(File Photo: Source for Photo: Dave Sunday speaks to the audience in the Forum Auditorium across the street from the Capitol after taking the oath to become Pennsylvania’s next attorney general, Jan. 21, 2025, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Attorney General Dave Sunday issued a recent statement in response to a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court of “skill games” as illegal under the current state Crimes Code and Gaming Act. 

This ruling follows that arguments made by the Office of Attorney General before the Court in November of 2025 that the electronic machines which are found in numerous convenience stores, bar/restaurants and other establishments across the state of Pennsylvania will operate as unlicensed and unregulated slot machines. 

The Court ordered that its ruling stayed for 120 days. 

Sunday’s office argued that embedding an element of so-called skill into the games does not exempt the devices from Pennsylvania gambling laws. 

An estimated 70,000 skill game machines are operating throughout Pennsylvania, and that is a number that far exceeds the regulated casino slot machines in the state.