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Le Bandit Symbols & Paytable

What each symbol does, and why the low-pay ones matter more than they look.

Le Bandit’s paytable splits into three groups: symbols that pay for clustering, symbols that don’t pay but decide how big your session’s wins get, and the scatter that unlocks the bonus rounds. Understanding which is which changes how you read a spin.

Low-Pay and High-Pay Symbols

The base paytable runs on two tiers. Low-pay symbols carry the heaviest reel weighting — they’re what fills most of a dead spin, and their per-cluster payout is small. It’s tempting to write them off, but that’s a mistake in this game specifically: because a Super Cascade clears every copy of the winning symbol from the grid, not just the connected cluster, a large low-pay cluster that also wipes a pile of stragglers elsewhere opens far more Golden Squares than a smaller high-pay cluster of the same size.

High-pay symbols appear less often and rarely in large counts, so their clusters tend to be shorter — but they pay noticeably more per symbol. They’re what builds direct cash value in the base game, independent of whether a Rainbow ever shows up.

Neither tier is “better” outright. Low-pay clusters build coverage for the Rainbow payoff; high-pay clusters build immediate value. A session with a healthy mix of both is what the medium-volatility, 32.47% hit-frequency profile is built around.

Feature Symbols: The Ones That Don’t Pay Directly

Four symbols sit outside the regular paytable. None of them form clusters or pay for connecting — they exist to control how big the Golden Square payoff gets.

SymbolWhat it does
RainbowActivates every highlighted Golden Square on the grid at once. Pays nothing itself.
Four-Leaf CloverMultiplies the value of adjacent coins by ×2–×10 before collection.
Pot of GoldCollects the combined value of every visible coin on the grid in one payout.
Polaroid camera (scatter)Doesn’t pay or cluster — counts toward the 3/4/5-scatter bonus tiers.

The Coin Reveal Table

When a Rainbow activates a Golden Square, it reveals one of three coin values:

CoinValue Range
Bronze0.2× – 4× stake
Silver5× – 20× stake
Gold25× – 500× stake

A Four-Leaf Clover landing next to a coin multiplies it before collection, and a Pot of Gold sweeps every coin value on the board — Clover multipliers included — into a single payout. That combination, not any single symbol, is what pushes a spin toward the higher end of Le Bandit’s range.

Reading a Grid at a Glance

Once the symbol roles are clear, a mid-spin grid tells its own story: heavy low-pay clusters mean coverage is building, a stray Rainbow on a near-empty board is a rounding error, and the same Rainbow on a grid full of highlighted squares is the spin worth paying attention to. That’s the entire paytable in practice — everything else is the Super Cascade and Golden Squares system moving those symbols around. Full mechanics are covered on the Le Bandit guide.

Frequently Asked Questions

Low-pay symbols appear far more often per spin and pay less per cluster, but because a Super Cascade clears every copy of the winning symbol, a large low-pay cluster can open more Golden Squares than a smaller high-pay one. High-pay symbols show up less often but pay more directly per cluster.

No. The Rainbow pays nothing by itself — its only function is to activate every Golden Square currently on the grid, revealing the coin values or modifiers underneath.

A Four-Leaf Clover multiplies the value of adjacent coins by ×2 to ×10. A Pot of Gold instead collects the total value of every coin currently visible on the grid and pays it as one lump sum.

No, the Polaroid camera is a pure scatter — it doesn't pay and doesn't form clusters. Its only job is counting toward the three bonus tiers, triggered at 3, 4, or 5 landed on a resolved grid.

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