Introduction to Le Santa
Le Santa is a casino slot from Hacksaw Gaming with some Christmas cheer from our favorite raccoon. This nocturnal creature is none other than Smokey, a maybe-not-so-friendly raccoon that we’ve been hanging out with for years by now, with the initial release of Le Bandit in 2023. Since then, we’ve traveled all over the world and through history with him, as seen with games like Le Pharaoh, Le Viking, and Le Zeus. While most of the games have small changes here and there, the gameplay loop is still the same, being centered around a massive amount of Coins, Clovers, and the occasional Pot of Golds, to stack up payouts while the reels Cascade and leave Golden Squares behind. However, there is a certain difference about Le Santa, and that is that it is, unfortunately, a reskin of the game Le King, which was released earlier in mid-2025, and was themed around Elvis Presley. Well, the king delivered on more than just blues, as in Le King, and now in turn Le Santa, we have Jackpots, which aren’t present in the other games, and they can range from as small as 10X up to the max win of 20,000X the bet.
Smokey the Raccoon delivers more than just festive vibes and presents in Le Santa, as his sack is packed with Cash Prizes and Jackpots. If you want some Christmas cheer in your life, then be sure to check out the game’s demo.
Theme, Gameplay & Payouts
Le Santa is a video slot from Hacksaw Gaming with 6 Reels, 5 Rows, and uses Cluster Pay mechanics, needing a minimum of 5+ symbols to form a win. You can choose between making a Min.bet of 0.1 and a Max.bet of 50. Le Santa comes with an average RTP of 96.14% and is played with medium volatility, making wins happen relatively often with chances of hitting the max win of 20,000X the bet.
You’ll find Smokey, wearing a poorly put-together Santa costume, in a forest layered with thick snow. To nail home the Christmas feeling, a festive-themed soundtrack plays as the snow falls around the playing grid, even though the vibes might be a bit ruined by Smokey scratching his butt with a candy cane. You can play the game on most desktops, notepads, and mobiles.
The lower-paying symbols are 10, J, Q, K, and A. Creating a win with 12 or more of the same symbols will pay out 0.5X to 1X the bet. The higher-paying symbols are Christmas Socks, Baubles, Christmas Trees, Candy Canes, and Bells. Landing a win with 12 or more of the same symbols pays out 3X to 25X the bet. You’ll also find a large range of Special Symbols in the game, including Wilds, Scatters, Coins, Clovers, Santa Sacks, Rainbows, and Jackpot Boxes, but more on all of those in the next section.
Special Features & Mechanics
What is the max win in the slot Le Santa?
You can win up to 20,000X the bet.
What features are available in the slot Le Santa?
The features are Wild Symbols, Super Cascades, Golden Squares, Jackpot Boxes, Bonus Game, and Feature Buy.
Wild Symbols
Wild Symbols help form winning combinations by being able to substitute any normal paying symbols, but can’t substitute for any Special Symbols.
Super Cascades
When a winning combination occurs, all regular paying symbols of the type that were part of the winning combination are removed from the playing grid, allowing new symbols to drop down and fill the empty spaces for chances at making new winning combinations.
Golden Squares
Golden Squares are created when winning symbols are removed during the Cascades, and can be triggered by landing a Rainbow Symbol at the end of a Cascade sequence. When triggered, all Golden Squares will activate and reveal one of the following: Bronze, Silver, or Gold Coin, Santa Sack, Green or Gold Clover, or Jackpot Boxes.
The Special Symbols are as follows:
Bronze Coins = values of 0.2X, 0.5X, 1X, 2X, 3X, or 4X the bet.
Silver Coins = values of 5X, 10X, 15X, or 20X the bet.
Gold Coins = values of 25X, 50X, 100X, 250X, or 500X bet.
After all Golden Squares have been revealed, the Clover Symbols will activate, which are:
Green Clover Symbol = Multiply all Coin or Pot of Gold Symbols on adjacent squares with multiplier values of 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, 10X, or 20X.
Golden Clover Symbol = Multiply all Coin or Pot of Gold Symbols on all reels with multiplier values of 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X, 10X, or 20X.
Santa Sack = This special symbol type will activate when all Clover Symbols have awarded their multipliers. Santa Sacks collect the values of all Coin Symbols and other Santa Sacks on the grid and store their total value.
When the last Santa Sack on the playing grid has activated, all other Golden Squares will activate again to reveal new Special Symbols, and the process repeats. Once all reveals and activations have been finished, all Coins and Santa Sacks will be added together and multiplied by the current bet to determine the final award.
Jackpot Boxes
Jackpot Boxes can appear either normally through a spin and land on the reels, or through the Golden Squares. These Symbols land with either a Mini, Major, Mega, or Max Win prize, awarding 10X, 100X, 1,000X, or 20,000X, respectively. However, Jackpot Boxes can only be activated by landing with a Rainbow Symbol.
Bonus Game
There are 3 types of Bonus Games that all get activated by landing Scatter Symbols in the base game, and they range from:
Bonus Game - Silent Heist
This feature can be triggered by landing 3 Scatter Symbols, awarding 10 Free Spins. You can retrigger the feature by landing 2 or 3 Scatter Symbols, granting +2 or +4 additional Free Spins.
During the feature, it offers the same Base Game mechanics, but all Golden Squares are progressive and will remain on the grid until the Neon Rainbow activates them.
Bonus Game - Sleighing It
This feature can be triggered by landing 4 Scatter Symbols, awarding 10 Free Spins. You can retrigger the feature by landing 2 or 3 Scatter Symbols, granting +2 or +4 additional Free Spins.
During the feature, it offers the same Silent Heist mechanics, but in addition, all Golden Squares will remain on the grid until the end of the feature, even after the Rainbow activates them.
Hidden Epic Bonus – Wreck The Halls
This feature can be triggered by landing 5 Scatter Symbols, awarding 10 Free Spins. You can retrigger the feature by landing 2 or 3 Scatter Symbols, granting +2 or +4 additional Free Spins.
During the feature, it offers the same Sleighing It mechanics, but in addition, every spin guarantees 1 Rainbow, and when Coins are revealed, they will always be Silver or Gold.
Feature Buy
There are 4 Feature Buy options that you can use to partake in the various bonus games, for a price based on the current bet.
3X = Activates the BonusHunt FeatureSpins, making each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus game.
60X = Activates the Frosty FeatureSpins, guaranteeing at least 1 win and 1 Rainbow Symbol lands on each spin.
80X = Activates the Silent Heist bonus game with 10 spins.
250X = Activates the Sleighing It bonus game with 10 spins.
Final Thoughts on Le Santa
We, and probably the rest of the iGaming industry, are quite big fans of Smokey and his Le adventures, and that is probably why we’ve seen such an uprising of games being released in such a short span, with 6 releases in the span of a year, despite the original game dropping in 2023, slightly more than a year before its first sequel. While the gameplay loop of all the games has pretty much stayed the same, the small changes in features and the new fun and weird themes we get with each release have been enough to keep us engaged and coming back. However, Le Santa is not on the same level as the other releases, as it’s just a reskin of Le King, a game released not even 6 months before. This isn’t a new thing in the industry, so it doesn’t really surprise us that a game becomes a reskin just for a seasonal release, as it happens pretty often, and we saw it recently with Esqueleto Explosivo Feliz Navidead from Thunderkick. In the same vein, we don’t have an issue with this, as it has almost become a industry standard by now, but, one thing to point out, is that this game is even being released in the same month as Le Cowboy, the latest release in the Le series, and at some point, it might just be too much of Smokey for some of us. With all of that said, we still shouldn’t miss out on talking about the gameplay, so let us move over to that section.
As usual, we start with stats, and we got some average, Le-standard, ones at that, with an average RTP of 96.09% but still boasting a big max win of 20,000X the bet. The game is still heavily based around Golden Squares, and while non-stop chains of Cascading wins can net out some solid payouts, it’s from the many Coins, Clovers, Santa Sacks, and Jackpots where you will be hitting it big. Paired with this, we have the classic Hacksaw Gaming bonus games, where there are 3 types, with the most lucrative, being called the Hidden Bonus Game, offering amazing bonuses that will up your chances of walking away with a huge win. These bonus games are always a bit of fun and almost an industry standard for the studio at this point, but they also come with the negative tone of dumbing down the lesser the bonus game is, which can make them feel a bit sour at times. But all in all, Le Santa plays and feels exactly like Le King, with the exception of lessening the max bet from 100 to 50, but personally, that wasn’t anything we really put a thought to. If you want to feel some raccoon Christmas cheer, then be sure to check out the game’s demo.
Le Santa is a slot filled with festive vibes and Smokey the raccoon bringing big wins in his Santa Sack, along with many other Special Symbols and bonus games.
