Skilo

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Skilo is a game, similar to Bingo,[1] where the player pays a fee and throws a small rubber ball into a container divided into numbered sections for the chance to win money.[2] The game and games like it are illegal in Massachusetts (unless run by the state lottery).[3] Although briefly made illegal in 1953 in New Jersey,[1] a 1963 postcard from Wildwood, New Jersey shows a whole building devoted to the game along its boardwalk,[4] and another building for the game existed in 1962 in the Olympic Amusement Park near Irvington and Maplewood, New Jersey.[5]

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  1. ^ a b Grapefruit in the Garden State. Time Magazine (1953-05-11). Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  2. ^ Dawood, Sandra Shaw; San Shaw Dawood (2006). Eye Statements from God: From the Eyes of His Child. AuthorHouse, 48. ISBN 142082726X. 
  3. ^ Massachusetts General Laws. PART IV. TITLE I. Chapter 271: Section 6B. Skilo and similar games. Retrieved on 2007-09-29.
  4. ^ Martino Jr., Vincent (2007). The Wildwoods: 1920-1970. Arcadia Publishing, 104. ISBN 0738550035. 
  5. ^ Siegel, Alan A. (1995). Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965. Rutgers University Press, 150, 158. ISBN 0813522552.