Pragmatic Play · 2020 · tested 2026-10-14
Dog House Megaways
Sticky Wilds free spins were chosen on every bonus of the first Dog House Megaways demo run, whose fifty buys returned 1.23x their price, led by one 16x twelve-spin ticket.
- RTP measured / declared 100.8% 96.55%
- Hit frequency 24%
- Max win · no bonus 540x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 1.04x
- Free spins, natural 114 / 40,000
- Bonus frequency 2.9 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 100.8% against 96.55% declared over 40,000 logged rounds in 4 runs; 23.6% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 351 rounds (114 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 48.6x the stake, mean 105.7x, trigger spin included; 200 bonus buys at 100x returned 1.04x of their price on average, 75% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 1,450.0x; the longest dry run was 43 spins.
Test card
40,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 40,000 · 4 runs |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.55% |
| RTP measured | 100.82% (approximate 95% CI 87.5–114.2) |
| Hit frequency | 24% · every 4.23 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 43 / 4.21 |
| Median hit | 0.70x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 540.0x · run 1, round 7407 |
| Free spins, natural | 114 · 2.9 bHz · every 350.9 spins · mean bonus round payout 105.7x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 100,656 |
- 012026-09-0610,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓95.41%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 022026-09-2710,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓92.30%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 032026-09-2910,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓135.91%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
- 042026-10-1410,000 rounds · 50 buysfiles & checksums ↓79.66%RTP5 files · SHA-256 ↓
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
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Bonus buy lab
200 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 1.04x · median 0.477× price (USD 95.30) · 149 of 200 below price · best 24.57x · worst 0.04x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 7.2 / 7–12 |
| Extended | 0.0% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Sticky Wilds cannot retrigger. Twelve-spin starts come from four triggering scatters, as on ticket 40 and natural round 9060 of run four; these are starting awards, not extensions.
- Spent
- USD 40,000200 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 41,722.30104.31% · approximate 95% CI 73–136%
- Net
- +USD 1,722.30+8.6 buys
- Break-even or better
- 51 / 20026%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 19 / 20010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~351 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 351 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll the 4 runs in sequence needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 89 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 143 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 522 |
The runs are played back to back as one series, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
7 rules screens from the game
Six reels, each showing between two and seven symbols on every spin, so the number of ways changes from round to round and tops out at 117,649. A win is the same symbol on adjacent reels from the left, any position, any reel height; the Rottweiler is the top symbol at 7.5x for six in a row and the ten the lowest at 0.5x. Nothing cascades: a base-game spin is one evaluation and one payout, which is why the 540x round 7407 in the first run's log has a single step.
Wild dog houses land on reels two to five only and carry a random 2x or 3x. Two wilds in the same combination multiply each other rather than add, so a three-wild line can reach 27x on its own. The paw scatter appears on every reel; three or more anywhere open the feature, and before it starts the game asks you to pick one of two modes.
Sticky Wilds gives 7, 12, 15 or 20 spins for three to six scatters. Every wild that lands stays where it is until the round ends, takes a 1x, 2x or 3x multiplier, and stretches with the reel when the reel grows. Raining Wilds gives 15, 18, 25 or 30 spins instead, with up to six fresh wilds dropped onto the screen on each spin and nothing sticking, and neither mode retriggers. The lab picked Sticky Wilds every time, in the first run's 28 natural rounds and in all of its fifty purchases, so every bonus figure on this page describes that mode; Raining Wilds was not measured.
A bought feature costs 100x the bet and lands three to six scatters at random, so a bought round can be 7, 12, 15 or 20 spins; three of the first run's fifty came with four scatters and twelve spins. The rules screen declares 96.55% and calls the game medium volatility. Stakes run from 0.20 to 240, and the intro screen promises wins over 12,000x the bet.
Megaways
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Free spins
Scatter symbol
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
13 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Run four gave back the surplusFour 10,000-round runs of Dog House Megaways at USD 2 have returned 95.41%, 92.30%, 135.91% and 79.66%, 100.82% pooled over 40,000 rounds (approximate 95% CI 87.48%–114.16%, the margin on the pooled mean alone) against its 96.55% rules figure; run four erased most of run three's surplus, and the pooled balance now sits 328 stakes up. Paying rounds held between 23.29% and 24.07% in every run, 30,550 of the 40,000 came back empty, and run two's 43-round drought is still the longest.
Sticky Wilds was again chosen in every bonus, so Raining Wilds is unmeasured after 40,000 rounds and 200 tickets. Natural features numbered 28, 27, 37 and 22, one every 351 rounds, pooled median 48.6x; run three's round 4454 (1,450x) remains the largest, run four's best reached 302.6x, and run four's largest round was an ordinary 360x spin, round 5499.
The ticket count now stands at 200: USD 41,722.30 returned on USD 40,000, 104.31%, with a USD 95.30 median; 149 fell short of their price, 19 paid double or more, six paid fivefold or more, and run two's ticket 30 (USD 4,914) still leads. Run four's batch returned 55.38%, the weakest of the four, with USD 761.90 as its best.
- A single ordinary spin, round 5499 of run four, paid USD 720, 360 stakes
- Hit rates stayed within a point across four runs, 23.29% to 24.07%
- Fivefold returns on six of the 200 tickets
- Blank stretches in run four never passed 27 rounds
- A 79.66% return in run four, with 55.38% on its fifty tickets
- Raining Wilds has never been played in 314 logged bonuses
- Only 22 natural features in run four, one per 455 rounds
- Features went missing for 1,415 rounds of run four, from 2088 to 3504
Run 01·2026-09-06·95.41%
Base play lost money at a steady pace: 192 bets down after 500 spins, 559 after 2,000, and a low of 810 bets down at spin 3189. What pulled it back was a burst of bonuses. Ten of the 28 natural triggers fell between rounds 3190 and 4692, inside 1,500 spins, and the two biggest of the whole run, 278x on round 3847 and 501.8x on round 3999, sat in that stretch; by round 3999 the balance was back at its starting line. The rest of the run repeated the pattern in miniature: a slow slide to 339 bets down, a single 540x spin on round 7407, a peak of 269 bets up at round 7635, and a finish 459 bets down at 99,081.50.
Between bonuses the reels are quiet. Seventy-seven percent of spins paid nothing, nine dead runs hit the 20-spin mark and the longest was 26 (rounds 6460 to 6485). The fixed bankrolls went early: 50 bets lasted 89 spins, 100 bets lasted 143, 200 bets lasted 522. On the other side of that ledger sit 156 spins above 10x and 35 above 50x, six of them base-game single spins above 100x: 540x, 168x, 144x, 141.2x, 108x and 104.4x.
Sticky Wilds rounds were the dependable part. The 28 natural triggers averaged 74.43x with a median of 48.6x, five cleared 100x, five stayed under 20x and the worst, round 9163, paid 3.05x. Twenty-six ran the basic seven spins; rounds 4119 and 4262 opened with four scatters and ran twelve. The spacing was the problem, not the size: 1,166 spins passed between the triggers on rounds 2024 and 3190.
Buying at 200 a time cost 10,000 and returned 12,274. That is 1.227x, but 32 of the fifty purchases lost money and the median was 0.7025x; the profit came from four rounds, 16.0x on buy 21 (a four-scatter, twelve-spin round), 5.2x on buy 14, 4.0x on buy 23 and 2.3x on buy 28. Take away buy 21 and the remaining 49 average 0.93x. Buy 22, the very next purchase, returned 0.058x, the only one under a tenth of its price. For a player who wants the sticky-wild board without the 350-spin wait, the buy did its job here; for one counting on the average, the median is the number to read.
Run 02·2026-09-27·92.30%
Second series, 10,000 spins at USD 2: 92.30% of stake returned, approximate 95% CI 68.7 to 115.91%, and the balance closed 770 stakes down after standing 479 up at spin 957. The 2,000-spin blocks went 98.8%, 69.3%, 119.9%, 85.9% and 87.6%; fifty stakes were gone by spin 58, a hundred by 352, two hundred by 2513, and the low of 999 down came at spin 8956, a 1,478-stake slide from the early high. A hit landed on 23.29% of spins at a 0.7x median, 7,671 rounds paid nothing, and the dry stretches were the story: fourteen passed 20 spins, three passed 30, and the longest ran 43 spins from round 4889.
Sticky Wilds again, in all 27 natural rounds and all fifty purchases, and the features came one per 370 spins, 2.7 bHz (natural features per 1,000 rounds), the first on round 74, with a 1,371-spin gap between rounds 1550 and 2922; 26 started at seven spins and one at twelve, from four scatters. Counting the trigger spin, they averaged 96.57x, median 42.3x, USD 84.60, and made 28.2% of everything paid; six cleared 100x, six stayed under 20x, none under 10x. Round 4287 did most of the work: the trigger and seven sticky-wild spins paid USD 1,905.80, 952.9x, and moved the balance from 695 stakes down to 257 up; without that round the other 9,999 spins returned 82.78%. The base game peaked at 468x on round 444, a single spin with no feature, one of only two ordinary rounds above 100x against six in the first run.
Fifty tickets at USD 200 returned 1.4209x of price, 142.09%, but the average hides the shape: the median ticket paid 0.306x, USD 61.20, 36 lost money, 33 returned under half, and only 14 covered their price. Buy 30, one of two twelve-spin tickets, paid 24.57x, USD 4,914, the largest purchase result on this page; buys 7 and 28 passed 5x on seven spins, the worst, buy 40, paid 0.044x, and without buy 30 the other 49 averaged 0.9485x.
Run 03·2026-09-29·135.91%
Round 4454 took seven sticky-wild spins to USD 2,900, 1,450 stakes, the largest round in three runs, and round 8563 added USD 2,146.20, 1,073.1 stakes, from another seven-spin feature, out of USD 27,182 the run returned. Thirty-seven Sticky Wilds features came one per 270 spins, 3.7 bHz, 33 of them at seven spins, three at twelve and one at fifteen, and paid USD 12,258.50 over their whole rounds, 45.1% of the return, 165.66x on average and 59.7x at the median, USD 119.40; twelve cleared 100x, three stayed under 20x and the smallest, round 6467, paid 9.8x. The waits between them ran past 1,000 spins three times, 1,090 from round 5187 to 6278 at the longest.
The balance was 459.4 stakes down on spin 2617 and 3,761.8 stakes up on spin 9745, and the session ended at USD 107,182, 3,591 stakes ahead, 135.91% of the USD 20,000 staked; the 2,000-round blocks came in at 81.0%, 123.7%, 144.6%, 134.3% and 195.9%, so the money came late. The base game paid on 24.07% of spins at a 0.7x median, 7,593 rounds paid nothing, two dry stretches passed 30 spins, 34 from round 6673 the longest, and the plain reels produced 436.05x on round 3199 and 240x on round 7944 in single evaluations; a 200-stake bankroll lasted 1,064 spins, a 100-stake one 429 and a 50-stake one 279.
The fifty tickets, USD 200 each, returned USD 9,701.70, 0.970x of price, 97.02%, at a median payout of USD 109.50: 38 tickets lost money, 12 covered the price, six passed 2x and one, purchase 13, reached 8.208x, USD 1,641.60, from seven spins; the worst, purchase 11, paid USD 10.80. Forty-eight bought rounds ran the basic seven spins and two ran twelve from four scatters, all in Sticky Wilds.
Run 04·2026-10-14·79.66%
USD 720 from a single ordinary spin, round 5499, was the largest result of this run, 360 stakes; no feature matched it. The best of the 22 Sticky Wilds features, round 9201, paid USD 288 on its seventh and last spin to finish at USD 605.20, and only one feature, round 9060 from four scatters, ran longer than seven spins, for USD 39.70.
Returns for the 10,000 USD 2 rounds were USD 15,932.30, 79.66%, the lowest of four Dog House Megaways runs; 7,625 rounds paid nothing and the longest blank stretch was 27 rounds. Natural features came one per 455 rounds, the thinnest rate of the series, and paid USD 2,465.40 over their whole rounds, 15.5% of payouts, with a 30.85x median. Fifty purchases, USD 10,000 of tickets, paid USD 5,537.90, 55.38%: 43 tickets under price, a USD 91.60 median and USD 761.90 as the best ticket, the only one above twice its price.
Test record
4 runs · 40,000 rounds · 200 buys · open data · closed rigThis game has been through 4 separate test runs on the official demo server, each a fresh session of 10,000 rounds at a fixed bet. Every figure on this page combines the runs into one sample, as if they were one long session; the record below keeps each run apart, with its own numbers and its own downloadable log.
- 40,000rounds, all runs
- 24%rounds that paid
- 1,450xbiggest round
- 1 / 351natural bonus rate
- 1.04xmean of 200 buys
- 43longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-06 measured return95.41%-1.1 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 76.4–114.4%
- rounds that paid
- 23%
- biggest round
- 540x · round 7,407
- longest dry streak
- 26
- natural bonuses
- 28 · one per 357 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.23x · median 0.703x · 64% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,082
- deepest drawdown
- 818x
02run Run 022026-09-27 lab note measured return92.30%-4.3 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 68.7–115.9%
- rounds that paid
- 23%
- biggest round
- 953x · round 4,287
- longest dry streak
- 43
- natural bonuses
- 27 · one per 370 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 1.42x · median 0.306x · 72% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 98,461
- deepest drawdown
- 1,478x
Three weeks after the first series, the second came in at 92.30%, three points under the first run's 95.41% and further from the printed 96.55%. Natural triggers held at 27 against 28, all Sticky Wilds again, but paid 96.57x on average against 74.43x thanks to a 952.9x round; the base game found no repeat of the 540x spin, and the fifty buys rose from 1.2274x to 1.4209x of price on one 24.57x ticket while the median ticket fell from 0.7025x to 0.306x.
03run Run 032026-09-29 lab note measured return135.91%+39.4 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 94.0–177.8%
- rounds that paid
- 24%
- biggest round
- 1,450x · round 4,454
- longest dry streak
- 34
- natural bonuses
- 37 · one per 270 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.97x · median 0.548x · 76% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 107,182
- deepest drawdown
- 622x
The third session, logged on 29 September, came in at 135.91% after 95.41% on 6 September and 92.30% on 21 September, which lifts the three-run total to 107.87% over 30,000 rounds. The natural features made the gap: 37 triggers against 28 and 27, paying 165.66x on average against 74.43x and 96.57x, with two rounds past 1,000x; the purchases went the other way, 0.970x of price against 1.2274x and 1.4209x, without a single ticket past 10x.
04run Run 042026-10-14 lab note measured return79.66%-16.9 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 66.4–92.9%
- rounds that paid
- 24%
- biggest round
- 360x · round 5,499
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 22 · one per 455 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.55x · median 0.458x · 86% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 95,932
- deepest drawdown
- 2,263x
Ordinary play fell from 135.91% in run three to 79.66% in run four as natural features dropped from 37 to 22 and their whole-round pay from USD 12,258.50 to USD 2,465.40. Purchases returned 55.38% after 97.02%, with no ticket above USD 761.90.
4 test runs combined into one sample (2026-09-06, 2026-09-27, 2026-09-29, 2026-10-14): 40,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed USD 2 bet; 200 bonus buys at USD 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.55%); every request and response logged.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
5 questions · answered from the logAfter four runs, is Dog House Megaways above its printed RTP?
Yes, just: 100.82% over 40,000 USD 2 rounds against 96.55%, after 95.41%, 92.30%, 135.91% and 79.66%. Run four paid USD 15,932.30 on USD 20,000.
Was run four's largest round a feature?
No: an ordinary spin, round 5499, paid USD 720 (360x); the best Sticky Wilds feature, round 9201, paid USD 605.20 with USD 288 on its last spin. Run three's 1,450x at round 4454 remains the series record.
Was the fourth purchase batch the weakest?
Yes: USD 5,537.90 on USD 10,000, 55.38%, with 43 tickets under price and a USD 91.60 median; ticket 36 at USD 761.90 was the only one above twice its price. The four batches returned 122.74%, 142.09%, 97.02% and 55.38%.
Has Raining Wilds been tested yet?
No: Sticky Wilds was chosen in all 114 natural features and 200 purchases across four runs, so half of the feature remains unmeasured after 40,000 rounds.
How sparse were run four's features?
Twenty-two in 10,000 rounds, one per 455, the thinnest of the series after 28, 27 and 37; the longest wait ran 1,415 rounds, from 2088 to 3504. Pooled, a feature came every 351 rounds.
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