The Dog House Multihold: Slot Overview
Humankind's best friend, doggies, are back in a
remake of one of Pragmatic Play's most💷 beloved slots The Dog House, which also spawned
a Megaways version titled The Dog House Megaways. This one, The Dog💷 House Multihold,
takes the newly made trilogy in a different direction. Although, like The Dog House
Megaways, The Multihold version💷 does come with a bunch more reels, rows, and ways to
win when its bonus round is going well. One💷 of The Dog House Multihold's key free spins
tricks is unlocking up to four active reel sets at once. If💷 you're keen to see a
quad-grid iteration of The Dog House, feel free to grab a tick collar and join💷 us for a
look.
For a lot of the time, The Dog House Multihold looks very much like the original
slot.💷 That is, if you don't trigger or can't buy the bonus round and are powering your
way through the base💷 game. In this phase of play, the visuals have remained basically
the same, meaning an outdoor scene with a 5-reel,💷 3-row game grid housed in its own
wooden structure, parked up by a lawn. The creeping ivy, the little blue💷 birdie, the
white picket fence, it's all there, transporting players back to the original sleepy
slice of suburbia for another💷 canine adventure.
When it comes to stats, some have
increased, some have decreased, but none mind-bendingly drastically so. One which has
💷 dropped a bit is the return to player value, where this time, the maximum default RTP
comes in at 96.06%,💷 though two lower settings have been created that can be verified on
the paytable. Pragmatic Play has rated the volatility💷 as 5 out of 5 and has bolted on a
bonus buy, which might be as big of a draw💷 for some players as the actual Multihold
part, possibly.
With 20 fixed paylines, regular symbols trigger a win when three to
💷 five-of-a-kind land across one on adjacent reels from the leftmost side. Symbols are
the same as before, too, so we💷 get a return of the bulging 10-A card royals, a bone, a
collar, and four cute doggy premiums. Landing a💷 five-of-a-kind winning line pays 1.25
to 2.5 times the bet for the card symbols or 3.75 to 25x the bet💷 for the rest. Wilds
are as critical in The Dog House Multihold as they ever were before. Wilds appear on
💷 the three central reels, carrying a random multiplier of x2 or x3. Wilds substitute for
any regular pay symbol and💷 apply their multiplier to any win they are a part of. When
more than one wild is part of a💷 win, the multiplier values are added together.
The Dog
House Multihold: Slot Features
So far, so uh, yeah, and? But, here's where💷 The Dog
House Multihold starts to diverge from its predecessors. First off, when 3 paw bonus
symbols hit on reels💷 1, 3, and 5 in the base game, 2x the bet is paid, and players pick
up 7 free spins.
Now,💷 free spins are played on up to four 3x5 game grids. In the
beginning, just one game grid is active.💷 When paw bonus symbols land, they are
collected on the next locked game matrix. When 3 bonus symbols have been💷 collected, the
next matrix is unlocked. Bonus symbols only land on the last unlocked game grid.
Fans
of the previous slots💷 will be pleased to know sticky wilds have been retained. So,
whenever a wild symbol lands on the last unlocked💷 matrix, it turns sticky and stays in
position until the round comes to an end. Just as good, if not💷 better, when a new grid
is unlocked, it starts with the same sticky wilds in place as the last matrix.💷 Also,
every time a grid is unlocked, 1-3 additional free spins are randomly awarded. If two
grids are unlocked on💷 the same free spin, extra free spins are awarded two times, and
wilds are copied to both new matrices.
Where available,💷 The Dog House Multihold
provides the chance to buy free spins for the cost of 100 times the stake. The💷 maximum
RTP when buying free spins is 96.08%.
The Dog House Multihold: Slot Verdict
When taking
The Dog House Multihold for a💷 walk through the base game, it's kinda hard to discern
much, if any, difference between this and the original. It's💷 as wacky, bright, and
loveable as ever. One of The Dog House's key attributes was its cute canine charm, and
💷 all of that has come bounding back for The Dog House Multihold, which is as charming as
ever. Fans of💷 the original's homely, well-kept weed-free lawns and optimistic blue
skies will feel right at home in The Dog House Multihold.💷 The base game, at least.
Free
spins are where the two games say sayonara to each other and head in different
💷 directions. How you view The Dog House Multihold's bonus round may largely rest on how
you view these quad grid💷 features in general. It isn't a massively populous genre yet,
but Blueprint Gaming's handful of Power 4 Slots and Big💷 Time Gaming's Slot Vegas
Megaquads sprang to mind as possible competition. What feels fresh here is the way
locked wilds💷 from the previous grid copy over to a newly unlocked one. There are a few
ways Pragmatic Play could have💷 handled this aspect of the game, and seeing as locked
multiplier wilds were what helped put The Dog House on💷 the map, this step was critical.
The method the team landed on for executing it, injecting a snowball element to💷 the
sticky wild accumulations on new grids, not letting new wilds stick on every previous
grid, or starting new grids💷 from scratch, is a clever approach.
Interestingly, having
up to four times the free spins matrices hasn't translated into four times💷 the winning
potential due to the game's win cap of 9,000x the bet. Not a colossal amount more than
the💷 original and less than The Dog House Megaways for anyone keeping score. Is it
gimmicky? Kinda, but it is also💷 pretty exciting when a solid domino effect is happening
in free spins as extra game grids open up and sticky💷 wilds are transferred over. In
summation, if you liked what the doggies have delivered so far, there's a good chance
💷 this one will be a good ol' tail wagger, too.
