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The tiers

Everything this publication does is on this page. The rule that decides who is listed, the 18 questions every book is asked, the four bands those answers sort them into, and the reason there is no order inside a band.

The rule for this list Every registered book, sorted into four tiers by a stated rule rather than by a decimal place.

Some of the links below pay us a commission when someone opens an account. The band a book sits in is set by the count of questions it leaves unanswered and by nothing that is bought.

I Tier Answers everything, or all but one

Leaves at most one of the eighteen questions unanswered. Two books here, in alphabetical order, because inside a band there is no order.

Bookmaker Eighteen questions What it will not say Unanswered
BetFox Answers every question its product can be asked. 0of 16 Open
Premier Bet Silent on email. 1of 11 Open
II Tier Answers nearly everything

Leaves two or three unanswered. Two books here, in alphabetical order, because inside a band there is no order.

Bookmaker Eighteen questions What it will not say Unanswered
betPawa Silent on withdrawal floor, lobby counted and ceilings. 3of 16 Open
Wiwi Casino Silent on lobby counted and trading since. 2of 18 Open
III Tier Answers most of it

Leaves four, five or six unanswered. Five books here, in alphabetical order, because inside a band there is no order.

Bookmaker Eighteen questions What it will not say Unanswered
Bangbet Silent on withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, lobby counted, studios named, crash settled and offer ceiling. 6of 18 Open
Betway Silent on withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, lobby counted, studios named, chat hours and licence number. 6of 16 Open
MSport Silent on withdrawal floor, lobby counted, studios named and playthrough. 4of 18 Open
Soccabet Silent on withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, lobby counted, offer first hand, playthrough and licence number. 6of 18 Open
SportyBet Silent on lobby counted, offer first hand, playthrough and chat hours. 4of 18 Open
IV Tier Most of the sheet stays blank

Leaves seven or more unanswered. Four books here, in alphabetical order, because inside a band there is no order.

Bookmaker Eighteen questions What it will not say Unanswered
1xBet Silent on withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, rails named, lobby counted, crash settled, offer first hand, chat hours and ceilings. 8of 18 Open
22Bet Silent on payout speed, withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, rails named, lobby counted, studios named, crash settled, offer first hand, phone, email and ceilings. 11of 18 Open
Betwinner Silent on payout speed, withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, rails named, lobby counted, studios named, crash settled, offer first hand, chat hours, licence number and ceilings. 11of 18 Open
Melbet Silent on payout speed, withdrawal floor, withdrawal fee, rails named, offer first hand, phone, email, chat hours and ceilings. 9of 15 Open

Strip, left to right: a filled square is a question the operator answers on its own pages, a hollow one is a silence, a struck one is a question its product cannot be asked.

The rule, in full

Every registered book, sorted into four tiers by a stated rule rather than by a decimal place.

Two decisions are packed into that sentence and both are arguable, so both are stated. The first is that the register is the entry ticket and the only one: a bookmaker the Gaming Commission of Ghana has licensed goes on the list whether or not we would open an account with it, because a reader searching a brand name deserves to find out what it publishes rather than to find nothing. The second is that the list is not shortened by editorial taste. Every other way of building a table in this market involves somebody deciding who is worth including, and that decision is invisible to the reader.

The one brand that is not here left the market: it stopped taking Ghanaian players on 1 January 2024 and is off the register. It gets a page saying so rather than a gap where a name should be.

The 18 questions

Every question below is answerable from what a bookmaker publishes, before anybody deposits anything. That is the whole test. There is no question here about whether an operator is generous, well run or trustworthy, because those are not things a reader can check and they are not things we can measure.

Getting the money outweighs 26

How the money leaves: the wording on the speed, the floor, the fee, and which wallets it travels on.

  1. How long does it say a payout takes?
  2. What is the smallest amount you can take out?
  3. Does it say what withdrawing costs?
  4. Does it name the rails the money travels on?

Register and ceilingsweighs 22

The Gaming Commission of Ghana entry, the licence number, the published caps, and how long the brand has traded.

  1. Is it on the Gaming Commission of Ghana register?
  2. Is a licence number published?
  3. Is a stake or payout ceiling published?
  4. Is the year it started trading established?

The lobbyweighs 18

Whether a catalogue can be counted, whether the studios behind it are named, and whether crash games are settled either way.

  1. Can the lobby be counted from outside?
  2. Are the studios behind the games named?
  3. Is it settled whether crash games are in the lobby?

Reaching a personweighs 18

A number, an address, and a straight answer about whether anyone is there at three in the morning.

  1. Is there a phone number?
  2. Is there an email address?
  3. Is it settled whether chat runs around the clock?

What is on offerweighs 16

Whether the headline offer is the operator’s own claim or somebody else’s, and whether its terms are on a page you can open.

  1. Is the welcome offer the operator’s own claim?
  2. Is the playthrough on that offer published?
  3. Is there a stated ceiling on that offer?
  4. Are the promotions running now listed anywhere?

The five weights are the model this domain is registered with, and they decide which questions are asked rather than who comes out on top. A question counts once. There is no second weighting hidden one level down, because a model a reader cannot recompute from the page is not published.

The three answers

That third state is why the bands are counted rather than scored. two books in this set run no casino and one has no online wallet at all, and a share or a percentage would quietly punish them for being narrow instead of describing them as narrow.

The bands

I Tier

Leaves at most one of the eighteen questions unanswered.

You can check what you are signing up to before you put money in. It is not a statement that the terms are good, and on one of these books they are not.

II Tier

Leaves two or three unanswered.

Almost everything is checkable and the gaps are named. Read the gap before you deposit rather than after.

III Tier

Leaves four, five or six unanswered.

The shape of the product is public and the detail is not. This is where most of the market sits, including its biggest brands.

IV Tier

Leaves seven or more unanswered.

You would be opening an account on terms you cannot read first. Several of these are large, established books, and the tier is about disclosure rather than about whether they pay.

About the rule itself

What moves a bookmaker between tiers?
One thing: the count of questions it leaves unanswered. Publish a withdrawal floor and the count drops by one. Put the playthrough on a page a reader can open and it drops again. Nothing an operator pays for and nothing an editor thinks moves it.
Is a narrow product flattered by this rule?
Yes, and openly. A book with no casino and no online wallet has seven fewer questions put to it, so it can reach the top band on a smaller sheet. The denominator is printed in every row for exactly that reason: read the unanswered count next to what applied, not on its own.
What happens when a bookmaker starts publishing more?
Its band changes on the next build, because the band is computed and not typed. No page on this site states a tier in prose that a template could work out.
Why not just score them out of ten?
We can, and the result is what argues against printing it. The registered books cluster so tightly that the ordering would be decided by rounding rather than by anything a reader would recognise as a difference. The measurement is on its own page.