Games Look an Awful Lot Like Slot Machines 

If it looks like a slot machine, and it sounds like a slot machine, and it plays like a slot machine, how can you say that it is not a slot machine? However, this is exactly what a racetrack in Ohio is trying to say. They have brought in new games that look just like slot machines but are maintaining that they are not the same kind of machine and therefore they are legal. 

Grove City’s Beulah Park has brought in more than 30 of these slot machines that they call sweepstakes games. They say that they are simply trying to drum up business for the horse racing industry and that they are doing it through the use of these legal games. However, they maintain that even though they look, sound and play like slot machines that they are not the game. 

They say that these sweepstakes games are more like playing the McDonald’s monopoly game – and that isn’t a slot machine. However, the McDonald’s game didn’t look or sound anything like a slot machines, and it certainly didn’t play like one. Some residents are very upset because they say that they have already made it very clear that slot machines are not wanted in their state, and yet here is this track going behind their backs and bringing them in and then trying to tell them that they are not what they so obvious are – slot machines. 

The track said that the state has not yet ruled on the validity of sweepstakes machines, but if they decide that they are illegal that they will remove them from the premises – as they will not break the law. However, they did say that they are trying to find a legal way for the track to compete with the other tracks out of state that are allowed slot machines.

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