Pulsz Bingo Available States: 5 of Them Banned Sweeps

Pulsz Bingo's help-centre state list names California, Louisiana, Maine, Indiana and New Jersey among the states it is available in. All five have banned the sweepstakes casino model, and that list has not been edited since June 10, 2025. Sibling brand Pulsz blocks California and Louisiana outright and runs Indiana, Maine and New Jersey on Gold Coins only.

We read every article in both Pulsz help centres on August 10, 2026. The two brands share an owner, a platform and a payments stack, and they publish state lists that do not agree with each other or, in Pulsz Bingo's case, with themselves.

One thing separates this from the stale-paperwork cases we wrote up on August 6 and August 9. In those, an operator left a banned state off one list while a second list blocked it. Pulsz Bingo does the opposite: it puts five banned states in its available column, by name, on the page a player goes to when the question is where they can play.

Which states does Pulsz Bingo say it is available in?

Its answer depends on which of its own articles you open. Four Pulsz Bingo documents touch eligibility. Three of them carry a blocked-state list, no two of those lists match, and the fourth shuts off a state the other three leave open.

The state list proper is the first one, and it is the one a player looking for "where can I play" would land on. It opens: "Pulsz Bingo is available online in 45 US states and the District of Columbia, including:" and then names 38 states, Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey and Oklahoma among them. It closes with a much shorter blocked list: "Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Connecticut, Michigan, and Maryland."

Ten blocked states leaves 40, not 45, and the article names 38. Florida and New York appear on neither list. The arithmetic does not close, which is usually the first sign a document has stopped being maintained.

The age-limit article is shorter and even further out: it says you need to be 21 "and not a resident of Idaho, Nevada, Michigan, or the State of Washington." Four states. The troubleshooting article names twelve, and that set does include Louisiana and New York.

So within one help centre, Louisiana is a blocked state in one article and an available state in another.

Which of those states have banned sweepstakes casinos?

Five of the states on Pulsz Bingo's available list carry a ban that is already in force. We read the statutes ourselves.

California's is the sharpest of the five, because it reaches beyond the operator. AB 831 added Penal Code Section 337o and makes it "unlawful for any person or entity to operate, conduct, or offer an online sweepstakes game" in the state, and it extends liability to payment processors, geolocation providers, content suppliers and media affiliates that knowingly support one. Maine's Chapter 645 enacted a new Title 8 chapter under the heading "ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES GAMES PROHIBITED", making it a civil violation to operate, promote or support an online sweepstakes game, with fines of $10,000 to $100,000. Louisiana's HB 883 became Act 182 and the legislature's own history line records the effective date as 08/01/2026.

Two of the five come with a caveat we should state plainly. Indiana's General Assembly site renders only in a browser and its bill API needs a key we do not hold, and New Jersey's legislature server refused our connection entirely, so we could not read HB 1052 or A 5447 in the original today. The dates in those two rows come from our own Indiana and New Jersey state pages, not from a statute we opened this morning.

Oklahoma is a sixth name on that available list, and there the clock is still running: SB 1589 does not bite until November 1, 2026. Twelve weeks out, neither brand has published an Oklahoma wind-down notice.

Does Pulsz block the same states as Pulsz Bingo?

Mostly not, and the gap is wide. Pulsz publishes the same style of article, edited on June 2, 2026 rather than June 2025, and it names 14 blocked states: "Arizona, California, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, New York, Louisiana, Connecticut, Michigan, and Maryland." That list closes cleanly, 36 available plus 14 blocked.

Pulsz keeps a presence in Indiana, Maine, Mississippi and New Jersey by stripping out the Sweeps Coins and leaving the Gold Coins, the same Gold-Coin-only tier other operators applied to Louisiana after the August 1 ban. Whatever you think of that structure, it is at least a decision that acknowledges the law exists. Pulsz Bingo's list acknowledges nothing: those four states sit in its available column with no qualifier at all, next to California and Louisiana.

Pulsz's own paperwork is not clean either. Its two older eligibility articles, the age-limit one from July 2025 and the troubleshooting one from October 2025, both name 12 states and both leave out Arizona and California.

Why does Pulsz Bingo's own Indiana notice contradict its state list?

Because one document was updated and the other was not. Both brands published a "NOTICE FOR INDIANA PLAYERS" that reads, word for word on each site: "From May 4, 2026, mail-in sweepstakes codes will no longer be generated on the website. You have until June 22, 2026 to enter sweepstake promotions with any remaining Sweepstakes Coins in your account, and also to redeem any eligible sweepstakes prizes. After this date, all Sweepstakes Coins in your account will expire, and any gameplay in SC mode will not be permitted."

That is an operator ending Sweeps Coins in a state, on the record, with dates. Pulsz Bingo posted it on May 21, 2026. Its state list, untouched since June 2025, still counts Indiana as an available state. The company documented its own Indiana exit and never went back to the page that says Indiana is open.

Note the shape of that window for anyone watching Oklahoma, because the calendar is worse than the notice reads.

1. May 4, 2026 - mail-in sweepstakes codes stop being generated, so the no-purchase route into Indiana closes.
2. May 13, 2026 - Pulsz posts the notice, nine days after that route shut.
3. May 21, 2026 - Pulsz Bingo posts the same notice, seventeen days after.
4. June 22, 2026 - last day to enter promotions with remaining Sweeps Coins or redeem eligible prizes. Balances expire and SC-mode play stops.

The free way in shut seven weeks before the money did, and neither brand posted the notice until after that first date had passed. An Indiana player reading it on the day it appeared had 40 days on Pulsz and 32 on Pulsz Bingo to move a balance, with no free way left to add to it. State exits have run as short as 14 days, and on paper this one gave 49.

Can a California or Louisiana player actually sign up?

We do not know, and we are not going to imply an answer. What we read are published documents, not the geolocation check that runs at registration, and both brands' sites returned a challenge page to our requests, so we could not test the signup flow. A stale help-centre article and an open front door are different things.

The dullest explanation is the most likely one: nobody re-opened the Pulsz Bingo article after the ban wave of 2025 and 2026, while the sibling brand's copy of the same article was rewritten in June. Yellow Social Interactive has published nothing explaining the gap, and we did not put the question to the company before publishing. If it responds, this piece gets updated.

WOW Vegas shows what a maintained version looks like. Its help centre splits the answer in two, three states barred from registration and twelve states plus Quebec barred from Sweeps Coins play, with California, Louisiana, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Illinois all in the second group. Same problem, same year, one page that tracks it.

What should a Pulsz or Pulsz Bingo player do now?

Read the newer document. Between two lists from the same brand, take the one with the later edit date and the smaller available column, and if you are in one of the five ban states, take the ban. How we verify operator paperwork explains why an undated marketing page loses to a timestamped help article every time.

This cuts at our own file too, and we would rather say so than have it pointed out. Our Pulsz Casino review listed 12 restricted states and treated California as a separate completed exit. Pulsz's own current article names 14 blocked states, and three of them, Arizona, California and Maryland, were absent from ours; ours said nothing at all about Indiana, Maine and New Jersey, which sit with Mississippi on the Gold-Coin-only tier. That page was corrected on August 11 and now carries all 14 plus the four Gold-Coin-only states. Two things are still open. Our Pulsz Bingo review runs the other way and lists 18 excluded states, eight more than the operator publishes, which makes it safer for readers and still wrong as a description of the brand's own documents - we are not narrowing it to match a list last edited in June 2025. Our Yellow Social Interactive operator page lists five state exits, California, New York, Connecticut, Louisiana and Maryland, and does not include Arizona; Pulsz blocks Arizona now, but we cannot date that as an exit rather than a state it never served, so it stays on the queue under the policy we publish rather than being guessed at.

One more. Our Maine ban coverage repeated a single-sourced trade report that Pulsz Casino and Pulsz Bingo both left Maine in May. Pulsz's current article puts Maine on the Gold-Coin-only tier rather than out, and Pulsz Bingo's names Maine as available. We are not able to confirm either exit, and that line was corrected on August 11 to say so.

This is the third operator family in five days whose eligibility documents disagree with each other, after Spree's four lists on August 6 and the B-Two brands' California gap on August 9. If a state you play from turns up on a list it was not on last month, treat it as a wind-down notice and move the balance first. Our redemption walkthrough covers the order, our ranked list tracks who is still worth an account, and our state matrix records which states are closed.

Sources & documents

• Pulsz Bingo help centre, "Where can I find PulszBingo in the US?" - Zendesk API record, body last edited June 10, 2025, record last updated May 26, 2026
• Pulsz Bingo help centre article index - 91 articles, source for the age-limit, troubleshooting and Indiana notice text
• Pulsz help centre, "Where can I find Pulsz in the US?" - body last edited June 2, 2026, record last updated August 10, 2026
• Pulsz help centre article index - 90 articles
• California AB 831, bill text, Penal Code Section 337o - Chapter 623, approved October 11, 2025
• Louisiana HB 883 bill history - "Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 182"; "Effective date: 08/01/2026"
• Maine LD 2007 / SP 825 status page - enacted and signed April 6, 2026, Public Law Chapter 645
• Maine Public Law Chapter 645, printed chapter - enacts 8 MRSA c. 38, "Online Sweepstakes Games Prohibited"
• WOW Vegas help centre, which states and territories are excluded
• Arizona Department of Gaming, sweepstakes resources - returned 403 to every request we made, so we did not read it
• Indiana General Assembly, HB 1052 details - served a page that renders only in a browser; the bill API requires a key we do not hold

Both help centres were read on August 10, 2026 through each brand's public Zendesk API, because the browser-facing help pages sit behind a challenge our tools cannot clear. The API returns the article body plus two timestamps, edited_at for the last change to the body and updated_at for the last change to the record. Every "last edited" date above is edited_at, because that is the one that tracks the state list itself. Both pulsz.com and pulszbingo.com returned a challenge page to our direct requests, so we could not read either brand's terms of use, and nothing here describes what happens at signup. New Jersey's legislature server refused our connection, as it has on every previous attempt.

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