Minnesota Pull-Tab & E-Tab Locations

Minnesota’s public map on Skill Game Radar is not a casino floor plan. It is a street-level index of 3,181 official Gambling Control Board (GCB) lawful-gambling sites as of August 16, 2026. Those sites mix paper pull-tabs and electronic tabs (e-tabs) inside everyday storefronts — taverns, restaurants, and clubs — so the useful question is usually “which city page do I open?” not “which private charity runs the deal.” Start with the Minnesota pull-tab directory and drill into a city.

Pull-tabs are paper tickets with perforated windows. You buy a ticket from a jar or dispenser, open the tabs, and compare the revealed symbols to a posted payout card. Electronic pull-tabs, or e-tabs, play the same basic idea on a screen: a finite deal, a revealed result, and a prize table. Minnesota’s official site list does not split those two products into separate public pins. A location that sells paper tickets this month may also host e-tabs, and the mix can change when a site renews or a game is rotated out. Treat every Minnesota pin as a lawful-gambling site, then confirm what is on the counter when you walk in.

What the GCB site list actually is

The Gambling Control Board publishes lawful-gambling sites — the physical addresses where charitable gambling is allowed to take place. Skill Game Radar geocodes those sites and publishes one public pin per address. We keep organization names, contact emails, and back-office details off the public location page. You see a place you can navigate to, a city, and a map. That is intentional. The directory is for finding a door, not for scraping a charity roster.

Because the official file is a site list, the map is dense in ways a tourist guide is not. A single commercial strip can hold several licensed sites. A small town can have one or two pins that matter more than a downtown you expected to be packed. Minnesota currently breaks out across roughly a thousand distinct cities on our map, which is why the state page is a jumping-off point and the city pages are where the list gets usable.

Cities with the thickest public maps

The Twin Cities sit at the top of the public count, tied at 72 sites each. Open Minneapolis pull-tab locations if you are on the west side of the river, or St. Paul pull-tab locations if you are on the east. Those two pages are the fastest way to scan neighborhoods without zooming a national map. South and north of the metro, the next useful hubs are Rochester (46 sites) and Duluth (39). Mankato, Winona, and St. Cloud each hold another couple dozen pins if you are traveling the I-35 / I-94 corridor instead of staying in the metro.

Use the city page the same way every time: skim the map first, then the list. A cluster of pins on one block usually means several licensed storefronts, not one giant hall. If you only need a single stop near a hotel or a ballgame, the city map is faster than scrolling names. If you are comparing two neighborhoods, open both city pages in two tabs — Skill Game Radar URLs are stable, city-slug paths such as /locations/minnesota/minneapolis.

How to search without guessing the rules

People often arrive with the wrong mental model. Minnesota lawful-gambling sites are not a substitute for a tribal casino, and they are not a video-gaming-terminal program like Illinois. They are charitable gambling locations that happen to be extremely common in bars and restaurants. Hours follow the host business. What you can buy follows the site’s current games, not a nationwide skill-game menu. If a friend says “they have machines,” they might mean e-tabs, a jukebox, or something that is not on this map at all. The GCB pin only tells you the address is an official site.

A practical loop that works:

Open the Minnesota directory and pick the city you will actually be in.
Use the city map to see whether pins cluster near downtown, a commercial strip, or a highway exit.
Open two or three location pages and save the addresses — do not expect the public page to list every game title.
Call or walk in to confirm pull-tabs, e-tabs, or both are still offered that day.
If you are comparing states, read the explainer on what an electronic pull-tab is before treating Minnesota like Illinois or Ohio.

What we do not put on a Minnesota page

Public pages do not show the organization that holds the license, staff emails, or taxpayer identifiers. That is not an accident. Charitable gambling in Minnesota is run for organizations; the public need is “where is the site?” not “who signed the paperwork?” If you are an organization looking up your own filing, use the Gambling Control Board’s tools. If you are a player looking for a pull-tab stop in Minneapolis or a supper-club site outside Rochester, the city directory is the right layer.

The same rule applies to product names. We will not pretend every site is e-tabs-only or paper-only. The official list we mapped is mixed. Labeling the whole state as pull-tabs on Skill Game Radar is a map legend choice: it tells you this is Minnesota charitable gambling, not a VGT market and not a coin-op amusement certificate map. For electronic-only Type III sites, use the Ohio e-tab directory instead.

Related maps if you are crossing a border

Wisconsin and the Dakotas are not the same dataset. If your trip continues south, Illinois is video gaming terminals — 7,037 licensed establishments — and Ohio is Type III electronic bingo. Those are different products, different regulators, and different city pages. Minnesota stays a GCB site map. Bookmark Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, and Duluth if those are your regular stops, and come back to the state page when you need a smaller city that is not worth memorizing.

Counts move when sites are added, removed, or fail a geocode. The 3,181 figure is the public, has_games = true count on this site as of August 16, 2026. It is a directory snapshot, not a statute. Confirm local hours and what is actually for sale before you plan a night around a single pin.