About thehatboxoxford.com
A comparison of offshore casinos for UK players, built on published terms rather than ratings. Here is who keeps it, how it is funded and where its limits are.
What thehatboxoxford.com does
Offshore casino offers are hard to compare at a glance. One site leads with a percentage, another with a five-figure sum spread over five deposits, a third with free spins, and the wagering that decides what any of them is worth sits several clicks deep. This site lines those terms up side by side so you can compare like with like.
We cover casinos that operate outside the UK licensing system, and we say so on every page. If you are looking for a UK-licensed casino, this is the wrong site, and if you have self-excluded through GamStop, please read our safer gambling page instead of the board.
Who keeps the board
The board and the reviews are maintained by Philippa Marchbank, our terms editor. Her job is the unglamorous part: reading each operator's published welcome terms, checking the bonus, wagering requirement and minimum deposit against what we show, and updating the page when something moves. The date at the top of the homepage is the last time that check was done.
We are not financial or gambling advisers, and nothing on this site is a recommendation to gamble.
How the site is paid for
We earn a commission when a reader opens an account through one of our links. That is the only way the site makes money, and it is worth keeping in mind as you read.
The order of the board follows our lineup, and commercial terms with the operators are one input to it, alongside their published welcome terms. What commercial terms never affect is the figures: every bonus, wagering requirement and minimum deposit is shown as the operator publishes it. Because we can only list operators that run an affiliate programme, the board is a comparison of the sites we work with rather than of every offshore casino.
What you will not find here
- No scores or star ratings. We have no dataset that would support a number out of ten, so we do not print one.
- No invented figures. If an operator does not publish something, we leave the field out rather than estimate it.
- No UK-licensed casinos. Every operator listed is licensed offshore and sits outside GamStop.
Spotted something out of date?
Offers change often and sometimes without notice. If a figure here does not match what you see on an operator's site, please tell us through the contact page. The method behind the board is described in full on how we rank.