JAR GAMES. TIP BOOKS, TIP BOARDS AND MATCH PAKS Print E-mail
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Friday, 07 September 2007

These games are all punchboards in disguise. I like to searching in links directory where i got the information about jar games.They are examples of the way gamblers and gambling-game manufacturers circumvent the law by giving a prohibited game a new look.

Whenever a law is passed making one type of gambling game illegal, the boys merely change its name and appearance. In these versions, instead of numbers punched from a board, numbered slips are drawn from a jar or selected from a group of slips on a display board, in a book or match pack. When the authorities get around to passing laws against the new variation the manufacturers figure out another disguise to hide the same old lottery principle.

Jar games merely consist of a group of 50 to 12,000 or more paper tickets in a glass jar, on the outside of which is a label listing the prize awards. Each ticket is folded at one end and sealed with a pasted strip of paper. The player pays from 5¢ to 25¢ for a chance, reaches into the jar, removes a ticket and tears it open, Inside he finds a number, and the label on the jar tells him whether or not it wins a prize.

This is how a manufacturer's catalog describes a typical jar game In most jar games the operator retains from 40% to 60% of the take.


Tip boards differ only in that the tickets are displayed on counter display boards and tip books are portable folding boards that can be carried in the pocket. Another variation, even more disguised, is the Match Pak. The folded and sealed tickets are stapled inside what looks like a match folder. The manufacturer is quite frank in his catalog about his reasons for giving the old punchboard this disguise:
 

The most ingenious and cleverest idea ever developed for use in all territories. Ten to fifteen packs can be carried in each pocket or they can be dispensed right from the box. The payout is printed on the inside cover of each individual pack so there is nothing else to display or carry. Match Pak resembles an ordinary book of paper matches, therefore it can be sold anywhere, and Any Time without attracting attention, since the courtesy of passing anyone a book of matches is a common, everyday occurrence. Another advantage of Match Pak is the many simple ways in which the empty cover may be disposed of or destroyed, leaving no evidence.



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