* Player slides from $1 to $20 into machine with video screen. Three matching symbols in a row produce a win. * Player pulls off a tab, uncovering series of symbols.

* Player pays 50 cents of $1 for game cards resembling scratch-off lottery tickets. Although their legality is in question, the new “pull-tab machines” are being installed on reservations from coast to coast. Now gambling promoters have seized on the game in a device that plays like a slot machine-but which they argue is legal even in states, such as California, that ban slots. Greg Chapin, who monitors charity bingo, said Tuesday that the endorsement may have been “a mistake” and the issue may be brought back before the commission.Įven so, he anticipates that tribes will still cite transcripts of the March meeting to support “electronic enhancement” of pull-tabs.įrom Paper to Machine: A Gambling Controversyįor years, employees of bingo halls have roamed the aisles-like cigarette vendors of yore-hawking trays of “pull-tabs,” a paper instant-win game. (2) Any game played in a similar fashion as a game described in subdivision (1) that is approved by the commission.Sheriff’s officials, however, are now having second thoughts. The prize must be fully and clearly described on the flare. (E) The player with a winning pull tab ticket or numbered line receives the prize stated on the flare from the qualified organization.

The player may be required to sign the player’s name on numbered lines provided if a seal is used. (D) Winners, or potential winners if the game includes the use of a seal, are determined by revealing the faces of the tickets or cards. (C) In each set of tickets or cards, a designated number of tickets or cards have been randomly designated in advance as winners. (B) The face of each card is initially covered or otherwise hidden from view, concealing a number, letter, symbol, or set of letters or symbols. (A) A single folded or banded ticket or a two-ply card with perforated break-open tabs is bought by a player from a qualified organization. (1) A game conducted in the following manner: “Pull tab” means either of the following:

Pull tab gambling sets