Thrillzz Terms Rewrite Drops Maine, Adds Five States

Thrillzz rewrote the Terms of Use its site links on August 19, 2026, adding Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut and New Jersey to the states it bars and deleting Maine, whose sweepstakes ban is already in force. In the same week it deleted four legal documents and every one of its state landing pages, leaving prize entry governed by a rulebook last revised in May 2024.

We read all of this today from the operator's own published documents and its own page index. Thrillzz is a social sportsbook with a sweepstakes prize layer. It is not one of the 33 brands we review, we have not tested it, and nothing here is a score. We covered its two conflicting state lists on August 18 and its one-cash-out-per-five-days redemption terms the same day. Those documents have since moved, which is why this piece exists.

What changed in the Thrillzz terms?

The page now carries the header "Thrillzz Games Terms of Use - Last Revised: August 19, 2026". The eligibility clause reads: you "must not be physically located in any of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, and Washington."

Nineteen states, and the clause now bites on more than it used to. It applies "when accessing the Services, including without limitation purchasing Thrillzz Coins (defined below), or attempting to enter a Contest or Sweepstakes". The last two words are new. On August 18 this clause stopped at "Contest", and the word Sweepstakes appeared only in a separate document that has since been deleted.

One thing to be straight about before the comparison: the before-state here is our own dated read, not an independent archive. The Internet Archive refused every request we made for a Thrillzz capture today.

The arithmetic between those two rows is exact. Take the 15 states we published nine days ago, remove Maine, add Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut and New Jersey, and you have today's 19. Nothing else moved.

Why does dropping Maine matter?

Because Maine banned this model and the ban is in force. We covered the law taking effect and, separately, the state regulator's position that it will not help a player chase a balance an operator refuses to pay. Nine days ago the Thrillzz Terms of Use told a Maine player they were not eligible. Today the word Maine does not appear in that document at all.

The surviving sweepstakes rulebook does not name Maine either. So on the operator's own paperwork, as published today, there is no clause anywhere telling a Maine player they are excluded, in a state where the activity is already unlawful. That is the reverse of the direction a rulebook normally moves after a ban.

Oklahoma is in the same position for a different reason: it has never appeared in any Thrillzz document we have read, and its ban takes effect on November 1, 2026. We found the same silence across the market when we counted the operators still listing Oklahoma after its ban passed.

Which Thrillzz documents disappeared?

The site runs WordPress and publishes its own page index, which reports a total in a response header. On August 18 that header read 75. Today it reads 20.

These four legal pages now return a 404. We checked each against an invented control URL on the same domain, and the responses are identical in status and length, so these are genuine removals rather than a block:

• /promotional-terms-of-use/, the 20-state document our August 18 report identified as controlling
• /sweepstakes-rules/, one of the two Sweepstakes Official Rules pages
• /mini-games-sweepstakes-official-rules/ and its mirror under the site's /games/ path

Every state landing page went with them. Thrillzz used to publish a page per state under /play-in-usa/. The hub at /play-in-usa/ survives and still carries 16 links to those pages; we requested all 16 today and every one returned the same 404 as the control. Fifty-five pages left the index in total.

What is left of the legal set is older than the site around it. Every surviving legal document carries a 2024 timestamp in both the page index and the sitemap: the Official Sweepstakes Rules and the responsible-gaming policy at June 21, 2024, the Pick'em rules at September 2, 2024, the prediction rules and the privacy policy at June 4, 2024. Every surviving marketing page carries an August 2026 one. The documents that decide who can win a prize are now the oldest things on the site.

Do the surviving Thrillzz documents agree with each other?

No, and the disagreement is now a different shape than the one we reported. The Terms bar 19 states. The Official Sweepstakes Rules bar 14: "Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, and South Carolina, and Washington". The Pick'em rules carry the same 14.

Iowa, Minnesota and South Carolina are the new problem. A player in any of the three reads the linked Terms of Use, finds their state absent, and is barred from every sweepstakes by the rulebook that decides prizes. That is exactly the trap the five states in our August 18 piece were in, moved to three different states.

The order-of-precedence clause reads differently too. The surviving rulebook says: "In the event of a direct conflict or inconsistency between these Rules, the Terms of Use, Prediction Rules, or Other Government Agreements, the Terms of Use shall prevail." Our August 18 report quoted a version of that sentence naming the Promotional Terms of Use as the document that prevails, and that page is the one that now 404s. On the sentence published today the 19-state list controls access and purchases, while the 14-state list still decides prize entry.

One correction to our own work follows, and it is not a small one. On August 18 we described /sweepstakes-rules/ and /official-sweepstakes-rules/ as identical documents both carrying a 20-state list, and we recorded a July 14, 2026 modification stamp on both. Read today, /official-sweepstakes-rules/ carries 14 states, names a different controlling document, and presents itself as a 2024 document on three separate signals: its own printed header, "Last Revised: May 2, 2024"; a June 21, 2024 timestamp in the site's page index; and the same date in the sitemap. Both descriptions cannot be true of one page. Either our August 18 reading of that URL was wrong, or the page was restored from an old backup along with the rest of the legal set, which would fit both the 55 deletions and the 2024 dates now sitting on every surviving rulebook. We cannot tell which from outside the company, so we are flagging it rather than picking one. How we check operator documents sets out the method and its limits.

Where does Thrillzz still say you can play?

The /play-in-usa/ page carries three different answers on one screen. The banner says "Free-to-play in 40+ eligible states". The body says "You can find us in any of these 38 states" and then lists 37 entries, one of which is the District of Columbia. Further down: "Our platform is available in 38 states."

Not one of those numbers survives the operator's own arithmetic. There are 51 US jurisdictions. Subtract the 19 the Terms of Use bars and 32 remain, which is the most permissive count any Thrillzz document supports. Fold in the three states barred only by the sweepstakes rules and it is 29.

The list still names Maine, Indiana, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Connecticut, Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota and South Carolina as places you can play. Sixteen of the names on it are still hyperlinks, Maine and Indiana among them, and every one of those links now leads to a deleted page.

Marketing copy that names banned states is a pattern rather than an accident here. Spree publishes four restricted-state lists that disagree, and Pulsz Bingo's help centre names five banned states as available.

What should you do about it?

If you are in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut or New Jersey, the change closes something that was open nine days ago. The Terms now bar you from access and from buying coins, not merely from winning. If you hold coins there, the exclusion is new and the document does not say what happens to a balance.

If you are in Maine or Indiana, treat the missing clause as the opposite of permission. Maine's ban is in force whatever a private contract says, and the deletion of a state landing page is not the same as the withdrawal of a service. Our guide to whether sweepstakes casinos are legal explains why state law, not an operator's paperwork, settles this, and our state-by-state map has the position everywhere else.

Two limits on all of it. We read these documents from outside the United States, so we cannot say what a player inside any of these states is shown at signup. And the only before-state we can put beside today's is our own read of August 18, because the Internet Archive would not serve us a Thrillzz capture today. Nothing here is checked against an independent snapshot.

Sources & documents

• Thrillzz Terms of Use, header "Last Revised: August 19, 2026", read in full on August 27, 2026 - the source of the 19-state clause and the "Contest or Sweepstakes" wording
• Thrillzz Official Sweepstakes Rules, header "Last Revised: May 2, 2024", for the 14-state list and the order-of-precedence clause. The /games/sweepstakes-official-rules/ path is not a separate document: it returns a 301 to a May 30, 2024 post carrying the same header, the same 14 states and the same clause
• Thrillzz Pick'em Tournament rules, carrying the same 14 states as "Restricted States"
• Thrillzz Play in USA, for the "40+ eligible states" banner, the "38 states" claim, the 37 listed entries and the 16 surviving state hyperlinks
• Thrillzz WordPress page index, which reports 20 published pages today against the 75 our August 18 report recorded, and gives the per-page modification timestamps
• Thrillzz page sitemap, the change signal that started this: a modification stamp of August 19, 2026 on the Terms of Use, and 2024 stamps on every surviving legal document
• The 404 checks on /promotional-terms-of-use/, /sweepstakes-rules/, /mini-games-sweepstakes-official-rules/, /games/mini-games-sweepstakes-official-rules/ and all 16 state landing pages still linked from /play-in-usa/ were each run against an invented control URL on the same domain and returned identical status codes and identical response lengths

Nothing here alleges wrongdoing by Thrillzz. These are the documents the company publishes, quoted as published, and the changes described are changes between two dated readings of them. We did not put questions to the operator before publishing.

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