Le Santa

Ho, ho, ho! Guess who’s back? It’s Smokey the Raccoon, Hacksaw’s familiar character you know from slots like Le Pharaoh, Le King, and Le Viking. This time, he’s on a mission to take over Christmas.

Le Santa is the festive addition to Hacksaw Gaming’s “Le” series, and it’s being released just in time for Christmas 2025. As you probably guessed by the name already, the theme for this release is Christmas, and Smokey is in full-on Santa mode.

However, this isn’t a warm and fuzzy holiday slot. It’s Hacksaw Gaming, after all, so you know there will be some mischievous humor in it, as well as fun features like multipliers and bonus games.

Le Santa follows the same successful recipe as the other slots from the Le series: it runs on a 6×5 grid with cluster wins and cascading symbols. It has a medium volatility and an RTP of 96.14%, but as with all the other games from the Le franchise, the main focus here are the features like Golden Squares and the Super Cascades, the free spins bonus games, and the 4 jackpot boxes, with the grand prize being 1,000,000 coins (20,000x the bet size).

Hijacking Santa’s job comes with perks, and knowing Smokey’s behavior, we’re in for complete Christmas chaos. Whether you want to try it with SC for real prizes or with GC to test the game first, in the next section, I’ll walk you through what Smokey is capable of once the sugar high kicks in and he decides he’s in charge of Christmas.

About Le Santa: Game Overview

If you have played other slots from Hacksaw’s “Le” series like Le Bandit or Le Viking, the structure of Le Santa will feel familiar. The game uses the same 6×5 layout with cluster wins and cascading symbols.

The flow is the same idea as the rest of the series, and it’s clear that Hacksaw is following a simple philosophy: why change what works? Even though the visual theme here is Christmas, much of the gameplay feels almost identical to games like Le King.

Wins are formed by landing five or more matching symbols in a cluster, either horizontally or vertically anywhere on the grid, and the bigger the cluster, the better the payout.

Le Santa has an RTP of 96.14% in the standard configuration, which is in line with other games in the series. The volatility feels high, and the base game can be quiet before the modifiers come into play. The maximum win reaches 20,000 times the bet, which is higher than most Christmas-themed slots.

Le Santa Slot Information

The 6×5 grid and cluster pays mechanic means that there will be a lot of symbols on the screen at any point in the game, so my take here is to focus on the high-paying and special symbols.

All the symbols have been ‘Christmasfied’ for the Le Santa version, even the low-paying symbols that are represented by the standard card deck face cards (10, J, Q, K, A).

The high-paying symbols, expectedly, are themed around Christmas decorations and items. These symbols carry the biggest payouts, and the values change depending on how many symbols are in a winning cluster.

These are the high-paying symbols in Le Santa, from the lowest to the highest paying one:

• Stocking
• Ornament bauble
• Christmas tree
• Candy cane
• Red bell ornament

Like the other ‘Le’ games, Le Santa uses the ‘Super Cascades’ mechanic, which is activated when a winning combination occurs. All symbols that were part of it are removed, and new ones drop to fill the empty spaces.

The betting range is from 0.10 to 50 coins per spin, unless you utilize any of the special features I discuss below.

200 Spins Test of Le Santa

It’s time for my favorite part of my Le Santa review: my 200 spins test. I’ve grown to be a massive fan of the Le franchise and Hacksaw games in general because they combine great graphics and animations with fun gameplay, so I expected nothing less from this holiday edition.

I set the bet size to 2 coins per spin, and I immediately turned the Turbo mode on. As much as I like the animations, they feel a bit slow in normal mode, so Turbo is the way to go.

Besides some smaller wins, nothing ‘fun’ happened during the first ~50 spins, and I was already 50 coins down. So, I set the bet level to 10 coins. Also, despite the claimed medium volatility and hit frequency of around 41%, this definitely feels like a high volatility game.

The wins are too rare, and even when they do hit, they barely cover the wager size, so Le Santa very much revolves around the special features like Super Cascades, Golden Squares, and the bonus games for bigger wins.

I finally got Golden Squares with a Rainbow symbol around the ~100th spin, and even hit a MINI jackpot. However, despite the sizable win of around ~140 coins, I was still in net loss.

I realized that the Rainbow symbol is really important to this game, maybe even too important. Despite all my smaller wins, without the Rainbow symbol on the grid, the base game can’t make up for your bet size, so you end up losing coins.

In a typical high-volatility slot fashion, I finally got lucky and got 3 FS symbols on spin ~150, which activated the Silent Heist bonus game.

I won 696 coins during the bonus game, which put me at 4,950 coins, slightly behind my starting balance of 5,000 coins.

To test how the Bonus Buy feature works, I went on to buy the Sleighing It feature for 2,500 coins (250x times my bet size).

This feature combines the Silent Heist bonus game, but all the Golden Squares remain until they’re activated by a Rainbow. I even got extra +2 free spins at one point, and while it’s hard to monitor exactly what’s happening, the final result was a win of 2,685 coins, or 185 more coins than what the feature cost me.

So, I completed my 200 spins Le Santa test with around 130 coins in net profit – not too bad considering how unlucky I was during the first 150 free spins.