三さん店てん方ほう式しき

noun

three-shop system; pachinko prize-exchange system

A legal workaround used by pachinko parlors in Japan: a player exchanges won balls for a 'special prize' at the parlor, then takes it to a separate, nominally independent shop to exchange for cash, thereby circumventing gambling laws.

• パチンコ店てんは三さん店てん方ほう式しきで現げん金きんを提てい供きょうしている。

  Pachinko parlors provide cash through the three-shop system.

• 三さん店てん方ほう式しきは日本にほんのギャンブル規き制せいの抜ぬけ穴あなとして知しられている。

  The three-shop system is known as a loophole in Japan's gambling regulations.