Le Pharaoh Demo and Review: Nine RTP Figures
In short — our verdict: 7.4/10 — Le Pharaoh is a 6x5, 19-line Hacksaw slot whose return depends on which bonus you pick and how you entered it. Our score: 7.4/10. The client prints nine separate figures, from 96.18% to 96.35%.
The one catalogue of this series we could open leads with 96.18% and calls it Le Pharaoh's maximum RTP. The studio's own client prints nine different figures, and 96.18% is the lowest of them.
7.4/ 10
- Return transparency7.0
- Buy-in design8.0
- Feature depth8.0
- Bet range6.5
- Originality within the series7.5
Table of contents
- Le Slots Strengths and Weaknesses
- The Nine Return Figures Le Pharaoh Prints, by Route into the Bonus
- Nine Le Pharaoh Return Figures, Not One
- Where the 96.18% Figure Comes From
- The Bonus Choice Is the Whole Game
- What the Four Le Pharaoh Cards Buy
- Where Le Pharaoh Sits in the Series
- Four Paid Cards and Their Prices at a €2.00 Demo Bet, Two per Spin and Two One-Off
- Our Le Slots Verdict and Rating
- Key Terms Used on This Page
- What Else Do Readers Ask
Le Slots Strengths and Weaknesses
Pros: What Works Well
- Pro: The client publishes a separate return for every route through the bonus menu, nine figures in total
- Pro: Choosing Lost Treasures over Luck of the Pharaoh is worth 0.03 points on an organic trigger
- Pro: Sticky Re-drops and Golden Riches run in the base game, the same two-mechanic shape seven other titles here use
- Pro: Pays on 19 fixed lines, so wins are easier to follow than on a cluster grid
- Pro: The studio states that figure was simulated over ten billion rounds
Cons: What Holds It Back
- Con: The 96.18% a catalogue leads with is the lowest of the nine figures, and it applies to one route only
- Con: Nothing on the reels tells you which figure is live during a session
- Con: The stake ceiling is €50.00, half of Le Bandit's
- Con: The two bonus-choice purchases cost 100x and 250x the stake
- Con: Hacksaw does not publish how often any bonus is reached, beyond the BonusHunt card promising spins five times likelier to trigger one
The Nine Return Figures Le Pharaoh Prints, by Route into the Bonus
| Route | Bonus chosen | Published RTP |
|---|---|---|
| Organic trigger | Luck of the Pharaoh or Super Luck | 96.18% |
| Organic trigger | Lost Treasures or Super Lost Treasures | 96.21% |
| After BonusHunt FeatureSpins | Luck of the Pharaoh or Super Luck | 96.28% |
| After BonusHunt FeatureSpins | Lost Treasures or Super Lost Treasures | 96.35% |
| Running Rainbow FeatureSpins | not applicable | 96.35% |
| Direct purchase | Luck of the Pharaoh | 96.33% |
| Direct purchase | Lost Treasures | 96.31% |
| Direct purchase | Super Luck of the Pharaoh | 96.29% |
| Direct purchase | Super Lost Treasures | 96.26% |
Figures current as of ; the operator's live terms prevail.
Nine Le Pharaoh Return Figures, Not One
Le Pharaoh does not have an RTP. It has nine of them, and which one applies depends on two decisions: how the bonus started, and which of the two bonuses on offer you picked once it did.
On an organic trigger, choosing Luck of the Pharaoh or its Super version returns 96.18%. Choosing Lost Treasures or Super Lost Treasures returns 96.21% instead. Switch on BonusHunt FeatureSpins first and the same two choices return 96.28% and 96.35%. BonusHunt is a mode rather than a round, and its €6.00 comes off every spin you take while it is on.
Buy the bonus outright and four more figures apply, from 96.26% up to 96.33%. The spread across all nine is 0.17 percentage points.
Where the 96.18% Figure Comes From
The catalogue we checked leads with 96.18% and labels it the maximum. That figure is real, and in the client it is the worst of the nine. It describes an organic trigger followed by the Luck of the Pharaoh branch, and nothing else.
The studio's RGS feed reports 96.21% as the default, which matches the Lost Treasures branch. So a reader comparing games on published numbers is comparing this title at its weakest while seeing its rivals at their average.
The win type invites the same mistake. Twelve of the seventeen titles here pay by cluster, but this is not one of them: the feed returns 19 paylines and the rules screen calls it a "6-reel, 5-row paylines game" in its second paragraph.
The Bonus Choice Is the Whole Game
Five bonuses sit behind the scatter symbols, and the menu only ever offers you two of them. Three FS symbols put Luck of the Pharaoh against Lost Treasures. Four FS symbols offer the Super version of each. Five skip the menu altogether and award Rainbow over the Pyramids, twelve free spins with a Rainbow guaranteed on every one. Luck of the Pharaoh and Super Luck of the Pharaoh sit on one side, Lost Treasures and Super Lost Treasures on the other, and the Super variants cost more when bought directly.
That structure is what produces the nine figures. It also means the house edge moves while you play, not between sessions, which is unusual enough to be worth saying plainly.
Sticky Re-drops and Golden Riches carry the base game between triggers.
What the Four Le Pharaoh Cards Buy
BonusHunt FeatureSpins costs 3x the stake and does not guarantee a bonus; it raises the odds and changes which return figure applies afterwards. Rainbow FeatureSpins costs 60x a spin and guarantees at least one Rainbow symbol landing with a winning combination, returning 96.35%.
The two remaining buttons sell the bonus choice itself. You Must Choose costs 100x your stake, and But Choose Wisely costs 250x. The client labels the first Medium and the second High.
Where Le Pharaoh Sits in the Series
The 15,000x ceiling matches Le Fisherman, Le Digger, Le Prechaun and Le Vampire, and sits below the 20,000x group and Le Cowboy's 25,000x. The €50.00 stake ceiling is the series median.
What is not median is the disclosure. Le Cowboy and Le Digger print thirteen figures each, more than this, but theirs come from a gamble fork inside the round rather than a choice of bonus. Nine puts this title third for published figures, and eight of the nine are set by the bonus menu, which no other game in the series does at all. If you want to see how a studio actually models a bonus choice, this is the title that shows its working.
The wider pattern behind these nine figures is covered in how Hacksaw sets its return figures, which separates the build a casino licenses from the return a purchase carries.
Four Paid Cards and Their Prices at a €2.00 Demo Bet, Two per Spin and Two One-Off
| Purchase | What the price buys | Price | Multiple of bet | Volatility label | Published RTP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BonusHunt FeatureSpins | Per spin (ACTIVATE) | €6.00 | 3x | High | 96.28% or 96.35%, by bonus chosen |
| Rainbow FeatureSpins | Per spin (ACTIVATE) | €120.00 | 60x | High | 96.35% |
| You Must Choose… | One bonus entry (BUY) | €200.00 | 100x | Medium | 96.33% or 96.31%, by bonus chosen |
| …But Choose Wisely | One bonus entry (BUY) | €500.00 | 250x | High | 96.29% or 96.26%, by bonus chosen |
Our Le Slots Verdict and Rating
Key Terms Used on This Page
- Bonus choice
- The menu where the client makes you pick between two bonuses, the pair depending on whether three or four FS symbols landed, and where the return figure for your session is decided.
- Sticky Re-drops
- Symbols from a win hold their place while new ones drop around them, extending a single spin; the 12-spin Epic Bonus on 5 FS symbols keeps the same mechanic.
- Organic trigger
- Reaching the bonus from a normal spin rather than by buying it, which carries its own two return figures.
- BonusHunt FeatureSpins
- A paid mode at 3x the stake that raises the odds of a trigger and shifts which return figure applies.
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What Else Do Readers Ask?
Le Pharaoh raises one question more than any other: what is its actual RTP. The honest answer is that the client prints nine, and the one you get depends on choices you make during play.
Where does 96.18% come from?
The client prints nine figures, and 96.18% is the lowest of them. It applies to an organic trigger followed by the Luck of the Pharaoh branch.
Which bonus choice pays more?
Lost Treasures beats Luck of the Pharaoh on an organic trigger, 96.21% against 96.18%, and the gap widens after BonusHunt FeatureSpins.
Does Le Pharaoh pay on fixed lines?
Yes, on 19 of them. The studio's feed returns 19 line definitions, and the rules screen calls it a 6-reel, 5-row paylines game rather than a cluster one.
What is the maximum win?
Fifteen thousand times the bet, available in every mode of the game according to the rules screen and the studio's own RGS feed.
What do the four cards cost?
At a €2.00 stake, €6.00, €120.00, €200.00 and €500.00, or 3x, 60x, 100x and 250x the bet. The first two are per-spin modes.
What is the stake range?
Ten cents to fifty euros. We walked the stepper to both stops inside the demo client and confirmed each end of that range.
How do we count nine figures?
We read the GAME INFO screen section by section, because the returns sit in two separate blocks rather than in one table.