Mega Bonanza Pays In A Day, And Asks For Less
Thirty redeemable Sweeps Coins land the moment the account is verified, against the lowest redemption floor of any site in this edition. We filed a withdrawal at that floor and the money arrived the same day, which no other operator managed.
Four More Worth Your Evening
The runners-up, each with the figures that placed them and a note on what they actually feel like to use.
LoneStar Casino
The largest opening balance of the eighteen, and the VIP points that arrive with it are not decoration: a thousand of them moved our account two tiers before the first spin.
SpinBlitz Sweeps
Sixty-five redeemable coins against a fifty coin floor, plus the fastest support desk in the study. Eleven minutes to a document answer.
SplashCoins
A hundred and fifty thousand Gold Coins reads enormous and behaves like a sample. The promo calendar is what eventually gets you to the cashier.
Stake.us
The only welcome here that keeps paying after week one, thanks to rakeback on every wager. The lobby is closer to an exchange than a slot floor.
Ranks Six To Eighteen
Everything else we tested this edition, in one line each.
The Standing Columns
How we test
Eighteen accounts, funded with our own money, progressed on free entries only, then a real withdrawal timed from filing to funds received.
Read the standards →Coins, explained
Gold Coins are play money and can be issued by the million. Sweeps Coins are the only currency with a route to a prize. The difference decides everything.
Read the explainer →Where you can play
Washington is out everywhere, Idaho almost everywhere, Michigan and Nevada are patchy. Redemption is often limited before play is.
Read the state report →Reader Questions
Who writes these reviews?
A small independent desk. We open every account ourselves, pay for anything we test and publish the figures whether or not a brand pays us commission.
Is a purchase ever required?
No. Every site covered runs a free entry route and every figure in this journal was produced without buying coins.
Why does the biggest welcome not win?
Because most of it is Gold Coins, which cannot be redeemed. We weigh the Sweeps Coin share against the floor you must clear before the cashier opens.
How current are the figures?
Each site is re-tested quarterly on a fresh account, and any figure that moves is corrected the day we confirm it.
Do you accept payment for placement?
Never. Some brands pay commission on sign-ups, which is disclosed, and it has no effect on the order of the index.
The Number Nobody Advertises
Every sweepstakes casino publishes the size of its welcome and none of them publish the distance to the cashier. That distance is the difference between an offer that pays and an offer that simply keeps you busy, and it is trivially easy to measure: take the Sweeps Coin balance the site credits, then read the balance it demands before it will process a redemption.
Across this edition the gap runs from nothing at all to thirty-seven fold. Three sites credit a balance that already clears their own floor, so a member can file a withdrawal on the first evening. Two set the bar at a hundred coins in front of a welcome worth two or three, which is a fortnight of daily bonuses before the cashier will even open.
What we do about it
We publish both numbers next to each other on every card, every index row and every review, and we sort the journal on the relationship between them rather than on the headline. It makes for a less exciting front page than a million-coin banner. It also happens to be the truth.
And the clock
Once a balance clears the floor, one thing remains: how long the operator takes to pay. Our timings this edition run from 22 hours to 70. Every one of them came from a withdrawal we filed on an account we funded, and we re-time all eighteen every quarter.
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All eighteen reviews, with the four figures that placed each one.
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