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Okla. Stat. tit. 3A, § 3A-502

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Certain acts and games prohibited - Definitions

Official statutory text

A. Any person who owns or operates any amusement game or

carnival game, whether skill or chance, coin, token or direct pay-

to-play, and who knowingly and intentionally fraudulently obtains

money or other items of value from another by means of any hidden

mechanical device, deception or deceptive objects, manipulation,

sleight-of-hand, trickery, obstruction, randomly selected or

enforced rules, whether posted or verbalized, or by any other

fraudulent means with intent to diminish or defeat the opportunity

of any patron or player to win a prize or accomplish the intended

object of the game, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a

misdemeanor punishable pursuant to Section 5 of this act.

B. Any person who knowingly and intentionally owns, operates,

or as a carnival owner or employee, knowingly and intentionally

books-in, contracts, or provides space for, any game at a fair or

carnival of a type known as razzle, flat store, or alibi game, or

games operated in a manner violating the Amusement and Carnival

Games Act, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor

punishable pursuant to Section 5 of this act, with said game to be

confiscated as contraband.

C. As used in the Amusement and Carnival Games Act:

1. "Razzle" or "flat store" means any game, whether skill or

chance, in which the player pays money or other valuable

consideration in return for the opportunity to make successive

attempts to obtain points by use of dice, darts, marbles, numbered

ping-pong balls, pins, blocks, conversion charts or other

implements, and where such points are accumulated in successive

games by the player toward a total number of points, miles or yards,

or other increments, determined by the game operator, which is

required for the player to win a prize or other valuable

consideration; and

2. "Alibi game" means any game, whether skill or chance, in

which the game operator controls or affects the outcome of the game,

winners or losers, by enforcing foul lines, release lines, and rules

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selected and enforced randomly, and at will, whether posted or

verbalized, during actual pay-to-play by the player, while not

enforcing these same foul lines, release lines and rules during the

player's free shots or free plays allowed during demonstration of

how the game is played, as an enticement to the player. Further,

"alibi game" means any game, whether skill or chance, in which the

operator controls or affects the outcome of the game, winners or

losers, by off-setting or manipulating balls, pins, bottles or other

implements, or any other means of trickery or deception to cheat or

defeat the player, or void the player's win.

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