About SweepsCheck
SweepsCheck is a directory of US sweepstakes casinos. We read each operator’s own rules instead of repeating what other review sites say, and every page shows its sources.
What we cover, and what we don’t
We cover sweepstakes casinos open to US players: the sites where you play with Gold Coins for fun and with Sweeps Coins that can be redeemed for prizes. For each one we track the details you can check against its own terms. That means the states it accepts, the minimum age, the redemption minimums and methods, free mail-in entry, the welcome offer and the company that runs it.
We don’t review state-licensed real-money casinos or sportsbooks, and we don’t judge game quality, app design or how support treats you. Those take hands-on testing and player reports, and we haven’t done that work. We also don’t give legal or tax advice. Our state pages say what the law and the operators say, not what you should do.
Independence and funding
We don’t take payment from operators and we don’t use affiliate links. Links go directly to each operator’s website. There are no sponsored reviews and no paid placements. If we ever add affiliate links, this page, our terms and the footer will say so, and the ratings will still come from the same published formulas.
Where the facts come from
Every fact on a casino page comes from the operator’s own pages: its sweepstakes rules, terms of use or help center. We store each one with the page address, the date we read it and a short verbatim quote, and a checking script confirms that the quote really appears in the copy of the page we saved and flags any that doesn’t. You can read the quotes yourself in the Sources list at the bottom of each casino page. The full process is on how we verify.
State availability is the one place we go beyond the operator. We combine the operator’s excluded-states list with state laws and regulator actions, and if either one rules a state out, we treat it as unavailable.
How scores work
Each casino gets an Editor Rating, worked out by a fixed formula from the facts we verified, and a separate Market Signal score for its website’s reach. Our default lists rank by an Overall Score that weighs the two equally. Nobody adjusts a score by hand. A missing fact counts as “not scored”, never as zero or as a pass. The formulas and weights are on how we rate.
How often we re-check
Operators change their terms without much notice, so every casino page shows the date of its newest operator source. Once that date is more than 60 days old, the casino is labeled “may be outdated” until we read its pages again. When we do, the date only moves forward if every stored quote is still on the live page. If a quote has gone, the old date stays and the fact goes to manual review.
Editorial standards
Casino reviews, lists and guides start from the verified facts, not from a blank page. Review and list copy is run through a checker against those facts: any figure that isn’t in its verified record is an error, and so are casino-style words like “deposit” or “withdraw”, since you buy Gold Coin packages and redeem prizes on these sites. Scores aren’t quoted in the written copy, because they move every time the data is refreshed. A member of the team then reads and approves the page. Until that happens, it stays out of search engines.
We don’t write about play we haven’t done. You won’t find “we tested the payouts” or “support was fast” here, because we judge the published rules. Opinions are allowed only when they follow from those rules, such as a redemption minimum that’s high compared with other sites.
Editorial team
SweepsCheck is run by a small team of online marketing professionals. We know how sweepstakes casino marketing works: which claims are easy to make and which are hard to check. Reviews, lists and guides are published under one byline, the SweepsCheck editorial team, and each one shows when it was last reviewed.
Corrections
If a fact on the site no longer matches an operator’s rules, tell us. A link to the page that shows the change helps most. We check the claim against the operator’s current pages, not against the report alone, and update the fact with its new quote and date. When we’ve corrected a state law entry, that state’s page carries a note saying what changed.
Want to reach the team for anything else? Use our contact form.