Every casino on CasinoDaddy carries a number out of 100. This page explains exactly where that number comes from, what it is built out of, and what it cannot be bought with.
The short version is that we do not score a casino from its own website. We open a real account, deposit our own money, play, and then request a withdrawal and time how long it actually takes to land. Everything after that is arithmetic on what we found rather than on what the operator claims.
Six things get scored, each on a scale from 1 to 10. They carry equal weight, one sixth each. The average of those six multiplied by ten is the rating you see at the top of every review, and there is nothing else in the formula.
Reviewed byFred AndersonWe publish this because a rating with no visible method behind it is just an opinion with a number attached. If you can see what we measured, you can decide for yourself whether we weighed the right things, and you can check our arithmetic against any review on the site.
You can see the result of this process applied across all 253 casinos we have reviewed on our full casino list.
Testing starts with money leaving our own account. We register like any other player, complete whatever verification the casino asks for, make a deposit and play. No press kit, no demo account, no operator walkthrough.
Then we do the part that decides more of the score than anything else: we request a withdrawal and time it. Not the number the casino advertises, the number our own cashout actually took, including any documents they asked for on the way out. Payout behaviour is the thing operators are least honest about and the thing players complain about most, so it is where we spend the most effort.
Along the way we read the bonus terms in full rather than the banner, check the wagering multiplier and what it applies to, look for maximum cashout caps and maximum bet rules while a bonus is active, contact support with a real question and time the reply, and use the site on a phone rather than only on a desktop.
We also check who actually operates the casino and under which licence, because that determines what happens if a dispute ever goes badly.
Each of the six below is scored from 1 to 10 in steps of 0.1. They are not weighted differently. A casino cannot make up for slow payouts by having a big game library, because payments and game selection count exactly the same.
Who owns and operates the casino, which licence it holds, how it handles disputes, and what its track record looks like. This is the dimension with the widest spread in our data and the one that most often separates two otherwise similar casinos.
The size and quality of the library rather than the headline count. How many studios supply it, whether the live tables are worth playing, and whether the good games are actually available in your country.
What the welcome offer is worth after the terms. Wagering multiplier and what it applies to, maximum cashout caps, maximum bet rules while a bonus is active, and how honest the presentation is.
Deposit and withdrawal options, limits, fees, and above all how long our own withdrawal took to arrive. This is the dimension we test with our own money rather than take on trust.
Channels, opening hours, languages, and what happened when we contacted them with a real question. Response time matters, but a useful answer matters more than a fast one.
How the site behaves in daily use. Navigation, search, how quickly the lobby loads, and whether it holds up on a phone, which is where most of our readers actually play.
Add the six sub-scores, divide by six, multiply by ten. That is the whole formula.
A real example from our own database. iWild Casino scores 8.3 for reputation, 9.4 for game selection, 9.1 for bonus quality, 8.3 for payments, 9.0 for customer support and 9.3 for interface. Those six average 8.9, so the review publishes 89 out of 100. You can open any review on the site and do the same sum yourself.
The rating then maps to a plain verdict so you do not have to interpret the number:
| Rating | Verdict | What it means in practice |
|---|---|---|
| 85 to 100 | Excellent | Strong across all six. We would deposit here again without thinking about it. |
| 75 to 84 | Good | Solid casino with one or two weak spots that the review names. |
| 60 to 74 | Decent | Playable, but something real is wrong. Read the review before depositing. |
| Below 60 | Not recommended | We would not put our own money in. The review says why. |
A perfect 100 does not exist here and never will. The top of our scale in practice sits in the mid nineties, because no casino we have tested has been flawless on all six at once.
The fastest way to lose points with us is a slow or obstructed withdrawal. A casino that pays in a day and one that takes a week are not the same product, however similar the front pages look.
Licensing matters next. A Malta, UK, Isle of Man, Alderney, Swedish or Danish licence comes with real complaint handling and segregated player funds. A Curacao or Anjouan licence usually does not, and while plenty of decent casinos run on one, it caps how high we will go on reputation because your options are thin if the operator stops replying.
Then the bonus terms. Wagering of 50x on a 500% offer is worse for you than a plain 100% at 25x, and we score it that way no matter how big the headline number is. Maximum cashout caps on bonus winnings, maximum bet rules that void your balance if you break them by a cent, and game weightings that quietly exclude most of the library all pull bonus quality down.
Also costly: monthly withdrawal limits low enough to make a real win take months to pay out, support that answers in a different language than the one you wrote in, and terms that changed between our test and our re-check without notice.
CasinoDaddy is free to use. When you open an account at a casino through a link on this site, we may receive a commission from that operator. That is how the site pays for itself.
It does not buy a score. Ratings are set from our own testing before any commercial conversation happens, and a casino cannot pay to be rated higher, to be placed higher in a list, or to have a bad review removed. Casinos we rate poorly stay published with their score visible, and you can see all of them on our full casino list.
Where a casino gives our readers an offer that is not available on its own front page, we label it as an exclusive bonus. That is the only thing a commercial relationship changes.
A rating is a snapshot of how a casino behaved when we tested it, so it has to be maintained. We go back to a review when the operator changes its bonus terms, its withdrawal limits or its payment options, when the licence changes, and when readers tell us something has stopped working.
If a re-check changes what we found, the score moves with it. Ratings on this site go down as well as up, and a casino that was excellent two years ago does not keep the label out of politeness.
If you have played somewhere we cover and your experience does not match what we wrote, tell us. That is the most useful correction we get, and it is usually how we find out that a casino has quietly changed its payout behaviour. You can reach us through our contact page, and you can read more about who we are on about us.
Gambling should stay entertainment. If it has stopped being that, our responsible gambling page lists the tools worth knowing about, and BeGambleAware offers free confidential help.
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We score six things from 1 to 10: reputation, game selection, bonus quality, payments, customer support and interface. The six are averaged and multiplied by ten to give the rating out of 100. There is nothing else in the formula, so you can check any review by adding its six sub-scores yourself.
No. Each counts for exactly one sixth. A large game library cannot compensate for slow withdrawals, because game selection and payments carry identical weight.
No. We earn a commission when a reader opens an account through our links, but ratings are set from our own testing before any commercial conversation. No operator can buy a higher score, a higher position in a list, or the removal of a bad review.
They are plain-language labels for the score. From 85 up is Excellent, 75 to 84 is Good, and 60 to 74 is Decent. Below 60 we do not recommend depositing, and the review explains why.
Because none has earned it. A 100 would mean flawless reputation, games, bonus terms, payments, support and interface at the same time. In practice the top of our scale sits in the mid nineties.
We re-check a review when the casino changes its bonus terms, withdrawal limits, payment options or licence, and when readers report that something has changed. If the re-check contradicts what we found before, the score moves, downwards as often as upwards.
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