US state availability, explained

In the US, whether you can claim an offer depends on your state — and the rules differ completely by product type. This is why every US offer on BonusMutt carries a state list (when the operator publishes one) and why the catalog has a state filter.

Why the lists differ by product

• Online sportsbooks are licensed state by state. An operator's promo is only claimable where that operator is licensed and live, so each sportsbook has its own map of roughly 20–30 states, and promos sometimes narrow it further (state-specific welcome offers are common in newly launched states).
• Daily fantasy (DFS) operates under separate state fantasy-sports laws and is available considerably more broadly than sports betting — but with operator-specific exclusions, and some states restrict specific contest formats (pick'em-style games have been the recent battleground).
• Sweepstakes casinos use sweepstakes law rather than gambling licenses, so they're available in most states — each operator excludes its own short list of jurisdictions, and that list has been shifting as states pass new sweeps legislation. Check the operator's current terms.
• Prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) are regulated federally rather than state by state, so they're generally available nationwide with a small number of exclusions — a different pattern from everything above.

Three availability gotchas

• Where you are, not where you live. Geolocation checks apply at bet time: you can usually sign up from anywhere, but you must be physically inside a permitted state to play or claim. Traveling changes what you can access.
• Signup state vs. promo state. Some welcome offers are limited to specific states even where the operator is live everywhere else — launch-state promos especially.
• Age varies too. 21+ is standard for sportsbooks and casinos, but DFS is 18+ or 19+ in many states, and sweeps operators set their own minimums.

How to read our state lists

• When an operator publishes a state list for an offer, we show it verbatim on the offer page, and the catalog's state filter uses it.
• When they don't, we say "availability varies" rather than guessing — an offer without a state list is not an offer available everywhere.
• State lists are checked as of each offer's last-verified date. Operators enter new states and pull out of others; the operator's own site is always the final word.

Nothing on this page is legal advice — it's a reader's guide to why the lists look the way they do. For how the data behind them is gathered, see how we verify.