14 of them. Each one starts with the answer rather than working up to it, says who it’s for, and admits where it stops.
It’s a deliberately short list. We add a question when somebody keeps asking it and we can answer it honestly — not because a keyword tool produced a variant. There’s also a page for the ones we won’t answer, and why.
What these sites are and how they're put together.
It's a casino that sells one kind of coin that is only ever for fun, and gives away a second kind that can be exchanged for money. Operators present this two-currency structure as a sweepstakes rather than a wager; we do not decide whether that characterisation holds where you live.
Gold Coins are play-money. They can never become anything. Sweeps Coins can be exchanged for real money once you have enough. If you're buying a package, you're buying Gold Coins — the Sweeps Coins come with it for free.
Because you're not putting money into a betting account. You're buying a product — play-money coins — and the entries that can win you something are attached free.
Because the operator decided to pull out, usually quickly and usually after somebody official sent a letter. It's a business decision, not a court ruling, and it can happen in a week.
Narrowing down to something that suits you.
The ones with a small library and a plain lobby. Being able to find a game, see which balance you're on and understand what happened is worth more in week one than having four thousand titles.
Most of them, honestly. The crypto-first sites are the minority; the majority take debit cards, credit cards and bank transfers and never mention crypto at you.
A minority of them. Live dealer needs a studio, staff and a streaming pipeline, so it's expensive to run and most sweepstakes sites skip it.
Buying, not buying, and what the numbers mean.
Yes. Every casino in our data has a way in that costs nothing, because the model requires it. Usually that's a daily login bonus, sometimes a social giveaway, and always a postal request route written into the terms.
Several. The smallest unverified seed package in this dataset starts at around two dollars, and the ones that start at ten are usually the crypto-first sites.
The lower end of the unverified seed figures in this dataset sits around twenty-five dollars; the more common figure is fifty. The finder will filter to whatever ceiling you set and show you the figure on each card.
Lower playthrough, most of the time. The headline number is chosen to be advertised; the playthrough decides how much of it survives contact with reality.
Redeeming, identity checks, and why the first one drags.
You reach the site's minimum, you request a redemption, you prove who you are, and then you wait. The waiting is the part people underestimate.
Because the first redemption is when the identity check usually happens, and a human being often looks at it. Later ones are often faster — but some operators, including High 5 in its Official Rules, may require KYC on later redemptions too.
It's the identity check: a photo of your ID and something with your address on it. Every site that pays out real money does it, no exceptions worth taking seriously.