The method
How We Score
Every site is rated 0 to 10 on each criterion below. Those ratings are combined into a weighted average and shown out of 100, so two sites are always compared on the same terms.
The weights are not equal, because the criteria are not equally important. A site with a beautiful interface that stops paying is worthless; a plain one that always pays is not.
The six criteria
Payout reliability
Do winners actually get paid, every time, without having to chase an owner in Discord? The single thing that matters most.
Track record
How long it has run, who is known to be behind it, and what the community says happened the last time it went down.
Provably fair
Verifiable seeds you can check yourself, a published house edge, and results that hold up when you audit them.
Withdrawal speed
How long between hitting withdraw and the locks being in your world, including at peak hours.
Bonus value
What the free lock, rakeback or deposit match is really worth once the wagering requirement is read properly.
Site & support
Whether it works on a phone, stays up under load, and whether anyone answers when something goes wrong.
What the bands mean
Pays reliably, verifiable, and nothing we found argues otherwise.
Worth using, with trade-offs written on the review page.
Works, but something about it should give you pause first.
Real problems. Read the review before you go anywhere near it.
Trust is scored separately
Every listing carries a badge — TRUSTED UNVERIFIED AVOID — that is a judgement, not a calculation.
It is deliberately not derived from the score, because those two things can disagree: a site can run good games on a fast interface and still be one we are telling people to stay away from. Anything marked AVOID sinks to the bottom of the board whatever it scored, and is left off the promo codes page entirely.
What the number cannot tell you
A score is a snapshot of a site on the day it was reviewed. The thing that makes these sites risky — an owner deciding to stop paying — happens without warning and without any of the other criteria changing first.
A blank rating is not a zero. It is excluded from the average rather than counted against a site, so a half-finished review does not fake a bad verdict. Read staying safe before you deposit anywhere, including at the top of the board.