LuckyStart Licence: What Is Claimed and What Can Be Checked

What the brand actually states

Only one licensing statement about this brand is reachable from here, and it is worth quoting rather than paraphrasing. The page at luckystart.casino, which presents itself as the official site, says the casino operates «for Australian players, holding Cartago E-gaming licence No. 0000002». That was the wording on 10 October 2026.

The operator's own domain, luckystart.com, returns an access error to us — «Ukrainian players are not allowed» — with or without the www prefix. That means we cannot read the lobby's own footer, which is normally where a licence statement lives. Saying so is part of the answer: what follows is an analysis of a third-party claim, not of the operator's own published terms.

Why «Cartago E-gaming licence» confuses two things

Cartago is a province of Costa Rica, and the city of Cartago is its capital. It is a place, not an authority. Costa Rica issues no gambling licences at all: there is no gaming regulator, and companies based there hold ordinary commercial registrations rather than a gaming permit. «Costa Rica licensed casino» is therefore a contradiction, and it is one of the most common formulations in this industry.

What has most likely happened is a copying error: the province where a company is registered has been welded onto a licence number issued — if at all — by somebody else entirely. Two separate facts, the jurisdiction of incorporation and the licensing body, presented as one.

The number deserves the same scrutiny. 0000002 is an extremely early serial, which by itself is only unusual. What makes it worth reporting is that the same number appears elsewhere in public casino footers attributed to the Tobique Gaming Commission, a body in Canada with no connection to Costa Rica. A number that turns up under two different authorities does not identify an operator, and a licence badge on a page is not evidence about the page it sits on.

Claim by claim

What you can check yourself, in order

Ask support, in writing, which authority issued the licence and for a link to the register entry. A real regulator has a searchable register; the answer, or the absence of one, is informative either way and it is also a record you keep.

Check whether the named authority exists as a regulator at all, separately from the company's address. Those are the two facts this page exists to separate.

Read the withdrawal terms before the first deposit rather than after a win: per-transaction limits, weekly and monthly ceilings, and the stated processing window. Where a licence cannot be verified, the published terms and your own records are what you have.

Finally, keep everything: deposit receipts, chat transcripts, verification emails. If a dispute arises and the licensing route turns out not to exist, your own records are the only part of the process you control.

Questions readers actually ask

Is LuckyStart licensed?
A licence is claimed — No. 0000002, attributed to «Cartago E-gaming» — and we could not verify it, because no authority of that name exists and the number appears elsewhere under a different body. «Claimed but not verifiable» is the accurate answer, and it is different from both «licensed» and «unlicensed».

Does a Costa Rica licence mean anything?
There is no such thing as a Costa Rican gambling licence. Companies register there; no regulator supervises gaming. A footer naming Costa Rica as the licensing jurisdiction is describing an address.

What about the number 0000002?
On its own it tells you nothing. We have seen it in public footers attributed to the Tobique Gaming Commission as well, which means it does not identify a specific operator and cannot be used to confirm one.