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- description
- The outhole is where a lost ball leaves the playfield — the mouth at the bottom that swallows a drained ball and passes it to the trough beneath.[1] The word is old, and pinball has used it as a plain synonym for the drain since before [[gameplay-feature:flippers]] existed.[2]
On the pin tables of the 1930s and 1940s a game ended when the player's ten balls were gone, and several makers gave the playfield a pair of outhole troughs rather than a single mouth — [[manufacturer:o-d-jennings-and-company]]'s *[[title:monarch-2]]* (1932) and the German Tura and Bera machines of 1933 among them, and [[manufacturer:bally]]'s one-ball games *[[title:seabiscuit]]* (1938) and *[[title:grand-national]]* (1939).[3] [[manufacturer:marvel]] was still building them that way in 1948.
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- Outholes
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- outholes
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- active