The Dog House Multihold

Pragmatic PlayRTP 96.06%Volatility HighMax Win 9,000x4.0 out of 5
The Dog House MultiholdPragmatic Play
The Dog House Multihold reels with a stacked rottweiler pair on reel 4 and a $0.20 line win showing

The Dog House Multihold Stats

RTP96.06%
VolatilityHigh
Max Win9,000x
Paylines20
Reels5×3
Bet Range$0.20 – $240
Bonus RoundYes
ScattersYes
ReleasedFebruary 2023
✓ Verified in-gameSee the rules screens
RTP & Maths
RTP by Mode
Base 96.06% · Buy Free Spins 96.08%
RTP Versions
96.06% here · Other versions 95.14%, 94.06%
Max Win Rule
Applies in base and feature
Free Spins & Bonus
Free Spins
3 Bonus symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5 = 7 free spins · 7 starting, plus 1, 2 or 3 per matrix unlocked (up to 3 unlocks) · Retrigger: No spin retrigger; 3 Scatters on the last unlocked matrix unlock the next matrix and award 1, 2 or 3 additional free spins, maximum 3 unlocks
Bonus Buy
Free Spins 100x (96.08% RTP)
Multipliers
2x or 3x per Wild · Add
Symbols & Pays
Wild
Base and feature · Reels 2, 3 and 4
Scatter Reels
Bonus on reels 1, 3 and 5 in the base game; Scatter on the last unlocked matrix during free spins
Line Pays
Top symbol 25x · Lowest 0.1x
About Game

The Dog House Multihold Demo

A Dog House feature that starts at 7 spins is short. The Dog House Multihold demo makes it wide instead of long, splitting the kennel yard into up to four separate 3×5 boards that all spin the same 7 times. Each board keeps its own 20 lines and pays on its own. Each new board opens holding copies of every sticky wild already stuck to the last one. Nothing inside the round adds a spin on its own, so the only direction this slot grows is sideways.

Multihold Features

The Four Boards

The round opens on the top left board and nothing else. Land 3 SCATTER symbols there, and the top right board unlocks; do it again, and the bottom left follows, then the bottom right. Only the most recently opened board carries SCATTER symbols, so unlocks arrive one at a time, always from the newest corner of the yard. Every unlock pays 1, 2, or 3 extra free spins, chosen at random. Land two unlocks on the same turn, and the game awards that bonus twice over. Special reels run for the whole round, on every board in play, and each board resolves its own winning lines separately.

Sticky Wild Copies

A dog house wild that lands during the round stays where it is until the round ends. That is ordinary enough on one board. Across four, it compounds. The wild you park on the first board arrives free on the second, the third, and the fourth, so a wild caught early is worth four times what the same wild is worth on the closing spin. The board count changes what a sticky wild is. This rule rewards timing rather than quantity, and it is the reason a slow start hurts more here than it does on a standard sticky wild round.

Buy Free Spins

Buying the round costs 100x the total bet, the going rate for a Pragmatic Play feature of this length. That price buys one board and a starting counter, with the other three still locked behind scatters. Free play answers the sum, because the buy is worth exactly as much as your unlock luck on the day.

How to Play

Trigger and Spin Count

3 BONUS medallions start the round, and they pay 2x the total bet for landing on top of it. Those medallions bring 7 free spins and a single board. There is no spin retrigger anywhere in this game, so those 7 are all you have until a board unlocks and adds to the counter. A round that unlocks all three extra boards runs a handful of spins longer than one that never widens, no more than that, and the board that earns the spins is always the newest one.

The Unlock Symbol

Two different symbols run this game. The red BONUS medallion triggers the round from the standard reels, and it shows on reels 1, 3, and 5 only. Once the round starts, a separate SCATTER takes over the unlocking job, and it appears only on the board that opened last. The paytable never illustrates that second symbol, so most players meet it for the first time when three of them appear and a new board slides in beside the one they were watching.

Wild Maths

The dog house wild appears only on reels 2, 3, and 4, and every one that lands carries a random 2x or 3x multiplier for that turn. Two wilds on the same line do not compound. The game adds their multipliers together instead, so a 2x next to a 3x takes that line to 5x rather than 6x. That single rule keeps the top end of the slot in check, and it is the reason the four boards carry the round rather than the wilds. Boards increase how many wins can form at once, whereas wilds only ever add to one line at a time.

Basic Stats

Setting Value
Minimum bet $0.20
Maximum bet $240.00
RTP 96.06%
RTP with Buy Free Spins 96.08%
Volatility High

Operators can run lower builds of this game at 95.14% or 94.06%, and the MEDIUM volatility badge in the game undersells a slot whose whole return depends on one short round, so this page files it as High.

The Dog House Multihold Paytable

The Dog House Multihold paytable showing dog premiums, royals and the wild rules
The premium ladder at the $2.00 bet, with five rottweilers at $50.00 and five bones at $7.50, and the dog house wild restricted to reels 2, 3 and 4.

Five rottweilers are the best line here at 25x the bet, and the ladder falls away quickly beneath them.

Symbol 3 4 5
Rottweiler 2x 5x 25x
Yorkshire terrier 1.5x 3.75x 17.5x
Pug 1x 2.5x 12.5x
Dachshund 0.75x 1.5x 7.5x
Collar 0.6x 1x 5x
Bone 0.4x 0.75x 3.75x
A and K 0.25x 0.5x 2.5x
Q, J and 10 0.1x 0.25x 1.25x

Ultimate Slots Verdict

The Dog House Multihold is the series edition worth playing for its round rather than its theme. Four boards make a 7-spin feature feel generous, and the sticky wild copies are the reason it works. The maths underneath is unchanged.

4/5 Excellent

✓ What We Like

  • Sticky wilds copy onto every board that unlocks, so an early wild can pay four times over
  • Four separate 3x5 boards each resolve their own lines, which is a real change to how the round plays
  • The buy is priced at the usual rate for a feature this short, and the bought version returns fractionally more

✗ What Could Be Better

  • 7 spins with no retrigger; a cold opening board ends the round before it widens
  • Additive wild multipliers keep line wins modest even with several boards running
  • The unlocking scatter is never shown on the paytable, so new players learn it mid-round

Detailed Review

What the Dog House Multihold Demo is Like

Land 3 scatters on the top-left board, and the yard splits in two. The second board arrives already holding copies of every sticky wild parked on the first; the counter ticks up, and from that turn you are watching two sets of lines resolve instead of one. Do it twice more, and four boards are running at once, all sharing the same stuck wilds. That moment is what the edition exists for, and it is far more fun to watch than a longer round on a single board.

It does not change the sums underneath. This is still a 20-line slot with additive wild multipliers and a modest premium ladder, and four boards are still four boards. The edition raises how often a win can form and leaves the size of it alone. Anyone reading the board count as a multiplier on the win will find the paytable disagreeing.

Series Context

The chassis is borrowed wholesale. The Dog House put the same reel set, the same fixed lines, and the same dog house wild on reels 2 to 4 in front of players in 2019, and the Dog House series has been reworking that frame ever since. Multihold is the edition that leaves the frame alone and changes the surface the round is played on.

The short round is a real weakness. A cold opening board can end the whole thing before a second one ever unlocks, and when that happens, the feature you came for never arrives. Sticky wilds soften the sting, because anything caught early stays for whatever comes after it, but nothing rescues a round that never widens. That is a Dog House round with a smaller prize table, which is a deflating way to spend a buy.

Four boards is a better answer to a 7-spin feature than seven more spins would have been. In free play, watch where the first wild lands; a couple of rounds will tell you whether the format suits the way you play.

The Dog House Series at a Glance

All The Dog House Series ›
GameRTPMax winVolatility
The Dog House Multihold96.06%9,000xHigh
The Dog House Megaways96.55%12,305xHigh
The Dog House96.51%6,750xHigh
The Dog House – Royal Hunt96.53%8,000xHigh

Frequently Asked Questions

The new 3x5 board opens carrying copies of every sticky wild currently on the last board, and the game awards extra free spins for the unlock. Unlocks run in a fixed order: top right, then bottom left, then bottom right. If two unlock on the same turn, the extra spins arrive twice and the wilds copy onto both new boards.
No. The Dog House Multihold has no spin retrigger at all. The only way the round gets longer is by unlocking another board, and there are three of those to find.
The cap applies to the round as a whole rather than to each board. Wins from every active board count towards the same total, and once that total reaches 9,000x the bet, the round stops there and pays out, with anything still to come dropped.
Because the multipliers add rather than multiply. A 2x wild and a 3x wild on the same line give that line 5x, not 6x. It is the quietest limit on the game, and it applies on every board once the round is running.
A SCATTER symbol that appears only during free spins, and only on the board that opened most recently. 3 of them open the next board along. The red BONUS medallion that starts the round is a different symbol and plays no part once the round is running.