The Dog House Multihold (Pragmatic Play) RTP review: 96.06% (configurable)
One bonus, four boards
Multihold (2023) is the Dog House at its most maximalist. The base game is a recognisable 5×3 with the family's multiplier wilds, but the free spins detonate the format: your bonus can run across up to four synchronized grids at once — 80 ways of combined action — and the headline rule is cloning. When a sticky wild lands on one grid, it replicates to the same position on every active grid, multiplier and all. A single lucky wild is suddenly four wilds; a stacked board is four stacked boards. That replication engine is what powers the 9,000x cap, and watching a clone wave sweep across the quad-screen is the franchise's best spectacle moment, full stop.
The maths under the fireworks
The certification is where enthusiasm meets fine print. The spin build defaults to 96.06% — noticeably under the original's 96.51% and the Megaways edition's 96.55% — with a 94.06% floor build certified. Meanwhile the 100x feature buy runs at 96.08%, marginally above the spin build, a rare inversion where buying is (trivially) the better-priced route into the feature where it's legal; UK licenses drop the buy entirely. All figures live in the info screen; with three numbers in play, this family entry most rewards actually reading it.
Session character
Rated 5/5, and the shape is distinctive: base-game 5×3 play is a patient placeholder, and nearly all of the game's identity is compressed into how the cloning dice fall across your grids. Bonuses divide sharply into rounds where early stickies replicate into a lattice — these produce the four-figure results — and rounds where wilds arrive late and the clones multiply nothing. The variance between those two is the widest in the kennel. Stakes 0.20–100.
Family position
Multihold is the franchise's spectacle wing: bigger drama than the original, lower headline than either sibling, and a cap (9,000x) that splits the difference. Play it when the clone mechanic itself is the draw; the spreadsheet argues for Megaways otherwise.
Obedience report
Best in show
- Wild-cloning across four grids — the family's most dramatic feature
- Buy build (96.08%) slightly beats the spin build, where available
- 9,000x cap with clone-lattice potential
Needs training
- 96.06% spin default is the kennel's weakest headline
- Extreme bonus-to-bonus variance by design
- 94.06% floor build circulates
Points of comparison
Adjacent titles, provider defaults quoted.
| Slot | Provider | RTP | Volatility | Max win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dog House Multihold (this slot) | Pragmatic Play | 96.06% | High | 9,000x |
| Sweet Bonanza | Pragmatic Play | 96.51% | Med-High | 21,100x |
| Gates of Olympus | Pragmatic Play | 96.50% | High | 5,000x |
| Big Bass Bonanza | Pragmatic Play | 96.71% | High | 2,100x |
| Sugar Rush | Pragmatic Play | 96.50% | High | 5,000x |
Multihold ruling
Skip if: you're comparing RTP inside the family — both siblings out-pay the spin build
Multihold is a great show attached to the family's thinnest maths. The cloning mechanic is legitimately inventive — no other kennel entry produces its synchronized-grid crescendos — but the 96.06% spin default gives up half a point to the Megaways edition, and only the quirky 96.08% buy build claws any back. Treat it as the Dog House you visit for the spectacle, verify which of its three figures apply to how you play, and keep Megaways as the rational daily driver.