- credit
- Don Hooker — Design
- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×18
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 606
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/606/image-20.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 575
- ipdb.notable_features
- Trap holes (18). Balls landing in lettered holes on the playfield light the corresponding letters on the backglass to form words.
Patent No. USD177,950 [CABINET FOR AMUSEMENT APPARATUS] filed November 7, 1955. Granted December 16, 1958 to Charles G. Troeller, Chicago, and Donald E. Hooker, Wilmette, Ill., assignors to Raymond T. Moloney, Chicago, Ill.
- ipdb.notes
- Same game as Bally's 1956 'Spelling-Bee' but backglass has different colors.
Bally referred to this game as a "recreation vender" for placement in locations that would not accept traditional bingo machines. It has no multiple-coin capacity or variable odds.
- player_count
- 1
- production_quantity
- 450
- technology_generation
- electromechanical