Who May (and May Not) Participate in Lawful Gambling

The chart below is available in a PDF format that is suitable for printing and posting at sites where charitable gambling is conducted. Note that your organization may post in its house rules additional restrictions on who may play. For example, some organizations set the minimum age for purchasing pull-tabs at 21 rather than the state-mandated minimum of 18.

		Paper Pull-Tabs	Electronic Pull-Tabs	Tipboards	Raffles	Paddlewheels	Paper Bingo	Electronic Linked Bingo
Gambling Manager		NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
Gambling Manager immediate family (spouse, child, parent, sibling)		YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Persons involved in conduct1 of pull-tabs, tipboards, paddlewheels, and electronic linked bingo2	While working:	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
	While not working:	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	YES	NO
Persons involved in conduct1 of paper bingo or hard card bingo if not working that occasion		YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Volunteers involved in mini-paddlewheels/tipboards (32 numbers or less) if not working that day		YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Lessor of premises		NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
Lessor immediate family (spouse, child, parent, sibling)		NO	NO	NO	YES	NO	YES3	NO
Persons under age 184		NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO

¹ “Conduct” includes selling or redeeming any games or equipment; auditing games or handling money; spinning a paddlewheel; conducting inventory verification; completing bingo occasion records; and selecting or announcing bingo numbers.

² Restriction in effect until two weeks after no longer involved in conduct.

³ If not involved in the conduct of lawful gambling during the bingo occasion.

⁴ Persons under age 18 may not participate in any form of lawful gambling, with the following exceptions:
 a. A person under 18 may sell raffle tickets.
 b. A person under 18 may play paper bingo ONLY if accompanied by a parent or guardian and if the event is exempt or excluded from licensing, or part of an annual community event.