Lady Luck

Lady Luck, manufactured by D. Gottlieb & Company in September 1954, is an electro-mechanical, single-player pinball machine designed by Wayne Neyens with artwork by Roy Parker. By this point Gottlieb was a well-established manufacturer with two decades of EM production behind it, and Lady Luck reflects the company's mature approach to single-player game design in the mid-1950s.

One of the most distinctive features of Lady Luck is its unusual layout: four gobble holes are positioned at the very bottom of the playfield, each functioning as an outlane rollover switch. This is atypical, since gobble holes are usually placed further up the playfield where they pose a greater risk of losing the ball; Gottlieb would later use a similar multiple-outlane rollover approach on its 1966 game Ice Show.

Beyond this notable design choice, little else about Lady Luck's theme or artwork has been documented in detail. With a confirmed production run of 700 units, the machine stands as an interesting example of Gottlieb's experimentation with playfield mechanics during the mid-1950s.