The full list
Every guide on this site, grouped by what you need
This hub links every guide this site has published — sites, coins, closures and state rules — plus the 5 posts on the blog. Start with whichever question matches what just happened to you.
Everything below is organized by the question that usually brings someone here, not by brand name or by the order the guides were written. If you would rather see the full sweepstakes casino listing than the article list, that starts on sweepstakes casino alternatives.
Choosing a site
- What a sweepstakes casino is — the two-coin model explained from the operators' own terms before anything else on this site assumes you already know it.
- Sweepstakes casinos — every brand this site has read, in one comparison table covering currencies, minimum redemption, purchase methods and free entry, followed by a short card per brand.
- New sweepstakes casinos — brands sorted by launch or terms date where the documents give one, and what a newer site's rules tend to look like next to an older one's.
- Social casinos — platforms that run on one coin instead of two, why that removes the prize side entirely, and which brands fall into which category by their own terms.
- Real-money online casinos — the three kinds of real-money play a US reader actually runs into: state-licensed online casinos, offshore crypto casinos and sweepstakes redemptions, compared on deposits, withdrawals and verification.
- Crypto casinos compared with sweepstakes casinos — the two-coin model against a real crypto balance: licences checked in their own registers, coin lists, verification wording and the two money tests behind this site.
- Sister sites and owners — which company sits behind which brand, read from each group's own corporate pages rather than assumed from a shared name.
Sites like…
Eight brands, each read from its own terms and sweepstakes rules first, then compared against the closest alternatives.
- Sites like Chumba Casino — Chumba's own terms, why players tend to leave it, and the closest alternatives with a comparison table.
- Sites like Stake.us — Stake.us read from its own Terms and Conditions, with the alternatives that share its restricted-state list.
- Sites like Pulsz — Pulsz's redemption rules and its Gibraltar operator, with the brands closest to it on currency and minimums.
- Sites like LuckyLand Slots — LuckyLand's Sweeps Rules and VGW ownership, with sister-brand context and alternatives.
- Sites like Crown Coins — Crown Coins compared on the same fields as every other brand on this list.
- Sites like McLuck — McLuck's own rules against the brands players most often compare it with.
- Sites like High 5 Casino — High 5's coin rules and a near-identical clause structure to Pulsz's, read side by side.
- Sites like WOW Vegas — WOW Vegas's terms and the alternatives closest to its currency model.
The coins and the money
- Sweeps Coins explained — the two currencies, clause by clause, across every brand read for this site: names, redemption value, expiry and what arrives free.
- Do sweepstakes casinos pay real money — how a prize coin actually becomes cash or a gift card under each brand's own rules: playthrough, minimums, methods and identity checks.
- Sweepstakes casino no deposit bonus — free coins on sign-up, daily login and mail-in requests, described the way each brand's own terms describe them, with no codes anywhere.
- Instant redemption sweepstakes casinos — what each brand's rules actually promise about processing time, set against what its own marketing calls instant.
When a site closes
- Your platform is closing — the order of operations once a platform announces an end date, built from operators' own closing notices.
- Redemption before shutdown — why the redemption window has to be counted backwards from the closing date rather than forwards from today.
- Unredeemed coins — what a platform's own terms say happens to a coin balance nobody redeemed in time.
- Closing your account — the closure steps themselves, including how to request your own data, read from operators' account-closure pages.
- LuckyLand Slots closing — the reported closing date circulating for LuckyLand Slots, what VGW's own pages say, and the redemption window that follows.
- Closures and shutdowns — a dated log of whole-platform shutdowns and product changes by brand, each entry tied to the document it came from.
The rules
- Sweepstakes casinos banned by state — the one page on this site carrying law: state bills, attorney-general actions, brand exits by state, every brand's own excluded-state list, and the federal notes that sit behind all of it.
About this site
- How we compare — the documents this site reads for every brand, how they are dated, and the two real-money tests behind the site.
- Who runs this site — who reads the documents, who pays for the one button on this site, and how a correction gets made.
- The blog — five shorter posts, including one on LuckyLand's last days, one on sister sites sharing an owner, and one on paying at a sweepstakes casino with crypto.
Where should I start if my sweepstakes site just announced it is closing?
Go to your platform is closing for the general order of operations, then unredeemed coins and redemption before shutdown for the money side, and closing your account for the last step.
Where can I find sites like a specific brand?
The sites like group below covers Chumba, Stake.us, Pulsz, LuckyLand, Crown Coins, McLuck, High 5 Casino and WOW Vegas, each read from its own documents with alternatives listed.
Where is the page about state laws and which brands accept which states?
Sweepstakes casinos banned by state is the one page on this site that covers law, bans and every brand's own restricted-state list.
Where can I read about Sweeps Coins and how redemption actually works?
Sweeps Coins explained covers the currency itself; do sweepstakes casinos pay real money covers how a coin becomes cash or a gift card.
Does this hub link to the blog too?
Yes, once. The blog carries five shorter posts that sit alongside the main guides rather than replacing them.
How is this list different from a search of the site?
It is organized by the question a reader usually has rather than by brand name, and it is the only page that lists every guide in one place.