About Le Pharaoh
If you searched for Le Pharaoh and landed here, you almost certainly meant the Hacksaw Gaming slot rather than a brasserie. It is worth saying plainly, because the studio's French-named "Le" series — Le Bandit first, then Le Pharaoh — deliberately picks titles that read like restaurant signage. The game itself went live on 26 September 2024 and is a direct sequel in spirit: same raccoon protagonist, Smokey, same core engine, new setting. Le Bandit put him in a 1940s Parisian heist; Le Pharaoh drops him into Ancient Egypt.
Mechanically it is a 6x5 grid with 19 fixed paylines, which is a departure from the cluster grids Hacksaw is known for and much closer to a classic line game. Volatility is rated medium, around 3 out of 5 — unusually gentle for this studio — and the hit frequency is 29.21%, or roughly one paying spin in 3.4. The ceiling is 15,000x your stake, and bets run from €0.10 to €100.
The headline RTP is 96.18%, but Hacksaw builds this game in four settings and the operator picks: 96.18%, 94.33%, 92.26% and 88.24%. That is nearly eight points between the best and the worst version of the same slot, and nothing on the reels tells you which one you are on. Open the info panel and check before you size a session — this single habit is worth more than any strategy you will read about this game.
Two mechanics carry everything. The first is Sticky Redrops: when a payline hits, the winning symbols lock in place and the rest of the grid redrops around them, over and over, until a redrop produces nothing new. It is not a tumble in the Pragmatic sense — the symbols stay, they do not vanish — and it is what turns a single small hit into a long, escalating sequence. The second is Golden Riches, triggered by rainbow symbols. Each rainbow reveals a coin, and the coins carry cash values: bronze pays 0.2x to 4x the bet, silver 5x to 20x, and gold runs from 25x all the way to 500x. Multiplier symbols land alongside them and boost the collected total, which is where the four-figure rounds come from.
The bonus is a choice, not a single round. Three scatters let you pick between Luck of the Pharaoh — 10 free spins built around the coin collection — and Lost Treasures, a hold-and-win format with three lives that reset each time a new coin lands. Four scatters unlock the Super versions of both, with 12 spins and improved mechanics. Five scatters skip the menu entirely and award Rainbow Over the Pyramids, 12 free spins with a guaranteed rainbow symbol on every single spin — the round everyone is actually chasing, and the only one you cannot select from the menu.
Outside the UK, four paid entries exist. BonusHunt FeatureSpins cost just 3x the bet and multiply your trigger chance fivefold; 60x guarantees a rainbow symbol; 100x buys the standard bonus game; 250x buys the Super version. The 3x option is unusually cheap for a bonus hunt tool and is the one worth knowing about — it lets you keep grinding the base game at a fraction of the cost of a full buy.
