Slot Machines are Not Games of Skill

State Attorney General Jim Petro’s office is expected to make a comment as to the validity of slot machines being amusement games. There has been an influx of gaming parlors where more and more slot machines are being brought in under the guise that they are games of skill. The law says that games of skill can be allowed, but not games of chance like slot machines.

Mr. Petro is planning on making statement once and for all deciding whether or not slot machines are the games that people are playing, or if they really are games of skill. The skill-game machines, as they are being called, are a mixture of a video poker game and a slot machine – and by all reasoning they should be illegal. Officials in other parts of the state have been waiting for some sort of ruling on the so-called non-slot machines, but so far nothing has been put on the record up until now.

The manufacturers of these slot machines say that they are skill based, as if you memorize random pictures as they flash on the screen, and then you push the button at the right time to stop them, you can determine the outcome of the game. If they are correct, then officially they are not slot machines, as then it would actually require some skill. However, if what they are saying can be done is actually not really something that can be accomplished, then they are slot machines, period.

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