Golden Retriever: Pragmatic Play's Good Boy Works Two Jobs
The Free Spins: Wilds That Fetch
The free spins lean into the theme with a straight face. Wilds collect every dog-bowl symbol on the board, and those bowls carry values up to 100x. The retriever retrieves — that's the mechanic. It compounds too: every fourth wild retriggers the feature with 10 more spins, first at a 2x multiplier, then 5x, then 10x on the third retrigger. A long free-spins chain in this game is a genuinely different animal from its first ten spins.
The Hold & Spin: Three Respins, Climbing Multipliers
The other fork is a classic respin board. Three respins to start. Coin symbols up to 10x reset the counter as they land. Retriggers push the multipliers as high as 25x. Pragmatic publishes the RTP at 96.52%, on the generous side of the market. Volatility is high, and the maximum win is capped at 5,000x the bet.
Meet the Dog Properly
The demo here runs free in your browser, and it's worth a proper session. The fork between the two bonuses only shows its character over a few triggers. Dog people can find the rest of the pack in our animal slots collection. The Pragmatic Play library is one of the deepest anywhere, and new slots of 2026 has the season's arrivals.
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Golden Retriever paytable and rules
Recorded from Golden Retriever's own information screens while the game ran in demo mode at a licensed casino, 7 September 2026. Symbol values appear exactly as the game prints them, which below means cash amounts at a $2.00 spin. A casino can run a different build of a slot, so check the game's own info screen where you play.
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| dog bed | $400.00 | $40.00 | $10.00 | $0.80 |
| YUM YUM dog food bag | $200.00 | $30.00 | $6.00 | — |
| football | $100.00 | $20.00 | $4.00 | — |
| rope tug toy | $100.00 | $20.00 | $4.00 | — |
| A | $40.00 | $8.00 | $2.00 | — |
| K | $40.00 | $8.00 | $2.00 | — |
| Q | $20.00 | $4.00 | $0.80 | — |
| J | $20.00 | $4.00 | $0.80 | — |
| 10 | $20.00 | $4.00 | $0.80 | — |
| dog food bowlMoney | $40.00 | $10.00 | $2.00 | — |
| WILDWild | — | — | — | — |
| SCATTERScatter | — | — | — | — |
| COINMoney | — | — | — | — |
How Golden Retriever's special symbols work
- dog food bowl
- These are the MONEY symbols. At every spin, the MONEY symbols take a random money value which can be won during the FREE SPINS feature. Possible values are: 2x, 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x, 25x, 50x, or 500x base bet.
- WILD
- This is the WILD symbol. It appears on all reels during the FREE SPINS round. Substitutes for all symbols except for SCATTER and MONEY symbol.
- SCATTER
- This is the SCATTER symbol. It appears on all reels.
- COIN
- These are the COIN symbols. At every spin, the COIN symbols take a random money value from a predefined set. Possible values are: 0.4x, 1x, 2x, 4x or 10x base bet.
Golden Retriever features
- SCATTER trigger (base game 2-scatter assist)
- Whenever 2 SCATTER symbols hit in the base game, randomly 1, 2 or 3 symbols currently on the screen can be changed into SCATTERS to trigger the feature.
- FREE SPINS
- Hit 3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols anywhere on the screen to trigger the feature. Before the round starts a random feature is awarded, out of two possible options: If the feature was triggered with 3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols, 10, 15 or 20 free spins respectively are awarded. During the FREE SPINS feature each WILD symbol also collects all the values from MONEY symbols on the screen. All the WILD symbols that hit during the feature are collected until the end of the round. Every 4th WILD symbol collected retriggers the feature, and awards 10 more free spins, With each consecutive retrigger the win multiplier increases to 2x, 5x and 10x in order. The retriggered free spins are played after the previous batch of free spins has finished. Before a retriggered batch starts playing, a different modifier is triggered for the last free spin of the current batch, as follows: For the first batch of retriggered free spins, the "WIN FETCH" modifier happens and all symbols on a random payline are changed to instances of the same random paying symbol. For the second batch of retriggered free spins, the "CAN'T LICK IT" modifier happens and a random amount of symbols on the screen are all changed into instances of a random paying symbol. For the third batch of retriggered free spins, the "CAN YOU DIG IT" modifier happens and random symbols on the screen transform into three money values each, that are then collected and paid. Possible values are 1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x or 100x base bet. After the third retrigger, the feature cannot be retriggered anymore. Randomly when there is a WILD symbol on the screen but no MONEY symbols, random MONEY symbols with random values can be added in random positions on the screen. Special reels are in play during the feature.
- HOLD & SPIN
- If the feature was triggered with 3, 4 or 5 SCATTER symbols, a general starting multiplier for the screen being filled with symbols, of x1, x3 or x10 is reserved. During the feature, the normal reels fade away and only COIN symbols and blanks spin and stop. The round starts with a random number of COINS already on the screen, with random values. The round starts with 3 respins and every time a COIN symbol stops the amount is reset to 3. All COIN symbols that stop stay on the screen until the end of the round. The round ends when there are no more respins left. When the round ends, the values of all COIN symbols on the screen are added together and paid. If the screen is filled with COINS, the values of all COIN symbols are added together and multiplied by the reserved multiplier. Then, the screen is cleared of symbols, random COINS are added into random positions on the screen and the feature starts again, now with a higher reserved multiplier from the following list: x2, x3, x5, x10 and x25. If x25 is reached it remains as is for all future restarts in this round. Special reels are in play during the feature.
- ANTE BET
- The player has the option to select the bet multiplier. Depending on the selected bet, the game behaves differently. The possible values are: Bet multiplier 10x - the chance to win the FREE SPINS round naturally is doubled. More SCATTER symbols are present on the reels. The BUY feature is disabled. Bet multiplier 5x - Normal play.
Golden Retriever rules, as the game states them
All symbols pay from left to right on adjacent reels starting from the leftmost reel.
High volatility games pay out less often on average but the chance to hit big wins in a short time span is higher.
All symbols pay from left to right on selected paylines. All wins are multiplied by bet per line.
All values are expressed as actual wins in coins.
Only the highest win is paid per winning combination on the same payline.
When winning on multiple paylines, all wins are added to the total win.
Free Spins and bonus wins are added to the payline win.
The base bet is the bet amount before feature-related increases.
FREE SPINS and HOLD & SPIN wins are awarded to the player after the round completes.
FREE SPINS and HOLD & SPIN total win in the history contains the whole win of the cycle.
SPACE and ENTER buttons on the keyboard can be used to start and stop the spin.
Malfunction voids all pays and plays.
