Le Pharaoh

Le Pharaoh Slot Review

A scowling cartoon raccoon in a blue-and-gold pharaoh’s headdress stands beside the reels, staff in hand, glaring out over a sunlit Egyptian oasis of palms, ruins and stepped pyramids. Le Pharaoh is a slot that refuses to let a win be over: every paying combination you land stays on the grid and keeps earning, which means the spin that pays you least is often the one that sets up the next one. That persistence, not the Egyptian dressing, is what Hacksaw Gaming‘s mascot is really selling here.

The move to Egypt does more than change the wallpaper. This is a 6×5 paylines game where sticky re-drops build golden squares across the grid, with a 15,000x maximum win, an RTP of 96.33%, and stakes from 0.10 to 50.00 per spin. It sits in the same family as Le Bandit, the game this one’s hero fled from, alongside Le Prechaun and Le Viking in the studio’s mascot-led run. The desert suits him.

Base Game & Features

Le Pharaoh plays on a six-reel, five-row grid framed as a temple gateway, with the chunky turquoise logo perched on top and palm fronds leaning in from both edges of the screen. It’s bright, glossy cartoon work with thick outlines, and the raccoon glowers through all of it.

Wins work with a sticky re-drop system rather than plain spins. Whenever a winning combination lands, the symbols in it stick and a re-drop follows. Paying symbols that stick this way leave Golden Squares behind on their positions.

The re-drops keep coming as long as each one extends an existing win or creates a new one. The chain only stops when a re-drop produces neither, at which point everything is paid out. Rainbow and FS symbols that land alongside a sticky win will stick too, but they don’t create Golden Squares.

Golden Squares and the Rainbow Symbol

Golden Squares sit dormant on the grid until a Rainbow symbol is present when the Sticky Re-drops finish, and that’s the trigger for the Golden Riches feature. Squares, sticky Rainbows and sticky FS symbols all clear away at the start of the next spin if nothing comes of them.

A wild scroll symbol substitutes in winning combinations, and it works hard in a game built on chains of connected wins. The FS scatter is the other symbol to watch: three or four landing at the same time opens the Bonus Choice menu.

Golden Riches

When a Rainbow ends the re-drop sequence, every Golden Square on the grid activates and reveals a coin or a special symbol. Coins pay as multiples of the bet, and the tiers step up steeply:

• Bronze Coins: 0.2x, 0.5x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x
• Silver Coins: 5x, 10x, 15x, 20x
• Gold Coins: 25x, 50x, 100x, 250x, 500x
• Green Clover: multiplies adjacent Coins or Pot Of Gold symbols by x2, x3, x4, x5, x10 or x20
• Golden Clover: multiplies every Coin and Pot Of Gold on the grid by the same range
• Pot Of Gold: collects the values of all Coins and other Pot Of Gold symbols on the grid
• Dead symbols: non-paying, no other effect, and found only in the Lost Treasures bonus

The order of operations matters. Coins reveal first, then Clovers apply their multipliers, then Pot Of Gold symbols activate one at a time from top to bottom, left to right, collecting everything on the grid into their stored totals.

Once the values have been collected, any remaining Golden Squares activate again and reveal a fresh set of symbols, and the whole sequence repeats. The feature only closes once every reveal and activation is done, at which point the totals are multiplied by the bet and paid.

Le Pharaoh Bonus Games

Bonus Choice

Landing three or four FS scatters at the same time brings up a choice menu rather than a fixed round, and the scatter count decides the menu:

• 3 FS symbols: Luck Of The Pharaoh or Lost Treasures
• 4 FS symbols: Super Luck Of The Pharaoh or Super Lost Treasures

Luck Of The Pharaoh

This is the free spins route: 10 free spins with the Sticky Re-drops and Golden Riches mechanics intact. The difference from the base game is that Golden Squares stay highlighted for the whole feature, even after a Rainbow has activated them, so the grid fills up as the round goes on.

Extra FS symbols retrigger the round:

• 2 FS symbols at the same time: +2 free spins
• 3 FS symbols at the same time: +4 free spins

Super Luck Of The Pharaoh

The four-scatter version awards 12 free spins with better odds of landing the higher-value Coins and Pot Of Gold symbols. It also guarantees a Clover reveal every time Golden Riches activates. Retriggers work the same way, two FS for two spins and three for four.

Lost Treasures

The alternative is a lives-based round that plays nothing like the base game. You enter with three refilling lives, and the reels carry only these symbols:

• Dead symbols, which are non-paying and do nothing else
• Coins, Green Clover and Golden Clover
• Pot Of Gold
• Two different Stone Tablet symbols

Normal paying symbols don’t appear at all. The four-scatter Super Lost Treasures is the enhanced version of the same round.

Feature Buys

A buy button sits in the corner of the screen, and purchased features can exceed the 50.00 maximum stake. The game runs slightly different RTP figures depending on what’s bought, ranging from 96.26% to 96.33%, with the buy mode’s return depending on the bonus choice if a round triggers organically along the way.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Playing Le Pharaoh is a lot of waiting followed by a coin avalanche, and the reason to choose it over plainer Egyptian slots is that the grid remembers. Squares you earned three spins ago can still pay when a Rainbow finally lands, and that slow build under the palm trees is the whole appeal. It’s a patient game dressed up as a cartoon.

The repeat-reveal structure is the best thing here. A single Golden Riches activation can pay in waves, because fresh symbols keep appearing from the same squares, and the Clover multipliers mean a wave can multiply the wave before it. The weakness is real, though: most activations resolve into modest totals. Bronze starts at 0.2x, the 15,000x ceiling sits a long way from ordinary play, and the re-drop chains that build your squares frequently pay almost nothing themselves.

It suits players who enjoy a grid that carries its own history and a bonus menu with two genuinely different moods to pick from, and the Super versions are proper upgrades. Anyone chasing frequent hits or quick features will find the desert a quiet place. For everyone else, there’s a stubborn raccoon out there still digging for his rainbow, and the sands give back just enough to keep you digging with him.

Le Pharaoh FAQs

• What is the RTP of Le Pharaoh?

  Le Pharaoh runs at 96.33% RTP. Feature buys carry slightly different figures, ranging from 96.26% to 96.33% depending on the purchase.
• What is the maximum win on Le Pharaoh?

  The maximum win is 15,000 times your bet, and it can be reached in all game modes.
• How does the Golden Riches feature trigger?

  Golden Riches activates when a Rainbow symbol is on the grid at the end of the Sticky Re-drops feature. Every Golden Square then reveals coins or special symbols.
• What does the Golden Clover symbol do?

  The Golden Clover multiplies every Coin and Pot Of Gold symbol on the grid by x2, x3, x4, x5, x10 or x20. The Green Clover works the same way but only affects adjacent symbols.
• What is the grid size of Le Pharaoh?

  Le Pharaoh uses a 6×5 grid, with six reels and five rows.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Le Pharaoh?

  Bets run from 0.10 to 50.00 per spin. Feature buys can exceed the 50.00 limit.
• Can you retrigger free spins in Le Pharaoh?

  Yes. In Luck Of The Pharaoh and Super Luck Of The Pharaoh, landing two FS symbols at the same time awards two extra free spins, and three awards four extra.
• Who makes Le Pharaoh?

  Le Pharaoh is made by Hacksaw Gaming.