The house rules
The team, the sources and the money behind this site
This site reads sweepstakes casinos’ own terms, sweepstakes rules and state notices, and marks the date beside every figure it prints. It has run exactly two real-money tests in 2026, on Vave and on TrustDice, and neither one is a sweepstakes brand.
Who we are
This is a small operation with one job: read the documents that sweepstakes casinos, social casinos and real-money operators publish about themselves, and write down what they say with a date attached. Nobody on this team has ever opened an account at a sweepstakes casino, bought a Gold Coin package, mailed in a free-entry request or asked for a redemption. Everything on this site about a sweepstakes brand is a reading of that brand’s own terms of use, sweepstakes rules, FAQ page or a notice it served to a visitor — never a report of somebody using the product.
That is a narrower claim than most sites about sweepstakes casinos make, and it is deliberate. A number tied to a clause, in a document with a version and a date, can be checked by anyone who does not trust us. A story about an experience cannot.
Most readers land here for one of two reasons: a sweepstakes site they used has closed, cut its Sweeps Coins, slowed its redemptions or asked for identification for the first time, or they are shopping for a sweepstakes site and want to see what the rules actually say before they sign up. Either way, the answer is built the same way — from the document, not from a forum thread about it.
What we read, and how we date it
Every figure on this site — a redemption minimum, a playthrough multiple, a list of states a brand excludes, a purchase method — is read from one of these, in this order of weight:
- The operator’s own terms of use or sweepstakes rules, with the version number and clause where the document carries one.
- A notice an operator has posted or served, quoted as it was written.
- An operator’s own help center or FAQ page, for the questions its terms do not answer.
- A state’s own statute or a state regulator’s own page, for law and licensing.
- Trade press, only for a fact we have not seen in a primary document, and only ever labeled as reported, never as read.
Review sites, forums and complaint boards are not a source here, for anything. No number, no state list and no clause number on this site was taken from one of those.
Where a document did not open — a page blocked from where we read it, a JavaScript shell with no server-rendered text, a 403 — the site says so rather than guessing. A blank field means the document was not read from here, not that the operator published nothing.
Version numbers matter more on this subject than most, because sweepstakes rules change often and the change itself is usually the story a reader wants. A rules document dated this July reads differently from the one it replaced, and a page on this site that cites a clause says which version it came from and when it was read, so a figure that later changes does not sit here looking current after it has moved. When a brand's live site refuses a connection or returns nothing but a script tag, an archived capture of the same document is used instead and marked as such, with the capture date standing in for a read date.
Who pays for this site
Vave is our advertiser, and it is the only commercial relationship this site has. Vave is a real-money crypto casino with a crypto cashier, licensed offshore — it is not a sweepstakes casino, and no sweepstakes brand is compared against it as though it were one. Where this site presents Vave, it says plainly that it is our advertiser.
There is no second advertiser waiting in line and no tiered placement for sale — one button, one advertiser, printed the same way on every page it appears on. No ranking is for sale. The sweepstakes brands that appear on this site are the ones whose documents we could read, and that is the entire reason a brand appears; none was added, dropped, ranked higher or ranked lower because of a payment. Vave is the only operator this site links to. Every sweepstakes brand, every social casino and every other crypto casino named here is named in text only — never linked — because naming a company is different from sending a reader to it, and this site sends readers to exactly one place.
The two real-money tests
Two operators, and only two, have been tested here with real money and a real account:
- Vave, on 28 August 2026: a deposit, a round of play and a withdrawal. No ID was requested up to 5,000 USDT.
- TrustDice, in May 2026: a series of crypto withdrawals, each one arriving in 10 to 15 minutes, with no ID requested until roughly 5,000 USDT had been withdrawn in total, after which verification followed.
Both tests used a real account and real funds, and both are reported as what happened on that day with that account, not as a guarantee of what happens on any other day or with any other account. Neither test is repeated on a schedule; if either operator's behavior is retested, the date on this site changes to match.
That is the whole list. Every other figure about crypto casinos on this site — licence numbers, coin lists, withdrawal claims — is read from a document, not measured by us with an account. Sweepstakes brands are never on this list, because this site does not play sweepstakes casinos; see how sweepstakes and crypto casinos are compared here for the full method.
What this site does not do
This site does not tell anyone how to reach a sweepstakes casino or a real-money operator from a state or country its own terms close to them. Not as a tip, not as a workaround, not in passing. A block printed in an operator’s own rules is that operator’s decision, and this site states it and stops there — the fuller picture of who excludes whom lives on the page that covers law and state rules and nowhere else on the site.
This site also carries no codes of any kind, and no system or strategy claiming to beat a sweepstakes casino’s math. Where a brand gives away Gold Coins or Sweeps Coins on sign-up, daily login or by mail, that is described the way the brand’s own rules describe it — see what a sweepstakes casino actually is for the underlying model.
Responsible play
Age limits differ by operator, and this site does not average them or guess at one that applies everywhere; each brand’s own terms set its own minimum, usually 18 or 21.
If gambling has stopped feeling like a game, the number to call is 1-800-GAMBLER, the National Problem Gambling Helpline operated by the National Council on Problem Gambling — free, confidential and available at any hour. That number sits in the footer of every page on this site, alongside the full list of sweepstakes casinos this site has read.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong, it gets fixed and the date of the fix is marked on the page. A site whose whole method rests on dates does not get to quietly edit its own past.
This site does not collect a reader's personal details to answer a question about a sweepstakes brand, and it does not ask anyone to create an account here to read a page. The one place a reader is asked to do anything is the advertising button itself, and that button is clearly marked before it is pressed.
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