Le Clubber Demo: Free Play and Review

Paris swapped for a nightclub, the maths left alone

We put the two games' start-up data from the demo server side by side, field by field. Beyond the paytable and the buy menu, the bet range (€0.10 to €2,000.00) and the reel lengths match as well: 79, 68, 70, 71, 76 and 76 in the base game, 74, 71, 73, 70, 74 and 74 in free spins. The one field that differs is the client number, 1.4.3 here against 1.26.1 for Le Bandit.

• Squares. Golden Squares are now Marked Squares, with the same gold frame in GAME INFO.
• Collector. The black Pot of Gold became a Bucket of Gold, a silver ice bucket with a crown, and works the same way.
• Bonus names. Luck of the Bandit is Luck of the Clubber; All That Glitters Is Gold and Treasure at the End of the Rainbow kept their names.
• Symbols. Card ranks 10 to A stay; the trap, cheese, beer, baguettes and top hat give way to heart sunglasses, a VIP card, a DJ pad, champagne and a disco ball.

In multiples of the bet, a disco ball cluster is worth 1x at five symbols and 100x at thirteen or more, level with Le Bandit's top hat. The Wild, a taped-up poster reading WILD PARTY, stands in for every paying symbol.

Why a base-game win is only half the job

A cluster needs at least five touching symbols to pay. After the payout Super Cascade removes that symbol everywhere on the grid, cluster or not, and every position that took part in a win stays marked. Those marks pay nothing unless a Rainbow is on the grid once the cascades stop.

An opened square holds a coin, Bronze at 0.2x to 4x, Silver at 5x to 20x or Gold at 25x to 500x, and now and then a Four-Leaf Clover or a Bucket of Gold. Clovers act first, multiplying the coins and buckets next to them by x2 to x10. Each bucket then collects every coin and bucket in view, in what GAME INFO calls top-to-bottom, left-to-right order, and the Marked Squares left over open again until no new bucket turns up.

In 500 logged spins a Rainbow opened squares on 27 base-game spins, and coins brought in €401.60 of the €520.80 won outside the bonuses. Spin 222 was the base game's best: clovers of x2 and x3 landed among its coins and it paid 42.2x.

Treasure at the End of the Rainbow stays off the menu

Luck of the Clubber starts with 8 free spins when three FS symbols land together, during which Marked Squares stay lit from spin to spin until a Rainbow uses them. Two more FS inside give +2 spins, three give +4, and four upgrade the round to All That Glitters Is Gold with 4 extra spins.

Four FS in the base game go straight to All That Glitters Is Gold: 12 spins, and squares that stay marked for the whole round even after a Rainbow has opened them. Five FS start the hidden bonus, Treasure at the End of the Rainbow, which the buy menu leaves out. It lasts 12 spins too, with squares that never clear, but each of those spins brings a guaranteed Rainbow, and with Bronze Coins taken out the reveals are Silver or Gold only.

We bought Luck of the Clubber once, for €200.00. With six spins on the counter a Rainbow opened three Marked Squares, and the Bronze Coins under them, 1x, 2x and 1x, added up to €8.00.

Later two FS symbols added 2 spins, so the round ran to 10 and closed on €9.80, 4.9x the bet against a price of 100x.

Four bonuses, every one opened by three FS

Our paid run was 500 spins at €2.00, and it ended with 202.2% of the stake back, a result carried almost entirely by the bonus rounds.

All four bonuses began as Luck of the Clubber, and two of them, from spins 182 and 270, caught four FS inside and became All That Glitters Is Gold. The first ran to 12 spins, paid €557.00 (278.5x) mostly through three Rainbow spins worth €170.00, €188.40 and €198.00, and arrived right after the session's low of €4,796.60. The other upgraded round lasted 16 spins and paid 153.4x.

The two that stayed Luck of the Clubber paid 153.2x and 165.5x. Together the four rounds, trigger spins included, returned €1,501.20. Roughly one spin in three won (32.2%), with 0.4x as the median paying spin. The balance was highest on spin 427, at €6,150.20. Our Le Bandit log on the same maths returned 88.5% with 2 bonuses, which says more about 500 spins than about either game.

Three RTP steps where Le Bandit lists four

Card for card, the menu is Le Bandit's. The two FeatureSpins modes charge their price on every spin until switched off, while Luck of the Clubber and All That Glitters Is Gold are bought once each.

Hacksaw's game page gives Le Clubber three RTP versions, 96.34%, 94.23%, 92.17%. Le Bandit's page has a fourth, 88.36%, missing from the new list. Our demo window plays the highest. At a casino you may meet one of the lower two, and some jurisdictions remove the buy cards altogether.

The single purchase we made returned €9.80, a long way under the card's 96.30% average, and one round cannot test that figure either way.

Smokey's club or his Paris streets

Most questions about Le Clubber come back to Le Bandit, so the answers below keep both games in view.

If you already play Le Bandit, this is the same game with a different soundtrack and a few new names, so the choice comes down to Paris back streets or a club with a disco ball. For the raccoon with new mechanics, look at Le King, which adds jackpot markers to the same squares.