Editorial standards and corrections

What we publish, and what we refuse to

Every factual claim on this site is sourced to a document we opened ourselves: official rules, store listings and their purchase declarations, operator pages, court and regulator records, archived copies, and dated user reviews. Every listing names its sources with retrieval dates. We do not fabricate statistics, prize amounts, user counts, quotes, or ratings; if a figure is not in a source we opened, we omit it, and when a source is thin the score falls. Marketing claims are labeled as marketing. Self-published operator figures are labeled self-published, including our publisher's own.

How scoring works

The rubric is public: 100 points across free-entry purity (30), rules transparency (20), prize credibility (20), operator track record (15), and entry experience (15), with a letter grade capped by documented regulatory history. The About page defines the axes and the exclusion policy; the grade rationale page itemizes where every point came off, for every listing. Apps that fail the bar are not quietly omitted; they are documented by name, with evidence, on the reviewed-not-ranked page.

The conflict of interest, handled in the open

SweepstakeReport is published by Luck Incorporated LLC, which operates Chance Infinite, currently ranked first. We do not pretend that away; we constrain it. The house product is scored on the same rubric as every competitor, its deductions are itemized in the same public ledger, competitors' wins over it on individual axes are stated in our own copy (four ranked apps outscore it on at least one axis today; Update, September 25, 2026: after the score moves logged below, two ranked apps do, Coinnect on prize credibility, 12 to 11, and on operator track record, 10 to 8, and Prizes by GAMEE on operator track record, 10 to 8), and its listing tells you to verify every claim against the sources it cites. Ownership is disclosed on every page of this site. No operator, including our publisher, can buy a grade, and the rubric did not spare the house product at launch: the first edition shipped with Chance Infinite ranked fourth, behind three legacy competitors, a placement preserved in the archived edition.

Some casinos pay SweepstakeReport a commission through affiliate networks; the app database labels them Partner, and its Underrated list holds only them. No operator can buy a grade.

The masthead is one person: Kyle Lewis, the founder of the publisher. Bylines on this site name him because responsibility should have a name attached; the editor page states his role, his stake, and how this desk works.

Verification before publication

Before major publications, claims are adversarially checked against their sources by reviewers whose instruction is to refute, not to confirm. The launch edition had 1,309 claims verified this way; the apps-only edition's pages were checked the same way before deployment, and the process caught and fixed real errors in both, including errors that favored the house product and errors that disfavored competitors. Verification is not a guarantee of perfection; it is why the corrections log below is short.

The App Database, the State Database and the casino facts are published as open data, each record with its sources and the dates they were read or checked, so anyone can check a fact against its document.

Corrections policy

When a published claim turns out to be wrong, we correct it in place with a dated, visible marker, and record it below permanently. We do not silently rewrite. Two categories are distinguished: a correction withdraws a claim that was wrong when published; an update notes that the world changed after publication (a store listing changed, an app went down, a window closed). Updates are dated in place; corrections are dated in place and logged here, and significant updates may also be noted in the log, labeled as updates, for the record.

The corrections log

• October 20, 2026 (update, not correction). The October 1, 2026 lines on Chance Infinite's contests (our publisher's app) now read in the past tense, as of that day, and say how contest periods are published. No score, grade or rank changed.
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  On the homepage, the grade rationale, the roundup and the October 1, 2026 entry of this log, the lines gave Contest 4's period in the present tense and said no contest had been drawn since September 21, which stops being true once Contest 4 is drawn. They now say that Contest 4 opened September 22, 2026 and that, as of October 1, no contest had been drawn since September 21. The homepage, the grade rationale and the roundup add a sentence dated October 20, 2026, and llms.txt now carries that sentence in place of its old one: Contests run in recurring periods of approximately one month: the start and end of the current one are shown in the app and on the operator’s live contest page, and its sweepstakes page lists each drawn contest with its dates and prize. In the same roundup note, one word now follows our house style (“third-party confirmation”), with the same meaning.

• October 8, 2026 (correction). Four surfaces still gave the crackdown timeline's old count of twelve state laws after the October 3, 2026 correction to ten: the timeline cards on the homepage and the news page, the Google Ads article and the LuckyLand Slots closure article. All four now say ten, and the two articles carry dated notes.
• October 3, 2026 (update, not correction). Winsome Rewards moves from 53 to 54 after its October 1, 2026 rules raised the entry cap to match its Free Entry page; it now shares third with Prizes by GAMEE.
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  Winsome Rewards moves from 53 to 54, grade C unchanged: its Official Rules, now dated October 1, 2026, raise the entry cap from 250 to 2,000 per Entry Period, the figure its Free Entry page gives, so the mismatch behind part of its free-entry deduction is gone (free-entry purity 20 to 21, the same one-point yardstick applied to Chance Infinite and Coinnect). That ties it with Prizes by GAMEE at 54, and our published tie-breakers, free-entry purity and then rules transparency, are tied too (21 and 9), so the two share third place. The review, the ranking, the grade rationale, the roundup, the picks article, the new-era feature and llms.txt carry dated notes. No other score moved.

• October 3, 2026 (update, not correction). We removed the names of private individuals (rafl's App Store seller and two prize winners) from the reviews, the grade rationale and the ranking data. No claim changed.
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  We removed the names of private individuals: the person listed as the App Store seller of rafl, on the reviewed-not-ranked page and in the ranking data (including the name inside its Google Play package identifier, which now appears only in the store link itself); a past PCH prize winner, with a city, in the PCH Lotto review and the ranking data; and the 2026 HGTV Dream Home winner, with a city, in the HGTV Dream Home review and the grade rationale. This site does not name private individuals such as prize winners or individual app sellers; it cites winners only by the display names operators publish, and court cases by their captions. No claim changed.

• October 3, 2026 (correction). Checking each state's own documents, we corrected several crackdown timeline errors, including the count of states with laws against the model (ten, not twelve), and the casinos page's Georgia count.
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  Building our state database, we checked every state against its legislature's, regulator's and attorney general's own documents, and the crackdown timeline was wrong or unsupported in several places: Connecticut's and Montana's signing dates, Connecticut's penalty, California's “players exempt”, the count of twelve states with laws against the model (ten, because the Iowa and Nevada texts do not name sweepstakes casinos), New York's platforms having stopped sales, a named-operator count for Mississippi, a start month for West Virginia's subpoenas, sweepstakes recipients in Michigan's 2025 waves, three dismissed Georgia class actions (two), and Hawaii in the failed-bill list. Each is corrected in place with a dated note; the timeline also now cites Louisiana's and Maryland's own documents, gives Maine's and Tennessee's effective dates and adds Minnesota and Arkansas. The Georgia count is also corrected on the casinos page, and our October 1 picks article carries a dated note on the count. No score moved.

• October 3, 2026 (correction). The crackdown timeline gave May 15, 2026 as the date Oklahoma’s legislature overrode the governor’s veto of SB 1589. The bill history on oklegislature.gov and the Senate Journal record both override votes, 34 to 10 in the Senate and 68 to 19 in the House, on May 14, 2026. The row is corrected and carries a dated note. The law’s effective date, November 1, 2026, was right.
• October 3, 2026 (correction). The homepage feature now attributes to the operator the claim that Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, paid every completed contest's winner, and counts 17 apps reviewed, not 16.
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  Two statements in the homepage feature that earlier changes should have reached and did not. First, it said in our own voice that Chance Infinite, operated by this site’s publisher, has paid a named winner in every completed contest, the same sentence the October 1, 2026 correction attributed in llms.txt. The winner record names a winner for every completed contest and states that each was paid; that payment claim is the operator’s own, and the feature now says so. Second, its counter showed 16 apps reviewed after the September 26, 2026 update made the count 17. Both stayed live through the October 1, 2026 re-verification, so, as on that date, they are logged as corrections, and the feature carries a dated marker. The first flattered the house product. No score moved. Separately, and not a correction: the same day the feature and llms.txt were reworded to call Chance Infinite the best free sweepstakes app of 2026 on our ranking (best overall), with the publisher’s ownership in the same sentence, which restates its published rank (first of six, 81 of 100), and the feature now names Coinnect (71, B+) as the highest-ranked app with no tie to the publisher. Later that day the Coinnect line was removed from the feature, because the ranking directly below it shows the same order; llms.txt keeps it.

• October 1, 2026 (update, not correction). We re-opened every ranked listing, exclusion and not-yet-rankable app; the site-wide edition line now says re-verified October 1, 2026, the roundup was updated, and no score, grade or rank changed.
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  The October re-verification. Every ranked listing, every written exclusion and the four apps listed as not yet rankable were re-opened on October 1, 2026 (store listings through Apple’s lookup API and Google Play, official rules, winner records and operator pages), and the edition sentence across the site now reads “Researched August 31, 2026, re-verified October 1, 2026.” A few individual documents could not be read that day and keep their earlier dates: BBB profile pages and CourtListener docket pages refused automated requests, the Illinois business-entity registry timed out, and PCH’s legacy help portal did not connect. No score, grade or rank changed. What changed in the world: Chance Infinite, operated by this site’s publisher Luck Incorporated LLC: the operator revised its Terms on September 26, 2026 (“Last Updated: September 26, 2026”, luckincorporated.com/terms-of-service, retrieved October 1, 2026); Section 5 now names the passive route “Keeping the App open during the contest period”, with a limit of 240 tickets a day and a presence prompt, and our descriptions, which followed the earlier wording, holding an active account, now follow the revision. Both store listings were re-opened (App Store version 8.2.17, released September 29, 2026; Play “Updated on Sep 26, 2026”) and still carry the lines behind the September 25, 2026 store-copy deduction, so rules transparency stays 18 and the total 81. The App Store now shows 11 ratings. Contest 4 opened September 22, 2026, and as of October 1 no contest had been drawn since September 21 (put in the past tense on October 20, 2026: see that day's entry). The roundup and the new-era feature carry dated notes that the Terms fix each pool when its contest opens (Sections 8.1 to 8.3); the new-era note adds that the current Terms make ticket earning subject to per-period and per-hour limits, where that feature called the free paths unlimited; and the top no-purchase profile, the new-era feature and the free-entry case study carry dated notes that the Terms do not list games as a way to earn tickets; those three articles were missed when the review, the grade rationale and the roundup were corrected on September 19, 2026. Coinnect: the winners page now claims $975.00 and 148 gift cards for the last 30 days; the iOS build is 7.1.4; the Google Play listing links its rules to an address that returned HTTP 404, repeats the homepage claim of no chance-based outcomes, and, with the App Store release notes, announces a daily 10,000-coin draw the rules do not describe; and the App Store page displays an 18+ age rating while the lookup API returns 17+. Our September 25, 2026 re-verification saw that 18+ display and did not record it. Prizes by GAMEE: new builds; the eight-dollar stall reports and the unhonored $30 bonus reports continued through September; the paid-Gems mission refresh is re-sourced to the FAQ Shop page, where the text now sits, with no change to the mechanism; and the terms of service bar prize withdrawal in sixteen listed jurisdictions and allow KYC checks. Winsome Rewards: nine versions shipped; 55 App Store ratings and six written reviews; a help center that was empty now publishes ten articles, including a referral figure of 50 entries; and a September 10, 2026 review reports a $1,000 award notice that the developer acknowledged, which is not proof of payment. PCH+ and PCH Lotto: every PCH document we opened now gives the minimum age as 21, after giving 18 on September 19 and September 25, 2026; both apps are still down, now with Google Play reviews dated September 30, 2026 on the record; the PCH winners feed lists 26 dated winners totalling $2,463,840, including a second $1,000,000 winner dated September 22, 2026; and a year after its announcement, no pch.com page we opened mentions the Prize Protection Program, so our PCH article carries the anniversary note it promised. Exclusions: every call holds. WinnerWinner’s rules now set its monthly prize at $100 while its App Store description still says $1,000; rafl’s October prize package is $587.50; Play To Win, SpinToWin, Wave and Amin Drops carry new counts and build dates. The roundup carries its October 2026 update, including a field count of seventeen apps reviewed and an age line that names the apps requiring more than 18.

• October 1, 2026 (correction). Two quotations in the September 25, 2026 store-copy finding on Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, were corrected in the review, rationale, homepage, ranking data, roundup and llms.txt; the deduction stands.
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  Two quotations in the September 25, 2026 store-copy finding on Chance Infinite, operated by this site’s publisher, did not match their sources. The store descriptions put the heading “HOW YOU EARN TICKETS” on one line and the bullet “Play the games” beneath it; we printed them as one line, “HOW YOU EARN TICKETS: Play the games”, with a colon the store text does not have. And we quoted Section 5 of the Terms as saying a game “is not a separate way to earn tickets: a game is played by staking tickets you already hold”; Section 5 reads “Games are not a separate way to earn tickets: a game is played by staking tickets you already hold”, in the version retrieved on September 25, 2026 and in the version of September 26, 2026. Both quotations are corrected in place, with dated markers, in the ranking data, on the homepage, in the grade rationale, in the review, in the roundup and in llms.txt; the September 25 entry below is left as written. The meaning and the deduction are unchanged.

• October 1, 2026 (correction). Four statements earlier updates missed were corrected on the homepage, roundup, llms.txt and other pages: two flattered Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, one understated it, one overstated a finding against Robin.
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  Statements that earlier updates should have changed and did not. Each stayed live through the September 19 and September 25, 2026 re-verifications, so, as with the Robin correction of September 25, 2026 below, they are logged as corrections. First, the ranking data, the homepage feature, the grade rationale and the Chance Infinite review called the publisher’s app one of two ranked apps, with Coinnect, with no payment path. Winsome Rewards, which also sells nothing, has been ranked since September 6, 2026, so it is one of three; the census correction of that date missed these sentences. The same correction reaches the casinos page, which said the ranking includes two apps that sell nothing at all, and the definitions page, which said that as of August 31, 2026 one other app sold nothing; the re-scope note, a dated record, carries a dated note instead. Second, the homepage feature still scored the app against the published $100 winners, and the roundup’s closing verdict, framed as of this update, still described two published $100 contests, after the September 25, 2026 update recorded a $200 third. Third, llms.txt stated in our own voice that Chance Infinite has paid a named winner in every completed contest; that payment claim is the operator’s, made on its winners page, and llms.txt now attributes it. Fourth, the roundup, llms.txt and the reviews index still said Robin’s official rules were unreachable on every live surface; the narrower ground set on September 25, 2026 now applies there too: no official rules at any live URL we could open, while its App Store description says the rules are available within the app, which we have not installed. The first and third flattered the house product, the fourth overstated a finding against a competitor, and the second understated the house app’s record. No score moved.

• October 1, 2026 (correction). We corrected four statements about other apps (PCH+ installs, Amin Drops's address, iFiftyFifty's drawings, Winsome Rewards' court cases) in their reviews or notes, the homepage and llms.txt.
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  Four statements about other apps were wrong when published. The PCH+ review called PCH+ the most-installed listing in our ranked field by an order of magnitude; Prizes by GAMEE, ranked the same day, showed 10 million-plus Android installs against the million-plus of PCH+, as our own GAMEE review recorded. The note on Amin Drops, on the reviewed-not-ranked page and the homepage, said the sponsor publishes no postal address; its Google Play developer listing gives one, AMIN SHAYKHO LLC, 8 The Green, Dover, DE 19901-3618, in our September 25, 2026 copy and on October 1, 2026. The note on iFiftyFifty, on that page, in the free-to-play picks and in llms.txt, said its $100 monthly prize is its only random drawing and attributed the leaderboard sentence to Section 6; its rules allow “Additional shorter-cycle tournaments and bonus drawings” (Section 4), and the leaderboard sentence is in Section 7, where it applies to skill-based tournaments. And the Winsome Rewards review said three federal cases naming its operator remain open and untested; in one of them, Moss v. Klover Holdings, Inc. (N.D. Ill.), the court denied Klover’s motion to dismiss on March 5, 2026, before the review was published. None of these was a ground for a score or a call, and none moves one.

• October 1, 2026 (correction). The September 26, 2026 update below raised the reviewed-not-ranked count to eleven in the text of the reviewed-not-ranked page but left its title, its social title and descriptions, and its ItemList data at ten, without iFiftyFifty, and did not add iFiftyFifty to the excluded list on the homepage or to the note on the reviews index. Those are corrected. No ranking is affected.
• September 26, 2026 (update, not correction). iFiftyFifty was reviewed and listed as not yet rankable, making eleven reviewed and not ranked; WYN's exclusion was re-verified and its heading now reads WYN Sweep. No score changed.
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  New entrant. iFiftyFifty (2Pens Media, Inc.) was reviewed on September 26, 2026 and is listed on the reviewed-not-ranked page as not yet rankable: its rules describe a skill-based match-3 tournament game with gift-card prizes decided by leaderboard placement and a single $100 monthly drawing, it publishes no winner record, and the rules address printed in its App Store description returns HTTP 403 while the document is live at another address on the same site. The reviewed-not-ranked count moves from ten to eleven and apps reviewed from 16 to 17. The WYN Sweepstakes exclusion was re-verified the same day against the rules (still Last Updated March 2026, section 5.C still selling entry bundles) and the current App Store description, and its heading now carries the name the app uses for itself, WYN Sweep. No score changed.

• September 25, 2026 (update, not correction). Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, stays 81: prize credibility rose to 11 for a $200 third contest whose payment only the operator claims; store copy cut rules transparency to 18.
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  Every ranked listing and every written exclusion was re-opened on September 25, 2026, and the edition sentence across the site now reads “Researched August 31, 2026, re-verified September 25, 2026.” This entry and the three below it record what changed, with the axis and the rubric line each score move rests on. Chance Infinite, operated by this site's publisher Luck Incorporated LLC, paid its third contest: the winner record (luckincorporated.com/winners, retrieved September 25, 2026) reads “Drawn September 21, 2026 · weighted random draw over 8,659 entries · winner contacted and paid in full.”, and the recap page (luckincorporated.com/recap, retrieved September 25, 2026) reads “@candychris won the $200 pool”. The $200 pool is the first above the $100 floor. Prize credibility moves from 10 to 11 under the rubric line “itemized ARV in rules, public winner record, cash actually paid”. The payment claim is the operator stating it about itself, on its winners page only: the public feed at b2see-backend.luck-inc.workers.dev/chance/winners (retrieved September 25, 2026) carries contest 3, candychris, amount 200 and entries 8659 with commit-reveal fields and no paid field, and no independent confirmation of payment exists. Eleven equals Winsome Rewards and PCH+ and stays below Coinnect at 12, the only ranked app with independent corroboration of payment. On the same date rules transparency moves from 19 to 18 under the rubric line “named sponsor, readable official rules, published winners or a verifiable draw, honest about what the math does not prove”. This is the scoring decision on the store copy that the September 19 entry below promised. The App Store description for version 8.2.15, released September 22, 2026 (Apple lookup API for id 6738285609, retrieved September 25, 2026), and the Play listing, “Updated on Sep 19, 2026” (retrieved September 25, 2026), both read “HOW YOU EARN TICKETS: Play the games” and “The more the community plays, the bigger the pool gets.”, while the Terms of Service (luckincorporated.com/terms-of-service, “Last Updated: September 19, 2026”, retrieved September 25, 2026) say in Section 5 that a game “is not a separate way to earn tickets: a game is played by staking tickets you already hold” and in Section 8.2 that the pool is “fixed when the Contest Period begins and does not increase as a result of player activity during that period”. The precedent is the one-point transparency deduction of September 1, 2026 and its withdrawal on September 5, 2026, both logged below; this deduction is withdrawn when both store descriptions match the Terms. Total stays 81 of 100, grade A minus, rank 1. The second finding the September 19 entry left with the editor, Google Play rating the app Teen with a Simulated Gambling descriptor against an 18+ contest, is decided as a caveat only, with no deduction: both store descriptions read “No purchase necessary. Open to U.S. residents 18+.”, the caveat stays on the review, and the finding is re-checked at every re-verification. Contest 4 opened September 22, 2026 (winners page: “Started September 22, 2026”). Dated notes were added to the review, the grade rationale, the roundup, the About page methodology, the homepage briefing and the ranking data; the sentence on this page counting the ranked apps that outscore the house product on an axis is updated in place from four to two.

• September 25, 2026 (update, not correction). Coinnect's rules transparency fell from 14 to 13 (total 72 to 71) over two mismatches between its binding and marketing documents, with B+ and rank 2 unchanged.
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  Coinnect: rules transparency moves from 14 to 13, editorial total 72 to 71, under the rubric line “named sponsor, readable official rules, published winners or a verifiable draw, honest about what the math does not prove”, for two further mismatches between its binding and its marketing documents. The winners page (coinnectapp.net/winners, retrieved September 25, 2026) itemizes “$500.00 4-hour tournaments $55.00 Daily draws $100.00 Spin Wheel (weekly) $75.00 Slot Machine (weekly)”, and Daily draws is a prize category Section 6 of the official rules (coinnectapp.net/official-rules, retrieved September 25, 2026) does not itemize: the rules name four-hourly tournaments, weekly Spin Wheel and Slot Machine drawings and a monthly $100 drawing, and the word daily does not occur. The homepage (coinnectapp.net, retrieved September 25, 2026) says “The game is rated for all ages 4+ and is completely free to download and play.” beside “Free to play. No purchase necessary. 18+”, while Google Play rates it Mature 17+ (updated Sep 24, 2026) and the Apple lookup API for id 1012750638 returns contentAdvisoryRating 17+ (version 7.1.2, released September 24, 2026). The same one-point yardstick was applied to the house product on the same day. The winners page 30-day figures now read $830.00 and “119 gift cards delivered”, against $1,344.00 and 312 on August 31, 2026. Grades are descriptive bands; B+ is unchanged, rank 2 is unchanged. Dated notes were added to the Coinnect review, the grade rationale, the roundup and the ranking data.

• September 25, 2026 (update, not correction). PCH's SuperPrize giveaway closed and its successor, GWY M001, keeps the 1,850-entry mail route, so dated updates name M001; both PCH apps are still down and no PCH score changed.
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  PCH: the $1M SuperPrize giveaway GWY #23097, whose rules PDF is the cited authority for the 1,850-entries-per-envelope mail route, closed. Its rules read “ENTRY PERIOD: The period beginning on 6/3/26 and ending on 9/22/26” and “All entries must be postmarked by September 22, 2026”. The successor GWY M001 (Chevrolet Corvette or $65,000; official rules PDF on cdn.shopify.com, retrieved September 25, 2026) keeps the route: “Each mail-in entry received will be equal to 1,850 entries.”, postmarked by October 31, 2026 and received by November 4, 2026, P.O. Box 358, Watertown NY 13601. Every sentence calling the SuperPrize mail-in current carries a dated update naming M001. Both PCH apps are still down on both store listings, which are unchanged; the outage evidence re-verified on September 25, 2026 is from App Store reviews through September 20, 2026, and Play-side 2026 reviews were not retrieved, so copy that attributed the re-verified evidence to both stores now says it is from the App Store. Three proposals to move PCH+ and PCH Lotto scores were killed in adversarial verification; no PCH score changed.

• September 25, 2026 (update, not correction). Every exclusion held, and WinnerWinner, Amin Drops and rafl were added to the reviewed-not-ranked page, raising apps reviewed from 13 to 16; the six-app ranking is unchanged.
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  Exclusions and new entrants. Robin's site is back (see the correction below); its exclusion holds on the narrower ground that no official rules exist at any live URL. Vast (vast.gg and its /terms, /winners and /rules paths each return HTTP 200 with a 1,213-byte JavaScript shell and no readable text; Apple lookup for id 6761522423 shows version 1.0, released May 11, 2026, with no rules or no-purchase language), WYN, Play To Win (Play listing “Updated on Sep 18, 2026”, In-app purchases, Teen) and SpinToWin keep their paid-path or no-program grounds; Wave and Lucktastic remain defunct. Every written exclusion holds. Three new apps that clear the document bar are added to the reviewed-not-ranked page with dated notes and are not ranked: WinnerWinner (Winner 2x LLC) launched September 10, 2026, its September monthly draw was cancelled by a notice dated September 22, 2026 and its winners list is available by email request only, so there is no public winner record yet; Amin Drops (AMIN SHAYKHO LLC) admits 13 to 17 year olds with a parent, is rated 12+ on the App Store and Everyone on Google Play, and awards item prizes “around 500 US dollars”, against this site's 18+ framing; rafl (rafl Giveaways LLC) is open to Mississippi residents only, with $500 ARV in local gift cards. Each note states what would trigger a re-review. Apps reviewed moves from 13 to 16 and reviewed-not-ranked from 7 to 10; the ranked field stays at six and the rank order is unchanged.

• September 25, 2026 (correction). The exclusions page, homepage, re-scope note and census now say Robin's domain returned HTTP 200, with its exclusion held on narrower ground; a grade-rationale line was also corrected.
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  Four surfaces said that Robin's domain, therobinapp.com, had returned an HTTP 402 payment-required error, or an error, on every path since sometime after June 12, 2026: the exclusions page, the homepage, the re-scope note and the category census. That was accurate on August 31, 2026. The domain returned HTTP 200 (Vercel) on September 19, 2026, the date the site last declared itself re-verified, and again on September 25, 2026; a staged September 19 update recording the change was never published, so the sentences stayed live after they had stopped being true. They are corrected in place on all four surfaces. The exclusion holds on the narrower ground: /terms.html and /privacy.html are dated “last updated October 27, 2025”, the sitemap lists four URLs, the rules paths return 404, and no official rules exist at any live URL. The Google Play listing (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Liebman.Robin, retrieved September 25, 2026), “The Robin App”, “Updated on Jun 29, 2026”, no in-app purchases, rated Everyone, 500+ downloads, was re-opened the same day. Separately, the grade rationale printed a “Score unchanged” line beside the Chance Infinite Contest 3 note earlier on September 25, 2026, before the scoring decision recorded above was made; two axis scores on that listing moved the same day, so the line was wrong as published and carries a dated correction in place.

• September 19, 2026 (update, not correction). The review, rationale and roundup for Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, now follow its revised Terms, under which games are not a separate ticket route; both store listings still disagreed.
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  Our Chance Infinite review, the grade rationale and the roundup described playing the in-app games as one of the ways a player earns tickets. That was accurate when published. The operator, this site's publisher Luck Incorporated LLC, revised its Terms on September 9, 2026 on the website and September 10, 2026 in the app, and the revision says games are not a separate way to earn tickets, that a game is played by staking tickets already held, and that the games are configured so that staking returns fewer tickets than it consumes over time. We corrected our description in place and added the entry routes the revision names that we had not listed: the team board and two invite routes. No score changed. We also recorded, on the review and in the rationale, that the operator's own documents now contradict each other on this point, that the copy of the Terms published on its website omits the invite routes its in-app copy carries, and that Google Play rates the app Teen while every other document restricts it to 18 and over. The operator corrected all three documents the same day, before this entry was published: the website Terms now carry both invite routes, section 2 of both copies no longer enumerates the routes, and the rules summary lists every route. Verified live after the change. What is not cured, and remains with the editor for the next scoring decision: both store listings still say tickets are earned by playing games and neither mentions invites, and Google Play still rates the app Teen against an 18+ contest. We note plainly that the publisher can fix its own documents on the day we raise them, which the competitors we rank cannot.

• September 6, 2026 (update, not correction). Ten statements were updated after the operator of Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, wrote its $100 floor and ad-revenue split into section 8; the split still cannot be independently checked.
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  Our Chance Infinite review reported that the app's marketing promised half of ad revenue and a $100 prize floor while section 8 of its Terms carried neither, and that section 1 makes the Terms control where the two conflict. That was accurate when published. The operator, this site's publisher Luck Incorporated LLC, amended section 8 the same day: the pool for each contest is now set at the greater of $100 and half of the advertising-slot revenue reserved for that contest, fixed when the contest opens (Chance Infinite Terms, last updated September 6, 2026). Ten statements across the site are updated to state both what section 8 says today and what it said before: the review body and its money section, the grade block, the grade-rationale card, the prize notes, the ranking data, a homepage bullet and two explainers, each of which had characterised the floor and the split as operator claims rather than terms. No score moved. The gap was never a rules-transparency deduction, which stays at 19 of 20, and prize credibility stays at 10 of 20 because it rests on the payout record, two completed contests both at the $100 minimum, rather than on where the floor is written. The finding that no revenue figure is published anywhere, so the split cannot be independently checked, is unchanged.

• September 6, 2026 (correction). The census and new-era feature now count three apps that sell nothing, not two, after we missed Winsome Rewards, which joined the ranking and widened the field to six.
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  Our category census, published September 1 and researched August 31, 2026, said exactly two of the researched apps sell nothing at all. A third qualifying app, Winsome Rewards, was live on both the App Store and Google Play on that research date and our sweep did not surface it. It was researched to the same standard on September 6, 2026, ranked fourth at 53 of 100, and the count is corrected from two to three. Dated correction notes were added to the census and to the new-era feature, whose headline is changed from "exactly two apps" to "three apps"; that feature also defined the era as ad-funded, and the third app is not, so the correction records that the finding widens the definition rather than confirming it. The classification table, the chart, the definitions FAQ, the roundup, the ranking data, llms.txt and the card summaries were updated the same day. Separately and as an update rather than a correction, the ranked field moved from five to six, PCH+ and PCH Lotto moved to ranks five and six, and no app's score changed.

• September 6, 2026 (correction). The Fortune Wins profile on the sweepstakes-casinos page said no public sweepstakes rules could be located on fortunewins.com. They are published at fortunewins.com/sweeps-rules (version 4.7, dated August 13, 2026, retrieved September 5, 2026; Wayback captures of April 8 and May 16, 2026 show the page existed on our retrieval date). The finding is withdrawn and a dated note added to the profile. No ranking is affected: the category is not ranked.
• September 5, 2026 (update, not correction). The App Store listing for Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, now matched its official rules, so the storefront deduction was withdrawn: rules transparency 18 to 19, total 80 to 81.
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  The operator, this site’s publisher Luck Incorporated LLC, shipped Chance Infinite 8.2.8, and the App Store description (Apple lookup API, September 5, 2026) now reads “No purchase necessary. Open to U.S. residents 18+,” matching the official rules. The rules-transparency deduction we had taken for the storefront mismatch is withdrawn: 18 to 19 of 20, editorial total 80 to 81, grade unchanged at A minus, rank order unchanged. Dated notes were added to the review, the grade rationale, the flagship roundup, the top no-purchase app profile, and the new-era feature; the ranking data, the homepage briefing, and llms.txt were updated the same day.

• September 1, 2026. A citation audit of the news section tightened attributions across all twelve articles and corrected one conflation: two articles dated Robin's last archived rules copy to June 12, 2026. The rules survive in an Internet Archive capture from April 21, 2026; June 12, 2026 is the last day the operator's domain is known to have worked. No scores changed. The pre-pivot free-entry explainer's ranking references were also updated under a dated in-article note.
• August 31, 2026. Our launch-morning article claimed the ranking's one mobile app was the only qualifying sweepstakes app and that almost every app using the word sells something. A same-day census of the category refuted both claims; the article was rewritten in full under a dated revision note, and the withdrawn claims are recorded permanently in the re-scope note.
• August 31, 2026 (update, not correction). Chance Infinite's App Store availability was verified as restricted to the U.S. later on the research date, after our morning retrievals; dated no-score-change notes were added to the affected pages the same night, because the listing text a skeptic can open still named other countries.
• September 1, 2026 (update, not correction). Google Play's listing for Chance Infinite, our publisher's app, now matched its rules but the App Store's did not, so the deduction stood; notes predicting a fix were replaced.
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  The Google Play listing text for Chance Infinite was rewritten to read “No purchase necessary. Open to U.S. residents 18+.” The App Store listing text was not: version 8.2.7, released August 31, 2026, still names six countries. The operator’s two store listings now disagree with each other. Our transparency deduction cites the App Store listing, so the score is unchanged and the affected pages carry dated notes saying exactly that. An earlier version of those notes said the App Store text would change “with the next release”; a release has since shipped without changing it, and that wording has been replaced with what we verified.

Standing re-review commitments

Exclusions and low scores are not verdicts for eternity; they are verdicts on the evidence as of the research date, and we have written down what would change each one: PCH's apps get rescored when they demonstrably work again; Robin gets a full review if its rules return to a live URL; WYN, Play To Win, and SpinToWin become rankable if they sever the paid path into entries (and, for SpinToWin, drop its prize-transfer and maintenance fees); Vast becomes reviewable if it publishes a standing first-party program. The exclusion commitments appear on the exclusions page; the PCH rescore commitment is stated in the PCH reviews themselves, since those apps are ranked rather than excluded. We consider ourselves bound by all of them.

Challenges

If you can show that a claim on this site does not match the source it cites, or that a cited source has changed, we want to know, and the fix will be dated and logged. The publisher is Luck Incorporated LLC; current contact routes are listed on luckincorporated.com. Challenges to the house product's listing get no gentler treatment than challenges to any competitor's; if anything, they get less.