Questione giuridica chiave
Whether a Schenkkreis is a lottery-like undertaking under the Lotteries Act and ordinance.
Decisione estratta
A Schenkkreis of this type is to be treated throughout as a lottery-like undertaking because it operates as a snowball system and depends essentially on chance.
Motivazione estratta
The court held that the scheme combines an entry payment, a promised gain, systematic organization, and a decisive dependence on chance in finding ever more recruits; for legal and practical reasons it is not to be split into different phases under lottery versus gaming law.