online-casinos.io is an independent site that checks US sweepstakes casinos against their own Terms, sweepstakes rules and state law. Cooper Hayes read the documents of five casinos on October 29, 2026, for the current ranking, and Alex Carter tested all five from Colorado.
The site holds no player funds, and none of the five operators has a say in what gets published here.
online-casinos.io publishes one ranking of safe online casinos for US players plus the pages that show how it was made: the author profile, the checking method, the ranking rules, the funding model and the legal notices. That is the whole catalogue. The site takes no deposits, runs no games, credits no coins and approves no prizes, and nobody here can open or change a casino account.
The ranking covers five sweepstakes casinos: SpinBlitz, Coinz, Splash Coins, Acebet and Crown Coins. None of them owns this site, and this site never asks for a casino password.
Each claim on the ranking page traces back to an operator document, a state law or a regulator's page, with the date it was read.
US sweepstakes casinos are built for US players only. SpinBlitz's FAQ requires US residence, and Splash Coins' Terms of Use exclude every jurisdiction outside the United States. Cooper Hayes works from Sydney and does not use a VPN, which Coinz's Terms ban outright in section 3.11. The hands-on part was therefore done in the US by Alex Carter, a field tester in Denver, Colorado, while the ranking itself rests on what each casino has put in writing.
Documents still reveal a lot. Acebet's Terms of Service, its sweepstakes rules and its homepage FAQ give three different lists of excluded states. Crown Coins' Terms say 18+, while its App Store description carries a 19+ disclaimer. A reader who only sees a casino's banner would miss both.
The full routine sits on how we test casinos, and every conflict found there is printed on the ranking page.
Cooper Hayes writes every page. He has reviewed online casinos since 2019, following a five-year fintech payments career, and in 2021 he finished a responsible gambling awareness course run by Gambling Help Online in Australia.
Alex Carter runs the field tests from Denver, Colorado. In October 2026 he opened one account at each of the five casinos, bought coin packs, went through every ID check and logged each redemption from request to arrival. Every figure from his accounts carries his name on the ranking page.
Primary sources outrank everything else in his notes. Ages, excluded states and cash-out rules come from each operator's Terms and sweepstakes rules, with version numbers where the operator prints them. State bans come from the laws themselves, such as New York's S5935, and the real money picture comes from the seven state regulators. Figures that appear only in third-party reviews are labelled that way on the page.
Sources also carry dates, because operators rewrite their pages often, and three of the five casinos changed their Terms or FAQ in October 2026 alone.
Dates on this site mark real checks. The ranking page names October 29, 2026 as the day every operator document behind it was read, and a date only moves forward after the affected section is checked again.
The next check is already fixed. Oklahoma's sweepstakes ban, SB 1589, takes effect on November 1, 2026, and Coinz and Splash Coins had not yet added Oklahoma to their excluded states when this page was written. The ranking rules on how we rate casinos explain why that matters for the order.
Neither the method nor the ranking rules were shaped by the money the site earns, and that money is listed openly.
Affiliate commission may fund the site. When a reader follows a /go link and opens an account at a casino, that casino's affiliate program may pay online-casinos.io. Reading a page earns nothing, and neither does a click to a regulator, a state law or a help service.
The affiliate disclosure spells out what the commission pays for and what it cannot touch. It cannot move a casino past the legal-access step, remove a weakness from the ranking page or hide a conflict between a casino's own documents.
No, none of the five sweepstakes casinos on this site holds a state gambling license. They run on promotional sweepstakes law, with Gold Coins for play and Sweeps Coins for prizes, and a free way to enter must always exist.
Real money online casinos are a different product. Seven states license them: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island, each with a minimum age of 21. Ten states ban sweepstakes casinos by law as of October 2026, and Oklahoma becomes the eleventh on November 1. This site states that legal picture before any bonus figure.
Readers must be 18 or older, and 21 or older where a casino or a state sets that limit, as SpinBlitz and every licensed real money state do. Pages here never describe a bonus without its playthrough, never promise a win and never describe a purchase as free of risk.
The coin rules show why. A free Sweeps Coins pack with a 1x playthrough still has to reach a redemption minimum, which runs from 10 SC to 100 SC across the five casinos, and some operators keep the right to raise the playthrough to 20x.
Warning signs, a self-check and US support services are listed on the responsible gambling page.
Corrections go to [email protected], and confirmed editorial fixes are usually live within 48 hours. The contact page sorts every message by topic, from privacy requests to partnership offers and tip-offs about rule changes.
Account problems belong with the casino itself. online-casinos.io cannot reopen a closed account, reverse a coin decision or speed up a redemption, because it has no access to any player account at any of the five casinos.
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