How We Rate Casinos, Bonuses & Slots

• Licensing – First and foremost, the objective is to determine the casino’s security and trustworthiness. We start by checking for licensing from a legitimate licensing authority. Licensing will be transparent and on display if it’s a reputable site, and it is generally available for anyone to see in the footer of the website. Some of the most respected gaming authorities known for licensing and regulating online operators within the industry include the UK Gambling Commission, the Malta Gaming Authority, Kahnawake Gaming Commission, and many others.
• Casino games – Aside from proper licensing, there’s nothing quite as important as a decently stocked gaming library. During the review process, TSC goes through the game library to review all the available games. We check how many games are available, how they are organised, and how easy it is to search for the types of games you want to play. As a rule of thumb, the best casinos will have a decent variety of online slots, table games, instant win games, and live dealer variants. A big plus is if the site comes with casino games, a live casino, and a sportsbook giving you plenty of betting action.
• Customer service – One of the most important factors of a high-quality online casino is a professional customer support team that is available to assist with any questions and queries. The preference is a support team available around the clock via Live Chat, Email, and Telephone or the majority of support channels for most of the day and evening. There’s nothing worse than stumbling across an issue with no assistance available for a couple of hours, and you want the option of instant help should you need it. During our vetting process, we test the support team’s responsiveness to ensure that support is as fast and efficient as advertised.
• Banking options – Any top-rated online casino site will have various secure, trusted banking options. These payment methods may vary based on your region. However, there should always be a good range of payment methods available, including traditional card payment options, e-wallets, and crypto payment methods.
• Provably fair – Provably Fair games come with a winning rate of up to 99%. These games allow you to prove the fairness of bets, which ensures casinos can’t cheat or change the outcome of games. When Provably Fair games are available at a casino, the result will always be available for access on the site.
• Promotions – Bonuses and promotions can go a long way to keeping players committed to an online casino. Our task is to ensure that the promotions available at top recommended sites are of the best quality. This means the biggest offers with the best possible terms and conditions, from the lowest wagering requirements to the most reasonable time frames, the highest payouts, and the widest variety of games to play.
  On top of that, we check to ensure that there is a variety of offers to choose from, including free spins offers, generous welcome bonuses, no deposit bonuses, match deposit bonuses, and cash-back offers to name just a few. A great VIP program doesn’t hurt either, ensuring there is a way to build up to bigger and better benefits as you up your loyalty ranking.
• Tournaments – There’s no denying that games are online casinos’ primary entertainment source. However, sometimes you want additional forms of entertainment that may or may not lead to extra benefits and rewards. Top-rated casinos have thought of this, and they run frequent tournaments for this purpose. These can come in all shapes and sizes, from freeroll tournaments to Sit & Go’s to Prize Pools. The prizes for grabs may vary from regular casino bonuses and free spins to massive cash prizes.

• Wagering Requirements – Any online casino bonuses will come with wagering requirements. This is the number of times you need to wager the bonus before you can withdraw real money from the bonus. The best sites will have a withdrawal requirement of 35x or less.
• Time Limits – Any offer will have a time limit on the offer. This is the amount of time you must claim the offer and meet the wagering requirements. This can be anything from 7 to 30 days, and some top sites will give you 90 days.
• Game Restrictions – As you play to meet the wagering requirements, the online casino bonuses will have some game restrictions to keep in mind. These games will not contribute to the wagering requirements, and some of the top sites will have very few game restrictions, with most slots contributing fully.
• Minimum Deposit – Always keep the minimum deposit in mind. Most top online casinos require a minimum deposit of 1 – 10 dollars to claim your bonus.

• Free Spins – It is often a main feature of a slot where you get awarded a certain amount of free spins when you land 3 or more of a special symbol. During these free spins, your chances of wins increase, and depending on the mechanics, there are often other special symbols that can land on the reels to increase the chances of bigger wins.
• Stacked Wilds/ Locked Wilds – Wilds are generally popular in slots, but Sticky or Locked Wilds are all the rage nowadays. This special feature can also be found in main or bonus rounds, where the wild symbol will stay in place as the rest of the reels spin. With it, the potential for wins increases.
• Expanding Wilds/ Symbols – There’s nothing like getting surprised by fun symbols that increase the opportunities for winnings on the reels. Expanding wilds or expanding symbols do just that. These are special symbols that are chosen before the main bonus feature (often the free spins), and then during the feature, they expand to cover the entire reel and lead to easier wins.
• Bonus Buy – The Bonus Buy feature is known by many different names, but the premise of it remains the same. With this feature, impatient players can skip the base game and buy their way straight into the main bonus game the slot has to offer. You will often have to pay a pretty penny as it will require between 50 to 150 times your stake to buy the bonus. But with the feature, you ensure the chance to enter the bonus round and have instant access to bigger potential wins with each spin.

The most important feature of all is that a slot is filled with ways to entertain you. Having fun should already be the number one priority.