The Dog House Megaways Slot by Pragmatic Play

Landing three or more paw print scatters opens a choice. Sticky Wilds or Raining Wilds - two separate free spin modes with different reel behavior and different risk profiles. Sticky Wilds locks wild symbols onto the grid for the entire round, each carrying a random 1x, 2x, or 3x multiplier. Because reels shift size every spin (that's the Megaways part), a sticky wild might cover one position on a two-symbol reel and then sit next to five symbols when that same reel expands to seven. The game guarantees each reel stays at least as tall as the number of sticky wilds sitting on it, which prevents wilds from falling off a shrinking column. Three scatters give 7 sticky spins, six scatters give 20.

Raining Wilds plays the opposite way. Nothing sticks. Instead, each spin drops up to six fresh wild symbols onto random positions, all with their own 1x, 2x, or 3x multiplier. More spins to compensate - 15 for three scatters, up to 30 for six. The tradeoff is clear: Sticky builds a progressively wilder grid but gives fewer spins, Raining gives more opportunities but resets the board every time. Neither mode retrigggers.

Wild multipliers do the heavy lifting in both modes. When two or more wilds land in the same winning combination, their multipliers multiply together - 3x times 3x times 2x on a single payline gives 18x on that win alone. In the base game, wilds only appear on reels 2 through 5 with 2x or 3x values. Free spins add 1x to the multiplier pool, which sounds like a downgrade until you realize the volume of wilds per spin compensates for the dilution.

A hundred times your total bet buys instant entry to the bonus. The game randomly determines a scatter count between 3 and 6, so the purchased round might start with 7 sticky spins or 30 raining spins - same odds as a natural trigger. Cartoon dog portraits fill the premium end of the paytable: a Rottweiler at 7.5x for six of a kind, then a Pug, a Yorkshire Terrier, and a Beagle in descending order. Green and red bone collars handle the mid tier, with A-through-10 card values at the bottom. The original Dog House ran on 20 fixed paylines. This Megaways rebuild keeps the same suburban backyard, the same three dogs perched on the kennel roof, and the same wild multiplier math - just spread across up to 117,649 ways instead of 20 lines.