What are Gold Coins and Sweeps Coins?
Gold Coins are a play currency with no cash value. You can buy them or get them free. Sweeps Coins are sweepstakes entries. Operators' terms draw the line explicitly: one large operator defines play with Gold Coins as “Standard Play” and play with Sweeps Coins as “Promotional Play”, and only the second leads to prizes.
How do you get Sweeps Coins without buying anything?
Four routes exist at most casinos: a sign-up bonus, a daily login bonus, social-media giveaways, and a written request by post (the “alternative method of entry”). The postal route is slow and deliberately inconvenient, but it must exist.
Can Sweeps Coins be purchased?
Not directly. They come as a “free bonus” with Gold Coin packages. In practice that is how most players get them, and it is exactly what the new state laws target: they define the model as a dual-currency system in which coins received with a purchase can be exchanged for prizes.
What is a playthrough requirement?
The number of times Sweeps Coins must be wagered before winnings from them can be redeemed. One time is common, but some casinos ask for more. Read it before you accept a bonus, because it applies to every coin the bonus gives you.
How are Sweeps Coins turned into prizes?
You request a redemption once your redeemable balance passes the casino's minimum. Most operators value one Sweeps Coin at one US dollar for redemption, but the rate is whatever the sweepstakes rules say.
Which states do not allow it?
The table lists every state where we show no casinos, and why. It is generated from the same data as the state pages.
| State | Status |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Not established |
| Arizona | Not available |
| California | Banned |
| Connecticut | Banned |
| Delaware | Not available |
| Florida | Not available |
| Idaho | Not available |
| Illinois | Not available |
| Indiana | Banned |
| Iowa | Not available |
| Kentucky | Not available |
| Louisiana | Banned |
| Maine | Banned |
| Maryland | Not available |
| Michigan | Not available |
| Minnesota | Not available |
| Mississippi | Not established |
| Montana | Banned |
| Nevada | Not available |
| New Jersey | Banned |
| New Mexico | Not available |
| New York | Banned |
| Oklahoma | Ban enacted |
| Pennsylvania | Not available |
| Tennessee | Banned |
| Utah | Not established |
| Washington | Not available |
| West Virginia | Not available |
| Wyoming | Not available |