Skilo

Skilo is a game, similar to bingo,{{cite web

|url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935309,00.html

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205035624/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935309,00.html

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=February 5, 2013

|title=Grapefruit in the Garden State

|date=1953-05-11

|publisher=Time Magazine

|accessdate=2007-09-29}} 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.{{cite book

|title=Eye Statements from God: From the Eyes of His Child

|first=Sandra Shaw

|last=Dawood

|author2=San Shaw Dawood

|pages=48

|year=2006

|publisher=AuthorHouse

|isbn=1-4208-2726-X}} The game and games like it are illegal in Massachusetts (unless run by the state lottery).{{Cite web |title=General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 271, Section 6B |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter271/Section6B |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=malegislature.gov}}{{Cite web |title=General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 271, Section 22B |url=https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter271/Section22B |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=malegislature.gov}} Although briefly made illegal in 1953 in New Jersey, a 1963 postcard from Wildwood, New Jersey shows a whole building devoted to the game along its boardwalk,{{cite book

|title=The Wildwoods: 1920-1970

|first=Vincent

|last=Martino Jr.

|pages=104

|year=2007

|publisher=Arcadia Publishing

|isbn=0-7385-5003-5}} and another building for the game existed in 1962 in the Olympic Park near Irvington and Maplewood, New Jersey.{{cite book

|title=Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965

|last=Siegel

|first=Alan A.

|pages=150, 158

|year=1995

|publisher=Rutgers University Press

|isbn=0-8135-2255-2}}

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