A majority of video gambling parlors around the state center on one game - bingo.

But up until last week there was an electronic gaming option in Casper where you didn't have to "daub."

As Tuesday's police raid on U-Spin-M Game Room in Casper demonstrated, however, this electronic gaming option was against the law, officials say.

Yet U-Spin-M was open on Collins Drive for more than a year and operated without any police action being taken. And the business had an east Casper location before it came to Collins Drive, customer Melody Fife said.

At U-Spin-M, gamers were able to play video blackjack, video poker, video keno, video slot machines and various other electronic games of chance.

Instead of being awarded in cash, like video poker players are in Las Vegas, U-Spin-M winners would be awarded gift cards from retailers such as Wal-Mart equal to the dollar amount of credits won.

When Casper police and Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation officers played U-Spin-M's games last week, they determined the machines were gambling devices, which are illegal in Wyoming, Casper police Sgt. Larry Baker said.

It didn't matter that cash could not be won at the game room, Baker said. What mattered was that a game of chance was being played, and awards of tangible value were being given out to winners.

The gambling going on at U-Spin-M had never dwelled in the gray area of the law, Baker said. Such gaming has been illegal ever since Wyoming drew up its current gambling laws.

U-Spin-M was allowed to operate the way it did for as long as it did because the game room was not well marked, the police thought it was video bingo operation, and there were never any complaints made about it that indicated the machines there were different from video bingo machines, Baker said.

However, in the past few weeks complaints about the type of machines at U-Spin-M were made to the police and to the district attorney's office, Baker said. And an investigation was launched upon getting these complaints.

Neither Natrona County District Attorney Mike Blonigen nor Baker knew of any other businesses that operated games like those found at U-Spin-M, they said.

According to Fife, the fact that U-Spin-M offered more than bingo was a real plus of the game room.

Fife's money would last considerably longer on U-Spin-M's games than it would on standard video bingo machines, she said. The games were also more fun to play, Fife added.

Despite repeated phone calls and messages since Tuesday's raid, U-Spin-M's incorporator and director, Jeffrey "Bo" Hancock, could not be reached for comment.

It is unknown if the game room donated money to charity, and if so, how much was donated and to what charities.