Le Bandit: how the Golden Squares, Rainbows and Pots of Gold pay

At a glance

Released

Aug 202324 Aug by most sources; disputed

Grid

6x5cluster pays, 5 or more

RTP

96.34%also 94.23, 92.17 and 88.36%

Volatility

Medium3 of 5 on Hacksaw’s scale

Hit frequency

32.47%about one spin in three

Max win

10,000xthe bet, per round

Bet range

0.10–100as review sites list it

Buys

3x to 250xfour options; not in the UK per SlotCatalog

How a spin pays

Six reels, five rows, no paylines. A win is five or more of the same symbol touching up, down, left or right, anywhere on the grid. When a cluster pays, Hacksaw’s Super Cascade removes not just the winning symbols but every symbol of that type on the grid, and new ones drop in. The chain continues until no new win forms.

The wild is a reward poster of the raccoon and stands in for every paying symbol. The scatter, marked FS, is a Polaroid camera. On the table alone this would be a gentle game: a five-symbol cluster pays a tenth of the bet to one times the bet. The bigger pays come from the Golden Squares.

Golden Squares and the Rainbow

This feature drives the game’s biggest pays. From Hacksaw’s in-game rules:

1. Every winning position turns gold. After a cluster pays, the squares behind the winning symbols are marked as Golden Squares. A long cascade chain therefore leaves a lot of gold behind.
2. A Rainbow activates them. If a Rainbow symbol is on the grid once all wins are paid, every Golden Square reveals a coin, and some reveal a Four-Leaf Clover or a Pot of Gold instead.
3. Coins are cash, in multiples of the bet. Bronze: 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x. Silver: 5x, 10x, 15x or 20x. Gold: 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x or 500x.
4. Clovers multiply their neighbours. Each Four-Leaf Clover multiplies the coins and Pots of Gold on the squares next to it by x2, x3, x4, x5 or x10.
5. Pots of Gold collect. Each Pot takes the value of every coin and every other Pot on the grid, working top to bottom and left to right.
6. Then it goes round again. After the last Pot has collected, the remaining Golden Squares reveal new symbols, and the process repeats until no new Pot of Gold appears.

At the end of the spin, every coin and Pot is added up and multiplied by the bet. In the base game the Golden Squares are then cleared; without a Rainbow on the same spin, they go with nothing extra paid. SlotCatalog’s experience is that lighting squares up is the easy part and landing the Rainbow the hard one.

The three bonuses

All three are triggered by FS scatters landing together in the base game. The number of scatters picks the bonus.

In the first two bonuses, more scatters add spins: two FS give 2 extra spins and three give 4. Landing four during Luck of the Bandit upgrades it on the spot to All That Glitters Is Gold, with 4 more spins. Hacksaw’s own game page says three scatters give 3 extra spins; its in-game rules say 4, and so do Bigwinboard and AboutSlots, so we go with the rules. The rules describe no extra spins for Treasure at the End of the Rainbow.

The bonuses differ mainly in how long the gold lasts. In Luck of the Bandit a Rainbow uses the squares up. In the two 12-spin bonuses every Golden Square stays for the rest of the round, so each new Rainbow activates a board that keeps growing. Treasure at the End of the Rainbow also guarantees a Rainbow on every spin and drops Bronze Coins.

RTP and volatility

The four versions are Hacksaw’s own figures. Casinos rarely say which version they run, but the game’s rules screen states the RTP of the version you are playing. Hacksaw rates Le Bandit 3 out of 5 for volatility, and a win lands on roughly one spin in three. Bigwinboard, which agrees with the medium label, still said it had “quite a swingy temperament at times”, which fits a game whose biggest pays depend on a Rainbow turning up at the right moment.

Bonus buy and FeatureSpins

Treasure at the End of the Rainbow cannot be bought. SlotCatalog says the buy menu is not offered in the UK; Hacksaw’s own page does not mention regions.

The 10,000x cap

Hacksaw’s rules say the max win can be reached in the base game and in all three bonuses, and describe the route: winning combinations that light up as many positions as possible, then a Rainbow whose coins, clovers and Pots of Gold add up to 10,000x. When the cap is hit, the round ends at once and any free spins left are lost. Bigwinboard and SlotCatalog put the odds at about 1 in 14 million spins.

Big wins on record

• Roshtein, $3,021,900 at $1,500 a spin (about 2,015x), in All That Glitters Is Gold, August 2023. roshtein.com says the first six spins were “pretty dead” before Rainbow spins paid $369,600, then $2,430,000, then $220,500.
• Roshtein, $1,343,500 at $1,000, from an 8-spin Luck of the Bandit earlier the same day, almost all of it from one Rainbow three spins from the end.
• Roshtein, $5,157,800, in a free-spins bonus reported in January 2024. The bet is not stated. His clip title on this site, “5157X”, would mean $1,000 a spin, but that is the title talking, not a source.
• FrankDimes, $100,000 at $10: the max win in the screenshot above.
• tatoyann, $7,984.80 from a $4 stake (1,996x), in VegasSlotsOnline’s Big Win Wednesday of 23 October 2024.

Roshtein’s own stream overlay on 28 August 2023 showed his best Le Bandit result at that point as $2,414,360 and 6,035x, which matches his clip titled “6035x Le Bandit | personal best !” in the row below. We found no written source for the other big titles in our clips, so treat their figures as the streamers’ own.

The written reports come from streamer-owned or affiliate news sites, and the rest from stream footage; none comes from casinos or Hacksaw. Clips show the hits; the thousands of spins that paid nothing are not in them.

The Le series

Le Bandit introduced the raccoon, Smokey, and Hacksaw has built a family around him. Its slots page listed 17 “Le” titles when we checked on 7 November 2026. A few worth knowing:

• Le Pharaoh (26 Sep 2024): 19 paylines, 15,000x. Bigwinboard notes that is 50% more than Le Bandit’s cap.
• Le King (26 Jun 2025): cluster pays and 20,000x; Bigwinboard calls it “a high-powered upgrade of the original Le Bandit”.
• Le Cowboy (6 Nov 2025): cluster pays, up to 25,000x.
• Le Bandit Hold & Win (15 Sep 2026): a 3x3 remake with nine paylines and a 2,500x cap.
• Le Clubber (3 Nov 2026): Bigwinboard calls it “a digit-for-digit clone of the original raccoon hit Le Bandit”, with the same bonus structure.

If you like the Western end of Hacksaw’s catalogue, our Wanted Dead or a Wild guide and 2 Wild 2 Die guide are the next stops.