As part of an unfolding court battle, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration wants to outlaw proliferating cash-paying electronic game terminals and accuses them of siphoning more than $200 million in revenue last year from the Pennsylvania Lottery.
In this photo from Jan. 10, 2020, a Pennsylvania Skill games storefront is open in Monaca, Pa. A hearing is scheduled before the state's Commonwealth Court for Jan. 15, 2020, on whether Pennsylvania law prohibits the machines as unlicensed slot machines, even if a player's success is supposedly based on skill, rather than chance.
The court fight comes down to whether Pennsylvania law prohibits the machines as unlicensed slot machines, even if a player's success is supposedly based on skill, rather than chance. Meanwhile, storefronts have popped up with nothing but machines inside, sometimes 10 or more. Some, including ones in Monaca and Ambridge, about 15 or 20 miles outside Pittsburgh, have prominent window advertisements saying “WIN CASH.”“The fact that these machines are everywhere has been the biggest concern," said House Gaming Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Marshall, R-Beaver.
Miele Manufacturing points to a Beaver County judge's ruling in 2014 that the state did not prove that the games on a seized machine — a tic-tac-toe game, a shooting game and a memory game — were based on chance and, as a result, should not have been seized by police. The state did not appeal.
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