps nothing. On every spin up to six wilds of any size, each with 1x, 2x or 3x, can drop onto the screen in random positions, so the round needs several to arrive on the same spin.

One 100x buy for both rounds

The single buy costs 100x the bet, $100 at $1, and lands three to six paws at random. You pick Sticky or Raining Wilds after it lands, so this bonus buy costs the same whichever round you want. The rules give it no RTP of its own, and there is no ante or special bet.

Maximum win, RTP and bets

The rules, the intro screen and the game server name no maximum win, so our table has none. The rules give a 96.55% RTP, as Pragmatic Play's game page does; two review sites add 95.53% and 94.55% versions.

Bets run from $0.20 to $240, above the $100 the review sites list, and their high volatility rating clashes with the game's own MEDIUM VOLATILITY badge, which we use.

What changed from The Dog House

Next to The Dog House, the 2019 original we tested the same day, the rules keep the medium label, the $0.20 to $240 bets and a round without retriggers, while the RTP edges up from 96.51% to 96.55%. Five reels and 20 lines become six reels and up to 117,649 ways.

The wilds change most. In the original they sit on reels 2 to 4, all wilds on a reel share a 2x or 3x, and they add up to 9x on a line; here they reach reel 5, only some carry a multiplier, and those multiply.

Paws now land on any reel, a choice of two rounds replaces the 3x3 grid of 9 to 27 spins, and the 100x buy is new. The original's banner states 6,750x; this game states no cap.

Our test of The Dog House Megaways demo

We cut the opening $2.00 bet to $1.00, which dropped the buy from $200 to $100, and played 100 base spins one at a time without autoplay. The round is picked only after the buy lands, so we bought it twice, once for each round.

The best base moment came first. Spin 1 landed a plain WILD, a 2X and a 3X on reels 2 to 4 across 6,720 ways and paid $27.60, a single result: the other 99 spins returned $28.25. In all 22 spins paid, 15 of them under $1, and the longest dry run lasted 12 spins, from 33 to 44.

Spin 1 of 100 at $1: three dog-house wilds on reels 2 to 4, $27.60, our best base win. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

Wilds landed on 49 spins, but two paws came together only once, so free spins never started on their own and we never saw four or more paws.

Our first buy landed three paws and we chose Sticky Wilds for 7 spins. The first two paid nothing; then 2X wilds stuck on reels 2 to 4, and the last five spins paid $21.60, $36.00, $20.40, $39.60 and $22.80. The round made $140.40, 1.4 times its price.

The Sticky Wilds round settled: five sticky wilds on reels 2 to 4, $140.40 from 7 spins. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

The second buy also landed three paws, and we took Raining Wilds for 15 spins. Eleven paid nothing. Free spin 7 paid $27.00, spins 5 and 12 added $1.60 and $2.00, and on the last spin a 3X and two 2X wilds fell on reels 2 to 4 for $15.60. The round made $46.20.

Raining Wilds, last spin: the WIN panel shows $30.60 from spins 1 to 14, before this spin's $15.60. FluxPlays demo test, 18 October 2026.

The shorter round paid three times as much, but one round of each cannot rank the two. The session, part by part:

• Base game, 100 spins at $1: $100.00 in, $55.85 back
• Free Spins buy with Sticky Wilds chosen: $100.00 in, $140.40 back
• Free Spins buy with Raining Wilds chosen: $100.00 in, $46.20 back

In all we staked $300.00 and got $242.45 back, and the server balance went from $100,000.00 to $99,942.45, matching our log. A hundred spins and two bought rounds cannot measure a 96.55% RTP or test the medium label.

Is The Dog House Megaways worth trying?

The choice is the reason to play. Multiplying wilds give a win far more room than the original's, up to 81x per base-game way against 9x per line, and after the trigger you pick wilds that stay for 7 to 20 spins or wilds that come and go for 15 to 30, at one buy price.

The base game is the weak half. Six Rottweilers pay only 7.5x the bet, so most spins wait on wilds, and paws are scarce: 78 of our 100 spins paid nothing. Neither round retriggers, and with no stated maximum win you cannot see the ceiling before you play.

The Dog House Megaways 1000, which we have also reviewed, is a later game with rules of its own; nothing on this page carries over to it.