Ohio Type III E-Tab Locations

If you are hunting electronic pull-tabs in Ohio, the right public layer on Skill Game Radar is Type III electronic bingo — e-tabs — not a statewide skill-game crawl and not a paper-bingo flyer. As of August 16, 2026 we publish 690 mapped sites drawn from the Ohio Attorney General’s Authorized Bingo list (2026). Open the Ohio e-tab directory first, then a city. The pins are places authorized for Type III electronic play, spread across hundreds of Ohio cities rather than stacked in one downtown.

Type III is the electronic product in Ohio charitable bingo: finite deals on a screen, played at an authorized location. It is closer to Minnesota e-tabs than to an Illinois video gaming terminal. A VGT is a state-licensed video terminal in a liquor establishment. An Ohio Type III site is on a charitable-bingo authorization list. Mixing those two up will send you to the wrong door. If you need the vocabulary, read what an electronic pull-tab is and then come back to the Ohio city pages.

How the 690 pins were built

The public Ohio map is a filtered read of the Authorized Bingo file: Type III electronic rows become candidate addresses; paper bingo sessions stay off the public pin set. We geocode the street, publish a storefront-style location, and keep organization names and back-office contacts off the page you share with friends. One address, one pin, a city slug you can bookmark. That is the whole product.

Because Type III sites follow charitable authorizations, they do not cluster like convenience-store skill games in Georgia. Ohio’s 690 pins land in about 356 cities. Many cities have a handful of sites, not fifty. That is why a state-level zoom looks sparse compared with Illinois, and why the city page is the unit that matters. If a city only has a few pins, that is the real list — we are not hiding a second, unofficial layer.

City pages worth opening first

The thickest public city on the Ohio map is Columbus with 16 sites, then Cincinnati with 13 and Akron with 9. Just behind those metros, Mansfield, Lorain, Newark, and Chillicothe each show eight sites. Cleveland is on the map (a handful of pins) but it is not the densest city page; if you assumed downtown Cleveland would dominate Type III the way a casino district would, the official list does not bear that out.

Traveling I-71 or I-75, jump city to city instead of panning the national map. Columbus covers the center of the state. Cincinnati covers the southwest corner. Akron and Mansfield cover the northeast / north-central pocket. Smaller city pages still matter: a single authorized site next to where you already eat dinner is more useful than a larger city twenty miles off your route.

What a Type III pin does and does not promise

A pin means the address appeared on the 2026 Authorized Bingo Type III list and survived geocoding onto the public map. It does not promise a particular number of devices, a particular game title, or that the site is open at midnight. Charitable locations follow their own hours and event schedules. Some share a building with a bar or hall you already know; some are quieter facilities that only feel busy when a session is running. Always confirm on site.

We also do not publish the charity’s internal roster, volunteer emails, or license paperwork on the location page. If you need the legal filing, use the Attorney General’s charitable-law resources. If you need a door you can navigate to, use Skill Game Radar. Those are different jobs.

A simple Ohio browse path

Start at Ohio e-tab locations and note that the legend is e-tabs, not VGT or coin-op.
Open Columbus or Cincinnati if you are in those metros; otherwise pick the city you will actually sleep in.
Use the city map to see whether pins sit downtown or along a strip you already drive.
Save two or three addresses. Do not expect the public page to list every electronic deal.
If you are also looking at paper pull-tabs across the border, switch to the Minnesota GCB map instead of forcing Ohio’s Type III file to answer a Minnesota question.

Ohio vs the states people confuse it with

Illinois VGTs (7,037 establishments) are a different regulator and a different machine. Kentucky’s public layer here is 41 licensed charitable bingo facilities from a June 2023 list — halls, not Type III density. Pennsylvania and Wyoming on this site are skill-game maps. Texas is coin-operated amusement storefronts. If your group chat says “they have machines in Ohio,” ask whether they mean Type III e-tabs. That is the dataset behind these 690 pins.

The 690 count is the public snapshot for August 16, 2026. Authorizations change during the year. If a hall closes or an address fails a later review, the pin can disappear. Use the city directory as a current map, then verify the door before you make a special trip across the county line.