When I was young in the UK, a TV show got in trouble because their phone in quiz, with a cash prize, was too easy. The verdict was, it's not a quiz it's a lotte

When I was young in the UK, a TV show got in trouble because their phone in quiz, with a cash prize, was too easy. The verdict was, it's not a quiz it's a lottery, and lotteries are regulated (there can only be one national lottery). That's quite an abstract piece of analysis for a governing body to make. They realised that this ostensible quiz "encoded" a lottery in a sense. I think a similar analysis applies here: these are not games, they really are casinos, just with the veneer of games over the top.