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Return to Player (RTP)
The share of all money staked that a game pays back over millions of simulated rounds. For this game the maker publishes four of them, 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17% and 88.36%, because it ships four configurations and lets the casino choose one.
- Game:
- Le Bandit (a Hacksaw Gaming video slot)
- Type:
- Slot game
- RTP as published:
- The maker publishes four return configurations for this game - 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17% and 88.36% - and which one a player meets is the casino's choice, not the player's.
- Max win:
- 10,000 times the bet, and for once the maker says so itself: the figure is printed on Hacksaw Gaming's own game page, on the game's splash screen as "Win up to 10 000 times your bet!", inside the client's GAME INFO, and returned by the game server as maximumWinMultiplier.
Four RTP Figures, One Le Bandit Client
Four figures exist, and any single client shows only one of them. Hacksaw Gaming lists 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17% and 88.36% for Le Bandit, and which build a player meets is the casino's pick.
The rules screen inside the game states the top one and how it was produced: "The theoretical payout (RTP) for this game is 96.34%. The RTP was calculated by simulating 10,000,000,000 rounds." That is the build the maker's own demo runs. The other three appear only on the studio's game page, listed together with the first. Both sources are the maker's, and neither tells a reader in advance what their casino chose: the client answers that question, once the game is open.
We asked the maker's server for each configuration by number, which is how the client itself requests one. Ask it for the 96 model and it answers with the game data and an RTP of 96.34. Ask for 94, 92 or 88 and it refuses: "Invalid request!". Three of the four exist on the studio's word alone.
So the demo we played serves the top build and only the top build. The other three exist on the studio's word, and a reader should treat them that way until a casino confirms its own figure.
Why 7.98 Points Matter More than They Sound
Those 7.98 points, the distance between 96.34% and 88.36%, are the difference between a house edge of 3.66% and one of 11.64%. On the worst build the house keeps more than three times as much of every pound staked.
On the studio's own page the four figures sit in a single line under one set of game data: one volatility rating, one win type, one ceiling of 10,000x. By the maker's description this is one game with four return figures rather than four games. The difference shows in one place only: the rules screen inside the client, which fills its RTP line from the server and therefore states the build that loaded. We watched that happen on one build, the 96.34% one, because the demo server answers for no other.
| Build | House edge | Where the figure is published | What the demo server answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 96.34% | 3.66% | Client rules, game page, demo server | Serves it, as rtp 96.34 |
| 94.23% | 5.77% | The studio's game page only | "Invalid request!" |
| 92.17% | 7.83% | The studio's game page only | "Invalid request!" |
| 88.36% | 11.64% | The studio's game page only | "Invalid request!" |
Figures current as of ; the operator's live terms prevail.
The client lists a separate return for each purchase: 96.28% for BonusHunt FeatureSpins, 96.36% for Rainbow FeatureSpins, 96.3% for Luck of the Bandit, 96.4% for All That Glitters Is Gold. Those are figures for the top build. The same line is filled by the server for whichever build is loaded, so a client on one of the other three should print that build's set in the same place.
Here is the honest weakness in all of this, and it is the maker's doing rather than the casino's. Publishing four builds reads as transparency, and it is, but it also hands every operator a lever the player never sees moved. A studio that printed one figure would be less open and more predictable. We do not recommend taking 96.34% as this game's return anywhere except a client whose own rules screen prints that exact figure, because the same artwork, the same symbols and the same ceiling also ship at 88.36%.
