Pragmatic Play settles most of its catalogue on 96.5%. Ratinho Sortudo runs at 97.57%, a full point clear of that house figure and among the highest returns the studio has attached to a slot. The trade arrives at the other end, where a round stops at a 1,000x cap. Three reels, 10 paylines, and seven symbols describe everything between those two numbers, so small returns land often and the demo rarely goes quiet for long. The mouse wild handles everything above that floor, raining onto the board in multiples and carrying x2 to x5 wherever it lands. There is no scatter here, no free spins round, and no buy panel, which leaves the wild carrying the whole of the game’s upside.
The mouse is a pay symbol before anything else, worth 20x for three matches and double the gold ingot below it. On any spin, the game can add up to 10 more mice in random positions, each carrying a random x2, x3, x4, or x5. Ten of them on a 3-4-3 board cover most of the visible positions, so the feature runs from one useful extra symbol to a near-takeover, and nothing on the reels signals which spin it will be. A rain of two or three mice tends to complete several of the 10 lines at once.
Two wilds on the same winning line add their multipliers rather than multiplying them, so a x3 beside a x5 pays that line at x8. The maths changes what a cheap line is worth. A peanut run at 0.2x climbs to 3x with three x5 mice through it, while the ingot line at 10x needs one x5 to pass the wild’s own 20x. Low pays are the ones the feature transforms, and a screen carrying four or five mice can turn a spin that would have returned a fraction of the stake into one worth 20 or 30 times it.
Fill every position with wilds, and the sum replaces the ladder. The game multiplies the total win by the sum of every multiplier on screen, so a board of 10 mice can carry a combined figure in the x20 to x50 range before a single line is counted. That is the route to the game’s maximum, and on a board this small there isn’t a second one. The biggest results are decided by which multipliers the mice carry, not by how long a round runs.
The name places this one beside Touro Sortudo, Cachorro Sortudo, and Tigre Sortudo, a family held together by Portuguese naming and art direction rather than by a shared feature set, and none of the others uses a wild-only setup like this. The ingots, drums, and firecrackers put it in the studio’s Chinese New Year line, a corner the studio restocks every winter.
Reel 2 shows four symbol positions while reels 1 and 3 show three, and that extra row is how 10 paylines fit onto a three-reel board. Every winning line is a three-symbol run, and a fourth match adds nothing. Ten lines across 10 visible positions is dense coverage for a board this small.
The cabinet is portrait, drawn for a phone held upright. Tapping either stepper beside the spin button moves the bet one notch, holding the spin button itself switches the reels to turbo, and the stacked-coins icon opens the bet menu. Autoplay works the same way, by tapping the spin count you want rather than entering a figure.
Anything from $0.10 a spin to $250 goes. The default version returns 97.57%, a point clear of the 96.5% that runs through most of the Pragmatic Play catalogue, and lower versions exist at 96.57% and 95.57%, a two-point spread between the top and bottom settings. A hit rate near 20% means a win roughly every fifth spin, most of which are under the stake, and the wild multipliers are what change the size of the rest.
Every symbol pays on one tier, three matching, because three reels leave no room for a longer run. The mouse tops the table at 20x, double the gold ingot beneath it and 100 times the peanut at the bottom, and the step from the money bag to the drum is the sharpest drop on the list, a fall from 5x to 1x with nothing between the two. Four of the seven rows pay less than the stake for a full line, so the table is built to return small amounts frequently rather than to reward a rare shape.
| Symbol | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mouse wild | 20x |
| Gold ingot | 10x |
| Money bag | 5x |
| Drum | 1x |
| Firecrackers | 0.5x |
| Orange | 0.3x |
| Peanut | 0.2x |
A high return tied to a low limit, and the two facts describe one design. Small wins arrive often, the raining wilds supply what variance there is, and no part of this slot reaches past the cap.
Three and a half out of five, and everything about the score comes down to what the return buys and what the cap takes away. What the high figure buys is frequency. On a table whose bottom three symbols pay 0.2x, 0.3x, and 0.5x, most of what lands is a fraction of the stake coming straight back, and the mid rows at 5x and 10x carry most of what the return is made of. Raining wilds are what move a result into double figures, and because their multipliers add rather than compound, even a good rain lands in the tens rather than the hundreds. A December 2024 release with this shape is built to stay level, not to spike.
The art is doing more work than the maths. A gold mouse is perched on the pagoda roof dropping ingots onto a three-reel cabinet in red, green, and gold, and the whole thing is small, bright, and quick, with a win celebration attached to returns worth a few multiples of the stake. That generosity of presentation is deliberate, and a screen that fills two-thirds with mice looks like the big one right up to the count, with no round to soften the landing afterwards.
Set it beside Hot to Burn, and the studio’s thinking is clear enough. Both strip the page down to a paytable and one idea, but while that game leaves the reels bare, this one hides its feature inside the wild and pays a point more for the privilege. In free play, the shape shows itself within a few dozen spins, which is a fair test of whether a game with no round to reach holds you. This review rates it as a competent small slot with one idea and a fair price on it.
