The other branch
Which sites actually have no prize currency at all
13 of the first 15 documents we read define two currencies and a redemption process; a further four brands' current terms now describe only one, including a Jackpota clause that contradicts its own newer rules.
Two products under one label
The word “social casino” gets used for two different things, and only one of the documents we read settles the question cleanly. A sweepstakes casino, on the test this site uses throughout, is a site whose own rules define two currencies — a play coin that is sold and never redeemed, and a second coin that is given away free and can be exchanged for a prize through a stated process. A social casino, on the same test, defines only the first kind: a play coin, sold or given away, with nothing on the other side of it.
The label on a homepage does not always match that test. Stake.us titles one of its own help-centre articles simply “Stake.us - Social Casino,” and that same site runs a full redemption process for Stake Cash, a three-times playthrough requirement, and identity verification before any prize is paid — everything a sweepstakes casino's documents carry. The name a company chooses for itself is marketing; the currencies its terms actually define are the more reliable answer, and that is what the rest of this page goes by.
Which brands are which, per their own terms
| Brand | Two currencies in the document we read | Redemption process defined | What its own documents say |
|---|---|---|---|
| LuckyLand Slots | Yes | Yes | Names the prize side Sweeps Coins throughout its Sweeps Rules |
| Stake.us | Yes | Yes | A help-centre article titles the brand Social Casino even so |
| Chumba Casino | Yes | Yes | — |
| Global Poker | Yes | Yes | — |
| Pulsz | Unclear — only “Virtual Coins” is named, collectively | Partial — support articles walk through redeeming cash or a gift card | Calls itself a social casino on its own front page |
| McLuck | No, not in the one document we could open | No | A separate sweepstakes-rules page exists in its own site navigation but would not open on any date we tried |
| High 5 Casino | Yes | Yes | — |
| WOW Vegas | Yes | Yes | — |
| Fortune Wins | Yes | Yes | — |
| RealPrize | Yes | Yes | — |
| Zula Casino | Yes | Yes | — |
| Rolla | Yes, but only in a separate rules document | Yes | Its general Terms and Conditions never mention the prize coin at all |
| Hello Millions | Yes | Yes | — |
| Modo.us | Yes | Yes | Its own terms label the states where Sweeps Coins are unavailable GC Only States |
| Spree | Yes | Yes | — |
| Jackpota | Contradicts itself | Yes, but only in a newer document | Terms of Service v2.6 names no prize currency; Sweepstakes Rules v1.9, dated later, still runs full SC redemption |
| Mega Bonanza | No, not in the current document | No | Terms of Service v2.6 (26 Jan 2026) contains no Sweeps, Sweepstakes or Prize clause anywhere in the text |
| NoLimitCoins | No, not in the current document | No | Terms of Use v2.0 (3 Sep 2026) names only Virtual Coins; no redemption clause found |
| Funrize | No, not in the current document | No | Terms of Use v2.0 (3 Jun 2026) states there is no prize opportunity outside no-purchase-necessary promotions |
Thirteen of the fifteen brands read first named two currencies and a redemption process without much ambiguity. Pulsz and McLuck were the two exceptions among them, failing the test in different ways: one by naming its currencies too loosely, the other because the only document we could open never mentions a second currency at all. Three more brands read since — Mega Bonanza, NoLimitCoins and Funrize — now read the same way McLuck does: single-currency documents, full stop. Jackpota is its own case, covered below.
Pulsz: social by name, unresolved by its terms
Pulsz is the clearest case of the label and the document pulling in different directions. Its own front page presents it as a social casino, and its Terms of Use, version 5.2 of 1 September 2026, describe “Virtual Coins” as a single collective term rather than naming a Gold Coin and a Sweeps Coin the way most brands on this site do. That reads, on its own, like the language of a no-prize product.
But it is not that simple. Pulsz's own support centre carries live articles walking a player through redeeming a balance by bank transfer or as a gift card, and a separate article title uses the words “Sweepstakes Coins” even though that term never appears in the Terms of Use itself. A prize side clearly exists in practice; it is just not defined in the one document we could read as cleanly as it is at other brands. We have marked Pulsz's currency structure “unclear” rather than filing it under either category, because that is what the documents available to us actually show.
What a Gold-Coin-only document actually contains
McLuck's Terms of Service, dated 28 August 2025, is the one document among the fifteen we read that genuinely reads like a single-currency product end to end. It defines Gold Coins, describes how they are purchased, sets out identity-verification requirements tied to purchases and fraud checks, and states the states the platform will not serve at all. What it does not contain, anywhere in its text, is a second currency, a redemption clause, a minimum balance, a playthrough requirement or a mail-in free-entry route — the five things that fill entire sections of a sweepstakes casino's rules.
That gap is informative on its own. A prize currency does not just add a coin; it adds a whole layer of contractual machinery around that coin — how it is earned for free, how many times it must be played before it counts, how much has to accumulate before a request can be made, how long a request can take, and what happens if the request is incomplete. Remove the prize coin and, on the evidence of the one document that actually shows this, that entire layer has nothing to attach to.
What is left instead is shorter and plainer: a purchase clause, an identity-verification clause tied to payment and fraud rather than to a payout, and the usual account terms — suspension rights, a licence to use the coins rather than ownership of them, a dispute process. None of that disappears when the prize side does. Only the parts of the document built around a redemption request go with it, because there is no request left for them to describe.
Three more brands whose current terms read the same way
McLuck is not the only brand whose readable document turns out to be single-currency. Three others do the same thing in their most recent terms, each for a different reason worth naming.
Mega Bonanza, run by LuminaryPlay Operations Limited, publishes a Terms of Service, version 2.6, “updated as of January 26 2026,” that we searched directly for the words Sweeps, Sweepstakes, Prize and redemption — none of them appear. One clause states plainly that outside no-purchase-necessary promotions there is no chance to win a prize on the platform. Its help centre, current through 11 September 2026, covers Gold Coins only, and no Sweepstakes Rules document has been capturable anywhere since mid-2025. We found no dated notice announcing a change; the document itself is simply silent on a second currency.
NoLimitCoins, run by A1 Development LLC, shows the same pattern in its current Terms of Use, version 2.0 of 3 September 2026: the currency clause names only “Virtual Coins,” with no Gold Coin or Sweeps Coin split and no redemption clause anywhere in the text. An earlier agreement dated December 2023 described a comparable single-currency structure, so this may not be a recent change so much as a standing description of the product.
Funrize, run by the same company, A1 Development LLC, states in its own current Terms of Use, version 2.0 of 3 June 2026, that “with the exception of no purchase necessary promotional contests or giveaways, there is no opportunity for a User on the Platform to win real-money or any prize.” An older Award Rules document, last revised 4 June 2024, described a full Sweeps-style redemption process, tied to a promotion period the document itself states as ending 1 June 2026 — which lines up with the current terms no longer describing one.
Jackpota is a fourth case, but not a clean one. Its Terms of Service, version 2.6, reads the same way as the three brands above: no prize currency named, the same “no purchase necessary” language. But Jackpota's Sweepstakes Rules, version 1.9 and dated 9 September 2026 — newer than the Terms of Service — still define Sweepstakes Coins, a redemption value and a minimum in full. On the evidence of its own most-recently-dated document, Jackpota's sweepstakes side is still active; its Terms of Service just has not caught up to say so.
Sweepstakes brands that already run Gold-Coin-only somewhere
Several two-currency brands are not purely one thing or the other depending on where a player is. Their own documents draw two different lines: a smaller list of states where the whole platform is unavailable, and a larger list of states where only the prize currency is unavailable. The gap between those two lists is a Gold-Coin-only zone, built into the brand's own rules rather than into any separate product.
Modo.us states this most directly of any brand we read: its terms name the states where Sweeps Coins are not offered “GC Only States,” using that exact phrase, and that list covers all but one of the states where the platform is unavailable outright — meaning the platform stays open for Gold Coin play in nearly every state where the prize side is switched off. LuckyLand Slots, Chumba Casino and Global Poker, the three VGW brands on this list, each draw the same shape of line: a short list of states excluded from the whole platform, and a longer list excluded only from “Promotional Play,” the clause that governs Sweeps Coins specifically. Fortune Wins and Zula Casino both show the identical structure — a short whole-service exclusion list and a longer sweepstakes-only one — and WOW Vegas separates its states the same way between registration and Sweeps Coin play. Hello Millions goes further and states outright, in a dated notice, that it no longer offers promotional contests in a couple of states while continuing to operate there.
None of this page repeats which states those are. That picture, brand by brand and law by law, belongs on the page built to carry it, linked below.
Why a no-prize site is a real alternative once Sweeps Coins are switched off
Put those two sections together and the practical answer becomes clear. For a reader in one of the states named above, at one of those brands, “no prize currency” already describes their account — the login still works, the games still run, the Gold Coin packages are still for sale, and the only thing missing is the redemption clause that never applied to them in the first place. A social casino is not a downgrade from that position; it is what a sweepstakes casino already looks like once its own rules have switched the prize side off.
The same logic holds for a reader on a genuinely single-currency product like the one McLuck's readable document describes. Every risk that sits inside a sweepstakes brand's redemption clause — a request that stalls past its own processing window, an identity check that does not clear, a balance stranded when a platform closes — has nothing to attach to when there is no prize coin to redeem in the first place. What is left is a simpler contract, not a better one, and for a reader who wants to play without any of that machinery, simpler is the whole point.
It is also worth being honest about what this branch is not. Choosing a Gold-Coin-only product, or a Gold-Coin-only state on a two-currency brand, does not produce a prize at the end of play — that trade was never on the table once the second coin was gone. The alternative on offer here is a simpler set of terms, not a route back to the redemption a reader's original site stopped offering.
What stays the same either way
Removing the prize coin does not remove the coin that is actually sold. Every document on this page — sweepstakes or not — sells Gold Coins, Game Coins or WOW Coins in packages for real money, and every one of them says in the same breath that this coin cannot be redeemed for a prize under any circumstance. That clause is identical whether or not a second currency exists beside it. What changes is only what happens after the purchase: on a two-currency site, a separate coin can still become a prize through a stated process; on a one-currency site, nothing on the platform converts to anything beyond more play.
One note on the law
A social casino with no prize currency and a sweepstakes casino with two are not automatically treated the same way under every state's rules, and that distinction is exactly what recent state definitions turn on; the laws themselves are gathered on one dedicated page rather than repeated here.
For the full fifteen-brand comparison this page draws from, see every sweepstakes casino we read, and for the two-coin structure itself, clause by clause, read Sweeps Coins explained or what a sweepstakes casino is. Brands with the newest or thinnest rulebooks, including some of the ones named above, are gathered on new sweepstakes casinos, and who owns what maps the groups behind them. For the wider set of sites like sweepstakes casinos beyond this one branch, the home page sorts every kind of alternative by what it actually is.