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 Park near Irvington and Maplewood, New Jersey.[5]
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- ^ a b "Grapefruit in the Garden State". Time Magazine. 1953-05-11. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ^ Dawood, Sandra Shaw; San Shaw Dawood (2006). Eye Statements from God: From the Eyes of His Child. AuthorHouse. p. 48. ISBN 1-4208-2726-X.
- ^ "Massachusetts General Laws. PART IV. TITLE I. Chapter 271: Section 6B. Skilo and similar games". Retrieved 2007-09-29.
- ^ Martino Jr., Vincent (2007). The Wildwoods: 1920-1970. Arcadia Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 0-7385-5003-5.
- ^ Siegel, Alan A. (1995). Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965. Rutgers University Press. pp. 150, 158. ISBN 0-8135-2255-2.