Hacksaw Gaming · tested 2026-10-13
Le Bandit
Smokey Le Bandit's Rainbow lit golden squares in 507 ordinary rounds of the Le Bandit demo, and the 302 free spins across 31 natural features paid out almost entirely in coins.
Test card
10,000 spins · EUR 2.00 bet · every request logged| Spins | 10,000 |
| Bet | EUR 2.00 |
| RTP declared | 96.34% |
| RTP measured | 104.41% (approximate 95% CI 71.4–137.4) |
| Hit frequency | 32% · every 3.12 |
| Dead streak max / avg | 25 / 3.18 |
| Median hit | 0.30x |
| Max win (no bonus round) | 64.1x · round 9077 |
| Free spins, natural | 31 · 3.1 bHz · every 322.6 spins · mean FS-only payout 161.6x stake |
| Balance start → end | 5,000 → 5,881 |
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HACKSAW GAMING · official demo · same math as real play
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Bonus buy lab
50 buys × 100x · EUR 200 eachmean 0.88x · median 0.4× price (EUR 79.90) · 40 of 50 below price · best 4.72x · worst 0.03x
| Spins per bonus (avg / min–max) | 8.7 / 8–12 |
| Retriggered | 26% |
| Bonuses that paid nothing | 0% |
Polaroids landing during a bonus add spins: two at once add two, three add four, and four upgrade Luck of the Bandit to All That Glitters Is Gold with four more. The count covers spins beyond the opening eight or twelve: twelve of the 31 natural features were extended that way, four of them through the upgrade, and the longest, round 807, ran sixteen spins.
- Spent
- EUR 10,00050 × EUR 200
- Returned
- EUR 8,750.4087.50% · approximate 95% CI 58–117%
- Net
- −EUR 1,249.60−6.2 buys
- Break-even or better
- 10 / 5020%
- Paid 2× price or more
- 8 / 5016%
- Price in base spins
- 100natural trigger every ~323 spins
One ticket equals 100 ordinary stakes. Natural bonuses occurred once per 323 ordinary rounds in this sample. Stakes multiplied by this interval measure gross wagering, not the net cost of obtaining a bonus. Purchase returns above include the complete purchased round and are divided by the ticket price.
Risk profile
how much bankroll this run needed| 50 bets | bust at spin 130 |
| 100 bets | bust at spin 582 |
| 200 bets | bust at spin 2694 |
One run, one bet size. A different session can bust earlier or never; treat this as a measured example, not a rule.
How it plays
11 rules screens from the game
A cluster of at least five matching symbols that touch side by side or top to bottom is what pays on the Le Bandit grid of six reels and five rows; there are no paylines. Card ranks pay 0.1x the bet for a cluster of five up to 15x for thirteen or more; the bear trap and the cheese 0.3x to 25x; the beer mug and the baguettes 0.5x to 50x; the top hat 1x to 100x. A Super Cascade then removes every symbol of the winning kind from the grid, not only the ones in the cluster, and new symbols drop into the gaps until no new win forms. The Wild Reward poster substitutes for every paying symbol.
The squares behind winning symbols turn into Golden Squares, and a Rainbow landing anywhere activates them once the wins are settled. An activated square reveals a bronze coin worth 0.2x to 4x the bet, a silver coin worth 5x to 20x, a gold coin worth 25x to 500x, or one of two specials: a Four-Leaf Clover multiplies every coin and pot on adjacent squares by x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10, and a Pot of Gold collects the values of all coins and other pots, after which the remaining squares reveal again. Everything collected is added together and paid as a multiple of the bet.
Three polaroid scatters open Luck of the Bandit with eight free spins, during which Golden Squares stay lit between spins until a Rainbow activates them. Four scatters open All That Glitters Is Gold with twelve spins and squares that stay lit for the whole bonus, and five scatters open Treasure at the End of the Rainbow, also twelve spins, with a Rainbow guaranteed on every spin and no bronze coins at all. Inside any bonus two scatters add two spins, three add four, and four scatters upgrade Luck of the Bandit to All That Glitters Is Gold with four more spins.
Hacksaw lists 96.34% for ordinary play and 10,000x the bet as the ceiling of a single round. Bet sizes start at EUR 0.10 and stop at EUR 100.00, while the BUY BONUS screen offers four prices: BonusHunt FeatureSpins at 3x (96.28%), Rainbow FeatureSpins at 50x (96.36%), Luck of the Bandit at 100x (96.30%) and All That Glitters Is Gold at 250x (96.40%).
Wild symbol
Scatter symbol
Free spins
Cascading reels
Cluster pays
Multiplier
Retrigger
Bonus buy
On narrow screens, swipe or use arrow keys to view all payouts.
Bet range EUR 0.10 – 100 per spin · payouts read from the game's paytable at bet EUR 2.00
Gallery
10 frames from the demo session
Verdict
Coins under the rainbowFive polaroids landed together once in 10,000 rounds, in round 6336, and the Treasure at the End of the Rainbow they opened paid on every one of its twelve spins: EUR 80.00 on the first, EUR 740.00 on the last, EUR 2,712.00 in all, or 1,356x the EUR 2.00 stake. Take that round away and the remaining 9,999 returned 90.86% of their stakes; the other 30 natural features averaged 121.82x their stake in free spins money, with a median of 99.8x.
Outside the features the Rainbow did the sorting. A Rainbow activated golden squares in 507 of the 9,969 rounds without a feature, and those 507 rounds paid EUR 8,699.80, 80.4% of the EUR 10,816.20 that such rounds returned, while the other 9,462 split the remaining EUR 2,116.40 between them. A Pot of Gold collected coins in 42 of those rounds for EUR 1,290.00, a Four-Leaf Clover multiplied them in 83 rounds for EUR 2,384.40, and the largest ordinary round, 9077, ran five cascades and closed at EUR 128.20 with one coin worth EUR 125.20 on the last screen.
The 31 natural features, one per 323 rounds, were coin bonuses rather than cluster bonuses: 61 coin payouts made up EUR 9,924.00 of the EUR 10,021.00 won in free spins, 99.0%, and the record spin, the sixth of round 6060, was a single coin reveal worth EUR 1,128.00, 564x the stake. Eighteen of the 29 Luck of the Bandit features ended at their opening eight spins, twelve were extended by extra polaroids and four were upgraded to All That Glitters Is Gold, and what separated them was the Four-Leaf Clover: the 18 features with at least one Clover multiplication averaged 250.34x, the 13 without averaged 38.79x. Only 135 of the 302 natural free spins paid anything, which is the price of a bonus built on coin reveals.
Fifty Luck of the Bandit tickets bought at EUR 200.00 came back with EUR 8,750.40, 87.50% of their price. Ticket 34, upgraded to All That Glitters Is Gold by four polaroids, paid EUR 943.40; ticket 14 paid EUR 6.60; the median ticket paid EUR 79.90, and 37 of the fifty never got past their opening eight spins.
- The five-polaroid Treasure at the End of the Rainbow in round 6336 paid on all twelve of its spins, EUR 2,712.00 in total, 1,356x the stake.
- Features with at least one Four-Leaf Clover multiplication, 18 of 31, averaged 250.34x their stake in free spins money.
- Rainbow rounds, 507 of the 9,969 ordinary rounds without a feature, paid EUR 8,699.80, 80.4% of the money those rounds returned.
- Coin reveals accounted for EUR 9,924.00 of the EUR 10,021.00 won inside natural free spins, 99.0%, topped by a EUR 1,128.00 single coin in round 6060.
- Nothing came from 167 of the 302 natural free spins, and five of the 31 features closed under 10x: rounds 192, 1644, 2821, 6052 and 7654.
- The thirteen features that never saw a Four-Leaf Clover averaged 38.79x against 250.34x for the eighteen that did.
- After the feature in round 3287 the next one waited until round 6052, a gap of 2,764 rounds, and the balance sank to EUR 4,364.00 just before it.
- Ordinary rounds without a Rainbow, 9,462 of 9,969, shared EUR 2,116.40 between them, with the best of them worth EUR 30.00 in round 136.
- The median Luck of the Bandit ticket returned EUR 79.90 against its EUR 200.00 price.
Test record
10,000 rounds · 50 buys · open data · closed rigOne test run so far: a single session of the base game plus a separate series of bonus purchases on the official demo server, every request and response logged. When the game is tested again, the new run is added here and the figures on this page combine all runs into one sample.
- 10,000rounds logged
- 32%rounds that paid
- 1,356xbiggest round
- 1 / 323natural bonus rate
- 0.88xmean of 50 buys
- 25longest dry streak
10,000 ordinary rounds, including naturally triggered features, at a fixed EUR 2 bet; 50 bonus buys at EUR 200 each (100x); recorded on the official Hacksaw Gaming demo server (jurisdiction curacao, RTP profile 96.34%); every request and response logged; test run 2026-10-13.
The test rig plays the official demo build over the network and records every server round: bet, win, intermediate steps (cascades, respins), free spins, collect. Screenshots and video were captured in a separate browser session and are not part of the statistical samples. The text was read against the log by an editor before publication. How we test →
FAQ
7 questions · answered from the logAt which pace did Le Bandit's three polaroids land across the 10,000 demo rounds?
Thirty-one features in 10,000 rounds, once per 323 rounds on average, which the lab counts as 3.1 bHz, natural features per thousand rounds. Twenty-nine of them were the three-scatter Luck of the Bandit, one was the four-scatter All That Glitters Is Gold in round 7119 and one the five-scatter Treasure at the End of the Rainbow in round 6336. The longest wait ran 2,764 rounds, from round 3287 to round 6052.
The Rainbow in Le Bandit: what happens when it lands?
It activates the Golden Squares left behind by winning clusters, and each activated square reveals a coin worth 0.2x to 500x the bet, a Four-Leaf Clover that multiplies adjacent coins by x2 to x10, or a Pot of Gold that collects everything on the grid. In the demo a Rainbow landed in 507 of the 9,969 rounds that had no feature, and those rounds paid EUR 8,699.80, 80.4% of all the money that ordinary rounds returned.
Is the five-scatter Treasure at the End of the Rainbow worth waiting for?
Yes. The one that arrived in round 6336 paid on each of its twelve spins, from EUR 50.00 to EUR 740.00, and finished at EUR 2,712.00, 1,356x the stake, because a Rainbow is guaranteed on every spin of that bonus and bronze coins are removed from the reveals. It arrived once in 10,000 rounds.
Was it one round that pushed the demo past its listed RTP?
Yes. Round 6336 alone paid 1,356x, and the series of 10,000 rounds at EUR 2.00 returned 104.41% against the 96.34% in the rules; its approximate 95% CI runs from 71.43% to 137.39%, an interval that describes the uncertainty of this sample's mean, not what the next session will pay. The twenty-nine Luck of the Bandit features averaged 124.45x with a median of 105.20x.
Would paying 100x for Luck of the Bandit have paid off in the demo?
No. EUR 8,750.40 came back from fifty tickets bought at EUR 200.00, 87.50% of their price; the median ticket came to EUR 79.90, and ten of the fifty reached the price or more. Three were upgraded to All That Glitters Is Gold by four polaroids, and the best of them, ticket 34, paid EUR 943.40 from twelve spins; ticket 14 paid EUR 6.60.
Do the Four-Leaf Clover multipliers add up or multiply?
Each Clover multiplies the coins and pots on the squares next to it by x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10, and a coin next to two Clovers is multiplied twice. The demo logged 47 Clover hits in 18 of the 31 natural features, x2 and x3 eighteen times each, x4 nine times, x5 once and x10 once, in round 3080, whose free spins paid EUR 674.80.
Does the Super Cascade clear more than the winning cluster?
Yes. Every symbol of the winning kind leaves the grid, not only the ones that formed the cluster, and new symbols drop in until nothing new pays. In the demo 3,189 of the 10,000 rounds went past their first screen, and those rounds paid 76.1% of the ordinary-series money; the longest chains ran six screens, in rounds 206, 750, 1347, 2863 and 3916.
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