The Dog House explained: paytable, sticky wilds and the Megaways versions
The Dog House came out in 2019 and it is the plainest slot Pragmatic Play still sells in volume. 5 reels, 3 rows, 20 fixed paylines, wins left to right from three matching symbols. No tumbles, no ways-to-win engine, no gimmick. Its headline RTP is 96.51%, but Pragmatic also supplies lower builds — 95.51%, 94.51% and 88.05% — and the operator picks which one to run. That last figure is not a typo, and it is why you check the information panel here before anything else.
The paytable is deliberately small. For five of a kind, the top dog pays 37.5x your stake, the second 25x, the third 15x and the fourth 10x. Below them the lead pays 7.5x, the bone 5x, K and A pay 2.5x and Q, J and 10 pay 1.25x. Nothing on that table comes close to justifying a 6,750x maximum win, and that is the point: on The Dog House, the symbols are not where the money is.
The wilds are. The kennel wild lands only on reels 2, 3 and 4 and every one of them carries a random multiplier of 2x or 3x. When more than one wild helps the same line, the multipliers add together, up to a maximum of 9x on a line from three 3x wilds. Concretely: a five-of-a-kind top dog is worth 37.5x, and two locked 3x wilds turn that same line into 225x.
Free spins are where that stacking becomes serious. Three paw-print scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 trigger the round and pay 5x your stake on the way in. The number of spins is then drawn rather than fixed: you get between 9 and 27 free spins. Once inside, every wild that lands sticks in place for the rest of the round and keeps its multiplier, so the middle three reels fill up as the round runs. There is no retrigger, which makes the arithmetic brutally simple — a big result means wilds early and often, and a round that starts slow will not recover.
The original has no bonus buy. It predates the feature becoming standard at Pragmatic, and the studio never retrofitted it. If you want to buy in, that means going to the sequels. The Dog House Megaways puts the same dogs on a Megaways engine with up to 117,649 ways, an RTP of 96.55% and a bonus buy at 100x. The Dog House Megaways 1000, released in July 2026, is the ambitious one: an RTP of 96.50%, a franchise-record 25,000x maximum win, wild multipliers running 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 25x, 100x and 1,000x that multiply rather than add, plus Super Scatter symbols that open a Super Bonus keeping every wild sticky throughout. It offers three buys — 100x, 500x for the Super Bonus and 2,500x for a version with a guaranteed 25x-plus multiplier — and, unusually for the family, it is rated medium volatility.
So: the original is the cheap, legible, brutally volatile one, capped at 6,750x with no way to skip the wait. The Megaways versions are where the modern numbers live. Both have their place, but be honest with yourself about which one you actually came for.
