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How We Score Every Site

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Our Method

How We Score Every Site

Twelve categories, one weighted score, and a testing process that starts with our own money.

Real Accounts Or No Rank

Every score on this site begins the same way: we register an account, complete identity verification, buy a coin package with our own funds, play through the balance, and request a redemption. Only once money has actually arrived does scoring begin. A site that cannot complete that loop does not receive a rank here at all.

The Twelve Categories

Scoring covers redeemable Sweeps Coin value in the welcome, ongoing promotional value, playthrough fairness, confirmed payout speed, available payout methods, minimum redemption thresholds, game library depth, software provider quality, mobile performance, support responsiveness, state coverage, and ownership transparency.

Redeemable value and payout speed carry the heaviest weighting because they determine what a player actually receives. Game count deliberately carries less weight than game quality; fifty well-built jackpot titles beat five hundred near-identical clones every time.

What We Deliberately Ignore

We do not score the size of Gold Coin headline numbers, because they carry no redeemable value and are trivially inflated. We do not score visual design beyond whether the interface actually works. And we do not factor commercial terms in either direction.

Independence In Practice

Placement is not for sale. Operators do not see their position before publication and cannot request changes to it. Where affiliate arrangements exist they are broadly similar across the category, so they provide no reason to favour one brand over another. If a commercial relationship ever conflicted with a testing result, we would end the relationship rather than adjust the score.

Re-Testing Schedule

Bonuses change constantly and payout performance drifts, so every ranked site is re-checked monthly and re-tested in full at least quarterly. When a redemption window slips or a welcome package shrinks, the score moves with it. The date on each review tells you when the figures were last confirmed.