Pragmatic Play · 2024 · tested 2026-09-13
The Dog House Muttley Crew
Two 10x chest wilds served three different clusters on one ordinary spin of The Dog House Muttley Crew demo, a 107.75x hit that needed no free spins at all.
In numbers: measured RTP 88.9% against 96.5% declared over 10,000 logged rounds; 20.7% of rounds paid; a natural bonus landed once per 256 rounds (39 in total) and a bonus round paid a median 38x the stake, mean 66.9x, trigger spin included; 50 bonus buys at 100x returned 0.80x of their price on average, 68% of them below the price; the biggest round paid 305.5x; the longest dry run was 27 spins.
The Dog House Muttley Crew demo
United States·available at Cafe Casino
Same reels, real payouts
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Test card
10,000 spins · USD 2.00 bet · every request logged
| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | USD 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.50% |
| RTP measured | 88.88% (approximate 95% CI 74.8–103.0) |
| Hit frequency | 21% · every 4.82 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 27 / 4.86 |
| Median hit | 1.00x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 107.8x · round 2056 |
| Free spins, natural | 39 · 3.9 bHz · every 256.4 spins · mean bonus round payout 66.9x stake |
| Balance start → end | 100,000 → 97,775 |
each run keeps its own spin log, CSV and raw server journal with checksums; the figures on this card combine all runs
Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · USD 200 each
mean 0.80x · median 0.623× price (USD 124.50) · 34 of 50 below price · best 5.07x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 10.7 / 10–20 |
| Retriggered | 12% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
BONUS paws overlay existing symbols during the feature; 2/3/4/5 overlays add 5/10/20/30 spins while sticky chests remain.
- Spent
- USD 10,00050 × USD 200
- Returned
- USD 8,026.5080.27% · approximate 95% CI 57–104%
- Net
- −USD 1,973.50−9.9 buys
- Break-even or better
- 16 / 5032%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 3 / 506%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~256 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 256 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 73 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 357 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 1872 |
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
7 rules screens from the game
Clusters pay when at least five matching symbols touch along rows or columns of Muttley Crew's 5x5 board. Treasure chests replace every symbol except BONUS and carry a randomly assigned 2x, 3x, 5x or 10x multiplier. For each paying cluster, add the multipliers of the chests inside it and apply that sum to its symbol payout. A chest can participate in several clusters on the same screen.
BONUS paws grant ten free spins with three symbols, fifteen with four, or twenty with five, plus a 2x-stake payout for any of those triggers. Chests that land during the feature remain fixed until it ends. Additional BONUS paws can appear as overlays on any symbol: two overlays add five spins, three add ten, four add twenty, and five add thirty within that feature.
The purchase menu guarantees three paws for 100x the stake, four for 250x, or five for 500x; the starting spin counts follow the same trigger table. Only the 100x option was sampled here, costing USD 200 at a USD 2 stake. Declared purchase RTP is 96.54%, 96.53% and 96.54% for those three options, respectively.
This high-volatility build specifies 96.50% RTP for ordinary play and accepts USD 0.20–240 stakes. A round ends at the 7,500x payout cap, with any unused free spins cancelled. The USD labels in the embedded demo represent virtual play balances.
Cluster pays
Free spins
Retrigger
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Multiplier
Sticky symbol
Bonus buy
Bet range USD 0.20 – 240 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet USD 2.00
Gallery
8 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Three clusters used the same two 10x chests
Round 2056 shows why counting the visible chest multipliers once for the whole screen gives the wrong answer. Its seven-symbol Q cluster used 2x, 5x, 10x and 10x wilds, turning USD 1.50 into USD 40.50. The bone cluster used only the two 10x chests and paid USD 40, while six Rottweiler symbols including wilds paid USD 135 at 27x. Those three awards totalled USD 215.50 on an ordinary USD 2 spin.
The fifty USD 200 tickets returned USD 8,026.50 against USD 10,000 paid. Their mean was 0.80265x the ticket price, but the median was 0.6225x, or USD 124.50; 34 tickets failed to recover USD 200. Purchase 23 reached USD 1,014.50 after two five-spin extensions, whereas purchase 6 paid USD 5.
Sticky retention had a different effect in natural round 2624: the same 5x chest appeared in paying clusters on fourteen of its fifteen free spins. Other chests joined many of those combinations, so the USD 368.50 round payout cannot be assigned to that one wild. Only free spin four passed without that chest joining a paying cluster.
- One chest can serve several combinations, as the three separate awards in round 2056 demonstrate.
- Overlay retriggers keep the existing feature running, preserving its sticky chests.
- Three purchase levels disclose different starting awards: ten, fifteen or twenty free spins.
- Thirty-four of the fifty USD 200 purchases finished below their entry price.
- The ordinary sequence included 27 consecutive rounds with no payout.
- Ten free spins in natural round 5085 added just USD 1 to the USD 4 entry award.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rig
One 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
- 21%rounds that paid
- 306xbiggest round
- 1 / 256natural bonus rate
- 0.80xmean of 50 buys
- 27longest dry streak
01run Run 012026-09-13 measured return88.88%-7.6 pts vs declared
- 95% band
- 74.8–103.0%
- rounds that paid
- 21%
- biggest round
- 306x · round 611
- longest dry streak
- 27
- natural bonuses
- 39 · one per 256 rounds
- bonus buys
- mean 0.80x · median 0.623x · 68% below price
- balance start → end
- 100,000 → 97,775
- deepest drawdown
- 1,403x
10000 ordinary paid rounds, including naturally triggered features, 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 96.5%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-09-13.
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 log
Why did Muttley Crew pay 88.88% against 96.50% RTP?
Regular testing recorded 88.88% RTP in a 10,000-round sample at USD 2. The build's 96.50% theoretical RTP describes its model. The approximate confidence interval is 74.79%–102.96% at the 95% level, using a normal approximation for the mean; it does not predict the return of the next run.
How much came back from Muttley Crew's 100x entry?
The tested entry cost 100x the ordinary stake, or USD 200. Fifty such tickets paid back USD 8,026.50, averaging 0.80265x their price; the median was 0.6225x, equivalent to USD 124.50. Thirty-four finished below USD 200. The 250x and 500x entries were not included in this purchase sample.
Will one treasure chest count toward several clusters?
Yes. On ordinary round 2056, the same pair of 10x chests participated in a Q cluster, a bone cluster and a Rottweiler cluster. The combinations returned USD 40.50, USD 40 and USD 135, respectively. Two other chests helped the Q and Rottweiler awards reach a 27x multiplier; the bone award used 20x.
Do two BONUS paws restart the whole feature?
No. Two BONUS overlays within free spins add five spins to the existing round, retaining its sticky wilds. Purchase 23 received that five-spin addition twice and finished with twenty spins and USD 1,014.50 returned. The rules also award ten, twenty or thirty extra spins for three, four or five overlays.
Muttley Crew free spins: how long was the wait?
Natural paw triggers occurred 39 times among 10,000 paid spins, an average of one per 256.41 rounds in this log. Between triggers at rounds 1330 and 2195, 864 intervening rounds had no trigger. Across the 39 features, the median round paid 38.0x the ordinary stake with entry-screen awards included, 33.5x for the free spins alone.
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