Wonder Hounds Slot

The 'Wonder Hounds' is a 5 Reel, NextGen Gaming video slot upon 25 Paylines. The grid is in front of the forest glade, while on the reels you'll meet adorable puppies, with their 'Wonderhounds Gone Wild' feature, in which any of the 3 Puppies can be turned into Wild!

The 'Golden Paw' is the Scatter that triggers up to 15 Free Spins. Afterwards 1 to 15 Wilds will be added to the Reels and will become Sticky Wilds, until the end of the Free spins mode. Unfortunately, it is not possible to retrigger the mode, which is the only Mishap in my opinion.

Hounds and dogs, are hardly ever lucky for me, where their games are concerned. Cats and kittens seem to bring me better luck than dogs most of the time, so my preference and likes are more inclined towards cats and kittens games. Nonetheless, that wouldn't stop me from trying out any new dogs games, so I gave this Wonder Hounds a few short plays. Why? Because my intention was not to win on the game, but if it comes, that would be a very nice bonus for me. Nah, it never came! Hehehe.

Both the Wild and the Scatter symbols in Wonder Hounds have win values, so that's an attracting point for me. However, getting 5 Wilds would only pay 400x the line bet, whilst 5 Scatters would only pay 100x the total bet. The win value for the Wild symbol is disappointingly very low, almost extremely low, which is actually only 16x the total bet, which I find a little ridiculous! The Scatters at 100x total bet is not good but acceptable enough. As for the other regular symbols in the game, they pay from a very low 350x down to 50x the line bet for getting any 5 of them, or 14x to 2x the total bet amount. A disappointing paytable!

Only the Free Spins game could create some excitement in this Wonder Hounds game. Getting 3, 4 or 5 Scatters would award 8, 12 or 15 free spins, but are without any win multiplier at all. Instead, before the start of the first free spin, 1 up to 15 random Sticky Wild symbols would be placed onto the reels, and new appearing Wild symbols would also stick into their positions for the remainder of the free spins. Yes, it says up to 15 Sticky Wild symbols, but I could only get 1, 2 or 3 Sticky Wilds for my free spins so far! To get all those 15 Sticky Wilds on the reels, I'd probably need to go to the moon and back first! Nope, the Free Spins game cannot be retriggered either, even if I could make it to the moon and back! Hahaha.

On top of that, 1 or more Wonder Hounds symbol may turn into Wild symbols when randomly activated, and this feature can happen both in the base game and during free spins play. However, don't expect to get any good wins from this feature, because they hardly do much good at all, except to provide for some small unexpected boosts to the balance.

Well, all I can say at this moment it time, after playing a few rounds on Wonder Hounds, is that the payouts are still generally very low, the free spins are disappointing, with only 8 free spins to start off with, and are without any win multiplier too. To get a good win, you need to get several Sticky Wilds right from the first spin itself, plus more Sticky Wilds during the remaining free spins, but this is all easily said that gotten, hehehe.

Wonder Hounds is a NexGen Gaming powered slot with 5 reels and 25 pay-lines. With a minimum bet of $0.25 and playable on all devices, this slot has everything you would want. I think this is one of the best releases from NexGen latest slots does not have potential for big wins. This game has a free spins feature where you benefit from up to 15 free spins and up to 15 sticky wilds as well as 1 wonder hound can turn wild per reel at random. This is my dead or alive alternative slot, simply because the wild lines are easy to get, however it does not pay that great as DOA.

The slot has a nice cartoon style graphics with the normal card deck symbols and the higher paying ones relating to the dogs and some other symbols like food bucket and bones. This slot is all about the features, as the spins can be dead empty during the base game and pay-outs poor as well.

The slot has 2 features of which the first one is the wonder hounds wild feature. Randomly triggered where a wonder hound can turn wild per reel. This is where you can create some wins, mostly smaller wins occur, here and there you would find a big win occasionally.

The free spins feature when 3 or more scatters lands anywhere on the reels. You can get 8, 12 and 15 free spins for 3, 4 or 5 scatters respectively as well as a price for the scatter pay-outs. During free spins all wild symbols and wonder hound that turn wild are sticky for the remainder of the free spins. The interesting part of this slot is the free spins awards between 1 – 15 sticky wilds before free spins start, giving you a boost to win quickly and easily.

I normally get 1 – 3 wilds, but the other day I started off with a wild line, which resulted in a x500 win, as it was 8 free spins and no multiplier sadly. I love this slot, but be careful, as the feature can take as much as 400 free spins to trigger from my experience.