Vegas Gems Sweepstakes Casino: Honest Review & My Personal Experience with Vegas Gems Social Casino

The welcome bonus here is different from most other social casino promotions, including the Wow Vegas sign up offers.  When you first register, go to the “Rewards” tab and select “Promotions”.

Here you will find the Welcome Chest, which you can open for free. Once opened it will spin through a series of jewels, and the one that it lands on will determine your welcome bonus. This gives you the opportunity to win between 0.40 and 1,000 Gems (SC) plus you can get 50% extra Gems as a bonus on your first purchase of Shards (GC).

If you don’t want to open the chest straight away, you have the option to do as many demo openings as you like, just to get a feel for how the bonus works. In addition to this welcome bonus, you are given the chance to enter a Vegas Gems bonus code (if you have one) to claim more exclusive offers.

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This site is quite different from most other social casinos covered in our online gambling reviews here at Gambling Guy. It has a dark background that allows the neon magenta icons and fonts to really pop off your screen. These magenta and violet colors are used to represent the “Gems” and “Shards” that are used in place of the traditional GC and SC virtual currencies.

This gives the site a unique look and feel that is ultimately a breath of fresh air when compared to the rest of the market. This is backed up by the way the site works – it’s easy to follow, but everything is just that little bit different from a regular social casino.

At the time of writing, there isn’t a mobile app for this social casino available yet. However, there is a mobile-optimized website that does the job just fine. To play games on your mobile, you don’t need to download any additional software – just load the website in your mobile browser, sign in and you’re good to go.

The mobile site looks clean and professional and is very easy to browse. Overall, it is almost a like-for-like replica of the desktop site, only that everything has been minimized and built for scroll-based browsing.

For example, the game graphics are displayed two to a row instead of four, and the quick access bar is condensed into a pop-up button. Whereas on the desktop site, it is constantly visible on the left of your screen.

UPD.: I reached out to their customer support once more in February 2024 to inquire about the status of their mobile app. The support representative assured me that they are in the process of finalizing its development and it will be launched soon.

How to Sign Up

As Vegas Gems is a social casino and not a gambling site, you cannot deposit or store money in your account. Instead, you can purchase bundles of extra “Shards”, which is the main virtual currency used to play games on this site, and are the equivalent to Gold Coins.

Shards purchases start at $4.99 with the most expensive possible package costing $999.99. Moreover, every Shard purchase pack comes with a free “Gems” bonus. As stated earlier, “Gems” are this provider’s equivalent of SC (Sweepstake Coins).

You can purchase Shards instantly using one of the following cryptocurrencies:

• Cryptocurrency
• Credit Cards
• Gift Cards

Prize redemption

If you play with your Gems at least once on promotional games and win enough, you will be able to redeem them for real cash prizes. To see if this option is available to you, click on the “Redeem Prize” button at the top of your screen when signed in with your Vegas Gems login.

If prize redemption is available you will be able to request to have a prize paid into your bank account. If approved you will be given a prize at the rate of 1 Gem = $1 USD. The Vegas Gems withdrawal time can take up to ten days if we include redemption request approval times and payment processing.

KYC and account verification

Once you have created your login, you can play at Vegas Gems for free using your welcome bonus. However, if you wish to make a purchase and/or redeem prizes (both of which are optional), you will need to verify your account and complete the KYC process.

To verify your ID, you will need to manually enter your full name and D.O.B. as it appears on your ID document. After which, you will then need to upload a scanned photo of your document which clearly shows the same details, exactly as you have entered them initially.

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If you run into any issues during the Vegas Gems sign up process or at any other time while using the platform, there are two options available to you:

• Email
• X (Twitter)

If you are looking for solid answers from the Vegas Gems customer support team, then I definitely recommend using the contact form service. Depending on the time of day that you use it, response time may be a little slow, but the replies I received were detailed and helpful.

For other updates, you can reach out to them on X (Twitter). It is also worth following Vegas Gems on Twitter anyway, as they regularly post free Shard and Gem giveaways there, just like many other social casinos – see our Stake.us review as an example.

Vegas Gems is owned and operated by a Dublin-based company, but is fully compliant with US sweepstakes laws, through which you are protected as a player. This means that you need to be aged 18 or older and a US resident to play on the site. Moreover, the site isn’t legally available in the following three states where sweepstakes are restricted, or prohibited by law:

• Washington
• Nevada
• Idaho

On top of that, the site is encrypted and completely secure, as are the transactions for buying Shards and redeeming prizes. In the welcome email, the operator will recommend that you make your Vegas Gems password different from your email password to increase security and prevent hacking, which is a nice touch.

First of all, Vegas Gems has a daily reload bonus that is completely free to all players. It comes in the form of “Daily Chests” that work in a similar fashion to the “Welcome Chest”. When a chest is available to you, you can open it and inside a random prize of free Shards and/or Gems will be waiting for you.

As well as that, you can compete in “Races” with other players to climb your way up the Leaderboard for the chance to win prizes. The more you play, the more points you will earn, which helps to increase your level. When you level up, you will be given the chance to open “Bejewel Cases”, which again work in a similar fashion to the Welcome Chest and Daily Chests, only with potentially bigger free prizes in the form of free Shards and/or Gems.