Payout odds/feature levels increase, and getting The likelyhood of getting extra balls decreases as the You have the option to try and get up to three extraīalls by playing credits or depositing coins after the The left rollover wouldĮnable after-fourth, the right rollover would enableįeatures that were not always enabled, but had to beīought at mystery intervals using coins/credits.Īlmost all the bingo's are five ball games, and Or after the fifth ball was shot, so it was possible to Generally enabled after the fourth ball was shot!Īllowed the player to moved/spot numbers after the fourth On games where you could move numbers around orĬhanged spotted numbers, the game usually disabled theįeature before the fourth ball was shot. One color 2x, you would make another color 1/2x. You could change the payout multiplier for the Made a few noises as it generated a random result and Sometimes you played another game (usually three ball) withĪ specific objective, or sometimes the machine just You could either take your payout, or you could try for This feature was implemented differently on a few machines.
On Miss America games, sometimes sliding the magic lines would put the same number twice on one card, and on Miami Beach and Parade, opening the curtain/extra lines would reveal multiple instances of the same number. So making that number lights two positions on the 5x5 card. Games with diagonal scores generallyĪllowed any diagonal line three numbers or longer toĬould appear twice on the same magic card, In most bingos with in-line scoring, the five numberĭiagonal lines forming a big X through the main cardĬounted. On a couple games, the "corners" were a little unusual, 200 or 400) awarded for lighting theįour corner numbers of the main card or super cards. Score a 3-in-line in red using the same numbers and get paidĪ high payout (e.g. Often get a 3-in-line in yellow, then rearrange to The colored lines/sections scored independently, so you could On many games where you could rearrange the numbers/sections, For example, 3-in-line on a red lineĬould be worth more that 3-in-line on a yellow line. Most early bingo's made no distinction on how anĪdded, though, it became more important how the in-line To give the player a way to bump the ball off a post/spring Solenoid did the actual jerking of the playfield. The bump feature was used to give the playfield a Later screen games just paid a fixed amout: The NEXT game played, like enabling all theĪ three number blue section on a magic screen layout The ballyhole was also used to light features automatically for Playfield hole #16 does something special, such Similar to the hold/double hold feature, but The split was adjustable from 1/1 to 1/5.
The location to recycle coins without needing to The idea was to have the gameĪutomatically split the take (and to some extent allow Is a mechanism that diverts inserted coins into one ofĪnd the operator the other. Unusual in that rather than giving you the option to takeĥth ball, the fifth ball actually determined whether Were usually for territories where standard bingos were There were a few games made between 1956 and the lateħ0's that didn't have this feature either. Odds feature disappeared again on some machines. Legal definitions of gambling devices, the advancing In the late 70's in a effort to distance the games from Increase (at least they never get worse, like on some You can deposit a coin and the odds may not Main reason the machines are considered gambling devices
The first coin inserted would reset the machine to the 2 level, successiveĬoins would increase it zero or more steps. Sometimes after the first ball, on games with theĪ typical 3-in-line payout on an early machine The number of credits you can win by depositing moreĬoins/credits before shooting the first ball (and YouĪlways got the same number of credits for 3, 4, or 5-in-lineĪdvancing odds changed that. The first couple bingo machines were fixed payout.
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