Bally : Cypress Gardens

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Bally : Cypress Gardens

Game Parameters
Game Type	magic squares
Game Number	608
Manufacture Date	1958
Number of Holes	25
Number of Odds Steps	8
Max Payout	600
Max Extra Balls	3
Features	advancing odds/scores ballyhole colored lines corners scoring extended/extra time/play extra balls in-line scoring next game award roll-over buttons stop and shop score booster triple deck advancing odds/scores

Resources

Backglass
- page 1 : 0.05MB
- chris dade image

Cabinet
- page 1 : 0.37MB
- page 2 : 0.25MB

Flyers
- page 1 : 1.32MB

Internals
- page 1 : 3.62MB
- page 2 : 4.06MB

Game Manual
- pdf file : 43.55MB

Press Image
- page 1 : 0.50MB

Playfield
- page 1 : 0.03MB
- page 2 : 0.03MB
- page 3 : 0.04MB
- chris dade image

Schematic
- all - 300 dpi

S/I Card Reproduction
- page : 0.04MB

S/I Card Scan
- page : 5.44MB

Mixers
- 1: w-735b
- 2: w-768b
- 3: w-756b
- 4: w-829b

Reflex Units
- 1: w-770b

Cypress Gardens

This game is a sister machine to Show-Time, and it introduced two new features for Magic Square games:

Next game award: when lit, the Ballyhole no longer awarded an extra ball like previous machines, instead it affected the magic squares on the NEXT game played. If the Ballyhole feature was lit, and you plop a ball in hole #16, then the next game will automatically enable all magic squares/lines. You'd have to be pretty daft to not play again!
stop and shop scores: before shooting the 3rd or 4th ball, you could deposit more coins/credits in an attempt to increase the payout odds. I don't know if it's harder to increase the odds the more balls that you shoot...one of these days I'll dig out the schematics and look :-)

So why did they drop back two machines into the past to add these new features to? Probably because the engineering started back before Sun Valley was available.

Naturally, after Sun Valley, they couldn't have a magic square game with numbers you couldn't move, so after Cypress Gardens comes Beach Time.

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Some of the numbers on the bingo card are are mounted on wheels (behind the backglass), and pushing buttons on the foot rail allows you to rotate the wheels to rearrange the numbers into paying combinations.

A	1	9
A	19	4

A	9	4
A	1	19

The wheels have 4 numbers mounted on each. Here is the standard layout for magic square A. The first table shows the "home" position of the numbers, and the second table shows the numbers rotated one position:

The 4-number squares were initially used in the corners of the card, so people also called the feature "turning corners".

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