Mystery boxes USA guide
A mystery box site sells sealed boxes — physical or digital — where you don't know the exact contents until you open one. You pay a set price, and the box contains an item worth more, less, or about the same as what you paid. This page explains the terms used across this site and how a rating gets assigned.
What "accepts US users" means
On this site, "accepts US users" means the operator's own terms don't block sign-ups from the United States and the operator ships or otherwise fulfills orders here. It is a statement about the operator's stated policy, not a judgment about whether using that site is allowed where you live. Rules on sweepstakes, skill games, and chance-based purchases vary by state and change over time. We are not lawyers, and nothing on this site is legal advice — checking whether a given site is one you may use is on you.
Checking US shipping
Before you sign up anywhere, look at what an operator actually says about getting a physical item to your address: which carrier it uses, whether it ships to all 50 states or excludes some, and how many days a shipment typically takes. Each review on this site lists that information under "Shipping to the US" when the operator publishes it. If an operator doesn't state a shipping policy anywhere, treat that as a gap to ask about directly, not as a "no."
Payment options for US users
Operators covered here accept a debit or credit card, crypto, or both. Some list other methods. Rather than generalise, we record what each operator states it accepts and show it on that operator's review page — check there before you sign up. This site does not process payments itself and never sees your card or wallet details.
How ratings are assigned
A person reads through what an operator publishes and assigns one rating — there's no spreadsheet behind it, no averaged subscores, and no formula spitting out the number you see on a review.
That read weighs five things, though not in a fixed order: how long the operator has actually been around, whether a reader can find and understand the terms tied to any bonus or promo before opening a wallet, whether what's listed for sale still lines up with what actually gets shipped, how the payout or fulfillment process performs in practice, and whether anyone answers when an order goes sideways.
None of that gets checked once and forgotten. Reviews get revisited on a rolling basis, and the "Last checked" date at the top of each one marks when that last happened — not when the page was first published.
Commission and independence
Clicking an operator link on this site and signing up can generate a referral payment for this site — the mechanics of that are spelled out on theaffiliate disclosure page. The rating gets locked in first, using the process above; only afterward does the commission rate an operator pays even enter the picture. An operator running no affiliate program at all gets evaluated the same way as one paying top rate, and neither fact moves the score.