Five questions, always the same five
How the houses are scored: five criteria, one clause at a time
How the houses are scored is not a matter of taste: five closed questions, each answered by the terms themselves or by the licence register, each worth one point.
How the houses are scored is the question this page answers in full, leaving nothing implied. Each of the twelve ranked houses earns at most five points — one per criterion — and every point comes from something that can be checked again: a clause, a date, a number.
The five criteria, one by one
The first criterion asks whether an identity-verification clause exists, in writing, somewhere in the terms. Bitcasino.io takes that point with clause 6.6, set off by clause 3.13, both read inside the terms-reading window used by this method.
The second criterion asks whether the terms say when the licence began to hold, with a date — not a vague year and not the word “current”. Bitcasino.io takes that point again, with a specific date: 1 July 2024. These criteria hold up the order that appears on the home page.
The third criterion asks whether any money figure appears printed, tied to a withdrawal, a deposit or verification. Rocketpot takes that point with two numbers, not one: 2,000 to 2,500 USD, split between clause 11.4 and clause 12.4.
The fourth criterion asks whether a deadline in days exists for sending a document, counted from a request. Wild Fortune takes that point with two weeks, fixed in clauses 8.4 and 9.3.
The fifth criterion asks whether the licence, checked in the issuing authority's own register, comes back attached to the domain the house actually uses. Shuffle.com takes that point: its licence, OGL/2024/1337/0628, with Natural Nine B.V. as holder since 16 October 2024, resolved to the house's own domain in the search window used here.
What a dash in a cell means
A dash in a cell is not a lost point and not a vote against the house — it means the information was not in the sources consulted up to the date of the check. The difference matters: a house may print no licence number in its own terms, as Rainbet does, without that necessarily meaning zero across the five criteria together; each criterion is assessed separately, item by item, not as a closed package. A dash sits exactly where the information is missing, and nothing beyond that is assumed in its place.
A tie: alphabetical order
When two houses add up to the same number of points, the position between them follows alphabetical order — not an extra tie-break, not an editorial preference. It is the same rule applied across the twelve scored positions and, where it arose, to any tie among them.
Search windows: terms and registers on different dates
The reading of the twelve houses' terms began on 24 August 2026 and closed on 12 September 2026. The authorities' registers — cert.cga.cw for Curaçao, the Anjouan portal for ALSI — went through a separate check, between the 8th and the 13th of September 2026, in a window only partly overlapping the one for the terms. The two dates are quoted separately whenever a fact depends on one or the other, because a set of terms and a register can change at different moments.
The two tests: observations, not criteria
Two tests made with the desk's own money sit outside the five criteria: Vave, on 28 August 2026, and TrustDice, over May 2026. Neither adds nor removes a point — they are observations about what happened on a specific date, recorded apart from the five items that make up the score.
Vave, outside the count
Vave occupies the top of the page and sits outside the point count of this method — no score is calculated or shown for that position. The licence criterion, if it were applied, would follow the same rule as for the other twelve houses; the difference is that the rule is not used there.
Where the eighteen unscored names come from
Below the twelve scored houses, eighteen further names appear as blocks with no score. They came out of the same search that produced the twelve scored houses, not because they passed the five criteria — none of those eighteen names is discussed individually in the text on this page. Who signs this method and the two tests is set out in about.
The panel below sets the five criteria side by side with the search windows used to apply them.
Frequently asked questions
Does a house lose points if it prints no licence number in its own terms?
Why does Vave appear without a score if it sits at the top of the page?
Does the real-money test count as one of the five criteria?
Why do the terms and the registers have different search windows?
