Methodology
Everything the finder uses to decide, written out. If a rule isn’t on this page it isn’t in the product — the table below is generated from the same records the engine runs, so it can’t drift out of date.
Rule set 2026.09.07
The rules
The shaded slots are where your answer and the recorded value are dropped in. Must-haves exclude. Preferences carry a weight and earn full, half or no credit. A casino’s position is the share of your total weight it earned; below 45% we call it no strong fit. A preference only enters that arithmetic when its recorded value carries the evidence its status requires; otherwise the card marks it unconfirmed and it counts neither way.
| Rule | Question it reads | Kind | Weight | The sentence it writes when met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| state-availability | Which state are you in? | Must-have | excludes | It is not on the official excluded list for your answer. |
| game-type-available | What do you actually want to play? | Must-have | excludes | It has what it has, which you asked for. |
| game-type-coverage | What do you actually want to play? | Preference | 4 | It covers everything you picked: what it has. |
| live-dealer-required | Is live dealer a must-have? | Must-have | excludes | It has live dealer tables, which you said were a must. |
| payment-method-supported | If you buy coins, how would you want to pay? | Withdrawn | not applied | It takes what it has, which you said you'd use. |
| crypto-avoidable | How do you feel about crypto? | Withdrawn | not applied | You can use it without touching crypto. |
| crypto-preferred | How do you feel about crypto? | Withdrawn | not applied | It takes crypto, which you said you'd prefer. |
| library-size-fit | Big library, or a smaller one that's easy to navigate? | Preference | 3 | Its library is what it has, which matches what you asked for. |
| interface-simplicity-fit | How much of this have you done before? | Preference | 4 | The interface is what it has, which suits where you're starting from. |
| free-play-fit | How important is being able to play without paying? | Preference | 4 | You can play there without buying anything. |
| daily-free-coins-fit | How important is being able to play without paying? | Preference | 2 | It tops you up with free coins daily, so you can come back without paying. |
| device-fit | Where will you mostly play? | Preference | 2 | It works the way you want on your answer. |
Why some of them are withdrawn
The withdrawn rules read the two fields that describe how an operator takes money in: the routes it accepts, and whether crypto is one of them. They run only when every profile the finder can return carries both, read from the operator’s own published words — and it does not. A must-have that reads an empty field does not become cautious, it becomes a filter that removes the whole list because of a gap in our records — and the same empty field will hand out a positive answer just as readily, which is how a card came to say a site took crypto on the strength of a guess. So those rules are not run, and the questions they served are not asked. They stay printed above because this page is the rule set, not a summary of the parts that happened to be working.
They come back together, and only on evidence. The moment every profile in the finder carries both fields, taken from the operator’s own published words with the source and the date it was read attached, the rules are live again and the questions return with them. An unverified guess will not do it; neither will the words “operator published” with nothing underneath them; neither will a source that does not say the same thing the record says; and neither will one sourced profile among the rest, which would put the must-have back and then exclude every casino we still had not read.
Tie-breaks
Casinos on the same score are ordered alphabetically. That is deliberately the most boring rule we could pick: any tie-break that looked like a judgement would be one, and we didn’t want a hidden preference smuggled in under the word “tie”.
Missing data counts against a must-have
If you set something as a must-have and we don’t have that attribute recorded for a casino, the casino is left out and told to you as “we don’t know” rather than shown as a maybe. On a non-negotiable, “unconfirmed” isn’t good enough. On a preference, missing data is simply not counted either way — it neither helps nor hurts.
That is how every rule on this page behaves, with one exception, and the exception has a stricter bar rather than a looser one. The two fields describing how an operator takes money in are gated on their own evidence: the rules reading them run only when every casino the finder can return carries both, sourced. Anything less and they are withdrawn — because a must-have the records cannot answer across the board empties the list on a gap in our data rather than on anything about the casinos, and the same empty field will hand out a positive answer just as readily. That is what happened to the payment rules above.
The two judgement calls
Most attributes are facts an operator publishes. Two are classifications we make, so the rubric is here rather than summarised as a score.
Interface complexity
- Plain and easy to find your way around. The switch between the two balances is visible without hunting for it, the lobby shows a manageable number of things before you choose anything, and the redemption process can be found before you need it.
- Busy but manageable. One of those three is awkward — usually the lobby — but nothing is hidden and a patient first-timer gets there.
- Packed with options. Two or more are awkward: carousels several screens deep, promotional overlays on arrival, or a balance toggle that isn't obvious on a phone.
Library breadth
- Small and easy to browse. You could reasonably see everything it offers in one evening.
- Reasonably wide. More than you'd get through quickly, but the lobby is still navigable by hand.
- Very large. Search and filters are the only practical way in.
We don’t publish a game count, because we do not track catalogue sizes and a stale number looks more precise than a band while being less true.
Evidence, and how confident we are
About this data: Heads up: the fit details behind these recommendations — what a site offers, how big its library is, how cluttered it is, whether there's an app — are provisional on every profile we hold. We haven't confirmed them against each operator's own published information, and we've marked them that way rather than letting them look more solid than they are. Whether you can play without paying sits between the two: it is one of the fields the scoring reads, and on most profiles the value is one nobody has confirmed. Operator facts are different, and they are uneven: where a card shows a minimum age, how the free entry route works, whether coins can be bought, what the operator calls the product, or a rule about VPNs or extra accounts, that line was read from that operator's own document and carries its source and the date it was read. Where a card shows none of those, we hold none — the gap is the claim. One thing we do hold for every site the finder can return is its excluded-state list, read from that operator's own document; a card does not print it, but it is what your state answer is checked against. What that means and how it gets fixed.
Every attribute carries a status: operator-published (read from the operator’s own page, with a source and a date), internal-observation (something we recorded ourselves, which nothing currently is, with a date), or unverified. Unverified fields never earn fit credit.
Right now the statuses present in the dataset are: operator-published, unverified. They are not spread evenly, and which side of the line a fact falls on matters a great deal more than the headline. The two lists below are generated from the records themselves, so sourcing a field moves it between them rather than leaving this paragraph behind to be corrected.
Read from an operator document
Transcribed from the operator’s own rules, terms or help pages, with the source and the date it was read stored on the value itself. 15 such documents are cited by a value, each listed in the next section, read on 2026-08-21. That section counts 16 rows as operator documents rather than 15. The difference is one document we read that no value on a profile is taken from, so nothing cites it: LuckyLand Slots (luckyland-not-available). Most of these fields are optional, so the count after each one is against the profiles that record it at all, not against all 12 — a field one profile ships is not eleven profiles we failed to source.
- whether coins can be bought — read from a document on all 11 profiles that record it.
- the states it says it will not take — read from a document on 11 of 12 profiles; the rest are unverified.
- the minimum age, in the operator's words — read from a document on all 10 profiles that record it.
- what the operator calls the product — read from a document on all 10 profiles that record it.
- whether more than one account is allowed — read from a document on all 9 profiles that record it.
- the free entry route — read from a document on all 7 profiles that record it.
- whether it publishes a warning against VPNs — read from a document on all 6 profiles that record it.
- whether you can play without paying — read from a document on 3 of 12 profiles; the rest are unverified.
- states where the operator's own documents disagree — read from a document on the one profile that records it.
- the minimum age, as a number — read from a document on the one profile that records it.
- states where sweepstakes play is restricted — read from a document on the one profile that records it.
Provisional, on every profile
Not one profile carries an operator document for any of these. The values are seeds we recorded so there would be something to score against, they are marked unverified in the record, and they are what the notice above is about.
- whether crypto is accepted
- daily free coins
- which kinds of game it offers
- how cluttered the interface is
- when identity checks happen
- how big the library is
- the redemption minimum
- how long a redemption takes
- how money goes in
- phone apps and browser support
- the smallest purchase on offer
That split runs straight through the rules above, which read 9 of these fields between them. Document-backed: whether you can play without paying, the states it says it will not take. Provisional: whether crypto is accepted, daily free coins, which kinds of game it offers, how cluttered the interface is, how big the library is, how money goes in, phone apps and browser support. Being on the first list is not a promise about every profile, and it is not a promise about how the rule behaves either. One rule judges a casino on an evidence status: the state check treats a list not read from an operator document as something we do not know, which on a must-have leaves the casino out. That is a different mechanism from the gate above, which reads evidence to withdraw a rule from everybody rather than to decide anything about one casino. Every other rule reads the recorded value whatever its status, so an unverified seed earns the same credit a sourced fact would. The notice above stands on exactly that: a card can say a site has a free way in, and mean a value nobody has confirmed.
Where a page could not be read, the field stayed on the second list rather than being filled in from somewhere else. Moozi’s terms and rules pages are JavaScript shells and were not scraped as facts; Funrize’s section 3.4 is not shipped for the same reason. Nothing here cites a page nobody opened, and nothing here is marked confirmed because it looked plausible.
Anything older than 120 days is flagged on the card itself as worth re-checking, rather than quietly ageing.
What’s actually been checked
28 entries, of more than one kind: 12 front-door reachability checks and 16 operator-document transcriptions. The rows are generated from the same source registry the data cites.
- Chumba Casino — front-door check. Chumba Casino's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://www.chumbacasino.com/
- Pulsz — front-door check. Pulsz's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://www.pulsz.com/
- WOW Vegas — front-door check. WOW Vegas's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://www.wowvegas.com/
- High 5 Casino — front-door check. High 5 Casino's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://high5casino.com/
- Stake.us — front-door check. Stake.us's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://stake.us/
- Global Poker — front-door check. Global Poker's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://www.globalpoker.com/
- LuckyLand Slots — front-door check. LuckyLand Slots's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://www.luckylandslots.com/
- Funrize — front-door check. Funrize's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://funrize.com/
- Sportzino — front-door check. Sportzino's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://sportzino.com/
- Zula Casino — front-door check. Zula Casino's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://zulacasino.com/
- Jackpota — front-door check. Jackpota's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://jackpota.com/
- Moozi — front-door check. Moozi's public front door resolves over HTTPS at this URL. This confirms the outbound link target only — no operator facts were read from the page. Retrieved 2026-08-15. https://moozi.com/
- Chumba Casino — operator document. Chumba Casino Official Rules v26.0 section 1.1(c) and T&Cs v27.0 section 3.1(a) (PDF already in tree): excluded CA CT DE ID IN LA ME MI MS MT NV NJ NY TN WA WV; age 21 or majority, whichever later. Paid Gold Coin packs. AMOE Rules section 3.2(d)(b)(c). VPN warning T&Cs section 3.3. Multi-account warning T&Cs section 5.1. Retrieved 2026-08-21. chumba casino official rules v26.0 and terms v27.0
- Pulsz — operator document. Pulsz Terms of Use v5.1 section 3.4 held excluded list. Age 21 or majority, whichever higher. Paid Gold Coin purchase section 2.4 (no SKUs). VPN warning section 3. Multiple accounts restricted section 4.2. Product: entertainment, no real-money gaming. AMOE unknown. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://www.pulsz.com/terms-of-use
- WOW Vegas — operator document. WOW Vegas help article on Sweeps Coin redemption exclusions. Excluded: ID NV MI WA MT CT NY LA CA MD NJ TN IL IN ME, plus Canada except Quebec. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://help.wowvegas.com/en/articles/10676742
- High 5 Casino — operator document. High 5 Casino Official Rules v43.0 §2.1: excluded-state list; age 21+; Indiana and Iowa remain on that list after a special notice ended 30 Jun 2026 and are not treated as playable. §6.2.4 mail-in AMOE on a 4x6 postcard to PO Box 695, Mahwah, NJ. §6.2.2 marked Game Coin packs (no prices). Active. Cashout and KYC figures are not shipped as fit cells. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://high5casino.com/sweepstakes-rules/
- High 5 Casino — operator document. High 5 public chrome. Page title names the product Social Casino. Official chrome restricts multiple accounts. No VPN sentence is transcribed. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://high5casino.com/
- Stake.us — operator document. Stake.us Terms plus help restricted-states 8570633. Excluded-state list as transcribed. Age: 21 or the higher age of majority. Paid Gold Coins; Stake Cash cannot be purchased; no prices. Product named only as Gold Coins, Stake Cash, Sweepstakes / Standard Play — not as a social casino. VPN warning published. Multiple accounts restricted. No AMOE sentence is transcribed. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://stake.us/policies/terms
- Global Poker — operator document. Global Poker T&Cs v26.0 (media.globalpoker.com PDF already in tree). §3.1 excluded-state list. Age: 21 or the age of majority, whichever is later. AMOE is an in-app Entry Request with a 4x6 photo, not postal. Paid Gold Coins. Product: social game play in Global Poker / entertainment. VPN warning published. T&Cs §5.1 restrict multiple accounts. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. global poker terms v26.0 media.globalpoker.com
- LuckyLand Slots — operator document. The official LuckyLand Slots play URL returns HTTP 200 with a JavaScript shell. The served page does not publish a winding-down sentence or a closure date. Not treated as a live fit while the official play URL is /not-available. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://luckylandslots.com/not-available
- LuckyLand Slots — operator document. LuckyLand Slots Official Rules v29.0 (PDF; not the 2022 HTML). Excluded-state list as transcribed. §1.2: 21 or the age of majority, whichever is later. AMOE is an in-app Entry Request, not postal. §3.2(a) paid coins (no prices). Product: play games for entertainment. No VPN sentence is transcribed. Retrieved 2026-08-21. luckyland official rules v29.0
- Sportzino — operator document. Sportzino Official Rules v2.4 (named citation; no invented URL). §1.1.8 excluded-state list; LA excluded from 24 Jul 2026. Age of majority only — no numeric age transcribed. §3.2 mail-in AMOE with Mail Code. §3.2.1 paid Gold Coins (no prices). Product: entertainment, no real-money gambling. VPN warning published. Multiple accounts restricted. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. sportzino official rules v2.4
- Funrize — operator document. Funrize Terms of Use v2.0 section 3.4 (updated 03.06.2026). Fully restricted: CT DE ID LA MI MT NV NJ NY RI TN WA WV WY plus outside US. CA IN ME MD = Tournament Points only, not full Sweeps — SPLIT, not marked excluded or available. Age 21 or majority, whichever higher. Paid coins section 2.4 (no SKUs). Multiple accounts restricted section 4.2. Product: Funrize Social Gaming Platform / Social Casino. Active. VPN unknown. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://funrize.com/page/agreement
- Funrize — operator document. Funrize alternative method of entry. Mail-in 4x6 to A1 Development LLC, Casper WY. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://funrize.com/alternative-method-of-entry
- Zula Casino — operator document. Zula Sweeps Rules v2.5 section 1.1.8 (24 Jul 2026 PDF). Excluded: ID MI DE NY WA NV CA LA IL TN CT IN ME NJ MT. Do not use T and Cs section 1.1.6 shorter list. FL is a max-win cap, not excluded. Age 18 or majority, whichever later, section 1.1.11. AMOE handwritten mail plus Mail Code section 3.2.4. Paid Gold Coin section 3.2.1 (no prices). Product: Social Casino. VPN warning. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://www.zulacasino.com/api/Document/ContentPage/sweeps-rules.pdf
- Zula Casino — operator document. Zula Terms and Conditions section 3.4: multiple accounts restricted. Do not use T and Cs section 1.1.6 for the excluded-state list. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://www.zulacasino.com/terms-and-conditions
- Jackpota — operator document. Jackpota Terms of Service v2.6 section 3.4 (30 Jul 2026). Excluded: AL CT DE ID IN KY LA ME MD MI MT NV NJ NY TN WA WV plus outside US. Help adds CA — SPLIT, not on this excluded list, do not recommend CA, do not use Help positive-availability paragraph. Age 21 or majority, whichever higher. AMOE unknown (footer No Purchase Necessary is not a mail-in path). Paid coins section 2.4. Product: Free-Play Social Casino. Multiple accounts restricted section 4.2. VPN unknown. Sweeps-rules 404, not invented. Active. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://www.jackpota.com/terms-of-service/
- Moozi — operator document. promo.moozi.com: Gold Coin purchase exists (no SKU). Active. Product: social casino. Official terms/agreement/rules are JS shells and were not scraped as facts. Excluded list, official age, AMOE, VPN and multi-account remain UNKNOWN. Do not geo-fit. Retrieved 2026-08-21. https://promo.moozi.com
What can’t affect any of this
Commercial relationships. The scoring code cannot import the affiliate registry, non-partner casinos are eligible on identical terms, and a test changes the commission figures and fails if any result moves. The full commercial disclosure.
When the rules change
The version number goes up. It appears on every recommendation card and in every copied result, so a shortlist you saved can be traced to the rules that produced it. Weights are not tuned to make particular casinos rank better; if a weight changes, it’s because the reasoning changed, and the version records that it did.