How Sweeps Play Works
Two coins, one legal principle and three conditions. Everything else is detail.
The Two Coins
Every house issues two currencies. Gold Coins open the reels and the tables and can never be withdrawn, at any balance, under any promotion. They buy an evening of play and nothing more.
Sweeps Coins are the currency that matters, worth roughly a dollar apiece. A house may not sell them on their own, so they arrive attached to a coin purchase, or free through a daily login, a giveaway or a posted request.
Why It Is Permitted
Because that free route must always exist, the arrangement sits under sweepstakes law rather than gambling law. It is the same principle that allows a prize draw printed on a bottle cap.
The Three Conditions
Stake each Sweeps Coin once. Clear the house floor, which runs between fifty and a hundred coins. Pass one identity check. All eighteen houses apply all three, and none charged us a fee to withdraw.
Reading A Welcome
Find the Sweeps Coin figure, note whether it credits at once or in stages, then set it against the floor. A large-looking welcome behind a hundred-coin floor is worth less than a modest one behind fifty.
“The number on the banner is almost always Gold Coins. The number that pays is usually printed smaller, further down.”
From our judging notes