Our method

Every figure here — a signup amount, a playthrough multiplier, a redemption minimum, a payout time — was read from a document the operator itself publishes: its sweepstakes rules, its terms, its help pages, its store or promotions pages. A person does the reading, and the document is kept alongside the entry so a figure can always be traced back to the sentence it came from.

Three rules are absolute.

• A page that loads is not evidence. Operator sites answer with geo-block notices, error pages and empty shells that all look like success to a machine. Every reading is checked against a deliberately nonsensical address on the same site, and if the real page and the nonsense page are indistinguishable, nothing is recorded.
• A document that could not be read backs nothing. A reading that failed is recorded as exactly that, and no figure may cite it.
• Other affiliate sites are never a source for amounts, frequencies, expiry, eligibility or purchase requirements. Only the operator’s own documents and regulator registers count.

Every operator is put to one fixed list, so a casino cannot look better here by being asked easier questions. The list is the questions people arrive with:

• What a new account receives — Sweeps Coins and Gold Coins on signup without a purchase, and what the first-purchase package contains and costs.
• What it takes to cash out — the playthrough multiplier and what it applies to, the minimum redemption, the rate, the methods, and how long payout takes.
• Who may play and what is demanded — minimum age, excluded states, the point at which identity verification is required, and whether a mail-in entry route exists.
• The rest of the mechanics — daily login amounts, VIP tiers and what they require, and what the operator calls its own currencies.

Each answer is stored against the single document it was read from, so every figure on this site has exactly one source and one date behind it. Both are printed beside it.

Each figure carries the day a person last checked it against the document, and each document carries the day it was read plus, where it states one, its own date. Figures age, and the page says so rather than looking equally fresh forever:

• Checked recently — checked within 30 days.
• Checked this quarter — checked within 90 days.
• Due for re-checking — older than 90 days. The date is marked with a broken rule and should be treated as due for re-reading.

Nothing about that state is decorative. Colour never carries it alone — the words and the mark do, so the page reads the same to someone who cannot distinguish them.

A date is also the limit of what a figure can promise. An operator may change its rules the day after a reading, and this site would not know until the next one. So a figure here is not a claim about today; it is a claim about a named document on a named day, which is a claim that can be checked. Where a figure is long, an operator page prints it in full and the comparison sheet shortens it to keep rows readable — the full wording is always one link away.

When a document genuinely does not state a figure — an operator that publishes no payout time, or explains playthrough only through an example — the slot prints as not stated, at the same size as any other answer, and says what was looked for. An absent figure is correct. An invented one is not. Nothing on this site is estimated, recalled from memory, or inferred from another site.

Casinos are shown together on Casinos so their stated figures can be read against each other. That sheet is in fixed alphabetical order and stays that way: there is no score, no composite, no “best first”, and position on it carries no meaning beyond the alphabet. Nothing here is ordered by what an operator pays; the site’s commercial arrangements, and what would change if any were entered into, are stated on the editorial policy.

What comparison is for is noticing the gaps. A column that is empty for one casino and filled for another is itself the finding: one publishes the figure and one does not, and you can see which.

Figures are append-only. When an operator changes one and the new document is read, the new figure is recorded beside the old rather than over it — the earlier value stays visible, struck through, with the date it was replaced. What this site believed, and when, stays checkable. Every page shows the current figure with its own date; the full history for an operator is on its record under What we checked.

A casino gets a page only once its own documents answer at least four separate questions from the list above. That threshold is fixed and applies to every operator equally; it is not an editorial judgement about which casinos deserve a page. Until a casino clears it, its address says plainly that nothing is published there yet, rather than padding a page out with what we do not know.

Older addresses are kept honest the same way. Every address this site has ever published still answers for itself: it leads to the page that replaced it, or says the page is gone, or says that nothing is published there yet. Nothing quietly redirects to a page about something else.

Not a review site: no scores, no verdicts, no “best of” rankings, and no ordering that implies one. Not a legal resource: eligibility rules are published as the operator states them, never as a conclusion about the law in any state. And not an operator: BestSweeps offers no gambling and sells nothing. See also the editorial policy, or start from Casinos.