Skilo

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title: "Skilo" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["gambling-games", "culture-of-new-jersey"] topic_path: "general/gambling-games" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skilo" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Skilo is a game, similar to bingo,{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935309,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205035624/http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,935309,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 5, 2013 |title=Grapefruit in the Garden State |date=1953-05-11 |publisher=Time Magazine |accessdate=2007-09-29}} 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.{{cite book |title=Eye Statements from God: From the Eyes of His Child |first=Sandra Shaw |last=Dawood |author2=San Shaw Dawood |pages=48 |year=2006 |publisher=AuthorHouse |isbn=1-4208-2726-X}} The game and games like it are illegal in Massachusetts (unless run by the state lottery). Although briefly made illegal in 1953 in New Jersey, a 1963 postcard from Wildwood, New Jersey shows a whole building devoted to the game along its boardwalk,{{cite book |title=The Wildwoods: 1920-1970 |first=Vincent |last=Martino Jr. |pages=104 |year=2007 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=0-7385-5003-5}} and another building for the game existed in 1962 in the Olympic Park near Irvington and Maplewood, New Jersey.{{cite book |title=Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887-1965 |last=Siegel |first=Alan A. |pages=150, 158 |year=1995 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=0-8135-2255-2}}

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