Hot Diggity Dog Fortune Map Slot Review
On September 12, 1940, four teenagers followed a dog 🐕 named Robot down a shaft on a hill above Montignac, in southwest France. At the bottom sat Lascaux: hundreds of painted bulls, horses and stags - some 17,000 years old.
The boys camped at the entrance and charged people to look. So their business model was essentially a chance discovery of art created by ancient humans, followed by squatting on the territory. That’s passive income for you! 💰
Hot Diggity Dog Fortune Map slot from Yggdrasil gives the dogs their job back. A kid's treasure map 🗺 lies rolled up beside the reels, and the Fortune Map is a board that remembers what you already dug up. Don’t worry; I’ll explain.
Gameplay
Right. I think my OCD, or whichever one of my many, many issues I have, is being triggered by how busy and convoluted this game's design is. It's well rendered, for sure, but there’s a lot going on.
The 6x4 grid has 20 paylines, the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. is 94%, volatility is medium/high, and the max multiplier is 4,245x. The max win is $297,150, with bets from $0.10 to $70. Fiat currencies only.
Down at the bottom, the A, K, Q and J symbols all pay an identical 1x for 6 of a kind, thinning to 0.1x for 3, because a dog doesn’t care about money anyway.
The middle of the board runs Tan Dog at 2x, Terrier With Bone at 3x, Sheepdog at 4x, Brown Hound at 6x and Doberman at 8x, all for 6 of a kind.
Hot Diggity Dog sits above them, at 10x, and apart from the Wild, it’s the only symbol that still pays something for a pair, at 0.5x.
The Wild tops the whole paytable in its own right by offering up 20x for 6, then 10x, 5x, 1.5x and 0.5x for 5, 4, 3 and 2. It substitutes for everything except the Flaming Paw and Bonus symbols.
Above the reels sit 4 fixed Pot Prizes (known as Jackpots to you and me): Mega at 500x, Major at 100x, Minor at 25x and Mini at 10x. There are 3 ways to claim one: a Fortune Map pick, the Hot Dog Mystery Bonus, or the Bonus Wheel in Free Spins.
Features
FORTUNE MAP:
Land 2 Bonus symbols anywhere in view and you get 1 pick on the Fortune Map, a 6x5 board of 30 squares.
Every map hides exactly 1 Free Spins square and 3 Sticky Wilds, guaranteed. The rest hold cash at 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 8x or 10x, any 1 of the 4 Pot Prizes, or a blank, and you arrive with 5 squares already flipped over as a head start.
A Sticky Wild you uncover doesn't pay you anything, though. It banks into a meter, and that meter is only ever paid out if the Free Spins square comes off the map.
A round triggered by 3 Bonus symbols on the reels collects nothing from it.
The board and the banked Wilds hold over between picks, and only reset when the Free Spins square gets uncovered. A reel-triggered round leaves it alone.
Every bet level and game mode keeps its own separate map, though, so nudging your bet parks the board you've been working and puts you on that bet's own separate board.
FREE SPINS:
Landing 3 or more Bonus symbols anywhere in view awards 10 Free Spins, and the count that triggered the round sets how many Sticky Wilds are waiting when the reels start: 3 gives you 0 Sticky Wilds, 4 gives 1, 5 gives 2, and 6 gives 3.
Bonus symbols that land during the round fill a 15-stage trail, or meter, above the grid, and every 3 steps filled spins the Bonus Wheel.
Wheel awards land before that spin's line wins are worked out, so a Wild dropping in can create the win it then gets paid on.
The trail caps at 5 wheel spins, and the round caps at 40 Free Spins in total - the 10 you started with plus a maximum of 6 extra per wheel spin, 5 times.
Sticky Wilds
There are 3 tiers, and all of them lock in place for the rest of the round once they land: Sticky Wild with no multiplier, Sticky Super Wild at 2x, and Sticky Mega Wild at 5x.
The multiplier applies to any line win the Wild is part of, and where 2 or more of them sit on the same line win, their multipliers get added rather than multiplied.
A Super and a Mega on one line is 7x, not 10x. A Sticky Wild never gets dropped on top of another Sticky Wild.
Bonus Wheel
Every 3 steps filled on the 15-stage trail spins it, and it has 2 discs that turn together.
The inner disc hands back extra Free Spins: +3 on 70% of spins, +4 on 15%, +5 on 10% and +6 on 5%.
The outer disc hands back Wilds or a pot: 1 Sticky Wild at 48%, 2 Sticky Wilds at 13%, 1 Sticky Super Wild at 13%, 1 Sticky Mega Wild at 8%, or a Pot Prize at 18%.
Land on Pot Prize and a third disc spins to pick which one, with Mini at 50%, Minor at 40%, Major at 9.5% and Mega at 0.5%.
Run the numbers on that inner disc and the 40-spin cap stops looking like a destination. +3 shows up 70% of the time, and 5 of those in a row gets you to 25 spins, not 40.
HOT DOG MYSTERY BONUS:
A Flaming Paw on reel 6 in the base game only, together with 1 or more full stacks of Hot Diggity Dog on reels 1 to 5, sets the feature off.
Every full Hot Diggity Dog stack converts into a mystery reel, and each mystery reel pays either cash at 5x, 6x, 8x, 10x, 12x or 15x, or 1 of the 4 Pot Prizes.
On a random base-game spin, where the Flaming Paw has landed on reel 6 and you're sitting on 1 or more partial Hot Diggity Dog stacks, the symbols underneath can crumble away so full stacks drop in and fire the feature anyway.
BUY BONUS AND ANTE BET:
Pay 100x for 10 Free Spins, with 3 or more Bonus symbols guaranteed to arrive.
But read that guarantee again, because "3 or more" is not a number. Landing 3 Bonus symbols starts you with 0 Sticky Wilds and 6 starts you with 3, and the rules never say where a bought trigger lands.
The Ante BetAn Ante Bet is an option that costs a percentage of your bet but increases your chances of landing triggering symbols that initiate a feature., which the game brands the Golden Bet, costs an extra 0.5x on top of your bet per spin and doubles how often Free Spins trigger.
Performance
Hot Diggity Dog Fortune Map slot fetched the bone, rolled over, and whatever other dog-related phrases (I’ve run dry after two) you can think of without any issues.
Maximum Win
The top bet of $70 against the max multiplier of 4,245x delivers the max win of $297,150. The smallest bet you can place is $0.10.
Conclusion
The slot's money is the Sticky Wilds inside Free Spins. That round is the only place win multipliers exist at all - they lock down for the duration once they land, and 2 of them on 1 line win fold their multipliers into a single number.
The Pot Prizes stop at Mega and the Hot Dog Mystery Bonus pays 15x per stack in cash at best, so neither of those is doing the real lifting.
At 94% the RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate. makes for shorter sessions. Volatility is Medium/High, so we’ll benchmark it against the high half. High variance normally buys you 5,000x and up so this time the ratio is not in our favor.
Working the Fortune Map down is the only way those banked Sticky Wilds ever get paid out - the same 10 spins are worth more when the map hands them over than when the reels do, so I wouldn’t worry about the buy options.
Slot Details
Game Provider: Yggdrasil
Game Type: Video Slots
PaylinesPaylines are preset lines that run across the reels, and when you land matching symbols on them, that will result in a payout. The more paylines, the more ways you can win, but also the higher your bet per spin.: 20
RTPRTP stands for “Return to Player.” The RTP describes the total bet amount that a game returns to players over millions of spins, and that figure is represented by a percentage. Table games, such as Roulette, typically have higher RTPs than many slots.
RTP needs to be considered in conjunction with a game’s volatility rate.: 94%
Volatility RateSlot games can have low, medium, high, or extremely high volatility rates (or a combination thereof).
The less volatile the game, the more often it should pay out, but the lower the amount, the less the payout, as this is in keeping with the risk you’re taking. Volatility rate should be considered in conjunction with a game’s RTP.: Medium/High
Bonus Round: Yes
Progressive: No
Free Rounds: Free Spins
Max Multiplier: 4,245x
Max Win: $297,150
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