{"id":296376,"date":"2026-09-29T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296376\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:18:09","slug":"pa-ag-tells-businesses-to-get-rid-of-their-skill-games-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296376\/","title":{"rendered":"PA AG Tells Businesses To Get Rid Of Their Skill Games Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s because the state Supreme Court in June ruled that skill games are equivalent to slot machines, but are not taxed and licensed like slot machines. The court gave the state legislature until Oct. 13 to come up with a plan to regulate them; lawmakers have yet to do so.<\/p>\n<p>There currently are 70,000 skill game machines across the state in taverns, restaurants, social clubs, mini-marts, gas stations, grocery stores, laundromats, pizza parlors, and other businesses. Most of those establishments rely on the machines to generate revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s because the state Supreme Court in June ruled that skill games are equivalent to slot machines, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-296376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}