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Sweepstakes laws in Nevada

No Nevada statute naming sweepstakes casinos found; SB 256 (in force October 1, 2025), which presenters tied to sweepstakes sites, added disgorgement to general illegal-gaming penalties.

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 11 of its 11 sources and found no change. Every line below cites a document; numbers in brackets point to the source list.

Status
Related law, not specific
Enforcement actions on record
0
Ranked free apps open to residents
6 of 6
Sweepstakes-casino brands and Nevada
17 exclude it, 1 limits it, of 18 tracked

Bills

  • SB 256 (83rd Session, 2025): enacted (Statutes of Nevada 2025, Chapter 337), in force October 1, 2025, June 5, 2025. [S2]
    What the bill does

    Approved by the Governor June 5, 2025 (Chapter 337 assigned June 6, 2025); effective October 1, 2025. Per the enrolled text (S1), it requires the court, in addition to existing penalties, to order disgorgement of any profit, gain, gross receipts or other benefit from certain illegal gaming violations, paid to the State Treasurer for the State General Fund: operating without a state gaming license (NRS 463.160, already a category B felony under NRS 463.360), cheating and related offenses (NRS 465.070 to 465.086), and knowingly accepting or receiving, from within or outside Nevada and through any medium of communication, a wager from a person physically present in Nevada (NRS 465.092). It raises the penalty for the NRS 465.092 offense from a misdemeanor to a gross misdemeanor. The text does not use the words sweepstakes or dual-currency, so we list it here rather than as a law that names or clearly covers online sweepstakes casinos. Introduced February 27, 2025 by Senator Nguyen. Passed the Senate 20 to 0 with 1 excused on April 7, 2025; passed the Assembly as amended (Amendment No. 657) 42 to 0 on May 22, 2025; the Senate concurred on May 29, 2025.

Rules for any sweepstakes in Nevada

  • Lottery definition (NRS 462.105): [S5]
    What the rule requires

    Defines a lottery as "any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property, by chance, among persons who have paid or promised to pay any valuable consideration for the chance of obtaining that property". A person has not paid valuable consideration merely by making a fair-value purchase, accepting a trial product or service, or being present at a time and place, where that is the sole basis for a chance in an occasional and ancillary promotion by an organization whose primary purpose is not running such promotions.

Free sweepstakes apps open to Nevada residents

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

AppOur rankNevada
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 Nevada

What the 18 sweepstakes-casino brands in our database say about Nevada 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 Nevada, and documents change often.

14 sweepstakes casinos' own terms do not exclude Nevada: see the casino list for Nevada.

Regulator

Nevada Gaming Control Board

Notes

Read the 3 research notes
  • Why this is not labelled law-in-force: this database uses that label only for a statute whose text names or clearly covers online sweepstakes casinos, and SB 256's enrolled text does not mention them (S1). The committee record presents the bill as aimed in part at them. At the Assembly Judiciary hearing on May 1, 2025, a legislative intern presenting for the sponsor described the bill as "holding illegal online gaming apps and unauthorized sweepstakes sites accountable for unlawful gaming activities that target Nevada residents" (S4). At the Senate Judiciary hearing on March 12, 2025, the Nevada Resort Association testified: "The illegal sweepstakes industry is alive and well, and we need to work against that." (S3). Whether a particular sweepstakes casino falls within NRS 463.160 or 465.092 is not answered by the statute's text, and we draw no conclusion about it. As amended, NRS 463.360(3) adds: "The court shall also order any profits, gain, gross receipts or other benefit from the violation to be disgorged and paid to the State Treasurer for deposit in the State General Fund." (S1).
  • Timeline check: our crackdown timeline gives SB 256 as signed June 5, 2025 and effective October 1, 2025, which matches the Legislature's bill record (S2). It also describes the bill as "Felony penalties and disgorgement for unlicensed operators, sweeps sites included; passed unanimously". Against the enacted text (S1): disgorgement is new; the category B felony for willful violation of NRS 463.160(1) is existing text in NRS 463.360(3) that the bill did not change; the bill raised the NRS 465.092 wager offense to a gross misdemeanor, not a felony; and "sweeps sites included" reflects the committee testimony, not the text. The recorded final passage votes were 20 to 0 (1 excused) in the Senate and 42 to 0 in the Assembly; the record we read does not show a vote count for the Senate's concurrence on May 29, 2025 (S2). The timeline also counts Nevada among the states with laws against the model; because the enacted text does not name or clearly cover sweepstakes casinos, this database does not label Nevada law-in-force.
  • Other 2025 bills: the Legislature's list of bills signed by the Governor in 2025 shows six with gaming or wagering summaries (AB 58, SB 46, SB 203, SB 256, SB 459, SB 474); the enrolled texts of AB 58, SB 46, SB 459 and SB 256 contain no occurrence of the word sweepstake (S6). A title scan of all 1,209 measures of the 83rd (2025) Session adds AB 549, AJR 5, SB 362 and SB 482 to the gaming-related list; the introduced text of SB 362 contains no occurrence of the word sweepstake, and none of the 27 measures of the 36th (2025) Special Session has a gaming title (S9, S10, S11).

What we could not establish

  • We found no Nevada Gaming Control Board or Attorney General action naming an online sweepstakes casino in the sources checked on 2026-10-03. The Board's press releases and public statements page lists civil enforcement actions against prediction-market operators (Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase) and illegal sports-betting arrests, none naming a sweepstakes casino (S7). Its Notice 2026-04, Industry Guidance for Online Gaming Products (January 16, 2026), does not mention sweepstakes (S8). We did not search the Attorney General's news pages in depth (a fetch of the news listing returned no matching items).
  • Bill coverage for 2025 is by title in the Legislature's NELIS lists for the 83rd Session and the 36th (2025) Special Session (S9, S11); texts were read only for AB 58, SB 46, SB 256, SB 362 and SB 459. NELIS lists no session after the 36th (2025) Special Session other than the 84th (2027) Session (S2), so we found no 2026 bills to check.

Common questions

Does Nevada have a law on online sweepstakes casinos?

We found no statute in Nevada that names online sweepstakes casinos in the sources we checked, last verified October 3, 2026. Status on this page: related law, not specific.

Which ranked free sweepstakes apps accept Nevada residents?

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

Do sweepstakes casinos accept players in Nevada?

Of the 18 sweepstakes casino brands in our database, 17 exclude Nevada and 1 limit it in their own documents, last verified October 3, 2026. Documents change often, so read the current terms first.

Sources

  1. S1 Nevada Legislature, Senate Bill No. 256, 83rd Session (2025), as enrolled, retrieved October 3, 2026
  2. S2 Nevada Legislature, SB256 (2025) bill overview and history, NELIS, retrieved October 3, 2026
  3. S3 Nevada Legislature, Minutes of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, March 12, 2025, retrieved October 3, 2026
  4. S4 Nevada Legislature, Minutes of the Assembly Committee on Judiciary, May 1, 2025, retrieved October 3, 2026
  5. S5 Nevada Legislature, NRS Chapter 462 (Lotteries), section 462.105, retrieved October 3, 2026
  6. S6 Nevada Legislature, Bills Signed by the Governor, 83rd Session (2025), NELIS, retrieved October 3, 2026
  7. S7 Nevada Gaming Control Board, Press Releases / Public Statements, retrieved October 3, 2026
  8. S8 Nevada Gaming Control Board, Notice to Licensees 2026-04, Industry Guidance for Online Gaming Products (January 16, 2026), retrieved October 3, 2026
  9. S9 Nevada Legislature, Bills and resolutions list, 83rd (2025) Session, NELIS, retrieved October 3, 2026
  10. S10 Nevada Legislature, Senate Bill No. 362, 83rd Session (2025), as introduced, retrieved October 3, 2026
  11. S11 Nevada Legislature, Bills and resolutions list, 36th (2025) Special Session, NELIS, retrieved October 3, 2026

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