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  1. By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameplayFeature)
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    Crossover return lanes are [[gameplay-feature:inlanes]] that have swapped places with the [[gameplay-feature:outlanes]] beside them: the return lane runs outside the drain lane, so a ball coming down it has to cross the outlane to reach the flipper.[1] It usually carries enough speed to jump the gap, but not always.[2] The reversal turns a safe lane into a wager, and it is a solid-state idea rather than an [[technology-generation:electromechanical]] one. [[manufacturer:bally]] used it repeatedly in the early 1980s — *[[title:fathom]]* (1981) is the machine the arrangement is usually named for[3] — and Spanish makers built it into machines through the decade. It has never quite gone away: [[manufacturer:jersey-jack]] laid out *[[title:pirates-of-the-caribbean-jersey-jack-pinball]]* (2018) the same way.
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    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php Archive
    A flipper return lane that by design has swapped places with the outlane, and is separated from the flipper by this outlane. A ball entering the top of the return lane has to cross the outlane in order to reach the flipper.
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    Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — https://www.ipdb.org/glossary.php Archive
    The speed of the ball usually allows it to jump the outlane and not drain, although success of this is not guaranteed.
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    Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_pinball_terms
    have reversed inlanes and outlanes, where the outer lane returns the ball to the flippers and the inner lane returns the ball to the drain
  2. By Flipcommons Catalog
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    Lanes
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    Crossover Return Lanes
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    crossover-return-lanes
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    active