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.
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
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 3A. Amusements and Sports Page 146
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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