Le Bandit Bonus Buy: What Each of the Four Buys Costs and What You Get Back

Open the buy menu and Hacksaw offers four products at four very different price points:

• BonusHunt FeatureSpins, 3x bet per spin. Not a one-off purchase but an upgraded spin mode: every spin costs triple and carries a raised chance of landing the scatters that trigger a bonus. You are paying for faster access, spin by spin, while everything else about the game stays normal.
• Rainbow FeatureSpins, 50x bet per spin. The specialist option: each spin guarantees a Rainbow symbol, the one that activates Golden Squares. Since Le Bandit's big pays flow through activated squares revealing Coins, Clovers, and Pots of Gold, this mode makes the game's core engine fire on every single drop.
• Luck of the Bandit, 100x bet. One payment puts you straight into the bonus round that normally needs 3 scatters: 8 free spins with Golden Squares that persist between spins.
• All That Glitters Is Gold, 250x bet. The premium buy: instant entry to the 4-scatter bonus, 12 free spins with the same square persistence and more room for the feature to build.

What each round actually does once you are inside is covered in our free spins deep dive, and the how to play guide walks through Golden Squares and Rainbows from scratch if the mechanics are new to you.

Hacksaw publishes a separate RTP for each mode, and the honest reading surprises people: the buy menu is not uniformly better than just spinning.

Per dollar wagered, the 250x buy is the cheapest way to play Le Bandit and BonusHunt is the most expensive, but look at the size of the spread: 0.12 percentage points from best to worst. On a $250 buy at a $1 stake, the gap between All That Glitters and the base game is worth about 15 cents. Every mode still returns less than it takes in, as our Le Bandit RTP guide explains in full.

So the RTP argument should never be the reason you spend 250x your bet in one click. What the buys really sell is time: skipping the wait for a natural trigger. Whether that time is worth the price is a bankroll question, which the next section prices out.

Le Bandit's bet range runs from $0.10 to $100, so the same buy spans a huge price band. Here is what each purchase costs at three common stakes:

The expected loss per purchase is the price times the house margin. An All That Glitters buy at 96.40% RTP returns 241x on average against its 250x price, so the average buy costs you 9x your bet: $0.90 at ten-cent stakes, $9 at $1, $45 at $5. Luck of the Bandit averages 3.70x lost per buy, each Rainbow FeatureSpin about 1.82x, and each BonusHunt spin about 0.11x.

That is the honest way to budget: treat the expected loss as the entertainment price of the feature, the same way you price a movie ticket. If $9 for a guaranteed 12-spin bonus sounds fair at $1 stakes, the product fits your entertainment budget. If you need the buy to "pay off" to feel okay about it, it does not fit, because on average it will not. When you are ready to see real buy menus, our real money guide and the best Le Bandit casinos list cover where and how.

The best round in Le Bandit is not in the shop. Treasure at the End of the Rainbow needs 5 scatters on one natural spin and delivers the game's ceiling state: 12 spins, a Rainbow guaranteed on every one of them, Golden Squares that stay lit for the whole bonus, and Bronze coins removed from the reveal pool so every activation pays Silver or better.

Why lock it? The math answers itself. A mode that fires the coin engine on every spin with the low-value coins stripped out would need an enormous price tag to keep its RTP near the others, and a five-figure multiple of your bet is not a product most players would ever touch. Keeping it trigger-only also preserves the moment: 5 scatters is the jackpot event of the base game, the thing long sessions are quietly hoping for, and much of the reason the 10,000x max win stays plausible without being purchasable.

Practical consequence: if your goal is specifically the Rainbow mode, no bankroll shortcut exists. Base spins, BonusHunt FeatureSpins, and the two direct buys all leave you hoping the scatters cooperate. Anyone who tells you there is a way to force the 5-scatter round is selling something that does not exist.

Our honest sorting rule, and it has nothing to do with beating the game, because no option here beats the house edge:

1. Buy if the price is genuinely small to you. If a 250x purchase is under roughly a tenth of what you are prepared to lose in the session, buying is just a fast-forward button on entertainment you were paying for anyway, at a per-dollar cost slightly better than base spinning.
2. Spin naturally if a buy would dominate your bankroll. At $1 stakes, $250 funds 250 base spins, and those spins can trigger any of the three bonuses on their own, including the unbuyable Rainbow mode, while spreading risk across hundreds of independent events instead of one.
3. Use the demo if you are deciding. The free Le Bandit demo on our homepage includes the full buy menu with play money. Buy ten All That Glitters rounds for free and watch how often 250x of fake stake comes back light. That experience is worth more than any table in this article.

One more honest note: a buy round can absolutely pay less than it cost, and often does. The 250x price is not a floor on the result, it is only the ticket in. Set the buy budget before you open the menu, not after the first empty round, and pair it with the session rules in our Le Bandit strategy guide.