Kismet

Kismet, manufactured by P & S Machine Company in 1945, is a World War II-era conversion game, flipperless in design as was typical for games built or converted during wartime material restrictions. It was announced in a manufacturer's Billboard ad dated July 14, 1945.

As a flipperless machine, Kismet's gameplay relied on the layout of pins, bumpers, targets, and gates on the playfield, along with skillful plunging of the ball, rather than player-controlled flippers - which had not yet been introduced to pinball at the time. Wartime conversions like Kismet were often built or adapted from existing cabinets and mechanisms to work around material shortages.

Little further documentation survives about Kismet's specific playfield design, artwork, or theme. Its main historical interest lies in its status as a WWII-era conversion, a category of games that reflects the material and manufacturing constraints pinball makers faced during the war.