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The Bally Hole is hole #16 among the 25 [[gameplay-feature:trap-holes]] of a mid-1950s [[manufacturer:bally]] [[game-format:bingo-pinball]] playfield, wired to do something special when its light is on — classically, awarding the player's first extra ball free.^[1][2] That was worth real money on a bingo, where up to three extra balls are otherwise bought with coins after the fifth ball, at odds the machine steadily worsens.^[3] The hole could also light features for the next game played — enabling all of a game's [[gameplay-feature:magic-squares]] at once, say — a next-game award in the tradition the [[game-format:one-ball]] payout games had proven: give the player a reason to put in another coin.^[1][4] It arrived on *[[title:broadway-3]]* (1955) alongside Magic Squares.^[2][5]

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Playfield hole #16 does something special, such as awarding an extra ball. The ballyhole was also used to light features automatically for the NEXT game played, like enabling all the magic squares.

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Broadway also introduced the "Ballyhole" feature. Makeing a ball in hole #16 when the feature is lit awards the player the first extra ball for free.

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Almost all the bingo's are five ball games, and you have the option to try and get up to three extra balls by playing credits or depositing coins after the fifth ball is shot.

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A great idea from the one-ball games. Something you do on the current game will enable a feature automatically on the next game. Are you going to play again?...of course!

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Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #382

Trap holes (25), Magic Squares, Bally Hole, Double/triple scores

The Bally Hole is playfield hole #16, one of the numbered trap holes on a bingo playfield; making it enables a feature on the next game.

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Trap Holes

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #382

Trap holes (25), Magic Squares, Bally Hole

Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/features.html

Playfield hole #16 does something special, such as awarding an extra ball. The ballyhole was also used to light features automatically for the NEXT game played, like enabling all the magic squares.

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Next Game Award

Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #382

Trap holes (25), Magic Squares, Bally Hole

Bingo Pinballs — https://bingo.cdyn.com/machines/features.html

Playfield hole #16 does something special, such as awarding an extra ball. The ballyhole was also used to light features automatically for the NEXT game played, like enabling all the magic squares.

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Ballyhole

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Bally Hole

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bally-hole

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