Spree Casino Restricted States: 4 Lists That Disagree

Spree Casino ships four restricted-state lists from its own pages - 17 states in its live contract, 15 on its identity check, 16 on its location check, and 15 in a superseded 2025 version of the terms that still runs inside the app - and only 15 states appear on every current one.

We pulled Spree's terms of service and its sweepstakes rules page on August 6, 2026 and read every restricted-state list those two pages ship, including the strings in the page data that never appear in the contract itself. The lists do not match. Which one governs your account is not stated anywhere.

What do Spree's lists actually say?

Start with the document that is the agreement. The live terms of service are Version 1.8.1, dated 2 June 2026, and they open with a clause that disposes of everything before them: "These Terms of Service have been updated as of 2nd June 2026 and shall supersede and replace all prior Terms of Service."

That contract names its restricted states twice, and the two instances agree. The preamble reads: "PLEASE FURTHER NOTE THAT WE DO NOT OFFER ANY OF THE SERVICES IN THE FOLLOWING STATES: CALIFORNIA, CONNETICUT, DELAWARE, IDAHO, INDIANA, KENTUCKY, LOUISIANA, MAINE, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, MONTANA, NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, TENESSEE, WASHINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA AND ANY OTHER JURISDICTION OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ('THE PROHIBITED TERRITORIES')." The two misspellings are Spree's. Section 3.4 then defines the same phrase again: "For the avoidance of doubt, the Prohibited Territories currently include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and any other jurisdiction outside the United States of America." Same 17 states, both times.

The disagreement is between that contract and the screens. Two more lists ship in the page data, as the copy Spree shows on the screens that check who you are and where you are. The identity-check text, keyed verify-kyc.restricted-states, reads "Restricted States are:" and then names 15 states. The location-check text, keyed verify-gps.restricted-states, uses the same sentence and names 16, adding Indiana. Neither names Maine.

Then there is a fourth list, and it is the one worth knowing about. Under the key sweepstake_tour.onboarding.terms_and_conditions, the page carries the copy for the in-app sweepstakes onboarding tour, the screen that asks a new player to agree the sweepstakes rules and start playing. That string is a full terms-of-service document, and it is labelled "Version 1.6, Date: 11 July 2025". It says: "Please further note that we do not offer the Service in the following states: Montana, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Washington, West Virginia, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, Connecticut and New York, New Jersey and any other jurisdiction outside the United States of America ('the Prohibited Territories')."

That is 15 states, and it is the only list on any Spree page that names Alabama or Georgia. It is also a year old and expressly superseded by the contract above. All four strings are in the source of the two pages linked at the foot of this article, so anyone can check them.

The 15 states no current list disputes are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia. Among the lists Spree is serving today, only two states are treated differently depending on where you land: Indiana and Maine.

Which Spree list actually applies to your account?

We do not know, and Spree does not say. Nothing on either page explains the difference or which list controls.

The question is not academic, because the prize rules lean on it. Clause 2.1 of Spree's sweepstakes rules opens the sweepstakes to US residents "who are not resident in the Prohibited Territories (or where prohibited by law)" and never says which definition of that term it means.

What we can read is the obligation attached to the longer one. Section 3.4 is written as a promise the player makes: "You do not live and will not access the Games or Service from any of the 'Prohibited Territories'." That is a warranty. Break it and the operator has a written answer ready when a redemption is queried.

Two clauses further on, the terms add: "Spree may edit, add to, remove or change the list of Prohibited Territories... Any changes in Prohibited Territories shall not entitle any players to refunds, entitlements, Virtual Coins or ongoing access to services."

So the list can change at Spree's discretion, a change gives you no refund and no route back to your coins, and there are four versions of the list to change from. In VGW's recent state exits, the cash-out windows players got ran from 57 days down to 14, and those were announced withdrawals with a published end date.

Why does the superseded 2025 version matter?

Because it is not filed away somewhere. It is the text Spree puts in front of a player at the moment it asks them to agree to the sweepstakes rules and start playing.

Alabama and Georgia are the two states that show up only there. Neither has banned dual-currency sweepstakes play: Alabama has an unfriendly gambling code and no sweeps statute, Georgia has no ban either, and both sit outside the group of states we track as closed on our legality matrix. The current contract does not name either one, and neither on-screen check does. A player in Alabama or Georgia can therefore be shown, inside the onboarding flow, a document telling them the service is not offered where they live, while the agreement that actually binds them says nothing of the kind.

We are not alleging that any of these lists is the wrong one, and we cannot sit in Alabama or Georgia and test whether the door opens. On-screen text is not proof of how geo-blocking behaves. What we can say is that a year-old version of a contract, carrying a different restricted-state list, is still being served to players by a company whose own current terms say all prior versions are superseded.

The reverse case is Maine. Maine's ban has been in force since July, and Maine appears in the live contract but on neither on-screen check and not in the 2025 version. Indiana, also banned, appears in the contract and on the location check but not on the identity check.

Do other sweepstakes casinos publish conflicting lists?

Not all of them do. We read the PlayFame sweeps rules the same day as a control. It serves one list, 16 states, on the gate that greets an ineligible visitor, and we found no second version contradicting it. We have since found one: PlayFame's help centre serves a second 16-state list that is not the same 16. The 17-state list in the live contract is also the Spree figure we used when we checked which operators still take Wyoming players on the same date, and the one our own Spree review carries.

Spree is also not the first operator whose blocking runs wider than the law. We mapped that gap across the industry on August 3, and 13 states with no ban are blocked by somebody. What is different here is that the disagreement is internal. This is one company's documents against each other, not a company against a legislature.

What should a Spree player do now?

If you play at Spree from any of the six states in the table above, screenshot the version of the rules you were shown, on the day you were shown it, before it changes. It costs nothing and it is the only record you will have.

Beyond that, the practical advice is the same as it is anywhere the eligibility question is unsettled. Clear account verification early, while nothing is forcing the issue, and keep the balance small enough that a single redemption clears it - our step-by-step cash-out guide sets out the minimums and the realistic waiting times. If you want the mechanics behind why state eligibility is the operator's call at all, what the sweepstakes carve-out actually allows covers it, how we check operator documents explains the method behind this piece, and the brands whose paperwork we can follow are the ones we rank.

Sources & documents

• Spree Terms of Service
• Spree sweepstakes rules page
• PlayFame sweeps rules availability gate

All four Spree lists were read on August 6, 2026 and every quotation above is verbatim from Spree's own pages, including the two misspellings in the preamble. The preamble and section 3.4 lists appear in the published contract text, Version 1.8.1 dated 2 June 2026. The identity-check and location-check sentences are strings Spree ships to those two screens; they are what the site tells a blocked visitor, and they are not proof of how the underlying geo-blocking behaves, which we cannot test from outside those states. The 15-state list naming Alabama and Georgia is carried under the sweepstake_tour.onboarding.terms_and_conditions key and is labelled Version 1.6, dated 11 July 2025; the current terms state that they supersede all prior versions. We found no statement from Spree explaining the differences or identifying which list governs, and this article does not allege that any of them is wrong. Ban status in the final column is from our own state matrix.

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