Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-09-10
The Dog House Dog Or Alive
Nineteen free spins added just USD 0.20 in one Dog or Alive bonus because no sticky badge landed where a line could use it, one of 64 natural features in the USD 2 demo.
- RTP measured / declared 99.3% 96.52%
- Hit frequency 16%
- Max win · no bonus 113x
- Bonus buy · mean result 100x · 0.94x
- Free spins, natural 64 / 10,000
- Bonus frequency 6.4 bHz
In numbers: measured RTP 99.3% against 96.52% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 16.1% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 156 rounds (64 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 34.9x the stake, mean 78.5x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.94x of their price on average, 70% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 587.0x; the longest dry run was 43 spins.
Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.52% |
| RTP measured | 99.28% (approximate 95% CI 77.4–121.2) |
| Hit frequency | 16% · every 6.21 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 43 / 6.23 |
| Median hit | 1.20x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 112.5x · round 3774 |
| Free spins, natural | 64 · 6.4 bHz · every 156.2 spins · mean bonus round payout 78.5x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 99,856 |
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
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 eachmean 0.94x · median 0.529× price (USD 105.80) · 35 of 50 below price · best 6.23x · worst 0.05x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 12.9 / 9–23 |
| Retriggered | 38% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 6% |
Added spins come from the third, sixth or ninth sticky sheriff badge, with three spins per milestone. The opening barrel total is excluded. Nineteen of 50 purchases earned the first extension; none reached the second.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 9,434.8094.35% · approximate 95% CI 59–130%
- Net
- −USD 565.20−2.8 buys
- Break-even or better
- 15 / 5030%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 5 / 5010%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~156 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 156 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 this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 67 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 244 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 552 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
6 rules screens from the game
Nine spinning barrels decide the opening free-spin award. Each cell on this three-by-three display reveals one, two or three spins, and their sum becomes the starting total. The animation runs automatically; there is no barrel to choose. Entry comes from a safe on each of reels one, three and five, with the three safes also paying five times the total stake.
Sheriff badges are the wilds on the three middle reels. A new badge carries 2x or 3x and substitutes for ordinary symbols in a paying line; when several badges help that line, their values are added. Badges landing during free spins stay at their positions for the rest of the feature. A wild on the paid triggering spin is still an ordinary-game wild, and does not carry into the bonus.
Collecting the third, sixth or ninth sticky badge adds three spins and doubles every wild value currently on the board. Those milestones can extend the feature three times, while newly arriving badges still reveal their own initial values. The bonus uses special reels without safe symbols, so another scatter combination cannot restart it. The journal reached the first milestone in 19 of 50 purchased features, with none reaching the second.
Outside the barrel display, the playing field has five reels and three rows, with twenty paylines. A line needs at least three matching symbols connected from the leftmost reel; only its highest award is paid, then awards on different lines are combined. The four dogs head the paytable, followed by the collar, bone and card ranks. This is a line game, with no cascading replacements after a win.
Rules page three specifies high volatility and a stake range of USD 0.20 to USD 240. The USD 2 setting priced direct access to free spins at USD 200, or one hundred stakes. The configured RTP is 96.52% for ordinary play and 96.54% for purchased entry. A complete round cannot pay beyond 10,000x its ordinary stake; reaching that limit ends the round and cancels anything still unplayed.
Wild symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Retrigger
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
5 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Badge positions over spin countsThe longest opening award among the natural bonuses was nineteen spins, on round 7649. No sticky badge appeared, and those spins added USD 0.20 to the USD 10 scatter payment. The strongest natural feature began with eleven, gained three more and finished at USD 1,174 including its trigger. Those two rounds show why the barrel count alone says little about the payment that follows.
Purchased entries exposed the same dependence on the reel positions. Their median return was USD 105.80 against a USD 200 price, and three purchases returned exactly USD 10: the safes paid, but their free spins added nothing. Fifteen purchases covered the cost, with number 49 leading at USD 1,246.60 after twelve starting spins and one three-spin extension. Across the fifty purchases, the remaining shortfall was USD 565.20.
There is plenty of waiting between the useful badge combinations. Only 1,610 ordinary rounds paid anything, and 686 of those failed to cover the USD 2 cost. The longest completely blank stretch lasted 43 rounds, while the biggest peak-to-trough balance fall measured 905.8 stakes. Line-by-line activity stayed sparse even in a sample that finishes near its starting balance.
Ordinary play ended USD 143.80 down after staking USD 20,000, a measured 99.28% return whose approximate 95% interval runs from 77.35% to 121.21% around the 96.52% profile. What the log keeps coming back to is the badge position rather than the spin counter: round 7649 had the longest natural award and almost nothing to show for it, while purchase 49 turned twelve spins and one extension into USD 1,246.60.
- The barrel award and later three-spin extensions can be separated in the saved bonus history
- Persistent badges make it possible to follow the same line positions through a feature
- The captured rules list both RTP settings and the complete twenty-line paytable
- Thirteen free spins on round 5381 added nothing to the scatter payment
- Median purchase return: USD 105.80 against a USD 200 entry price
- More than eight in ten ordinary rounds ended without a payment
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 16%rounds that paid
- 587xbiggest round
- 1 / 156natural bonus rate
- 0.94xmean of 50 buys
- 43longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-10 measured return99.28%+2.8 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 77.4–121.2%
- rounds that paid
- 16%
- biggest round
- 587x · round 4,547
- longest dry streak
- 43
- natural bonuses
- 64 · one per 156 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.94x · median 0.529x · 70% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 99,856
- deepest drawdown
- 906x
10000 base-game spins at a fixed USD 2.0 bet; 50 bonus buys at 200.0 each (100.0x) on the official Pragmatic Play demo server (jurisdiction 99, RTP profile 96.52%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-10.
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
7 questions · answered from the logAm I supposed to pick one of the nine barrels?
No selection is needed. The three-by-three display spins automatically, then adds the 1-, 2- or 3-spin values in all 9 cells. That allows an opening award from 9 to 27 spins before any badge milestone adds more.
Why did my free-spin total suddenly increase by three?
Count the sticky sheriff badges. Reaching three, six or nine adds three spins and doubles the values of wilds already present. The log shows 48 such increases across the 114 features in the ordinary and purchased samples; every one was the first milestone.
Can a safe symbol retrigger this version of The Dog House?
No. The free-spin reels have no safes, and extensions come from collecting badges instead, which is why a longer opening barrel award must not be counted as a retrigger. The purchased sample contained 19 features with added spins.
Do a 2x badge and a 3x badge make a 6x line?
No. They give that line 5x when both participate in its winning combination, because badge values add for the payout. A later collection milestone doubles the values on the board, which is a separate operation.
How could the bonus pay USD 10 with no winning free spins?
At the tested USD 2 stake, the three safes themselves pay USD 10. Purchases 7, 12 and 28 returned exactly that amount, with zero added by the free spins. The purchase ledger includes the trigger payment, whereas the feature breakdown separates it.
Will a wild from the trigger stay in the bonus?
No. Sticky behaviour starts with badges landing on the free-spin reels: the ordinary wild on trigger round 2440 disappeared before the first free spin, as the saved responses show. A badge that subsequently lands during the feature stays for its remaining spins.
Was the best purchased bonus also the longest?
No. Purchase 49 paid the most, USD 1,246.60, over fifteen free spins including its extension, while the sample's longest purchased feature lasted twenty-three spins. Extra turns give the board more chances to connect, but the final amount still depends on the symbols and badge positions.
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