Assertion: pinball's game | /r/HasProperty | illegal
Facets:
value: in many anti-gambling regions
type: LOCATION
value: in most u.s. states
type: LOCATION
value: until 1947
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Since horse/dog racing games were usually one-ball games, and since most areas declared specifically that "one-ball" games were illegal, the manufacturers could see that further production of those types of games would be impractical and so switched to the five ball Bingo designs.
text: Pinball’s predecessors required little skill, which explains why the game was considered a form of illegal gambling in most U.S. states until 1947, when the pinball manufacturer Gottlieb introduced the arcade game Humpty Dumpty.
text: This is claimed to increase the skill of playing, thereby making it a game of skill instead of a game of chance which would be illegal in many anti-gambling regions.
text: Still, the ban in New York lasted until 1976; free games in the form of awarded replays are still illegal