How do the Bingo pinball machines work?

I have repaired a bunch of pins and really love the complex nature of these machines. With that being said I bought a buch of nonworking pins from a collector last year and he has a building full of old bingo pins that he tried to sell me. After looking and researching them I decided they might be over my head or beyond my patience. I generally buy machines for my gameroom and these bingos don't look like that much fun unless your using them for non-entertainment purposes. Maybe they are tons of fun and I just don't know it.
 
I have had a '58 Bally Carnival Queen project that I picked up 10yrs ago for $50, missing a backglass and it has just sat..wrapped up. I couldn't get rid of it, but it would be hard to find a taker anyways. Fast forward to 2010.. I actually found an NOS backglass on Ebay, so I got it. I guess it's getting the full treatment sometime. I still haven't plugged it in, so who KNOWS what kind of project it will turn into. Should be interesting, if I can pull it off.
 
I have repaired a bunch of pins and really love the complex nature of these machines. With that being said I bought a buch of nonworking pins from a collector last year and he has a building full of old bingo pins that he tried to sell me. After looking and researching them I decided they might be over my head or beyond my patience. I generally buy machines for my gameroom and these bingos don't look like that much fun unless your using them for non-entertainment purposes. Maybe they are tons of fun and I just don't know it.

Well the object of any pinball machine is to earn points... the bingo games are the same. The strategy is really deep on them. There's chance involved but really good players can get certain numbers pretty reliably... the later models had all kinds of extra ways to increase odds, or play different games, etc. that really made the games super deep. On a pinball machine you can learn the rules quickly, then figure out the best strategy to unlock the best modes for points, or whatever. On a Bingo game, it might take you months or years to develop a full strategy set, like what to do when you have this, etc.

For example say you get two numbers, and you need a third number within this box up on the backglass to win, oh, 120 credits. You can either shoot for that number; or you can put another credit on and try to increase your odds, or you can put another credit in and move the curtain in the backbox, so that now you're in a different color area of the card, or you can move the curtain back the other way to seperate the numbers, or you can go ahead and collect the credits you've won with the two in a color, and then put in a credit to move the curtain... or....

I mean it's really, really, really complicated.
 
I have been looking for a Bingo Pin for my dad. His 70th Birthday is coming up soon, and I wanted to get him one as a present.

If anyone on the east cost near West Virginia has one, please PM me.
 
I have a few Dixieland six card bingo machines for sale if anyone is interested. I'm in Northeast PA. They are cleaned up and are in good working condition. I have pictures, $650
 
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