5 Doggy Dollars

5 Doggy Dollars: Slot Overview

Hey there, dog people, here's a game for ya. 5 Doggy Dollars is a cheerfully presented canine-populated online slot from numerical namers 4ThePlayer, packed to the dog house rafters with features like Money Ways, Cash Bone prizes, Big Prize Bones, a Frisbee feature, Pick-A-Win, and a collection of bonus buys. In other words, there's enough here to keep the most hyper Jack Russel and its owner busy.

And what a jolly spot 4ThePlayer has crafted to keep busy in too. It's impossible not to make comparisons between 5 Doggy Dollars and the Pragmatic Play classic The Dog House, and there are similarities. These include things like some of the doggie expressions felt familiar, a bright outdoor setting, and an overall laidback, carefree vibe, as if dogs never turd on the carpet, slobber everywhere, or nibble your hands when they don't want to go for a walk. But, it's easy to look past a dog's foibles (usually, for the most part) because they're just so darn lovably loyal. This brighter side of canine personality has been bottled up for 5 Doggy Dollars making it a dog lover's paradise in which to try their luck.

With a trio of features to buy from the buy feature option, the first thing to do, no matter how you play 5 Doggy Dollars, is to pick a stake of 10 p/c to $/€140. The RTP remains the same at 96%, whether using the buy feature or not, and the game is in possession of a highly volatile math model. It is played on a 5-reel, 4-row gaming panel built into what looks like a dog house and offers 1,024 ways to win.

Hitting a winning combination made up of 5 low pay 10 to A card symbols awards 1 to 1.5 times the bet, while a 5-symbol win consisting of one of the 5 different dog premium types pays 2 to 4 times the bet. A slobber-covered tennis ball is 5 Doggy Dollars' wild which substitutes for all symbols except for scatters.

5 Doggy Dollars: Slot Features

The extras in 5 Doggy Dollars are Money Ways, Collect scatters, Big Prize Bones, Respin Bonus, Frisbee feature, Pick-A-Win, and the bonus buys.

Money Ways

Cash Bones can land overlaid on any wild or dog symbol, awarding their values when they are included in a winning combination. The potential value of Cash Bone prizes ranges from 0.6x to 45x.

Collect Scatter

When Collect scatters land at the same time as Cash Bones, the value of Cash Bones is collected and awarded.

Big Prize Bones

Big Prize Bones are Cash Bones with greater values and appear in the Respin Bonus or the Pick-A-Win. These bones are the Big, Super, Mega, and Ultra, worth 50x, 200x, 1,000x or 5,000x the bet, respectively. They do not appear on wilds.

Respin Bonus

Landing 3 or more respin scatter symbols triggers the Respin Bonus. It begins with 3 respins, where landed symbols with Cash Bone overlays are locked in place. New symbols with Cash Bones award their corresponding Cash Bone prize and reset the spin count. During this feature, locked symbols trigger a payout whenever they form a regular way win - with other locked pay symbols or non-locked pay symbols. It is possible to also land Collect symbols on any reel, which copies and collects all Cash Bones in view. Collect symbols also lock but do not reset the spin count.

Frisbee Feature

The Frisbee feature can randomly activate on any spin. When it does, in the main game, symbols are shuffled around to create or improve a win. When triggered in the Respin Bonus, it collects and unlocks full reels of Cash Bones and multiplies their values by x2.

Pick-A-Win

Getting 3, 4, or 5 Pick-A-Win scatters on the reels awards the Pick-A-Win feature with 3, 4, or 5 respective picks. A bunch of objects are displayed on the screen, and players make their pick. Picked items reveal a prize of 5-5,000x the bet.

Buy Feature

The Buy feature lets players buy the Respin Bonus for 75x the bet, the Pick-A-Win for 160x the bet, or the Super Collect for 30x the bet. The Super Collect is a single spin with guaranteed Cash Bones and Collect symbol.

5 Doggy Dollars: Slot Verdict

You know, there are a lot of dog people on this planet, which may account for the popularity of dog-themed online slots. A 2018 estimate from Statista put the figure at around 470 million pet dogs worldwide compared to around 370 million pet cats. It can't be easy to estimate a precise figure. Wwhatever the 100% accurate number might be, dogs have clearly pawed their way into our hearts, and 5 Doggy Dollars gives players a chance to gamble alongside them.

While it might help players' enjoyment levels if they are into dogs, it's not a must, as there is a number of purely gaming aspects to sample. Like 4 Fantastic Fish, it is possible to collect Cash Bone prizes when they land in winning combinations, so they're not totally at the whim of landing a Collect symbol, as is usually the case. This idea spills over into the respins feature (kind of), where locked symbols are able to make repeat ways wins on successive respins with a mixture of locked and unlocked pay symbols. That leaves the Pick-A-Win, which, unlike the other main features, is a straight pick an object to reveal some cash action, which 4ThePlayer has refrained from tinkering much with. One thing, on an observational level, while 5 Doggy Dollars has a max win of 5,000x the bet, Cash Bone prizes can be fairly modest, a lot of the time, though fair dues, the Big Prize Bones add desirability.

4ThePlayer might have gotten inspiration from The Dog House, or it might not, but one thing the studio consistently does is cook up original gameplay when designing new slots. Sure, taken on their own, components like a pick 'n click, streak respins, or money symbol awards are nothing new, but 4ThePlayer has made a few alterations here and there to make most of what 5 Doggy Dollars does feel relatively fresh, and pulling so many different gaming devices together into one place helps emphasise this impression.