Le Pharaoh

The page without numbers

Le Pharaoh sits on an official page that shows artwork, feature names and not one figure. Hacksaw Gaming runs its disclosures differently from the studios reviewed so far in this catalogue. The numbers live in the studio’s own demo infrastructure and game client rather than on the page a visitor reads. This review reads them from there, as fetched on 25 September 2026, and says so plainly, because a figure’s address matters as much as its value. What that address holds turns out to be unusually generous. Where a studio prints nothing on its pages, catalogues usually inherit the silence. Here the opposite happens, and the sections below quote figures most rivals never write down.

What the configuration publishes

The default return of the configuration stands at 96.21%. The game asks a player to set a base game preference between free spins and lives, and the two answers carry different printed prices, 96.18% against 96.21%. The frame is 6 reels by 5 rows, and wins run along 19 fixed lines of the kind covered under Paylines. The studio’s demo takes stakes of 0.10 to 50.00, and partners set their own bands, so the paytable’s limits line binds. The stated limit is 15,000x the stake.

The demo band above is, for the record, the widest stake disclosure Hacksaw offers. Volatility gets no word label anywhere on the studio’s surfaces. The official games list shows a meter instead, and this game takes 3 of 5 on it. The reduced operator versions, unpublished across most studios, sit readable in this game’s own client files, at 95.22%, 94.33%, 92.26% and 88.24%. A catalogue that has spent twelve reviews noting silent reductions finds a studio here that prints its cuts. The figure that binds remains the one in the paytable of the lobby a player actually opens.

Sticky re-drops and the golden ladder

The base engine is a re-drop game. A winning symbol holds its square while the reels drop again behind it. The sequence continues while the win keeps extending, in the studio’s “Sticky Re-Drops” manner, a behaviour of the family described under Respins. Golden Squares mark the board, and a Rainbow symbol switches the game to Golden Riches. Coins land in three metals there, bronze at 0.2x to 4x, silver at 5x to 20x and gold at 25x to 500x. A green clover multiplies adjacent coins by 2x to 20x, and a golden clover does the same to every coin on view. A “Pot Of Gold” sweeps the lot in the manner filed under Collect Symbols. The coin values themselves are the printed sort described under Cash Symbols.

The choice with a printed cost

3 or 4 free spin scatters open a menu rather than a round, the structure filed under Bonus Game. “Luck of the Pharaoh” grants 10 free spins built on the Golden Riches engine. “Lost Treasures” runs on 3 refilling lives instead, and coins collect there under adding and multiplying stone tablets worth 1x to 500x and 2x to 20x. On 4 scatters both doors upgrade, to 12 spins with a guaranteed clover on one side and a 4 life start on the other, and retriggers add 2 or 4 spins. The base game preference between free spins and lives is the same choice made standing, and the configuration prices it at 0.03 of a point. This is the catalogue’s second game where a player’s choice moves published figures, after the mode switch of Zeus vs Hades Gods of War. Here the gap is printed to the hundredth. The lives door suits a player who wants the collection to survive a miss, and the spins door suits one who wants the clock visible. The rules price both tempers 0.03 apart, so the pick is about texture rather than value.

The purchase column

Four prices sit in the purchase menu where markets allow one. 3x buys feature spins of the bonus hunt kind at a printed 96.35% expected return. 60x activates the Golden Riches engine at the same 96.35%. 100x opens the bonus choice at 96.31%, and 250x opens the upgraded choice at 96.26%. Every one of the four prices above the base game’s own 96.21%, which inverts the pattern this catalogue met at Pragmatic Play, where purchases mostly price at or under base. A player buying entry here pays for speed and gains a sliver of return, and the rules print the whole trade. Unless a market bars the menu, the four prices sit a click from the stake box, each naming its return in advance.

What it costs to play

A $100 run of $1 spins settles at $96.21 back on the default figure, and the free spins preference trims that to $96.18. The published reduced versions reach as low as 88.24%, where the same $100 settles at $88.24, a difference of nearly $8 against the default for identical play. The lobby’s paytable matters more for this game than for any other in the catalogue so far, precisely because the cuts are real, printed and deep. Where a lobby runs a cut copy, the $100 sums above shrink accordingly, and only that paytable will say so. The 15,000x limit carries no published frequency, the one figure the studio’s generous files decline to give.

A date the studio keeps to itself

No release date appears on any Hacksaw surface. Industry news placed the launch on 26 September 2024, and this catalogue records that date as unconfirmed by the provider. The client files add one further curiosity, an internal code name reading lebanditegypt, which frames the game as the Egyptian successor of Le Bandit. No official series claim exists, and the shared “Le” is left to speak for itself. For a student of disclosure the pairing is instructive, since the same files that price four cuts to the hundredth cannot spare one line for a calendar.

Disclosure grade and score

Disclosure earns a B, and an unusual one. The reduced versions are readable, the choice is priced, the purchases print their returns, and the meter gives volatility a number rather than an adjective. What holds the grade is the address of it all, since the official page itself shows nothing, and a date the studio never states. The game scores 7.5 of 10 on this catalogue’s reading. The re-drop engine and the double sided bonus give it real range, and the printed price on the player’s choice is disclosure done properly. The 3 of 5 meter also earns a sentence, because third parties label the game high whilst the studio’s own scale disagrees, and this catalogue cites the scale. Players wanting the fuller tail will note the limit sits below the grid flagships one shelf over.

One check before you play

1. Read the RTP line in the hosting lobby’s rules with more care than usual. Published cuts of this game run from 96.21% down to 88.24%, and the lobby’s copy decides which one spins.
2. Set the free spins or lives preference knowingly, since the configuration prices the two at 96.18% and 96.21% and the choice is the player’s own.

Sources

These are the documents this review was checked against on 25 September 2026.

• Official game page (features, artwork)
• Official Hacksaw data record for Le Pharaoh (RTP, max win, lines, fetched 25 September 2026)

How such pages get built is described under the Review Method.