As soon as you open the casino you are hit with a white background with loads of colors and characters. You are able to change the effect from light to dark mode if the white doesn’t work well for you, which is a great feature to have when your background is a solid color. Each character seems to have its purpose in the casino and they have created this “world” that these characters live on. It is called Yoju world and the characters are called Yojies.
The casino is set up very cleanly with collapsible menus which helps when you want to play without the clutter that other casinos tend to show when in the lobby.
Account Setup
It is a very simple process to sign up at Yoju Casino. As soon as you open the casino you are prompted to register an account, but if you close that window and take a look around, like I did, then you would need to head to the bright red pulsating Sign Up button in the top right hand corner. It will bring up the same window where you can register through.
These are the steps I took to register at Yoju casino.
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Enter your Email, password and the currency you wish to play in
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You can insert a code here, if you are inclined to claim bonuses by clicking the “I have a bonus code” button
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Click on the “Registration” button
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You will then need to confirm your email address
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Once you have confirmed your email are good to go
Once you have completed the registration you are prompted to make a deposit straight away, which is not a good impression to make, especially if you are a brand new player who didn’t skip away from the registration page and take a look around, as I did. We will go through the depositing information later in the article.
Promotions
There is no shortage of regular promotions at Yoju. At the time of writing this, there are 10 promotions running concurrently. I will take you through a few of them.
Welcome bonus
The welcome bonus is a tiered promotion which has a secret bonus at the end.
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Your first deposit gets you 100% match up to $285 with 75 free spins
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Your second deposit gets you 75% match up to $740 with 50 free spins
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Your third deposit gets you 50% match up to $1150 with 100 free spins
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Your fourth deposit is a secret deposit bonus which will unlock
Weekly bonuses
Weekend bonuses
VIP Club
Yoju has an interesting VIP program which is either based on multiple small deposits and you can work your way up through wagering, or you can make a once off deposit of $550 and then you are automatically enrolled in the VIP club at a level 5 status. The benefits for the VIP Club are:
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Extra bonuses
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Personal VIP Manager
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Personal Gifts
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Priority Withdrawals
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Flexible cashback
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Regular Free Spins
These benefits do depend on the level you are on, and the higher up the chain you go, the bigger the benefits.
Tournaments
Yoju have Network themed Tournaments running at all times. These are the standard tournaments where the player who has wagered the most on a certain game will win a prize. A few of the tournaments run over quite some time and their prize pools are broken down daily, weekly and for the entire tournament. They are game and provider specific so be sure to pick the correct game and/or provider to join in on the action.
Games
Yoju offers Slots, Live Casino, Crypto games, card games and scratch cards. They use the services of 16 different slots providers to facilitate their game play and they have in-house casino games which are quite fun. I played “Yoju Bonanza” which is their latest in-house game with cascading slots and quite a fun tune playing while the cute graphics spool around.
You can filter your game choices quite well using these filters:
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Popular - there is a small fire symbol on the game icon
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Recommends
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Multiplier
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Bonus Buy
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Instant Win
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Megaways Falling symbols
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New
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Card games
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Accumulating
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Scratch Cards
And then a few themes you can choose by, such as Jewels, Fruit, Wild West, etc. There is also a really fun “Try Your Luck” option found on the left hand side menu where a random game will open up for you to play. I found this feature especially appealing since my regular games were not hitting at all for me.
Coins and Payments
Once you have completed your account registration, you are prompted to make a deposit. You can close this window and explore their offerings though, so not to worry if you clicked away and it disappeared.
Yoju is a hybrid casino and offers Visa, MasterCard and Maestro card, MuchBetter, PaySafeCard, AstroPay, MiFinity, ecoPayz, Skrill and NETeller for Fiat currencies and BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, USDT, DOGE, ADA and TRX Crypto Currencies. They also offer an option to purchase Crypto using your card through Mercuryo with a 4.5% free and 20 minute processing time. Mercuryo will require verification for purchases of €700+. To make a deposit, all you will need to do is click the red pulsating button in the top right hand corner and you are presented with a “Quick Deposit” window
You simply need to select an amount, insert a bonus code if you wish to claim one and then hit the “Play with $xx” button. Yoju claims to process deposits instantly. Once you have passed that stage you are provided with a list of possible depositing methods. I opted for BTC to deposit with. You are then prompted to verify your account details.
Once you have completed that, you are provided with a BTC address where you can send funds to with a recommended BTC conversion rate based on the amount you inserted earlier.
My deposit took roughly 2 minutes to arrive in my account, so the claim of having “Instant deposits” is real. It is a placeholder though, for when the funds clear through the network. That is when all adjustments take place and the true amount is shown in the account.
I was not able to process a withdrawal since my deposit was already gone before I could say “terms and conditions” but I investigated for you. To process a withdrawal, you will need to head to the side menu on the left of the casino, and head to “Payments” to access the withdrawal menu where you will be able to select the withdrawal method you would like to use. They offer low to no fees and withdrawal methods are country specific.
Processing a withdrawal requires you to complete personal verification, such as:
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Completing your Profile Uploading identity information
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Updating your address
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Verifying your deposit
These verifications are required even with Crypto currency deposits.
Once you have completed all this information, the account goes to a team to review the documents you have uploaded. After they have been approved a BTC withdrawal will take roughly 10 - 15 minutes.
The minimum withdrawal amount for BTC and other Cryptos is $20 and the maximum is $500 per transaction.
Customer Support
Yoju offers 24 hour Live Chat support and email support. You can contact them through a form on their website as well. There is a rather comprehensive set of FAQs which you can also read through if you don’t want to contact them directly. Their Live Chat is fast to answer and the replies are in a timely manner, they are polite and use emojis to show personality on chat, which is a nice personalization. I received a call from the promotions team - which gave me quite the scare - offering current promotions. I shortly thereafter removed my number from the casino, especially since I said no to “Receive Phone Calls promo” originally when creating the account. Yoju has a Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), Tumblr, Quora and Medium account for updates and information relating to their promotions and casino.
Geos and Languages
The casino is available in a wide variety of languages and dialects:
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Arabic
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English - Australian, Canadian, Irish, New Zealander
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Japanese
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Norwegian
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Portuguese - Brazil
There is a really long list of countries where play is not allowed but I will highlight the top 10: Curaçao, Greece, Hong Kong, Latvia, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States of America.
Platform Compatibility
Yoju does not offer an application feature, but it runs on mobile as well as it did on my PC. It does run a bit slower than on the PC when playing on mobile, but not game breakingly slow. It also would depend on your mobile network, as well as your phone’s specifications. It really was tolerable for me though.
Website Response Time
Interacting with the website, I didn’t see any major red flags when it came to response time. It moved when I clicked or scrolled and changed from light to dark really quickly when I changed that setting. Updating personal information also didn’t take long, but one thing that did surprise me was when filtering the games, by provider or category, the site took a noticeable amount of time to show the information. It immediately showed: “No games found” and then the filter kicks in and shows the relevant games. I ran the casino through a Website Performance tester and these are the results: It received a relatively good rating with performance and structure being highlighted as its strong points. Its weaker points being the size and quantity of images held on the site.
Security and Community reputation
With Yoju asking for as much personal information as it does, it completely writes off any form of anonymity. It asks for a password, as per usual, and email verification before you are able to deposit. This does increase the security on the account, but decreases my urge to play here - it’s quite nosey. The community is overall quite happy with Yoju and their safety measures though. Reading through a few other reviews of “Scam or not'' there was no mention of any scam possibilities with Yoju. The only big issue the community has is the time it takes to verify your documents, and the limited amounts of languages available on Live Chat since the casino is available in those languages, but support isn’t. There is only 1 mention on Bitcointalk.org which is relating to the overall request of KYC for BTC casinos, and it doesn’t highlight any other specifics to Yoju.
Alternatives
If you are looking for something more anonymous, try out these casinos:
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500 Casino: This casino has a large variety of games, including sportsbook and provably fair games
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BetFury: long standing casino with fast depositing and withdrawing crypto options available
Conclusion
This casino is cute and fun and full of energy, it has a great VIP club on offer and although the terms and conditions might be a bit sticky, it is definitely worth a shot. The support team is friendly and helpful and there is lots to see and keep you engaged. As we usually say, take it slow when starting a new casino, but with the way this casino plays, it is easy to understand why the community is in its favour.
