Track Odds

Track Odds, manufactured by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company in March 1936, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) payout machine with a horse-racing theme. Only 20 units are confirmed to have been produced, making it a very scarce piece today.

As a payout machine from this era, Track Odds would have operated without flippers, relying on the player's aim and the machine's mechanical payout features to determine outcomes - flippers would not be introduced to pinball until more than a decade later, in 1947. The horse-racing theme was in keeping with the popular gambling-adjacent payout machines of the mid-1930s. The game's cabinet is notable for its large size, advertised as a special deluxe cabinet measuring 24 by 50 inches, which would have been a prominent feature in the arcades and establishments where it was placed.

While detailed information on Track Odds' design and art is scarce, its extremely low confirmed production of just 20 units makes it a notable rarity for collectors and historians researching Chicago Coin's early output.