Miss America

Miss America, designed by Don Hooker and manufactured by Bally in an unrecorded year, is a bingo-style pinball machine (model 603) — a category built around cards and payout logic rather than traditional scoring objectives. Its 25 trap holes are arranged to correspond to two cards, giving players multiple paths to complete winning combinations.

A distinctive feature is its use of 10 sideways magic lines, a bingo-machine mechanic that added extra strategic combinations across the playfield beyond the two cards' standard lines.

Details about Miss America's exact production year, artwork, and theme are not well documented. As a Bally bingo machine, it belongs to a specialized, largely coin-operated gambling-adjacent branch of pinball history distinct from mainstream scoring-based games, making it a notable example for collectors focused on that niche.