Top Daily Fantasy Sports Sites in Minnesota 2026

Daily fantasy sports sit in a legal gray zone in Minnesota. State law does not expressly authorize DFS, nor does it explicitly prohibit it, and no licensing or regulatory regime exists. A 2017 effort to formally recognize and tax DFS passed the House but failed to clear the Senate, leaving the market unregulated. In practice, the major national operators, DraftKings, FanDuel, Underdog, Sleeper, PrizePicks, and others, continue to accept Minnesota entrants, relying on the state attorney general's longstanding non-enforcement posture and the skill-game argument. Because DFS is unregulated, there is no state minimum age written into statute, but operators generally restrict play to users 18 or 21 and up depending on the product. Minnesota residents have no state consumer-protection framework or self-exclusion program specific to DFS, unlike the licensed markets in neighboring Iowa.