Silversands Casino (ZAR)

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Silversands Casino (ZAR) is a gaming site crafted especially for players in South African Rand The brand is one of the oldest names in online gambling and proudly operates on the RTG platform with Spinlogic games and legacy Real Series video slots with random jackpots.

Owned and operated by Paxson Marketing Ltd of Nicosia, Cyprus, players around the world will find a geo-specific site simply by visiting the casino. If your local currency isn’t the ZAR you will be presented with a site based on your location and you may be able to choose EUR.

Players from the US and a few other jurisdictions will not find a way to register properly but can still view the welcome page.

If the casino is licensed it is in a jurisdiction with no transparency or publicly available records. This is not unusual for a site that might allow payment processing for players in certain currencies or jurisdictions. What we have to go on is decades of history, good and bad.

Hidden Gems in the download version and instant play for everyone

The games package is not so different to any other Realtime Gaming instant play or download client site, but it is one of the stalwart originals on the platform and does still give Windows/PC players a chance to download a desktop client - not all RTG operators do. We’ll get into that more later, there are some real hidden gems in the download client.

Games Online, Deposit Bonus, Casino Tournaments, Poker Client

Apple desktop/laptop players might be able to set up a Windows emulator to download the client but it’s not suggested as security is job #1 here and the operator is always on the lookout for less than savory players - having dealt with their share of cheats using every imaginable contrivance over the years.

To be fair, in the past the brand has had a less than savory reputation itself - nearly notorious and definitely infamous. The reasons for that are not too important because as far as anyone knows, the original owner is long gone and a new business model has been in place at least since the announcement of Paxton claiming ownership.

We don’t find many problems in recent years.

Multi-stage Welcome Package with Low Wagering

I will digress. This is an old brand. It has history. We’ll focus on the last few years of that in this review along with the current operation. However, the brand is so seasoned that when I first played there from the US, the bonuses were so “beatable” it was almost a joke. It was the heyday of online gambling and every kid with a math mind easily figured out how to make most Caribbean online casinos their own personal ATMs, so to speak.

A lot of dolphins got caught in the tuna nets. (Recreational players scooped up with advantage players). A subculture of mistrust was constructed with blame on both sides. Some of the “Crystal Palace” operations were hard on honest and “smart” players and some simply didn’t want to give up winnings. It was the early days and it was crazy day after crazy day.

Take that with a grain of salt and know that if you try to “work” these guys you will not end up on the right side of the stick.

What does Silversands offer a regular recreational player today?

It’s pretty hard to find a valid complaint over the last few years - seriously.

Is that because promoters are hiding the complaints? It could be, I suppose.

This reviewer likes to take a deep dive for you. I look where most players post and I look everywhere else. The main forums don’t show much at all. We do find 8 years of history at LCB.org.

Grinding the numbers, this is what it looks like:

Silver Sands Casino (ZAR) is rated 21 of 1528 casinos reviewed with a score of 4.4 out of 5 after 271 votes

That’s the biggest forum on the internet and the numbers are 100% player input.

I don’t even find them on Trustpilot and Hellopeter is nothing but sour grapes.

It would take some massive sleuthing to dig up all of the archived player/casino conflicts dating back to the genesis of online gambling and maybe that’s a good thing. It seems to be a different operation today.

What we’ll do for you here is look at the software and games, bonuses, and banking - all the while checking the terms and conditions for anything to be aware of and then we’ll render a final word based on everything we learn together.

If you have a pedicure scheduled, you might want to change that appointment and wiggle your toes in some warm silver sand as soon as you can…

Let’s find out!

Software and Games

Realtime Gaming has been providing online casino entertainment since the 1990’s. The quality of the games has increased in fits and starts over the years - but one thing remained constant, they always got better. Yes, there have been a few clunkers here and there but even the “worst” of their titles appeal to someone, somewhere.

Most of the legacy games and all of the new games can be played in your web browser. If you want to play a few old-school favorites like Titan’s Treasure or other games with “exploitable” volatility, you’ll need to download the desktop client for PC.

Video Poker ~ Slots ~ Blackjack ~ Roulette ~ Craps ~ Keno ~ Poker

New games come out steadily, more often than once a month - but they are a bit different from the older games - in several ways.

Most new games have a fixed number of paylines. Many don’t have Real Series Random Jackpots. None of the games are “Aussie slots”. All of the instant play games are HTML5 so they load like greased lightning and don’t heat up your handset or use your battery because almost all of the processing is on the server end - well sort of, it’s in the light lean way the games are delivered.

Spinlogic (RTG owned brand for a decade) provides all of the new games these days

Video poker

Forget all the super awesome multi-tiered progressive bonus feature mechanics of the Asian games that dominated new releases before Spinlogic took the mantle from RTGAsia after the end of Aussie slots - go play some video poker here. It doesn’t get any better. No more changing screens to change coins.

Try it in demo mode?

Jackpot slots

Only a few RTG licensees are not allowed to participate in the network progressives - some worth over R20 million - you can play them here.

Check out the “people’s progressive”, Spirit of Inca with five different jackpots guaranteed to go off before a certain “boiling point” each.

Personally, I’m going to be so happy when one of these falls. RTG shut down a few unpopular progressive jackpots a few years ago and instead of “absorbing” our contributions, they rolled them over into this game. If you are an old time player, you may have contributed to those jackpots. If you are a new player - go get it!

This progressive slot tells one of the unsung stories of RTG, so often overshadowed by bad operators.

Blackjack

Even when the “bad cartoon” card games here couldn’t compete with the glitz and glamor of smooth digital operators like Microgaming and Playtech, the rules were favored by many players and the rat-a-tat-tat speed of play let people burn through wagering. The rules are the same but you can catch streaks a lot faster now.

Bonuses and Promotions

We’ve seen various offers but unfortunately, without opening an account you won’t be able to see the terms and conditions. What you see is what you get. Look up top for the current offer. I’m currently logged in from Japan and see 100% with 10x playthrough elsewhere. No max cashout is mentioned but then again it isn’t the official offer. You’d have to visit the casino to see that.

This is a snapshot in time:

One of three things is possible here -

• Very low max cashout
• Very high wagering requirement
• A reason not to pay anyway

It would be “nice” to think that was a picture of an age-old operation who just really needs new customers so they are willing to lose a few bucks to attract them.

Maybe so…maybe so

Banking and Customer Service

It’s all about the ZAR here but you might be able to use EUR if you visit one of the other geo-iterations.

Look for about a dozen deposit options and half as many payment methods that run both ways. None of them are crypto. Here’s what I see:

• Bank Wire Transfer
• ecoPayz
• MyEFT
• NETELLER
• Skrill
• Visa Credit

I can’t tell you what you will see in your cashier.

Pitfalls

• Old name not known as player friendly

The Final Word

Silversands Casino (ZAR) is a mystery to most folks who don’t trade in Rand. You wouldn’t even know it’s there if you don’t.

I can’t tell you much about the T&Cs because they are hidden and might be different depending on your location.

Silversands in an RTG casino, and the brand’s earlier iterations heavily contributed to historical distrust of those operators.

Is it any good today? Look around I guess.I wouldn't play there but only because I have a lot of other options and I don’t play in the currency.