Funrize Casino Review

Where is Funrize Casino Legal?

Funrize Casino is a USA-based sweepstakes casino offered online and registered in the state of Wyoming. They accept players from most states in the United States of America. At the time of writing, their site lists the following states as restricted territories from which they do not allow players: Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada. If you live in one of those states, you will need to select a different online casino.

If you live in one of the excluded states, we strongly discourage any attempt to use a VPN to access Funrize Casino. Doing so will not end well, as you are extremely likely to get caught and using a VPN violates their terms of service. If you are caught violating their terms by using a VPN, you will be banned and any winnings will be voided.

How is Funrize Casino Legal?

If you are a newbie in the world of online sweepstakes casinos, then you are probably curious as to how an online casino site based in the USA could be legal. The answer is quite complicated in legal terms, but in process it is quite simple. I'll give you the more simplified version.

Funrize Casino is not a gambling site in technical terms. Their site is structured in a way to meet the legal definition of a sweepstakes under most state laws. It is nearly identical to models used by big brands like Pepsi and General Mills when they do giveaways. Although purchases can increase your number of entries into their games, free methods of entry are available and no purchase is necessary to participate in their games that offer real money prizes.

If you played at online casinos many years ago, you will notice some distinctions in the structure and promos at Funrize Casino to meet the requirements to truly be "no purchase necessary." There are various incentives that include free coins valid for use in their real money sweepstakes casino games, including free coins for signing up and free coins for doing things as simple as logging into your account daily and clicking (or tapping) to claim them.

Also, it is impossible to directly purchase their Sweeps Coins (SC) that are used in real money games, however there is a loophole that allows you to get your hands on more coins by purchasing. Most of the Gold Coins (GC) packages sold in their coin store include a "gift" of the real money sweepstakes coins. In fact, the value of these sweeps coins usually equals or exceeds what you are paying for the package as a whole.

Account Verification for Withdrawals

Before you redeem your sweeps coins for the first time at Funrize Casino, you will need to complete some verification steps. They need to know that you are exactly who you claim to be and are of legal age, plus they want to confirm that you are the owner of any credit or debit cards that have been used on their site.

The typical requirements for account verification at Funrize Casino are a government-issued identication and scans/photos of any credit or debit cards used on their web site. You don't have to show all the numbers on the card; obscure with a piece of paper any numbers other than the first six and last four digits of the card.

My Favorite Slot Machines at Funrize Casino

I am a big fan of the collection of slots at Funrize Casino. They carry games from a lot of my favorite providers, including: NetGame, Net Ent, BetSoft, Kalamba Games, BGAMING, Booming Games, Slotmill, Spadegaming, Fantastma Games, Octoplay, Mancala Gaming, EVOPLAY, Slotopia, Gaming Corps, TaDa Gaming, Popiplay, 1Spin4Win, Pragmatic Play, Novomatic, and Avatar UX. 

I particularly like the Carnival Cat and Rich Piggies slots, because they are near identical copycats of games I play in real, land-based casinos. Their slot with a Squid Game theme also intrigues me. Let me tell you about them in detail below.

Carnival Cat Bonus Combo Slot

This game is a complete copy of the Coin Combo Marvelous Mouse slot machine found in land-based casinos, with the lone significant exception being that they swapped the mouse for a cat.

There are three pots in the game and a wild symbol. The game doesn't have paylines; it pays 243 ways during the base game and up to 7776 ways during the free spins bonus feature.

One of the pots is the pick 'em jackpot bonus that could land you a mini, minor, major or grand jackpot. If you can select three upgrade coins during the pick 'em bonus, your ultimate prize will be doubled. Any red coin may pop the pot and trigger this bonus.

There are also green coins and blue coins that may pop a pot and trigger a free games feature with growing reels. The blue coin may pop the blue pot and give you 4x5 reels for the free spins. The green coin may pop the green pot and give you 5x5 reels for the free spins. Pop both at the same time and get 6x5 reels for the free spins.

During the free games, landing coins can trigger a value of up to 100x your bet or +1 or +2 extra free games. If you are in the super free games, those coins can also trigger the mini or minor jackpot during the bonus.

Rich Piggies 2 Bonus Combo Slot

This game will probably remind you of the Coin Trio slot machine that is popular in land-based casinos.

This slot has 20 paylines, features wilds on reels 2-5, and also gives you the option of buying the feature with either a single pop, double pop or triple pop (your choice.)

There are three different piggies that can pop and trigger the Hold 'N Spin bonus feature. The blue coin is the jackpot piggie and can award a coin prize valued at 0.5-128x, the mini, minor or major jackpot. The red coin doubles all prizes that had previously landed. The green coin collects all prizes.

If you fill all fifteen positions during the Hold 'N Spin bonus, you will win the grand jackpot.

There is one interesting twist on this game compared to the Coin Trio slot machine; on this game it is possible to land coins that have more than one color. For example, you can land a coin that is half blue and half red during the Hold 'N Spin bonus and collect both features from just the one coin.

Squid Slot Machine

This slot machine that has a theme eerily similar to Squid Game is a 3x3 slot layout with Hold 'N Link and multiplier features. Land three bonus spheres on the middle reel to trigger the Hold 'N Link feature.

The Hold 'N Link feature starts with four free spins and resets to four every time you land a sphere. Every time you land a symbol on the first or third reel, the game pays all the prizes on the screen. The middle reel prizes stay, but the other spots open back up, your spin counter returns to 4, and the game resumes.

Mini, minor and grand jackpots are available. Nine identical symbols during the base game will double all prizes. This game has five paylines during the base game.

Responsible Social Gaming at Funrize

I searched extensively and I could not find anything about responsible social gaming at Funrize Casino, so it looks like there aren't ways to take care of adding safeguards on your own.

If you need help with purchase limits, time-outs or self-exclusion, contact customer service by e-mail and I'm certain they will help you get any limits you need in place. Funrize is owned by A1 Development LLC, and their other sweepstakes casinos seem to take the matter seriously.

Alternate Method of Entry (AMOE) Free SC by Mail Offer

Funrize offers 100 entries when you make a valid request for the entries via US mail. That's only a $1 value, and with the cost of an envelope, a stamp and your time, it's not worth it for the bonus you will receive. We suggest that you pass on this offer.

This bonus is to keep their games "no purchase necessary" and a "sweepstakes", instead of "gambling, under various USA state laws.

Here are the instructions for those of you that want to make the request by mail for sweeps coins:

• Hand address an envelope (#10 recommended) to A1 Development LLC #90122, Funrize Promotion, Free Entry Request, 5830 East 2nd St. PMB 90122, Casper, WY 82609. 
• Limit of one request per envelope and a limit of one request per day per Funrize account. 
• Inside the envelope, include a piece of paper no smaller than 3"x5" and handwrite the following 1) Funrize Free Entry Request, 2) Your full legal name, 3) Your date of birth, 4) The full street address where you live, 5) your telephone number, 6) your e-mail address, and 7) your Funrize user account number.