Le Bandit is Hacksaw Gaming’s 2023 cluster slot that started its Le series, starring Smokey Le Bandit, a raccoon with a crowbar. Clusters of five or more pay on a 6×5 grid, and every spot they clear becomes a Golden Square; when a Rainbow lands, the squares reveal coins worth up to 500x, clovers and Pots of Gold. It returns 96.34% with a 10,000x cap. The free demo below is a similar pokie.
Le Bandit runs on six reels and five rows with no paylines: five or more matching symbols touching horizontally or vertically win anywhere on the grid. The bet range is 10 cents to $100. The Le Bandit RTP is 96.34% by default, and Hacksaw also lists 94.23%, 92.17% and 88.36% versions, which databases describe as settings the casino chooses. Volatility is medium, 3 on Hacksaw’s five-point scale. Three databases put the hit frequency at 32.47%, about one spin in three, but no source publishes how often the free spins come. The maximum win is 10,000 times the bet, $1,000,000 at the $100 stake; one database puts the odds at 1 in 14 million spins, another says none are published.
Le Bandit Pokies Characteristics
Hacksaw calls its tumble Super Cascades: winning symbols are removed, new ones drop in, and this repeats while new clusters form. The wanted poster is the wild and substitutes for every paying symbol. The Polaroid camera marked FS is the scatter that starts the free spins.
The twist is what a win leaves behind: each position in a winning cluster becomes a Golden Square once its symbol has gone, and a Rainbow cashes those squares in after the cluster wins are paid. In the base game that only happens if a Rainbow is on the grid during the same spin. No source mentions a gamble feature, and there is no jackpot.
Pays are multiples of the total bet for a cluster of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to 10, 11 to 12 and 13 or more symbols.
No scatter or wild pay is documented. The full table comes from one review site, and its five-symbol and 13-plus values match three databases. Pays jump at nine symbols, and 13 or more top hats pay 100x the bet, 1% of the cap.
When a Rainbow is on the grid, every Golden Square reveals a coin, a clover or a pot. Bronze coins are worth 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x the bet, silver 5x, 10x, 15x or 20x, and gold 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x or 500x. Four-leaf clovers multiply the coins and pots on neighbouring squares by 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x or 10x.
Clovers act first. Then the Pots of Gold activate one at a time, top to bottom and left to right, each collecting the coins and other pots in view, so a later pot can scoop up an earlier one. After the last pot the squares activate again, and the cycle repeats until no new pot appears; then every coin and pot value is paid. A 500x gold coin beside a 10x clover is already worth 5,000x, half the cap.
Three FS scatters in the base game start Luck of the Bandit: eight free spins in which Golden Squares stay highlighted between spins until a Rainbow activates them. Four scatters start All That Glitters Is Gold: 12 free spins in which every Golden Square stays highlighted to the end, so the board keeps growing. Four during Luck of the Bandit upgrade it to All That Glitters Is Gold with the remaining spins plus four.
In both rounds two scatters add two spins; three add four according to launch coverage and most reviews, but three on Hacksaw’s game page, so check the in-game rules. Five scatters in the base game start Treasure at the End of the Rainbow: 12 free spins (eight in one review) with highlighted squares kept lit, a Rainbow on every spin and no bronze coins. Hacksaw says only the base game triggers it, though one review says five scatters inside All That Glitters Is Gold also lead there.
Where offered, the Buy Bonus menu has four options. BonusHunt FeatureSpins costs 3x the bet per spin and makes the bonus five times more likely, with high volatility and a 96.28% return. Rainbow FeatureSpins costs 50x per spin for a guaranteed Rainbow every spin (96.36%). Luck of the Bandit costs 100x the bet (96.3%) and All That Glitters Is Gold 250x (96.4%; one review’s FAQ says 200x). Treasure at the End of the Rainbow cannot be bought. These returns are for the default setting, Hacksaw confirms only the 3x fee, and the Le Bandit bonus buy is not offered in the UK.
At 96.34% Le Bandit keeps about 3.66 cents of every dollar bet over the long run; the 88.36% version keeps 11.64 cents, more than three times as much. Medium volatility means the cascades pay often enough to keep a balance ticking over, about one spin in three, but five-symbol clusters return only 0.1x to 1x, and what swings a session is a Rainbow over a board of Golden Squares.
At $1 a spin, 500 spins is $500 turned over: the expected cost is about $18.30 at 96.34% and about $58.20 at 88.36%. A bought Luck of the Bandit costs $100 at that stake and All That Glitters Is Gold $250, each for one round of very uncertain value.
There are now four Le Bandit games. Le Bandit Miami Hustle (2026) takes the Golden Squares, Rainbows, clovers and pots to Miami on a 6×5 cluster grid, with a 96.25% return, high or very high volatility and a 50,000x cap. Le Bandit Hold & Win (September 2026) is a three-reel, nine-line game with no free spins, 96.27% and a 2,500x cap. Monsters Unleashed (October 2026) is a six-reel cluster game at 92.3%, also capped at 2,500x and released only at selected casinos.
The wider Le series dresses Smokey up as Le Pharaoh, Le Viking, Le King, Le Zeus, Le Cowboy and more, most with caps between 10,000x and 25,000x. A lobby tile reading plain Le Bandit is the 2023 original.
Hacksaw released the game in August 2023 (on the 24th in most sources, earlier that month in two databases) and pitched it as a comic mash-up showing a darker side of urban Paris. Smokey is part loveable rogue, part back-street crook, set in a sepia-toned 1940s back alley with slapstick humour. The symbols are French clichés, from baguettes and cheese to beer and a magician’s top hat, while the bonus layer turns Irish with rainbows, pots of gold and clovers. An upbeat piano soundtrack plays underneath, and the HTML5 game runs on desktop, tablet and phone, with a portrait mode on iOS and Android.
Le Bandit is online only: no land-based version of any Le title has been found, so it is not on Australian club or casino floors. Two of the offshore casinos accepting Australians that we checked list Le Bandit with Hacksaw named as the provider, but their pages were not viewed from an Australian connection, so availability varies and the lobby search is the way to check. Before you play Le Bandit for money, open the information screen to see the RTP setting and whether the bonus buy is offered. Hacksaw publishes an official Le Bandit demo on its own game page.
Le Bandit earned its place at the head of a series. The cluster base game is ordinary, but the Golden Squares give every win a second life, and the free spins, where lit squares pile up between Rainbows, carry the big results. It suits players who like busy boards, medium volatility and a choice of buys; it does not suit anyone who wants paylines or a jackpot. Check the RTP first: at 96.34% it is a fair game, at 88.36% an expensive one. For a higher ceiling on the same mechanics, Miami Hustle goes to 50,000x.
96.34% by default. Casinos can also run 94.23%, 92.17% or 88.36% versions, so check the information screen.
Land three, four or five FS scatters in the base game for Luck of the Bandit (8 spins), All That Glitters Is Gold (12) or Treasure at the End of the Rainbow (12).
10,000 times the bet, or $1,000,000 at the $100 maximum stake. We found no published record win.
Spots left by winning clusters turn gold, and a Rainbow makes them reveal coins worth 0.2x to 500x the bet, clovers that multiply neighbours by up to 10x, or Pots of Gold that collect them.
Only online. Two offshore casinos accepting Australians that we checked list it, but availability varies, so use the lobby search; Hacksaw’s official demo offers Le Bandit free play without a deposit.
It has the same Golden Squares, Rainbows, clovers and pots on a 6×5 grid, but it is set in Miami, runs at higher volatility and has a 50,000x cap instead of 10,000x.
