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Two elements - the increase in the number of coins played per game, and the reduction in the number of balls from five or ten to one - made the operator's earnings from the new type of pingame more comparable to those from the bell slot machine. (Note: Some one-ball payout pinball games were made with single coin operation before the introduction of multiple coin games.)

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Daily Races - 1935
Early in 1936 D. Gottlieb and Co. introduced a game called DAILY RACES which was to set the pattern for almost all one-ball multiple coin machines for the next fifteen years. (It's interesting to note that Gottlieb used the name DAILY RACES again on their last one-ball machine in the early 1947.)

The 1936 DAILY RACES had it's playfield divided into three sections labeled WIN (near the bottom), PLACE (in the center), and at the top SHOW. Each of these sections contained 8 consecutively numbered holes. The backglass had lighted panels corresponding to each of these numbers, and additional panels to indicate the "odds" to be won by matching a number in each of the three sections of the playfield. In order to "win", a player had to get his one ball into a hole whose corresponding number on the backglass was lit.

If he succeeded, he would win whatever the lit odds were for the section of the playfield (WIN, PLACE, or SHOW) in which his ball landed. Since the chance of the ball reaching the lower sections of the playfield (without dropping into a hole) were less than it going into one of the top holes, the odds for WIN were highest, PLACE a little lower, and SHOW the lowest.

In most of the early games of this type the first coin deposited would light number '1' and select a set of odds. Additional coins could then be deposited to light additional numbers (generally in order) and to possibly advance the odds. A player could therefore cause all the numbers (generally referred to as "Selections") to be winners but could still "lose" if his "winnings" were less than the number on coins initially deposited.

Shortly after DAILY RACES, Bally - who was to become the major producer of multiple coin machines - introduced their first multi-section playfield game, HIALEAH. By the end of 1936, a fourth section (usually called PURSE) was added at the top of the field, and most one-ball machines from then on had four-section playfields.

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