App · Availability checked Oct. 22, 2026
Is PrizePicks legal?
PrizePicks' Team and Culture Picks, event contracts listed on Kalshi. Culture Picks (non-sports) are offered everywhere except Arizona, Nevada, New York and Washington. Team Picks (sports) are not offered in a further set of states that PrizePicks names. PrizePicks' two help pages disagree on New Hampshire, Louisiana and New Jersey. By its own list, it offers contracts in 47 of 51 jurisdictions and not in Arizona, Nevada, New York, Washington; sports contracts are unavailable in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee.
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Bluebook
Is PrizePicks Legal? States, Lawsuits and Regulation, Prediction Market Laws (last updated Oct. 22, 2026), https://predictionmarketlaws.com/platforms/prizepicks.
APA
Prediction Market Laws. (2026, October 22). Is PrizePicks Legal? States, Lawsuits and Regulation. https://predictionmarketlaws.com/platforms/prizepicks
Where PrizePicks says it operates
- Offered 32
- Sports blocked 15
- Not offered 4
Source: PrizePicks help centre: Eligibility (last updated 2026-10-19), checked Oct. 22, 2026.
State enforcement naming PrizePicks
We found no cease-and-desist letter, state lawsuit, court order or settlement naming PrizePicks.
Lawsuits naming PrizePicks
We track no lawsuit naming PrizePicks.
PrizePicks, state by state
| State | PrizePicks | State status | Actions naming PrizePicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Alaska | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Arizona | Not offered | In litigation | None |
| Arkansas | Offered | No public action found | None |
| California | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Colorado | Sports blocked | No public action found | None |
| Connecticut | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Delaware | Sports blocked | No public action found | None |
| District of Columbia | Sports blocked | No public action found | None |
| Florida | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Georgia | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Hawaii | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Idaho | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Illinois | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Indiana | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Iowa | OfferedThe eligibility page lists Iowa at 18+. The where-can-I-play page says Team and Culture Picks are 21+ in Iowa. | In litigation | None |
| Kansas | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Kentucky | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Louisiana | OfferedThe eligibility page lists Louisiana with Team and Culture Picks at 18+. The where-can-I-play page omits LA from its written Team Picks list (its table shows a checkmark) and gives Culture Picks as 21+ in LA. | No public action found | None |
| Maine | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Maryland | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Massachusetts | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Michigan | Sports blockedThe eligibility page lists Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ohio and Maryland as 'Culture Picks ONLY', so there are no Team Picks there. | Court order in force | None |
| Minnesota | Offered | In litigation | None |
| Mississippi | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Missouri | Sports blocked | In litigation | 1 |
| Montana | Offered | Enforcement, no lawsuit | None |
| Nebraska | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Nevada | Not offered | Court order in force | None |
| New Hampshire | Sports blockedThe eligibility page lists New Hampshire under access to Player and Culture Picks but NOT Team Picks. The where-can-I-play page lists NH among Team Picks states. The pages conflict. | No public action found | None |
| New Jersey | OfferedThe eligibility page lists New Jersey with Team and Culture Picks. The where-can-I-play written Team Picks list omits NJ, though its table shows a checkmark. | In litigation | None |
| New Mexico | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| New York | Not offered | In litigation | None |
| North Carolina | Offered | Law enacted | None |
| North Dakota | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Ohio | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Oklahoma | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Oregon | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Pennsylvania | Sports blocked | No public action found | None |
| Rhode Island | Offered | In litigation | None |
| South Carolina | Offered | No public action found | None |
| South Dakota | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Tennessee | Sports blocked | In litigation | None |
| Texas | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Utah | Offered | In litigation | None |
| Vermont | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Virginia | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Washington | Not offered | Court order in force | None |
| West Virginia | Offered | No public action found | None |
| Wisconsin | Offered | In litigation | None |
| Wyoming | Offered | No public action found | None |
Questions people ask
- Is PrizePicks legal?
- Team and Culture Picks are event contracts offered by Performance Predictions II, LLC d/b/a PrizePicks Predict, a CFTC-registered FCM and NFA member. Its regulatory page links to Kalshi's exchange documents. Culture Picks (non-sports) are offered everywhere except Arizona, Nevada, New York and Washington. Team Picks (sports) are not offered in a further set of states that PrizePicks names. PrizePicks' two help pages disagree on New Hampshire, Louisiana and New Jersey. By its own list, it offers contracts in 47 of 51 jurisdictions and not in Arizona, Nevada, New York, Washington; sports contracts are unavailable in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. Several states argue its sports contracts are illegal gambling, and federal appeals courts have split on whether federal law overrides them.
- In which states is PrizePicks not available?
- Not offered: Arizona, Nevada, New York, Washington. Sports contracts unavailable: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee. Source: PrizePicks help centre: Eligibility (last updated 2026-10-19), checked Oct. 22, 2026.
- How old do you have to be to use PrizePicks?
- PrizePicks requires users to be at least 18, or 19 in Alabama and 19 in Colorado and 21 in Illinois and 21 in Massachusetts and 21 in Virginia.
- Does PrizePicks send tax forms?
- PrizePicks says it issues Form 1099-B for Team and Culture Picks, reporting all gains or losses from buying and selling event contracts, with no threshold stated. Forms are generally uploaded in February for the prior year, in the app's Tax Information section. Other PrizePicks pick types get a 1099-MISC at $600+ in net winnings. This is what the platform says it reports, not tax advice.
- Is PrizePicks being sued?
- We track no lawsuit naming PrizePicks.
Sources
- PrizePicks help centre: Eligibility (updated 2026-10-19)
- PrizePicks help centre: Where can I play (updated 2026-10-19; state table marked 2026-05-19)
- PrizePicks help centre: Taxes (updated 2026-10-19)
- PrizePicks help centre: Verification (updated 2026-10-19)
- PrizePicks: Predict regulatory page
- PrizePicks: Team & Culture Picks page
- SBC Americas: PrizePicks launches sports prediction markets with Kalshi (2025-11-14)
- Legal Sports Report: Underdog Predict vs. PrizePicks Predict
What we couldn't confirm: Whether Polymarket (announced as a partner on 2025-11-11) now supplies any PrizePicks contracts was not confirmed. A Legal Sports Report comparison page says the integration is not yet live, and PrizePicks' own pages name only Kalshi's exchange documents. PrizePicks' help pages disagree on Team Picks in NH, LA and NJ and on the age in IA and LA (see per_state_notes). The where-can-I-play page also gives inconsistent totals (33 vs '34 states + D.C.' for Team Picks; 47 vs 46 + DC for Culture Picks). Nevada and Washington are not listed anywhere on the eligibility page. They are treated as excluded because the where-can-I-play table marks Culture Picks unavailable there. The predict-regulatory page says 18+ for all event contract customers, while the help centre gives state ages of 19+ and 21+. Both are recorded. PrizePicks gives no reason tied to sportsbook or DFS licensing for withholding Team Picks. It says only that local rules limit which games it offers in some states.