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Sweepstakes laws in Mississippi

We found no Mississippi statute naming sweepstakes casinos; the Gaming Commission announced cease-and-desist letters in June 2025, one to Chumba Casino per press reports; bills died in 2025 and 2026.

Disclosure: this site's publisher, Luck Incorporated LLC, operates Chance Infinite, one of the apps in these databases. Its entry is built from its own documents under the same rules as every other entry. This is reference information, not legal advice; official rules and statutes control.

Last verified October 3, 2026. On October 16, 2026 an automated check re-opened 13 of its 14 sources and found no change. Every line below cites a document; numbers in brackets point to the source list.

Status
Regulator or attorney-general action
Enforcement actions on record
1
Ranked free apps open to residents
6 of 6
Sweepstakes-casino brands and Mississippi
3 exclude it, 2 limit it, of 18 tracked

Bills

  • SB 2510 (2025 Regular Session): died in conference, March 31, 2025. [S4]
    What the bill does

    Would have amended section 97-33-8 to bring internet sweepstakes casinos within its prohibitions and raised the penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony. Passed the Senate 51 to 0 on February 13, 2025; the House replaced the text by committee amendment with a version that added mobile sports wagering provisions and passed it 83 to 19 on March 11, 2025; the Senate declined to concur and the bill died in conference March 31, 2025 (votes: S5, S6; House committee amendment: S7).

  • SB 2104 (2026 Regular Session): died in committee, March 3, 2026. [S8]
    What the bill does

    Would have declared “online sweepstakes casino-style games” to be gambling devices, added “online sweepstakes casinos” to section 97-33-8, made promoting or operating one a felony with fines up to $100,000 and up to ten years, and authorized forfeiture. Passed the Senate 52 to 0 on February 4, 2026; died in the House Gaming Committee March 3, 2026 (text: S9; vote: S10).

Enforcement

  • June 17, 2025, Mississippi Gaming Commission: cease-and-desist letters against Online sports wagering and casino sites; the notice as posted does not name them. Press reports list 10 recipient sites, including chumbacasino.com (S3, S11, both secondary).. Status: issued. [S1]
    What the record says

    The Commission's notice says letters went to companies “operating sports wagering and/or online casinos” in Mississippi and that “there are no legal exceptions for online sports books or so-called “sweepstakes” casinos.” It warns that a player could face criminal prosecution and forfeiture of deposits, and points to loss recovery under Miss. Code Ann. section 87-1-5.

Rules for any sweepstakes in Mississippi

  • Sweepstakes devices and the promotion exemption (Miss. Code Ann. section 97-33-8): [S9]
    What the rule requires

    Section 97-33-8, as it reads before the changes proposed in 2026, makes it unlawful to operate or have a financial interest in an electronic video monitor offering a “simulated gambling program” for direct or indirect consideration, which “includes consideration paid for internet access or computer time, or a sweepstakes entry”, where the player may win a cash or cash-equivalent prize; a violation is a misdemeanor. The section exempts “Any lawful marketing promotion, contest, prize or sweepstakes that is designed to attract consumer attention to a specific product or service” offered for sale by its maker or seller. The existing-law text is taken from SB 2104 (2026), which prints current law with proposed changes marked.

Free sweepstakes apps open to Mississippi residents

Our ranked apps, by what each one's own official rules say about Mississippi. Chance Infinite is operated by this site's publisher.

AppOur rankMississippi
Chance Infinite1, 81/100Open
Coinnect2, 71/100Open
Prizes by GAMEE3 (tied), 54/100Open
Winsome Rewards3 (tied), 54/100Open
PCH+5, 51/100Open (app listed unavailable)
PCH Lotto6, 48/100Open (app listed unavailable)

Sweepstakes casinos and Mississippi

What the 18 sweepstakes-casino brands in our database say about Mississippi in their own documents. These lists give no grade; some of these brands pay SweepstakeReport a commission through the links on their fact sheets. We do not judge whether any brand may operate in Mississippi, and documents change often.

164 sweepstakes casinos' own terms do not exclude Mississippi: see the casino list for Mississippi.

Regulator

Mississippi Gaming Commission

Notes

Read the 4 research notes
  • Timeline check: our crackdown timeline says Mississippi's commission “named 10 operators in a June 2025 public notice”. The Commission's notice dated June 17, 2025, as posted and linked from its homepage on 2026-10-03 under the title “Cease and Desist letters issued to Illegal Operators,” gives neither names nor a count; it says letters went to “multiple online gambling sites” and that a list of unlicensed sites is on the Commission's website (S1, S2). The count of 10 and the recipient names come from press reports: Casino Reports says the Commission sent 10 letters, including to Chumba Casino (S3), and a WJTV report dated June 18, 2025 lists ten sites it says the Commission identified, including chumbacasino.com (S11). The timeline line should read as press-reported unless the list is located.
  • Timeline check: the timeline says bills failed or died in Mississippi in 2025 and 2026; the Legislature's bill status pages agree (S4, S8).
  • SB 2104 would also have created section 97-33-6, a safe harbor for internet, cable and telecommunications providers and app stores (S9).
  • Other bills: the Legislature's all-measures indexes for the 2025 and 2026 regular sessions list no other measure whose title mentions sweepstakes; the mobile sports wagering bills we opened (2025 SB 2379, 2026 SB 2249 and HB 4074) mention sweepstakes only in the existing text of section 97-33-8 that they reprint (S12, S13, S14).

What we could not establish

  • The list of unlicensed gaming sites that the June 17, 2025 notice says is on msgamingcommission.com was not found on the homepage or the illegal-gambling report page on 2026-10-03, so the recipients are not confirmed from a primary source.
  • We found no Legislature-run site publishing the Mississippi Code; the section 97-33-8 text is reconstructed from the existing-law portion of SB 2104 (passed Senate version) and was not checked against an official code compilation; SB 2379 (2025), as introduced, brings the section forward with the same exemption wording (S14).
  • We did not find an Attorney General action on online sweepstakes casinos in the sources checked on 2026-10-03.

Common questions

Does Mississippi have a law on online sweepstakes casinos?

We found no statute in Mississippi that names online sweepstakes casinos in the sources we checked, last verified October 3, 2026. Status on this page: regulator or attorney-general action.

Which ranked free sweepstakes apps accept Mississippi residents?

Per their own official rules, Chance Infinite, Coinnect, Prizes by GAMEE, Winsome Rewards, PCH+ and PCH Lotto accept residents of Mississippi. Chance Infinite is operated by the publisher of this site.

Do sweepstakes casinos accept players in Mississippi?

Of the 18 sweepstakes casino brands in our database, 3 exclude Mississippi and 2 limit it in their own documents, last verified October 3, 2026. Documents change often, so read the current terms first.

Sources

  1. S1 Mississippi Gaming Commission, Mississippi Gaming Commission Issues Cease and Desist Letters to Illegal Online Gaming Operators (June 17, 2025), retrieved October 3, 2026
  2. S2 Mississippi Gaming Commission, Mississippi Gaming Commission homepage (Notices section), retrieved October 3, 2026
  3. S3 Casino Reports, Louisiana, Mississippi Gaming Agencies Target Offshores, Sweeps (secondary reporting), retrieved October 3, 2026
  4. S4 Mississippi Legislature, Senate Bill 2510, 2025 Regular Session: history of actions, retrieved October 3, 2026
  5. S5 Mississippi Legislature, Senate vote on S. B. No. 2510 (February 13, 2025), retrieved October 3, 2026
  6. S6 Mississippi Legislature, House vote on S. B. No. 2510 as amended (March 11, 2025), retrieved October 3, 2026
  7. S7 Mississippi Legislature, Committee Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill No. 2510 (House), retrieved October 3, 2026
  8. S8 Mississippi Legislature, Senate Bill 2104, 2026 Regular Session: history of actions, retrieved October 3, 2026
  9. S9 Mississippi Legislature, Senate Bill 2104, 2026 Regular Session, as passed by the Senate, retrieved October 3, 2026
  10. S10 Mississippi Legislature, Senate vote on S. B. No. 2104 (February 4, 2026), retrieved October 3, 2026
  11. S11 WJTV, Mississippi Gaming Commission issues warning for illegal gambling sites (June 18, 2025) (secondary reporting), retrieved October 3, 2026
  12. S12 Mississippi Legislature, All measures, 2025 Regular Session (index), retrieved October 3, 2026
  13. S13 Mississippi Legislature, All measures, 2026 Regular Session (index), retrieved October 3, 2026
  14. S14 Mississippi Legislature, Senate Bill 2379, 2025 Regular Session, as introduced (Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act), retrieved October 3, 2026

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