No-value statement
What this means in practice
- Nothing is sold. Flickloot has no coin packs, no bundles, no subscriptions, no premium tier, no in-app purchases, and no payment processor. No mechanism exists by which money can reach this platform from a player.
- Nothing is redeemed. There is no withdrawal, no prize redemption, no sweepstakes entry, no Sweeps Coin, and no second currency of any kind. Gold Coins are the only currency, and they exit the system only by being wagered.
- Nothing is transferable. Coins, cosmetic items, avatars, titles, and leaderboard positions are locked to the account that earned them. No gifting, no trading, no secondary market.
- Coins are granted, not earned in any economic sense. Players receive a daily allowance and a periodic refill. The allowance is a play limit, not a product.
Why the statement exists at its own URL
Because the claim needs to be checkable, permanent, and impossible to quietly amend. An operator whose no-value language lives in clause 14.3 of its terms is an operator that intends to change it.
The legal basis
Gambling, in substantially every US state, requires three elements together: consideration, chance, and prize. Flickloot has chance. It has neither of the other two.
The eight state sweepstakes bans in force — Montana SB 555, Connecticut SB 1235, New Jersey A5447, New York S5935A, California AB 831, Indiana HB 1052, Tennessee SB 2136, Maine LD 2007 — each turn on redeemable value. New York’s Section 912 states in terms that a sweepstakes game does not include a game which awards no cash prizes or cash equivalents. Nevada does not regulate social games where no prizes are awarded.
Washington is the strictest jurisdiction in the country and the one that governs the design. Under Kater v. Churchill Downs (9th Cir. 2018), virtual chips that merely extend play are a thing of value where the player purchased them; Big Fish Games settled related claims for $155 million. The trigger in Kater is the sale. Flickloot sells nothing, to anyone, ever — and that single decision is what places it outside the analysis in all fifty states.
The full statutory position, state by state, is set out in the state-law tracker.