The Dog House – Royal Hunt: play this Pragmatic Play slot
Pragmatic Play's five-reel hunting game with free spins and sticky wilds, delivering a 96.53% RTP with high volatility where wins come less often and can be much bigger.
High stakes, royal rewards: The Dog House – Royal Hunt
Five reels, twenty paylines. The Dog House – Royal Hunt puts you on a 5-reel, 3-row grid where hunting and dogs meet across 20 paylines. Wilds appear as dog houses on the middle reels, substituting all symbols except the bonus. A red paw triggers the bonus rounds. Released in March 2025 by Pragmatic Play, this high-volatility slot means wins land less often but can grow substantially larger. You'll recognise symbols including hunting beagles, collars and biscuits.
Who suits this game? You'll want this slot if you have a larger budget and patience for stretches between wins. With a top bet at NZ$1 reaching NZ$8,000, or NZ$240 for NZ$1,920,000 maximum, you can scale your stake to your comfort. Players after frequent small wins should look elsewhere; high volatility rewards those who play longer sessions and can absorb dry runs waiting for the bonus rounds to arrive.
What the bonus rounds bring. Free Spins and Royal Free Spins define how a round plays once the bonus arrives. Both rounds let wins compound through the bonus features already active in the base game. You trigger them by landing the red paw scatter on reels 1, 3 and 5. What the bonus delivers—the number of spins, the multipliers stacked—you won't know until it lands, since bonus rounds play by their own rules once triggered.
Read moreFrom grid to max win: how this slot works
Understand the return rate, win cap and how often big wins arrive in this game.
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NZ$1 920 000
Before the bonus comes: the base game spin
You control your stake at the start and watch symbols align left to right across the reels
How does The Dog House – Royal Hunt play out on screen?
From base game to free spins
Free Spins triggered. Five red paw symbols on reels one, three and five activate this round. Your spins continue until they're exhausted, with wild dog houses substituting to complete combinations on all five reels across twenty paylines.
Your royal round moment. You unlock this premium round by landing red paw symbols on the same reels as the base game. Royal spins work identically to standard free spins, with wild dog houses filling gaps in symbol matches throughout your bonus round.
The setup that lets you win. Five reels by three rows spin with twenty fixed paylines running left to right. Wild dog houses appear only on reels two, three and four to complete your wins, while red paws show only on reels one, three and five to trigger bonuses.
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Return to player for every hundred staked
RTP is a long-run average calculated over millions of spins. Each RTP figure applies only to the specific play condition shown: the standard game returns 96.53%, while buying either bonus round returns 96.51%.
RTP 96.53% · Standard game
RTP 96.51% · When bonus is bought
Buy your way into the bonus rounds
Buy Free Spins to trigger the bonus
Buy Free Spins for NZ$100 at a NZ$1 stake. This paid feature launches the bonus round immediately, letting you spin without using your stake money while hunting for winning combinations.
Royal Free Spins before the standard bonus
Buy Royal Free Spins for NZ$500 at a NZ$1 stake. This higher-tier purchase gives you entry to an enhanced bonus round, delivering a richer spins experience than the standard Free Spins option.
Which outcomes remain uncertain when you start playing?
When will the bonus arrive? Bonus rounds arrive without pattern. One session might bring the red paw scatter multiple times; another might not see it for hours. No player can predict when or how often it will land.
Your session breaks its own path. The RTP describes what happens across thousands of spins, not what one session will return to you. You might win well above it or below it—the result of your playing is always unpredictable.
Maximum win as a rare edge. The maximum win shown is a theoretical ceiling reached by almost no players. It sits at the far edge of possibility, not something you can count on or aim for.
Other games in The Dog House series carry different RTPs and maximum wins
The five Dog House games range from 96.50% to 96.53% RTP, with maximum wins between 7,500x and 25,000x your stake.
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The Dog House – Royal Hunt
Before you play The Dog House – Royal Hunt
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Play only with money you can afford to lose
What can you afford? Decide what you can spend before you start playing. This slot has high volatility, so wins come less often and can be much bigger. Set a budget you are comfortable losing completely.
Before and after winning. Plan when you will stop playing, regardless of whether you are ahead or behind. Winning streaks and near-misses can pull you into longer sessions than you intended. Stick to your stop point.
The Dog House – Royal Hunt with limits. Use Slotum Casino's deposit limits and loss limits to protect yourself. These tools automatically prevent you from spending more than you have set in advance. Activate them on your account.
Pause or self-exclude today. Take a break or self-exclude when playing stops being entertainment. If you notice yourself chasing losses, playing longer than planned, or spending more than you meant to, stop and reach out.