Posted on: June 15, 2026, 04:56h.
Last updated on: June 15, 2026, 04:57h.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has finally ruled on the long-debated legal saga about whether a gaming machine that allows players to alter their payout rate by using skill constitutes gambling. A majority of the state’s highest court ruled that it does.
A skill game machine in Pennsylvania is played in December 2021. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on June 15, 2026, that the skill games meet the legal definition of a slot machine. (Image: Casino.org/Devin O’Connor)In what’s a major victory for the legal, regulated, and highly taxed gaming industry in the commonwealth, which for years has argued that unregulated and untaxed skill games have poached play from their slot machines, the PA Supreme Court voted 5-2 in the opinion that skill games are not immune from the Gaming Act.
In a 66-page opinion, Justice David Wecht said interpretations of the gaming laws passed by the General Assembly require the definition of a skill game to constitute a gambling machine.
Our General Assembly already has spoken clearly on this subject, particularly through a 2017 enactment that added new terms to the Gaming Act’s definition of a ‘slot machine,’ i.e., ‘skill slot machine,’ and ‘hybrid slot machine,’ which make abundantly clear that the ‘skill’ element of the subject devices is not legally significant. That is to say, as it concerns their unregulated operation in unlicensed facilities throughout Pennsylvania, it is not this Court that declares ‘skill games’ to be unlawful. Rather, it is the General Assembly that did so nearly a decade ago,” Wecht wrote.
“If interested parties find the application of the General Assembly’s laws to be undesirable, the proper remedy lies with the same legislative body that wrote those laws. The solution is not for courts to adopt strained and untenable readings of statutes to avoid their application,” the majority opinion continued.
In conclusion, the majority said a machine does not escape the legal scope of a slot machine simply because it incorporates an element of skill.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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