The Dog House keeps an ordinary twenty-line layout and puts everything distinctive into one rule: wilds carry a multiplier, and during free spins they stay where they land. A wild that arrives on the first free spin remains in place for the whole round, so its multiplier applies again and again.
The consequence is that the round’s value is decided early. Several sticky wilds landing in the first few spins make the rest of the round worth a great deal; none landing makes it worth very little, whatever the symbols do afterwards.
Specification
| Provider | Pragmatic Play |
|---|---|
| Game code | vs20doghouse |
| Theme index | Animals |
| Grid | 5 reels, 3 rows |
| How wins pay | 20 paylines, left to right |
| Core mechanic | Wilds carrying a multiplier value |
| Feature round | Free spins with sticky wilds |
| Volatility | High, as stated by the studio |
| Series | First part of a long-running series |
| Demo play | Catalogue entry only — no game is loaded on this site |
How a round plays
- The base game pays along twenty fixed paylines from the leftmost reel.
- Wilds appear on the three middle reels and may carry a multiplier value.
- Three scatters award the free spin round.
- During the round, any wild that lands stays in position until the round ends.
- A win crossing more than one multiplier wild has those values multiplied together.
The series
The line is one of the studio’s longest. The Dog House Megaways moves the theme onto a variable reel set, and The Dog House Multihold replaces the sticky wild round with a hold and win structure. They behave differently enough to be read as separate games rather than reissues.
Other titles with the same art direction are grouped under Animals, and the sticky wild idea recurs across the catalogue in various forms.
What a demo session shows
The question worth answering with play money is how often a free spin round starts with no multiplier wild at all, because that is the most common outcome and it determines how the game feels over a session. See how demo slots work.
About Pragmatic Play
Pragmatic Play is a Malta-based studio whose titles appear in more casino lobbies across Asia and Latin America than those of any other supplier. Its house style is built on tumbling reels, scatter pays and free spin rounds in which multiplier symbols collect into a single total. Most of its best-known releases also exist in a second version carrying a higher multiplier cap, marked in the title by the suffix 1000.
- Tumbling reels: winning symbols disappear and new ones drop into the same spin.
- Scatter pays on most modern titles, so symbol position does not matter.
- Free spin rounds where multiplier symbols are added together before payout.
- Paired releases: a base version and a high-multiplier version of the same theme.
Questions about The Dog House
What makes the wilds sticky?
During the free spin round a wild that lands stays in its position until the round ends, so its multiplier can apply on every remaining spin.
Do multiplier wilds add together?
In this title they multiply together when a win crosses more than one of them, which is why outcomes are so widely spread.
How is the Megaways version different?
It uses a variable reel set, so the number of ways to win changes from spin to spin instead of being fixed at twenty paylines.
