- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×18
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 5791
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- 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 1955 'Crosswords' but backglass has different colors.
This game was ideal for placement in locations that would not accept traditional bingo machines. It has no multiple-coin capacity or variable odds.
The game shown here has its lower cabinet and playfield each stamped with serial number S1333 while its backbox is stamped as S333. Stapled inside the backbox is a manufacturer's tag indicating the name 'Bally Crosswords'. This would indicate that 'Spelling-Bee' was not produced ahead of that game. Its backglass shows the year 1956.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1956