How We Review Sweepstakes Casinos

1. We Start with the Operator’s Own Documents

For every casino we read its sweepstakes rules (official rules), terms of service and help-centre articles. Each fact on a review — minimum age, excluded states, redemption minimums, redemption and purchase methods, playthrough, verification, coin expiry — records the document, section and date we read it. Reviews number their sources, and each fact links to the one that supports it.

We use third-party sites only to find where an operator publishes something. We never copy a figure from another review site, and referral links are never used as sources.

2. Unknowns Stay Unknown

If we can’t find something in an operator’s official documents, the review says “Not published”. That isn’t a claim the feature is missing — only that the operator doesn’t state it clearly where we looked. Filters work the same way: a casino only matches a payment filter if it publishes that method.

3. What We Don’t Claim

Unless a page says otherwise, we have not opened an account, bought coins or redeemed a prize at the casinos we cover. We don’t publish payout-speed rankings, star ratings or bonus claims we can’t source. When we do run our own tests, they will be marked as our observations, with the date.

4. The Disclosure Score

We order casinos by a disclosure score from 0 to 100. It measures how clearly an operator publishes the rules a player needs before signing up. It is not a rating of games, service or payout speed.

What the Operator Publishes	Points
Publishes a list of excluded states	20
Describes a free (no-purchase) entry method	15
States a cash-prize redemption minimum	15
Explains identity verification before redemption	10
States the Sweeps Coins playthrough requirement	10
Lists prize-redemption methods	10
Names the legal operating company	10
Lists purchase methods	5
Dates its rules or terms	5

Ties are broken by how many of the twelve facts we track the operator publishes, then alphabetically. The score is calculated automatically from each record, so it can’t be adjusted by hand, and commercial relationships have no effect on it.

5. State Law

Our state tracker links each status to a bill page, statute, governor’s release or regulator notice. Where only a news report was available, we label it as such. It is a plain-English summary, not legal advice.

6. Keeping Records Current

We re-check operator documents on a schedule and when we detect a change to a source page. Every update is dated in the casino’s change history and on our recent changes page. Found an error? Tell us — corrections are dated on the page they affect.

7. Money

We may earn a commission when readers visit some casinos. That never changes the order, the score or what a review says. See how we make money.