Holiday

Holiday, released by J. H. Keeney and Company of Chicago in December 1951, is a bingo machine, a distinctive branch of the electro-mechanical coin-op family that flourished in the early 1950s. Rather than flippers and bumpers, bingo machines challenged players to land balls in numbered holes to complete lines on card layouts, blending pinball-style ball shooting with games of chance.

Holiday's playfield features twenty-five trap holes, and the game offers six cards, giving players multiple ways to line up winning combinations. These design choices reflect the rapid experimentation among Chicago coin-op manufacturers during the bingo boom of the early 1950s, when companies like Keeney competed to offer ever more elaborate card and scoring variations.

Limited information is available about this specific model's artwork and design details. Nevertheless, Holiday remains an interesting example of Keeney's early-1950s output and a window into the bingo-machine side of the electro-mechanical era.