Eleven Belles

J. H. Keeney and Company's 1960 Eleven Belles is a rare one-ball game with a dancing-pageantry theme, designed by Ed Krynski with artwork by George Molentin. According to Krynski himself, quoted in The Pinball Compendium: Electro-mechanical Era, Eleven Belles was the first pinball game he ever designed.

Gameplay centers on a single ball per play: two flippers, one center pop bumper, and nine numbered passive bumpers (mislabeled as 'pop' bumpers on the original flyer) let players light up eleven numbered figures on the backglass, with the final two lit only by landing in the kick-out hole, which then ejects the ball toward the outhole. The game's layout closely resembles Bally's flipperless 1960 title 'Beach Queens,' which used a similar eleven-figure backglass concept. Eleven Belles also features a 3-digit replay counter and a mechanism dividing coins between operator and location, with a replay wheel maxing out at 999.

Eleven Belles has a notable pop-culture footnote: it's one of the pinball machines seen being smashed in the 1975 film 'Tommy,' the movie that inspired Bally's 1975 'Wizard!'. Between its historical significance as Krynski's design debut and its brief moment of movie fame, Eleven Belles is a distinctive entry in Keeney's EM catalog.