Best Social Casino Bonus Drops

Social casino bonus drops are one of several ways the sites enable players to enjoy online casino games for free. These bonus drops come in many varieties, but all serve a similar purpose to help players accumulate coins with which to play the games. Having played at many different social casinos, I can offer an overview of the different types of social casino bonus drops you can find and how to take advantage of them.

How do bonus drops work at social casinos?

Social casinos are fun for many reasons, not least of which being the fact that they let you play online casino games without any obligation to spend any money. I can confirm you can get a lot of entertainment out of these sites without any expense, and I’ve grown accustomed always to keep an eye out for bonus drops and other promos whenever they come around.

These sites use virtual currencies, often called Gold Coins (GC) and Sweepstakes Coins (SC) although they sometimes go by different names. Gold Coins you can buy, but you don’t have to. They are like play money in that you can only play games for fun with them and win more GC, which have no cash value.

You can’t buy Sweepstakes Coins, but they are usually given as a bonus to those who purchase GC. You can also get SC in other ways, including via welcome offers, special giveaways and contests, and bonus drops. You can also earn more Sweeps Coins by winning them in SC games. Then, when you accumulate enough SC, you can redeem them for cash prizes or gift cards. Sometimes these sites are referred to as sweepstakes casinos because of the way they employ the sweepstakes model.

Types of social casino bonus drops

Bonus drops are a terrific way to pick up more Gold Coins and Sweeps Coins with which to play at these sites. Below I describe eight different examples of bonus drops with explanations of each and some examples from particular social casinos where I’ve played.

Prize drops

Prize drops can have different meanings at different sites, but I’m thinking here of the popular prize drops at WOW Vegas that involve having a chance to win a random prize just for playing a certain game or set of games.

For example, an ongoing promo at WOW Vegas is Paris’ Lucky 6 featuring site spokesperson Paris Hilton. Play any of six different slots (the “lucky 6”) and every time you spin you can potentially trigger receiving a random prize from the prize pool.

The particular prize drop awards 10,000 Sweepstakes Coins each week, from 1 SC to a top prize of 500 SC. As you play, there’s a counter on the left showing you the time and prizes left. It’s a fun added bonus, especially if you are playing the games, anyway.

 

Daily bonuses

Many social casinos have some sort of login bonus that lets you pick up free coins whenever you sign in. These often are daily bonuses as in you can only claim them once per day, although in some cases you can receive bonuses multiple times per day.

High 5 Casino is an example of a social casino that offers daily bonuses. When you log into your account, click the little envelope (your “Inbox”) and look for “My Bonuses.” You’ll get some Sweeps Coins (the “Daily Bonus”) as well as a “Bonus Harvest” of Game Coins and Diamonds. As soon as you do, a countdown clock starts letting you know when you can next claim more of each.

Other sites have daily bonuses that gradually get larger if you keep up a consecutive-day streak of signing in. I have a few different sites where I routinely log in each day to keep my streak alive and keep collecting coins.

 

Social media competitions

Social casinos often emphasize the “social” side of playing casino games. Many have social media accounts where they enable players to connect with each other as part of a community-building effort. To encourage players to follow the accounts, the sites often stage social media competitions or giveaways.

To give an example, McLuck is a social casino with accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and X. On those accounts, McLuck will announce competitions where they’ll ask a question or invite followers to solve a puzzle (usually not a difficult one). Players respond with answers, and from the correct ones McLuck will conduct a drawing and award winners both Gold Coins and Sweepstakes Coins.

The competitions usually spell out the terms in the original post — e.g., “You could be 1 of 20 winners of GC 40,000 + FREE SC 20!” The winners will then be identified and announced. Many sites have these types of competitions, making it worthwhile to follow them on social media.

 

Challenges

Sites often run challenges that can take different forms but usually involve inviting players to play a particular game or selection of games in order to win a prize. Sometimes you compete against others, and whoever plays or wins the most gets free coins. Other times you can win the prize just by satisfying a challenge yourself.

For example, RealPrize runs what they call “Daily Challenges” that focus on particular slots. You might be invited to “Play Sugar Rush 1000 and spin 30 times at a min SC 0.50, you win 1.00 SC Reward.” In other words, you have to play at least 30 spins for the designated minimum, and once you do you can claim the reward.

At RealPrize, you can go back and check your progress in a challenge as you go. Meanwhile, for the challenges in which you compete against other players, there’s usually a leaderboard to track.

 

Jackpot drops

With jackpot drops, sites will designated a particular slot or group of slots as part of the promo and seed jackpots for them. Then during a given time period the jackpots will increase until they are awarded.

Pulsz, for example, regularly runs a promo called Jackpot Thursdays. Typically there will be 10 slots selected for the promo, and after a week’s worth of play there will be a two-hour window when the jackpots must be awarded.

These are for both Gold Coins and Sweepstakes Coins, and in this case Pulsz seeds them with GC 100,000 and FREE SC 500, respectively.

 

Races

Races can be similar to those “challenges” described above. Usually they involve playing a particular game, getting points for how much volume you put in, and collecting prizes if you finish among the leaders during a certain time period.

Crown Coins Casino will run a “Joker’s Race” in which players can play any of the several “Joker” slots on the site. They get points according to the number of spins they try (there’s a formula that uses the square root of the spins to determine the points). Then the top 50 finishers split the prize pool consisting of both Crown Coins and Sweeps Cash.

Races can be interesting, but I typically don’t bother with them unless they happen to be associated with a game I’m already playing.

 

Wheel spins

One common way for social casinos to deliver bonuses is by inviting players to take free wheel spins and awarding prizes when they do. This is essentially a version of the daily bonuses described above that adds an extra element of fun to receiving them.

For instance, over at NoLimitCoins when you log in you can spin the Lucky Wheel before you start playing any of the games. When you do, you have a chance win either Gold Coins or Sweeps Coins.

You’ll find these wheel spins at several sites, and you’ll start to make it a habit of spinning the wheel every time you sign in to play.

 

Bonus drop codes

Finally, let me also mention bonus drop codes as they are another way social casinos announce and deliver bonuses to players. Typically the site will share a bonus drop code over social media along with details of what the bonus is worth. Followers will then enter the code on the site to be eligible for the bonus.

One social casino that is particularly known for its bonus drop codes is Stake.us, a site that is available across most of the US but not in New York. Stake.us invites players to follow them on Telegram where it regularly posts bonus drop codes.

The messages contain the bonus code, the value of the bonus, the requirements to be eligible for it, and instructions for how to get it on the site. For example, the bonus might be worth 1 SC (Stake Cash), but you have to have played through 4,000 SC during the previous seven days to be eligible for it.

 

Be ready to catch those bonus drops at social casinos

As I say, I’ve found it fairly easy to enjoy games at many of these sites without spending any money at all. The frequent bonus drops and other promotions make it relatively simple to gather coins with which to play games. These freebies represent one big difference between social casinos and regular real money sites where bonuses can often be harder to come by.

Be sure to keep an eye out for social casino bonus drops among other ways to collect free coins at the sites.