The Chicken House Slot Review
The reels sit inside a wooden chicken coop, ivy trailing down the posts, a windmill turning on the far horizon and a cottage tucked among the trees behind it. The Chicken House hides its sharpest maths behind that storybook front: almost nothing on the paytable matters except the wilds, because every symbol below the top two birds pays so little that the base game is a waiting room for the feature.
That’s a bolder structure than the sunny art suggests, and it comes from CQ9 Gaming. The 5×4 grid with 20 fixed paylines is standard enough, but the golden egg wild multiplies rather than merely substitutes, and during free games it sticks. Sister titles like Fa Cai Shen 2, Golden Horus and Mahjong Rich Ways show the studio’s range.
Base Game & Features
The reels run five across and four deep, with wins counted over 20 fixed paylines and only the highest combination on each line paid. It’s a traditional line setup, nothing exotic, and it keeps the maths easy to follow at a glance.
The golden egg Wild lands on reels two, three and four only, standing in for every symbol except the barn Scatter. A wild sitting on a winning payline picks up a random 2x or 3x boost, and where two or more wilds help make the line, their multipliers are added together rather than multiplied.
That adding rule is worth pausing on. Two wilds on a line with 3x and 2x multipliers give the win a 5x lift, and because the wilds sit on the middle three reels, the mechanic regularly touches the game’s most valuable real estate. The symbol cast splits three ways: the farmyard birds up top, the worm and corn as mid-tier feed, and a royals run of A, K, Q, J and 10 at the bottom.
The barn Scatter is the other symbol doing its own job. It doesn’t need to sit on a payline at all, counting anywhere on the reels, and its only work is opening the free games. That division of labour is clean: wilds handle the wins, the barn handles the door.
Values are multiples of the line stake:
- Black Rooster – 3 pays 2x, 4 pays 6x, 5 pays 40x
- White Hen – 3 pays 1.5x, 4 pays 4x, 5 pays 20x
- Orange Hen – 3 pays 1x, 4 pays 2.5x, 5 pays 15x
- Chick – 3 pays 0.75x, 4 pays 2x, 5 pays 10x
- Worm – 3 pays 0.5x, 4 pays 1.25x, 5 pays 6x
- Corn – 3 pays 0.4x, 4 pays 1x, 5 pays 4x
- A, K – 3 pays 0.25x, 4 pays 0.5x, 5 pays 2x
- Q, J, 10 – 3 pays 0.1x, 4 pays 0.25x, 5 pays 1x
That’s a steep ladder. The rooster at 40x is eight times the white hen’s top prize, and the royals barely register at a single multiple for five of a kind. Line hits below the top two birds are small change, which puts real weight on the wilds and the feature.
The gaps between rungs matter as much as the rungs. From the rooster down to the chick, each tier drops by roughly half at five of a kind, and then the worm and corn step down again into fractions of the stake. Three-of-a-kind wins below the hens pay less than the line cost, so short lines of low symbols are really just spin filler.
One thing to know before you set expectations: there’s no stated maximum win for this one. The paytable and the feature multipliers are as far as the arithmetic goes.
The Chicken House Free Games & Bonus Features
The barn Scatter opens the free games. Three, four or five of them anywhere on the reels award 12, 16 or 20 free spins respectively, and the round runs at the stake of the spin that set it off. There’s no retrigger inside the feature, so the wilds you collect are the wilds you keep.
Sticky Wilds in Free Games
Inside the feature, the free games upgrade the base game’s best idea. Every wild that lands sticks to its reel for the rest of the round, so a full feature can finish with the middle reels painted gold.
The multipliers climb too. A wild on a payline during free games is multiplied by a random 2x, 3x or 5x, up from the base game’s 2x or 3x, and multiple wilds on a line still add their multipliers together.
That combination is where the round’s whole shape comes from. Each new wild that lands makes every wild already stuck there more dangerous, because the added multipliers apply to lines they jointly complete. A feature that starts quietly can finish loudly; one that never sees a wild lands back on the paytable’s thin lower rungs.
Buy Feature
The Buy Feature icon sits in the bottom-left corner of the base game frame, and it opens a purchase window with two options:
- Option 1 – choose the number of Scatters you’re buying: 3 awards 5 free spins, 4 awards 10, 5 awards 15. Before the feature starts, between one and six wilds are randomly placed and stuck on reels two, three, four or five.
- Option 2 – buy the standard trigger: 3 Scatters awards 12 free spins, 4 awards 16, 5 awards 20, with wilds paying 2x, 3x or 5x on the payline.
The cost relates to your total play amount and is shown in the purchasing window before you confirm, and the feature runs at the same stake as the game that bought it.
Both options play out as a free games round rather than a different mode. Option 1’s bought Scatters still decide the spin count, the pre-placed wilds are stuck from the first spin, and any further wilds that land join them and stick too.
The two options suit different plans. Option 1 trades spin count for guaranteed sticky wilds from the very first spin, and its wilds can land further right than the base game allows, out to reel five. Option 2 is the natural round: more spins, no pre-placed help, and every wild earned the hard way.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7/10
The Chicken House plays like two different slots sharing one coop. Most of the time you’re grinding a paytable where nearly every symbol pays pocket money; then the feature arrives and the game you actually came for shows up. The barnyard art is what lifts it above a dozen similar line slots.
The free games are the strength, and it’s not close. A round that gathers wilds early gets better the longer it runs, which is more than most mid-tier features manage. The weakness sits in the base game: the ladder below the rooster is so flat that long stretches pay almost nothing, and a feature that starts wild-less never rescues itself.
This suits players who enjoy a slow build and don’t mind a thin base game to get it. Anyone who wants steady small wins from every spin will find the lower rungs of this coop a hungry place.
The Chicken House FAQs
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How many paylines does The Chicken House have?
The Chicken House has 20 fixed paylines, with only the highest winning combination on each line paid. -
What is the grid size of The Chicken House?
The game runs on a 5×4 grid: five reels across and four rows deep. -
Who makes The Chicken House?
The Chicken House is made by CQ9 Gaming. -
Can you buy the bonus on The Chicken House?
Yes. The Buy Feature icon sits in the bottom-left of the base game frame. It offers two options: one buys a shorter round with 1 to 6 wilds pre-placed and stuck on the reels, the other buys the standard 12, 16 or 20 spin trigger. -
How do you trigger free spins in The Chicken House?
Barn Scatter symbols trigger the feature. Three, four or five of them anywhere on the reels pay out 12, 16 or 20 free spins, played at the stake of the spin that started the round. -
What does the wild do in The Chicken House?
The golden egg wild only shows up on the middle three reels and fills in for any symbol apart from the Scatter. Line wins through a wild get a random 2x or 3x boost, and if two or more wilds complete a line together their multipliers are combined. -
Are wilds sticky during The Chicken House free games?
Yes. During free games every wild that lands sticks on its reel until the round finishes, and payline wilds are multiplied by a random 2x, 3x or 5x instead of the base game’s 2x or 3x. -
Can free spins be retriggered in The Chicken House?
No. Free spins cannot be retriggered, so the wilds you collect during the round are what you play with until it ends.
