VegasBuilder Excluded States: 5, Coinz.US Excludes 16

VegasBuilder.com's Sweeps Rules exclude five states: Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington. The rulebook the same sponsor, Nickle Tech LLC, published four weeks earlier for its sister brand Coinz.US excludes sixteen. The eleven states missing from the newer list include seven where operating an online sweepstakes casino is unlawful: California, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Tennessee. Both VegasBuilder documents are version 1.0 and dated August 31, 2026.

We read both operators' Sweeps Rules and Terms and Conditions from their own sites today, September 7, 2026, and checked each against an invented URL on the same domain, which returns a 404 body of 1,722 bytes. These are live pages, not error shells. Neither VegasBuilder nor Coinz.US is one of the 33 brands we review, neither has been through our testing and rating process, and nothing here is a score.

Which states do VegasBuilder and Coinz.US exclude?

Both documents use the identical defined term. VegasBuilder's reads: "Permitted Territories means the United States (other than the states Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington)." Coinz.US's reads: "Permitted Territories means the United States (other than the states California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia)."

The five states VegasBuilder names - Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Washington - all appear on the Coinz.US list as well. The shorter list is the longer one with eleven names taken out of it, not a different list drawn up on different grounds.

The eleven names in the older list and not the newer one are California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Tennessee and West Virginia. Each brand's Terms and Conditions carries an "Excluded Territory" definition naming exactly the same states as that brand's own Sweeps Rules, so on the question of where you may play, neither brand contradicts itself and the disagreement is between the two brands rather than inside either one. On how long your coins last, as set out below, VegasBuilder does contradict itself.

Neither rulebook names Oklahoma, whose ban takes effect on November 1, 2026. That is not unusual: most operators have not moved on Oklahoma yet, and Pulsz switching the state to Gold Coins only on September 2 is the exception rather than the pattern. Gold Coins are the play-money side of the two-currency model and cannot be redeemed for anything, so a Gold-Coins-only state is a state with no prize play left in it.

Why is New York missing from VegasBuilder's excluded list?

Three separate clauses argue that the shorter list is a drafting decision rather than an oversight. The clearest of the three is about New York itself.

Both rulebooks cap the value of a single sweepstakes prize in named states, one of the redemption limits that decide what a win is actually worth. Coinz.US's version reads: "In Florida, the maximum redemption value of a Sweeps Coins prize won on any one spin or play, via a Player's participation in the Sweepstakes is USD$5,000." VegasBuilder's version of the same numbered clause reads: "In Florida and New York, the maximum redemption value of a Sweeps Coins prize won on any one spin or play, via a Player's participation in the Sweepstakes is USD$5,000."

Florida is in both versions of that clause; New York is in only the newer one. So the newer document removes New York from the list of states it will not serve and, in the same pass, adds New York to a clause that applies only to players it does serve. Both edits point the same way.

Two other clauses moved as well, and both moved against the player. VegasBuilder's Terms let it close an idle account after six months where Coinz.US's give you twelve: the newer document defines an "Inactive Account" as one "which has not recorded any log in or log out for a period exceeding 6 consecutive months", and the older one uses the identical sentence with "12 consecutive months". And VegasBuilder's Terms carry a capitalised line its sibling's do not: "YOU CANNOT PURCHASE SWEEPS COINS AND THEY ARE VALID FOR 60 DAYS." That line appears nowhere in the Coinz.US Terms.

Four changes, all in the same direction, is not the profile of a copy-paste slip. We cannot see inside the company and we are not saying why any of it was done, only that a document redrafted in four places is a document someone worked on.

What we could not check is the signup form: VegasBuilder loads its registration state dropdown inside a modal we could not retrieve from outside the United States, so we never saw the address and ID stage our sweepstakes registration and KYC guide describes. An operator can geo-block a state its paperwork never names, and several do. Treat this as a finding about the rulebook, which is the document that decides prizes, and not as proof that a New York address gets through the gate.

Which of the eleven dropped states ban sweepstakes casinos?

Seven of the eleven are on our banned list: California, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Tennessee. The other four - Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and West Virginia - we classify as restricted rather than banned, and our state-by-state matrix sets out the position in each.

Two of those seven we can quote from the enacted text, which we retrieved today:

For the other five, our own dated state pages carry the statute and its effective date, and our guide to whether sweepstakes casinos are legal explains why an operator's contract has no bearing on it. These laws are written at operators and promoters rather than at the person playing, but a state that has closed this category can still see a site withdraw at no notice, and a balance sitting in a ban state is the balance most likely to disappear.

What is VegasBuilder's minimum redemption, and do Sweeps Coins expire?

The floor is $100 and there is no cheaper door. The Sweeps Rules open with a capitalised line: "SWEEPS COINS ARE SUBJECT TO A MINIMUM PRIZE REDEMPTION THRESHOLD OF $100 USD. AMOUNTS BELOW THE THRESHOLD ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZE REDEMPTION." A later clause repeats it as "a minimum of 100 redeemable Sweeps Coins". A $100 cash floor on its own is common, and our highest-payout ranking puts every brand's floor side by side; what several of those brands also publish is a gift-card tier at 10 to 50 SC underneath it. We found no such tier here, the same gap we reported in CrashDuel's rulebook.

Six months of silence can close the account. The Terms define an "Inactive Account" as one "which has not recorded any log in or log out for a period exceeding 6 consecutive months", clause 5.14 says "We reserve the right to close your Player Account if it is deemed to be an Inactive Account", and the Sweeps Rules say Sweeps Coins "may also be forfeited if a Player's Customer Account is closed for any reason, or at our discretion".

The two documents do not agree on whether your coins expire, and that is the part worth reading twice. The Sweeps Rules set a sweepstakes period of "sixty (60)-day periods" and then say that any Sweeps Coins left over "shall be carried over to the next Sweepstakes Period", which reads as no expiry at all. The Terms and Conditions, in the capitalised definition of Sweeps Coins, say the opposite: "YOU CANNOT PURCHASE SWEEPS COINS AND THEY ARE VALID FOR 60 DAYS." Both documents are version 1.0 and both are dated August 31, 2026, so neither is obviously the later word. A player cannot tell from the paperwork whether a balance survives the end of a period, and where two documents from the same operator disagree about your money, the safe assumption is the one that costs you: redeem before the period ends rather than after. The current period runs to October 31, 2026 by the Sweeps Rules' own dates.

There is no state-exit clause at all. We searched both documents for the three phrasings operators normally use to say what happens to your coins when a state closes to them, and found none. That is the term TurboStakes publishes in a named section and the benchmark we measure against. What both brands do publish is what happens if you buy from a state already on their excluded list: purchases "WILL BE VOIDED AND REFUNDED, MINUS AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE OF UP TO 10% OF THE TOTAL PURCHASES MADE BY THE PLAYER", plus any bank charges. That clause is about the states each brand already names, so it does not tell a player in one of the eleven dropped states what a future withdrawal would mean for their balance. The dispute clause is category-standard: JAMS arbitration with a class-action waiver and a 30-day opt-out sent by post to the sponsor's Wyoming PO box, the window we explained this morning.

Sources & documents

• VegasBuilder.com Sweeps Rules, headed "Version: 1.0, Dated: August 31, 2026", for the five-state Permitted Territories clause, the $100 threshold, the Florida and New York prize cap, the sixty-day Sweepstakes Period and its carry-over sentence, and the Nickle Tech LLC sponsor line
• VegasBuilder.com Terms and Conditions, same version and date, for the "Excluded Territory" definition, the six-month Inactive Account definition and clause 5.14, the capitalised "VALID FOR 60 DAYS" line, the 10% administrative fee on voided purchases, and the JAMS arbitration clause at section 24.8 with its thirty-day postal opt-out
• Coinz.US Sweeps Rules, headed "Version: 4.0, Dated: August 4, 2026", for the sixteen-state Permitted Territories clause, the Florida-only prize cap and the identical sponsor line
• Coinz.US Terms and Conditions, headed "Version: 3.0, Date: July 1, 2026", for the matching sixteen-state "Excluded Territory" definition, the twelve-month Inactive Account definition and the absence of any "valid for 60 days" line
• California AB 831, Chapter 623, approved by the Governor on October 11, 2025, for the enacted text of Penal Code Section 337o(a)
• Tennessee Public Chapter 1117, Senate Bill 2136, for the text of new Section 47-18-5902

All four operator documents were retrieved on September 7, 2026 and every quotation is verbatim from the document it is attributed to. Both state lists were checked against a 404 control on the same domain, which returns 1,722 bytes on both sites. The California quotation is from the enacted section itself rather than the Legislative Counsel's Digest summary. We read these pages from outside the United States and could not retrieve either site's registration form, so we cannot say what a player inside any named state is shown at signup. The corporate details are the operator's own statement in its rules and are not checked against a Wyoming filing.

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