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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] [4] 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, [5] and another building for the game existed in 1962 in the Olympic Park near Irvington and Maplewood, New Jersey. [6]

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  1. 1 2 "Grapefruit in the Garden State". Time Magazine. 1953-05-11. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013. Retrieved 2007-09-29.
  2. 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.
  3. "General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 271, Section 6B". malegislature.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  4. "General Law - Part IV, Title I, Chapter 271, Section 22B". malegislature.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-17.
  5. Martino Jr., Vincent (2007). The Wildwoods: 1920-1970. Arcadia Publishing. p. 104. ISBN   0-7385-5003-5.
  6. Siegel, Alan A. (1995). Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965. Rutgers University Press. pp. 150, 158. ISBN   0-8135-2255-2.