What Counts As A Prize
Two coins, one legal rule, three conditions. Everything else follows from that.
Only One Coin Is A Prize
Gold Coins are playing time. Sweeps Coins are the prize. Nothing else in an offer matters.
Gold Coins unlock every game in a lobby and cannot be redeemed at any balance, on any site, under any promotion. A banner shouting about a million coins is advertising hours of entertainment.
Sweeps Coins convert to real prizes at roughly a dollar each. Operators are not allowed to sell them on their own, so they arrive attached to coin packages or free through daily logins, giveaways and a mailed request.
Play It Through
Every Sweeps Coin has to be staked once before the balance can be collected. It is 1x at all eighteen sites, not a rolling requirement.
Clear The Floor
Each site sets a minimum collectable balance, from 50 to 100 Sweeps Coins. That figure decides whether a small free prize is worth anything.
Verify Once
One identity check per account, on your first collection. A clear licence photo with a matching name keeps it to minutes rather than days.
Why Prizes Are Allowed
A free route to Sweeps Coins must always exist, which places these games under sweepstakes law rather than gambling law.
Reading A Prize In Ten Seconds
Find the Sweeps Coin figure, check whether it credits at once or in stages, then compare it against the floor. If the free prize does not get you near that floor, the offer is smaller than the banner suggests.