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Sourced pieces on the collapse of the US sweepstakes market, written for the people who have to comply with it rather than the people who play on it.
Every sweepstakes ban turns on redemption. All eight of them.
Eight states have written the sweepstakes casino out of their law since October 2025, and each of the eight statutes attaches liability to the same element.
West Virginia never filed a bill. The market left anyway.
An operator tracking legislative calendars would have logged West Virginia as an open market throughout 2025 and 2026. It is closed, and it was closed by roughly fifty letters.
Your RNG certificate proves nothing to the player holding the phone
Every licensed operator holds a certificate from a testing house, and not one player has ever read one.
New Jersey wrote the specification for a lawful free-play casino, and nobody read it
A5447 banned the sweepstakes model in New Jersey on 15 August 2025, and in the same statute described exactly what a lawful alternative looks like.
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Twelve Games in One Night
An AI wrote twelve casino games in a night. Eight publish returns that are exact rather than asserted, and one rule is why any of it is publishable.
The 1410% Error
Plinko’s first render published a 1410.82% return. The board looked perfect. A hand-typed label would have read 96% over it forever.