Indiana / Legal position gauge

Moderate risk

Editorial assessment from Indiana-specific research—not legal approval. Licensed Indiana counsel must review before any deployment decision.

Why this rating?

Indiana defines gambling as risking money or property for gain “contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, or the operation of a gambling device” (IC 35-45-5-1(d)). That is an any-chance statutory test, not a dominant-factor win. Separately, a gambling device includes a mechanism that, when operated for consideration, “does not return the same value or property for the same consideration upon each operation” (§ 35-45-5-1(e)(2))—a prong that does not require chance at all. The Court of Appeals held that even if skill takes the play outside “gambling,” it does not take the machine outside the device ban (Maillard). The same court later held that predetermined prize cards with a mail-in alternative still satisfied both device prongs (F.A.C.E. Trading). An “electronic gaming device” includes a slot simulation and a lineup game; a skill-stop is “not considered assistance by the player” (§ 35-45-5-1(b)). Possessing such a device is a Class A infraction; taking profit on it is a Level 6 felony (§ 35-45-5-3.5). Tavern retail gaming is confined to licensed Type II pull tabs, punchboards, and tip boards (IC 4-36). House Enrolled Act 1052 added a civil internet dual-currency sweepstakes ban effective July 1, 2026 (IC 4-33-10-7). No reported Indiana decision has tested mandatory pre-reveal with exact monetary disclosure, genuine accept/decline, and no charge on decline. That timing distinction, plus the absence of any case against a full-pool reveal with mandatory pre-reveal, drops the rating from elevated to moderate. F.A.C.E. Trading tested predetermined prize cards with payment first. The same-value device prong keeps the rating out of the unsettled band.

This gauge also weighs that we identified no charges and no decided case in Indiana against a game that used a full-pool reveal together with mandatory pre-reveal. Banilla, Torch, and JD Prime used an optional viewer of the next assigned result after money was already on the machine. Café terminals paid first, then revealed. Those fact patterns are not this architecture and do not, by themselves, set the rating.

Scale: High risk → Elevated risk → Moderate risk → Unsettled → Moderately favorable → Favorable → Strong position. These are editorial categories, not probabilities of approval or findings of legality.

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Skill can save the play.
It does not save the machine.

Indiana’s Court of Appeals held that a mechanism can be a prohibited gambling device even when the play itself might fall inside the skill exception to “gambling.” The second device definition asks only whether the same consideration returns the same value on each operation. F.A.C.E. Trading applied that same-value test to predetermined prize cards sold with a mail-in alternative. The NCG position is that those cases never tested a transaction that discloses the exact monetary result before the player can commit funds.

Has this been tested? What remains for Indiana counsel
Working position

This brief analyzes the proposed transaction architecture under current Indiana law. It is not a finding of legality, Indiana Gaming Commission approval, Alcohol and Tobacco Commission Type II authorization, or permission to operate cash-prize devices. Unlawful gambling is a Class B misdemeanor; professional gambling, promoting professional gambling, and maintaining a professional gambling site on an electronic gaming device are Level 6 felonies (Level 5 with a prior). Authorized channels include the Hoosier Lottery, licensed riverboat and land-based casino gambling, pari-mutuel and racetrack gambling games, sports wagering, charity gaming, and Type II tavern games.

Indiana legal starting point

Indiana criminalizes gambling, professional gambling, device possession, and electronic gaming-device profit outside expressly authorized chapters.

IC 35-45-5-1(d)

Contingent in whole or in part upon chance—or a device

Gambling is “risking money or other property for gain, contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, or the operation of a gambling device.” The only statutory carve-outs inside that definition are bona fide contests of skill, speed, strength, or endurance (awards only to entrants or owners of entries) and bona fide contract-law business transactions. A card game or electronic card game “is a game of chance and may not be considered a bona fide contest of skill.”

IC 35-45-5-1(e), (b)

Two device tests—and a separate electronic definition

A gambling device includes (1) a mechanism that credits money or property for consideration as the result of chance, and (2) a mechanism that, operated for consideration, does not return the same value for the same consideration on each operation. An electronic gaming device separately reaches chance-even-if-skill cabinets, slot simulations, lineup games (skill-stop is not player assistance), and video card or keno games. Immediate unrecorded pinball replay is presumed without value.

IC 35-45-5-2 to -4; IC 4-30 to 4-38

Felony promotion unless a licensed chapter applies

Unlawful gambling is a Class B misdemeanor; internet-operator gambling is a Level 6 felony. Maintaining listed public devices, conducting lotteries, or accepting property risked in gambling is professional gambling (Level 6 / 5). Owning or possessing a gambling device is promoting professional gambling (Level 6 / 5). Chapter 5 does not apply to the lottery, racing, riverboats, racetrack gambling games, charity gaming, Type II, or licensed sports wagering.

Central timing question: § 35-45-5-1(d) asks whether the player is risking money for gain contingent on chance or on operation of a gambling device. The NCG position is that at Accept the monetary result is already fixed and disclosed—so that transaction is not contingent. Indiana has not held whether that sequence escapes the definition. Independently, § 35-45-5-1(e)(2) and Maillard ask a different question: whether successive operations for the same consideration return different values. That device prong does not mention chance, and it is the harder Indiana problem.

Safeguard 1

Exact cost and result are known before acceptance.

Before the player becomes financially committed to a transaction, the system discloses the exact transaction cost and exact monetary result. Accept processes only those disclosed terms.

Why this matters under Indiana law

§ 35-45-5-1(d) requires risking money for gain contingent on chance or a device. If the economic outcome is already fixed and disclosed before Accept, the strongest NCG argument is that the player is not risking value for a contingent gain—they are accepting a disclosed, predetermined exchange whose result is already known.

Contrary authority

F.A.C.E. purchasers paid $1, then pulled tabs to reveal predetermined symbols. Predetermination did not remove chance from the customer’s selection among unseen results, and it did not save the same-value prong. Eiser customers learned scores after play. Prosecutors will argue that disclosing one assigned offer still leaves the session as a contest whose next result is unknown, and that varying disclosed payouts are exactly what (e)(2) forbids.

Implementation risk

Weakening factors: showing cost/result after partial payment, allowing acceptance before disclosure renders, or mismatch between displayed and settled amounts. Any of those would collapse the timing distinction from F.A.C.E. and Eiser and leave only the same-value device problem.

IC 35-45-5-1(d)Timing of contingency is critical
Safeguard 2

Viewing the offer does not require payment.

The player may see the disclosed offer—including zero or negative-net outcomes—without paying for that transaction. Declining imposes no charge for that offer.

Why timing of consideration matters

F.A.C.E. and Eiser involved payment (or continued play for value) before the result was known. NCG separates inspection from commitment: no consideration moves for a declined offer. That is the factual distinction those opinions did not have. A declined $0 or negative-net offer is never an “operation for consideration.”

Contrary authority

Prosecutors may argue the player purchased access to a sequence of offers by earlier deposit, and that each Accept still risks credits. F.A.C.E. rejected a genuine-looking free path that was not how customers actually played. Eiser treated “free” first play plus later paid or credit play as consideration. A credit-balance session can be recast as one continuing operation.

F.A.C.E. 821 N.E.2d at 41–43No payment on decline
Safeguard 3

Monetary results and reel positions are predetermined.

Monetary outcomes are fixed before acceptance within a finite predetermined pool. Reels, symbols, and entertainment layers cannot modify the disclosed monetary result after acceptance.

Distinction from Indiana authorities

Ad-Tab prizes were predetermined on each card before the customer paid; that fact did not win. NCG’s distinction is not predetermination alone—it is predetermination plus disclosure before financial commitment plus a free decline. Counsel should not argue that a finite pool, by itself, is a recognized Indiana defense.

The Maillard split: game versus machine

Maillard is the Indiana-specific holding: lawful skill play does not “ipso facto insulate” the machine from the gambling-device prohibition if successive operations return different values. Official Opinion 2001-9 applied that split to a marketed “skill slot” and concluded the machine was a prohibited device. An Attorney General opinion is not binding precedent, but it is the executive reading prosecutors will know.

Electronic gaming device and reel presentation

§ 35-45-5-1(b)(2)–(3) reach a slot simulation and a lineup game operated for consideration; a skill-stop “is not considered assistance by the player.” Possession is a Class A infraction even without a profit count; taking money risked on the device is a Level 6 felony (§ 35-45-5-3.5). Labels (“amusement,” “sweepstakes,” “Type II aid”) do not control. Casino-style cabinets will be evaluated under the electronic-device statute as well as (e)(1)–(2).

MaillardOp. Att’y Gen. 2001-9
Safeguard 4

The player may stop and redeem—including cents.

Eligible remaining credits may be redeemed without further play. Redemption includes fractional dollars; balances are not rounded down to trap value in the machine.

Effect on Indiana analysis

Full redemption supports the argument that only accepted transactions consume value and that the player retains a genuine exit. It may mitigate “trapped balance” or forced-continued-play theories. Eiser involved cash-redeemable credits; redemption did not prevent a device finding. Tinder protected only an immediate unrecorded pinball replay that was not exchanged for money.

Limitation

Redemption does not cure an otherwise unlawful gambling transaction or convert a cash cabinet into a Tinder amusement device. Possessing a gambling device is promoting professional gambling (§ 35-45-5-4). Possessing an electronic gaming device is separately punishable (§ 35-45-5-3.5).

ILLUSTRATIVE CASH-OUT

$22.00 ticket+$0.67 cents→$0.00 remaining
Tinder, 237 Ind. 33Exit rights ≠ legality
Safeguard 5

Software enforces non-bypassable rules.

Mandatory pre-reveal, accept/decline, no post-acceptance RNG, predetermined reels, and redemption rules are architecturally enforced—not merely published as disclaimers.

Why enforcement matters in Indiana

Indiana device cases turn on actual mechanics and how customers used the system—not marketing labels. F.A.C.E. disregarded “discount coupon” and “McDonald’s-style promotion” characterizations after finding the prize game was the product. Eiser disregarded “collector card vending machine.” Software enforcement is how the timing distinction can be proved if charges are brought under §§ 35-45-5-2 through 35-45-5-4 or 35-45-5-3.5, or if ATC/IGC officers seize cabinets as they did with sweepstakes kiosks.

Implementation risks

Alternate clients, debug modes, stale-offer acceptance, or server paths that charge on preview would collapse the distinction from F.A.C.E. and Eiser and expose operators to Class B misdemeanor gambling, Level 6 felony professional gambling and device promotion, Class A infraction device possession, seizure, and—if the product is offered over the internet with dual-currency redemption—civil penalties up to $100,000 under IC 4-33-10-7. Casino-style presentation without the enforced accept/decline sequence is the fact pattern Indiana has already condemned.

IC 35-45-5-3Engineering ≠ statutory permission
Required analysis

Has this exact model been tested in Indiana?

We did not identify a reported appellate decision in Indiana directly testing this complete transaction architecture—mandatory pre-reveal, exact monetary disclosure before financial commitment, genuine accept/decline with no charge on decline, no post-acceptance randomness, finite predetermined pool, predetermined reels, software-enforced safeguards, and cent-level redemption.

What Indiana courts and agencies have addressed—and how those systems differ

  • State v. Maillard, 695 N.E.2d 637 (Ind. Ct. App. 1998), trans. denied, 706 N.E.2d 173 (Ind. 1998) — Published. Quarter-slide / “Pot O Silver” machines. Court held the gambling-device ban can be stricter than the ban on engaging in gambling: even if skill brought the play within the skill exception, the machine was still a device because it did not return the same value for the same consideration on each operation. Closely analogous on the independent (e)(2) test and the game-versus-machine split. Materially distinguishable because players paid (or played) before learning the variable return; there was no accept/decline after exact monetary disclosure.
  • F.A.C.E. Trading, Inc. v. Carter, 821 N.E.2d 38 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005), trans. denied — Published. Ad-Tabs: $1 vending cards with a coupon on one side and a predetermined cash-prize game on the other; mail-in / toll-free “free” path existed. Court held consideration was not eliminated by the free alternative; chance existed in which card was selected after payment; same-value prong independently satisfied because returns varied from $0 to hundreds. Coupon theory called a “subterfuge.” Partially analogous on predetermined prizes and a free-entry argument. Materially distinguishable because consideration occurred before the result was known and there was no accept/decline with zero cost on rejection of a disclosed result.
  • Jack Eiser Sales Co. v. Wilson, 752 N.E.2d 225 (Ind. Ct. App. 2001) — Published. “Free Spin” cabinet marketed as a collector-card vendor with a promotional game. Court found consideration in continued play after the free game and held the machine a gambling device under either statutory definition. Partially analogous on labeled “free” / promotional play and cash-redeemable credits. Materially distinguishable on payment-or-continued-play before the result and absence of mandatory pre-reveal accept/decline.
  • Tinder v. Music Operating, Inc., 237 Ind. 33, 142 N.E.2d 610 (1957) — Indiana Supreme Court. Pinball machines that conferred only an immediate unrecorded right of replay, not exchanged for money, were not gambling devices under the statutory replay presumption. Materially distinguishable: NCG proposes cash redemption, which is the opposite of the Tinder condition. Partially analogous only on the replay-without-value principle now codified in § 35-45-5-1(e).
  • Ind. Att’y Gen. Official Opinion 2001-9 (Jan. 18, 2002) — Advisory, not binding. Applied Maillard to a “skill slot” and concluded the machine was a prohibited gambling device because of chance-credited awards and unequal returns (“phantom pays”) for the same consideration. Partially analogous on skill-labeled cabinets. Not a judicial test of NCG architecture.
  • Indiana State Excise Police, Sweepstakes Electronic Gaming Devices Illegal in Indiana (press release) — ATC announced that sweepstakes machines / kiosks / totems in bars, restaurants, taverns, and convenience stores were unlawful; Type II (pull tabs, punchboards, tip boards) was the only gaming allowed in those businesses; officers would notify, then cite and seize. Enforcement activity, not a judicial holding on NCG pre-reveal mechanics.
  • HEA 1052 (2026), adding IC 4-33-10-7 (eff. July 1, 2026) — Civil IGC penalty of $100,000 for knowingly using the internet to conduct a “sweepstakes game”: an internet, dual- or multi-currency promotion that exchanges currency for cash or a chance at cash and simulates lottery or casino-style games. Lottery products and peer-to-peer skill poker excluded. The enrolled act is internet-specific; it is not a judicial test of a retail mandatory-pre-reveal cabinet and does not, by its terms, rewrite § 35-45-5-1(e).
  • Indiana Gaming Commission, Illegal Gambling / Gaming Control materials — Agency pages restate the IC 35-45-5 definition and list authorized channels (lottery, riverboats/casinos, pari-mutuel, charity gaming, racetrack gambling games, Type II). Gaming Control FAQs have stated that internet sweepstakes cafés “have been ruled by Indiana and federal courts to be illegal gambling.” That is an agency characterization, not itself a holding, and we did not identify a reported Indiana appellate opinion whose caption is an internet-café test of mandatory pre-reveal architecture.

Enforcement and regulatory activity (not judicial approval)

ATC excise officers have treated retail sweepstakes cabinets as seizable unlawful devices outside Type II. IGC Gaming Control investigates illegal gambling under IC 35-45-5. In January 2026 legislative hearings on HB 1052, IGC general counsel stated that then-existing law did not clearly authorize cease-and-desist letters against dual-currency online sweepstakes operators—after which the General Assembly enacted the internet-specific civil ban. That hearing statement is not a finding that retail cash cabinets are lawful, and it is not an approval of NCG. We did not identify an Attorney General opinion approving mandatory pre-reveal, accept/decline, cash-redemption terminals. Absence of a decision testing this complete architecture is not a judicial determination of legality.

Critical distinction

“No reported Indiana decision directly testing this architecture” is materially different from “An Indiana court has ruled this architecture legal.” Neither statement has been found true here. Maillard and F.A.C.E. are the closest published analogues—and they are adverse on variable returns for the same consideration and on predetermined prizes revealed after payment.

No direct Indiana appellate precedent identified
Strongest contrary arguments

What Indiana prosecutors and regulators could argue.

1. Same-value device test after Maillard

§ 35-45-5-1(e)(2) does not require chance. If $1 Accepts return $3, then $0.40, then $1.10, the mechanism does not return the same value upon each operation. Maillard said skill and a ticket on every play cannot cure that. This is the most dangerous published Indiana rule for any cash cabinet with a varying prize table.

2. F.A.C.E. already involved predetermined prizes and a free path

A published opinion treated payment, then reveal of a pre-printed prize, as a gambling device under both prongs—and called the product theory a subterfuge. Counsel must explain—with facts, not labels—why disclosure before commitment and a free decline are legally different from Ad-Tabs’ post-purchase reveal.

3. “In whole or in part” is not a predominance test

§ 35-45-5-1(d) is satisfied if gain is contingent in part on chance or on operation of a device. Sequence uncertainty about the next offer can be framed as remaining chance. Card and slot-style presentations are chance or electronic gaming devices by definition. A “no chance game” label can be turned into an (e)(2) admission: returns vary.

4. Electronic gaming device is a separate felony path

§ 35-45-5-1(b) reaches slot simulations and lineup games; skill-stop is not player assistance. § 35-45-5-3.5 makes mere possession a Class A infraction and profit-taking a Level 6 felony. Presentation that resembles slots invites that statute even if backend logic is a disclosed pool.

5. Type II and charity gaming occupy the retail / nonprofit field

IC 4-36 confines tavern gaming to approved pull tabs, punchboards, tip boards, and listed raffle/progressive variants, with ATC endorsement, IGC-approved supplies, age and location limits, and no internet Type II. IC 4-32.3 confines charity gaming to licensed qualified organizations. ATC’s sweepstakes-kiosk announcement treated anything else in those rooms as illegal. NCG is not a Type II ticket and is not a charity event.

6. Session-wide staking and credit balances

Money inserted upfront creates a continuing credit balance. Each Accept may be characterized as risking that balance—the continued-play consideration Eiser used—and as successive unequal operations under Maillard.

7. Internet overlay after HEA 1052

If any path is available on the internet with dual- or multi-currency redemption simulating casino or lottery play, IC 4-33-10-7 authorizes a $100,000 civil penalty per knowing violation, on top of Title 35 crimes. A local cabinet that phones home or serves Indiana users remotely can be argued into that definition. The 2026 ban also signals legislative hostility to sweepstakes-branded cash play.

NCG factual responses and residual risk

Responses: at acceptance the monetary result is fixed and known; declines cost nothing and are not operations for consideration; no post-acceptance RNG; F.A.C.E. and Eiser involved payment-before-outcome mechanics; the NCG theory is the timing of § 35-45-5-1(d) contingency, not a claim that NCG is Type II, charity gaming, or amusement replay. Residual risk: published Maillard / F.A.C.E. device authority, an any-chance definition, an electronic-device felony, Type II exclusivity, ATC seizure practice, and the new internet sweepstakes civil ban remain material pending Indiana counsel review. The timing distinction is supportable; the same-value device statute is not settled in NCG’s favor.

MaillardAdverse authority must be addressed, not dismissed
Complete transaction analysis

Chronology: when is the player financially committed?

“The player accepts or declines a fully disclosed, predetermined transaction. No later random event alters the monetary result. The legal question is whether Indiana treats that sequence as risking money for contingent gain under § 35-45-5-1(d)—or as successive unequal operations of a gambling device under § 35-45-5-1(e)(2) and Maillard.”

This is the position to test—not an Indiana legal conclusion. Compare to F.A.C.E. (pay $1, then reveal a pre-printed prize) and Maillard (variable return for the same consideration makes the machine a device even if the play is skilled).

  1. 1 / POOLFinite pool predetermined
  2. 2 / REQUESTPlayer requests next offer
  3. 3 / REVEALExact result disclosed
  4. 4 / TERMSCost and result both known
  5. 5 / CHOICEAccept or decline
  6. 6 / SETTLENo post-accept RNG
  7. 7 / EXITRedeem remaining cents
Authorities

Primary Indiana sources.

Verified . Binding precedent and current statutes distinguished from Attorney General opinions, agency FAQs, and legislative civil penalties.

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    Indiana statute · definitions

    IC 35-45-5-1 ↗

    Official 2025 Indiana Code (IGA Title 35). Electronic gaming device (b); gambling as risking money for gain contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, or a gambling device (d); gambling device including the chance prong and the same-value-upon-each-operation prong (e); card games declared chance (l). Older cases cited the device paragraphs as § 35-45-5-1(1)–(2). Section text also at Justia § 35-45-5-1.

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    Indiana statute · unlawful gambling

    IC 35-45-5-2 ↗

    Knowingly or intentionally engaging in gambling: Class B misdemeanor. Operator using the internet to engage in unlawful gambling in Indiana or with a person located in Indiana: Level 6 felony.

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    Indiana Court of Appeals · published / transfer denied

    State v. Maillard, 695 N.E.2d 637 ↗

    (Ind. Ct. App. 1998), transfer denied, 706 N.E.2d 173 (Ind. 1998). Skill exception for gambling does not insulate a machine that returns unequal value for the same consideration. Official reporter citation; FindLaw opinion text.

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    Indiana Court of Appeals · published / transfer denied

    F.A.C.E. Trading, Inc. v. Carter, 821 N.E.2d 38 ↗

    (Ind. Ct. App. 2005), transfer denied. Predetermined Ad-Tab prize cards with a free alternative held a gambling device under both statutory prongs; coupon theory a subterfuge. See also Jack Eiser Sales Co. v. Wilson, 752 N.E.2d 225 (Ind. Ct. App. 2001) (Free Spin cabinet; consideration in continued play).

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    Indiana statute · professional gambling

    IC 35-45-5-3 ↗

    Professional gambling—Level 6 felony (Level 5 with a prior)—including maintaining slot machines or listed devices in a public place, conducting lotteries, and accepting property risked in gambling. Internet-operator counterpart in subsection (b).

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    Indiana statute · electronic gaming devices

    IC 35-45-5-3.5 ↗

    Possession of an electronic gaming device: Class A infraction. Knowingly accepting profit on money risked on an electronic gaming device possessed by the person: maintaining a professional gambling site, Level 6 felony (Level 5 with a prior). Antique-slot residence exception.

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    Indiana statute · promoting professional gambling

    IC 35-45-5-4 ↗

    Knowingly owning, manufacturing, possessing, buying, selling, renting, leasing, repairing, or transporting a gambling device, transmitting gambling information, or permitting a place to be used for professional gambling: Level 6 felony (Level 5 with a prior). Boat-manufacturer and antique-slot exceptions.

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    Indiana Attorney General · advisory / not binding

    Official Opinion 2001-9 ↗

    Jan. 18, 2002. Applied Maillard to a “skill slot”: skill play does not remove the machine from the gambling-device prohibition where value is credited by chance and returns are unequal for the same consideration. Official AG PDF.

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    Indiana Supreme Court · binding

    Tinder v. Music Operating, Inc., 237 Ind. 33 ↗

    142 N.E.2d 610 (1957). Pinball machines conferring only an immediate unrecorded right of replay, not exchanged for money, were not gambling devices. The replay-without-value presumption is now in IC 35-45-5-1(e).

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    Indiana statute · Type II tavern gaming

    IC 4-36 ↗

    Type II gambling games (pull tabs, punchboards, tip boards, and listed raffle/progressive/sports-themed variants) in ATC-endorsed alcoholic-beverage establishments. Official IGA Title 4. ATC administration: Type II Gaming. Definition also at IC 4-36-2-20.

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    Indiana statute · charity gaming

    IC 4-32.3 ↗

    Charity gaming by licensed qualified organizations (bingo, raffles, pull tabs, and other licensed events) under IGC oversight. Not a retail cash-cabinet pathway.

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    Indiana enrolled act · internet sweepstakes (civil)

    HEA 1052 / IC 4-33-10-7 ↗

    House Enrolled Act 1052 (2026), official enrolled PDF. Adds IC 4-33-10-7 effective July 1, 2026: IGC civil penalty of $100,000 for knowingly using the internet to conduct a dual- or multi-currency “sweepstakes game” that simulates lottery or casino-style play. Lottery products and peer-to-peer skill poker excluded. Internet-specific; not a judicial test of retail pre-reveal architecture.

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    Indiana regulators · enforcement / guidance

    IGC Illegal Gambling ↗

    Indiana Gaming Commission enforcement page for IC 35-45-5 investigations. See also ATC Excise Police, Sweepstakes Electronic Gaming Devices Illegal in Indiana (retail sweepstakes kiosks treated as unlawful outside Type II; notice, citation, and seizure). Agency materials, not holdings.

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    Indiana Supreme Court · constitutional background

    Indiana Gaming Comm’n v. Moseley, 643 N.E.2d 296 ↗

    (Ind. 1994). Recites repeal of the Article 15, § 8 lottery prohibition in 1988 and subsequent legislative authorization of the lottery, racing, and riverboats. Authorizes regulated gambling; does not legalize unlicensed devices.

Disclaimer: This brief is research and issue-spotting for professional discussion—not legal advice, Indiana Gaming Commission approval, Alcohol and Tobacco Commission Type II authorization, charity-gaming licensure, or permission to operate. Official Opinion 2001-9 is advisory only. HEA 1052’s sweepstakes provision is a civil internet penalty, not a judicial test of NCG architecture. Indiana counsel should verify all citations, effective dates, local enforcement practices, compact and lottery exclusivity questions, and the actual deployed software before any compliance representation.