The sweepstakes casinos, by name

Disclosure, stated bluntly: this site's publisher, Luck Incorporated LLC, operates Chance Infinite, a free-entry sweepstakes app that competes for the attention of some of the same players these casinos court. We are not neutral about the category; we are its documented critic. That is exactly why nothing on this page is our characterization where a primary source can speak instead: every model description comes from the operator's own terms, and every legal event from a regulator, court, the operator itself, or named press coverage of a filing, labeled as such in the text. This page is not legal advice, no court has ruled these specific brands unlawful nationwide, and settlements noted below were reached without admissions of wrongdoing where the settlement said so.

The model they share

All six run the dual-currency model: they sell packages of a play-only currency (commonly Gold Coins, which their own terms say cannot be redeemed), bundle a second sweepstakes currency with marked purchases, and offer free routes to that second currency, typically a daily login bonus and a postal or online request. The second currency plays in casino-style games and redeems for prizes, commonly at one dollar per unit. Operators hold that the free routes make the promotions lawful no-purchase sweepstakes; a growing list of states has legislated against the model, and that contest is chronicled, dated and sourced, in our crackdown timeline. Our own position is editorial and constant: we rank only promotions where nothing is sold anywhere near the entries, so this category is outside our list by policy, not by individual verdicts.

Chumba Casino

Operated by VGW Malta Limited with VGW Games Limited as sweepstakes promoter, per its own terms and conditions version 27.0 and sweeps rules version 26.0, both dated July 13, 2026. Gold Coins are purchasable and, per the terms, cannot under any circumstance be redeemed; Sweeps Coins arrive as a free bonus with specifically marked Gold Coin packs, from social giveaways, from a discretionary daily bonus, and from a free entry request. Redemption of prize-won Sweeps Coins runs at one dollar per coin with a one hundred dollar minimum, per the same rules.

Two facts stand out from the documents. First, the free route changed: the September 2024 sweeps rules (version 10.0) offered a postal request worth five coins per mailed card; the July 2026 rules contain no postal option, replacing it with an in-app process requiring a photographed handwritten card and, if prompted, a selfie identity check. Second, the sweepstakes layer now excludes sixteen U.S. states by name in the operator's own rules. Legal record: an $11.75 million Kentucky class settlement (Armstead v. VGW Malta Ltd., Henderson Circuit Court, No. 2022-CI-00553, approved 2023; no admission of wrongdoing), a place on the New York Attorney General's June 2025 cease-and-desist list, inclusion in the 65 cease-and-desist letters the Illinois Gaming Board and Attorney General announced February 4 and 5, 2026, per the Board's releases, and a Florida Attorney General lawsuit filed August 2026 naming VGW brands and payment processors, per press coverage of the filing. VGW has also won dismissals, including three Georgia class actions decided on jurisdictional and arbitration grounds, per trade-press coverage of the rulings.

Pulsz

Operated by Yellow Social Interactive Limited of Gibraltar, per its terms of use version 5.2, updated September 1, 2026. Its Google Play listing declares in-app purchases of $1.99 to $99.99 per item, and its iOS listing shows Gold Coin packages from $1.99 to $19.99. Minimum age in its terms: 21.

The documentation finding: on our retrieval date, Pulsz's sweepstakes rules page returned a login wall, and its public terms of use contained zero occurrences of the words sweepstakes or sweeps. The rules that govern its sweepstakes are, as far as we could verify, unreadable without an account, so we publish no claims about its bundling ratios, redemption minimums, or free-entry mechanics: we could not open the document that would support them, and that is the finding. Its terms name fourteen restricted states plus five more where promotions are limited. Legal record: a $1.32 million Kentucky class settlement (Whiting v. Yellow Social Interactive Ltd., Henderson Circuit Court, No. 2023-CI-00358; final approval hearing December 2023), and a proposed California class action filed June 2026 (Boyle, Orange County Superior Court), per press coverage.

McLuck

Operated by B-Two Operations Limited of the Isle of Man, per its terms of service version 2.6, dated July 15, 2026, with payments through B2 Services OU of Estonia. Gold Coins may be purchased; Sweepstakes Coins arrive with marked purchases and through free routes its rules publish openly: a registration bonus, a daily login bonus of up to 2.50 coins, weekly draws, and a still-genuine postal route worth four coins per handwritten card, with a code that must arrive within 25 days. Redemption per its rules: cash prizes require at least 75 coins, gift cards at least 10, and the sponsor may charge a payment-processing fee on redemptions. Its Android listing declares in-app purchases of $0.99 to $399.99 per item, the widest range on this page.

Its terms exclude sixteen states and end promotional contests in California. Legal record: a place on the New York Attorney General's June 2025 list, and it is a named defendant, through its operator, in a New Jersey federal class action (Bargo v. Apple, Inc. et al., D.N.J., No. 2:24-cv-10805) that also names Apple and Google. In August 2025 the operator re-opened Alabama and Georgia for several of its brands, a rare re-entry, per its own terms changes as reported at the time.

Stake.us

Operated by Sweepsteaks Limited of Cyprus, per its terms and conditions version 18.0, dated July 10, 2026, and distinct from Stake.com, which its own terms attribute to Medium Rare, N.V. of Curacao; the two share a brand, not an entity. Gold Coins are purchasable and non-redeemable per the terms; Stake Cash arrives via a daily login bonus, giveaways, a postal request worth five coins per handwritten card mailed to a Dallas address, and as a bonus with marked purchases. Stake Cash redeems at an implied rate of one dollar per unit, for cryptocurrency or fiat, and the terms reserve the right to charge redemption fees and set minimums. Minimum age: 21.

Its terms exclude twenty-two states by name, the longest list on this page, and the terms' own changelog documents ten updates between February 2025 and July 2026 as states were added. Legal record: a Michigan Gaming Control Board cease-and-desist sent November 2023, after which, per the regulator, the operator geo-blocked Michigan; an Illinois Gaming Board cease-and-desist dated February 4, 2026, followed by an Illinois exit in May 2026 per trade coverage; a defendant position in the City of Baltimore's March 2026 suit against social-casino operators; a Florida Attorney General lawsuit filed August 2026, per press coverage; and private class actions in several states, at least one of which was compelled to arbitration in 2025.

Fortune Wins (formerly Fortune Coins)

Operated by Social Gaming LLC and Social Gaming LTD, per its terms and conditions, with an Ontario governing-law clause; court and regulator documents connect the brand to Blazesoft (the Illinois Gaming Board's February 2026 letter to Fortune Coins was copied to a Blazesoft address, and class actions name Social Gaming LLC among Blazesoft-affiliated defendants). The brand renamed itself from Fortune Coins on April 7, 2026, per its own terms changelog; its About page now gives the founding date without the former name.

The documentation finding here is the strongest on this page: as of our retrieval, we could locate no public sweepstakes rules on fortunewins.com at all. Its public terms define only a generic Virtual Coins currency, with the sections that once covered prize mechanics deleted in a March 2025 revision, per the changelog. The marketing sells a two-currency casino; the public documents no longer describe how its sweepstakes works, what redeems, or how a free entry is made. Its terms exclude five U.S. states plus Ontario and Quebec. Legal record: a place on the New York Attorney General's June 2025 list under its former name, the Illinois cease-and-desist of February 2026, defendant positions in the Baltimore suit and in a federal class action naming Blazesoft-affiliated entities, and a New York class action against Blazesoft compelled to arbitration in December 2025, per press coverage.

Correction, September 6, 2026: this profile said no public sweepstakes rules could be located on fortunewins.com. That finding is withdrawn. On September 5, 2026, fortunewins.com/sweeps-rules served Sweeps Rules version 4.7, dated August 13, 2026, and the Wayback Machine holds captures of the same address from April 8 and May 16, 2026, so the page existed on our retrieval date. Those rules describe the free mail-in entry, which now requires a one-time Mail Code; see our report.

LuckyLand Slots (closing)

A VGW brand (VGW Luckyland Inc), and as of our retrieval date a historical entry in the making: the operator's own closure notice states LuckyLand Slots is permanently closing on September 14, 2026, with Gold Coin purchases ended August 3, games disabled August 24, and the closing date itself listed as the end of redemption requests, with no balance transfers to other VGW brands. Its terms and sweeps rules pages no longer rendered their contents on our checks, so its final state list and redemption terms rest on regulator and court documents: a Michigan cease-and-desist in December 2023, a place on the New York June 2025 list, the Illinois letter of February 2026, the shared $11.75 million Kentucky settlement, and a defendant position in Baltimore's 2026 suit. A separate VGW brand called LuckyLand Casino, launched in late 2025, continues; the closure covers LuckyLand Slots only. If you hold balances there, the operator's notice lists September 14, 2026 as the end of redemption requests; it does not say whether requests made that day will be honored, so treat September 13 as the last safe day.

The patterns worth naming

Chumba's, Pulsz's, and McLuck's iOS store descriptions, as we retrieved them, omit the word sweepstakes entirely, though the model depends on sweepstakes law; Stake.us's leans on the word, Fortune Wins puts it in the app's name, and LuckyLand Slots shipped no iOS app at all. Free routes have narrowed or are no longer publicly published at several brands: Chumba's postal option is absent from its current rules, Pulsz's rules sit behind a login, and Fortune Wins's were missed on our retrieval date (corrected September 6, 2026: they are published at fortunewins.com/sweeps-rules), while McLuck and Stake.us still publish theirs. State exclusion lists have mostly lengthened as legislatures acted, a drumbeat you can read in the terms changelogs Stake.us and Fortune Wins publish (McLuck's 2025 Alabama and Georgia re-entry is the exception) and in the timeline. And every brand whose terms we could still read, five of the six, carries an arbitration clause with a class-action waiver; LuckyLand's terms no longer render, so we could not check its final version. None of this requires our opinion; it is what the documents say. Our opinion is on the About page and has not changed: if coins are for sale next to the entries, it is not what we rank. The apps we do rank, including the two that sell nothing at all, are on the rankings page.

Corrections to this page follow our editorial standards: if an operator's document changes or we got a fact wrong, the fix is dated and logged. One correction preempted here: a widely repeated claim of a billion-dollar Kentucky judgment against VGW appears to be a conflation with a different company's case; the verifiable Kentucky items for the operators above are the two Henderson Circuit Court class settlements cited in their entries, plus the Kentucky Attorney General's pending 2026 suit against VGW, which has produced no ruling and no judgment.