Bumper poodle
Push poodle is a wooden game in which a ball shot on an inclined playing field falls into pits or rolls into delimited fields . A different number of points can be achieved per shot. A Bavarian dictionary from 1834 describes the term as "a portable bowling alley, roughly like a billiard table on which an ivory ball is hit with a stick. "
Basic structure
The push poodle consists of an inclined and framed wooden board on which - similar to a pinball machine - a small steel or glass ball is shot into the playing field from the bottom right using a spring pestle. The player can regulate the force himself by pulling the spring plunger back a certain distance and thus changing the tension force of the mainspring. The ball that has been shot into the playing field now rolls down on the sloping wooden surface and is distracted by small iron nails that are regularly hammered into the wooden board. The ball can be caught in one of several small pits or it rolls down the playing field and into one of the demarcated fields. Each pit is provided with a numerical value. The highest number of points is achieved when the ball rolls into the circle of nails placed in the middle of the playing field. The bell mounted in the middle of the nail circle will sound. The fields at the bottom of the playing field count significantly lower points than those of the pits.
Game flow
By adjusting the tension of the spring plunger, the player can try to steer the ball into one of the pits or into the nail circle with the bell. In addition, the player has no control over the course of the ball. Pushing or lifting the game board after the ball has been shot is not permitted. The individual players take turns taking turns. The number of points scored for a shot put is noted. If the ball rolls back into the launch channel due to insufficient traction, the player may repeat the shot put. If after a total of three attempts to shoot the ball into the field of play, the player receives no points and it is the next player's turn. The winner is the player who achieves the highest total number of points after a predetermined number of game rounds.
Emergence
The shock poodle belongs to the group of so-called bagatell or pinball games, which are among the forerunners of today's pinball machines. The term “pinball” describes a board studded with nails on which one or more balls find their way. These games have been around since the 19th century.
The bumper poodle game was part of z. B. on the games equipment in Austrian boarding schools around 1920. This seems surprising insofar as the push poodle game was one of the forbidden games in Austria (see list of prohibited games of the kuk Ministry of Justice ) - at that time people wanted the game for money in general (both at Games of chance as well as games of skill ), but not the game itself.
Furthermore, the poodle game has similarities with the pachinko game popular in Japan .
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Andreas Schmeller, Georg Carl Frommann, Otto Maußer: Bavarian Dictionary: Collection of Words and Expressions ... Verlag Cotta, 1837, ISBN 3-486-52601-4 , p. 277 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 4, 2017]).
- ↑ Historical development - when the ball learned to roll. Pindigi.at, accessed on January 4, 2017 .
- ^ Austria, Ludwig Altmann, Siegfried Jacob, Max Weiser: The Austrian penal legislation as of June 30, 1927 . In: Hand edition of Austrian laws and ordinances . 6th edition. No. 206 . Austrian State Printing Office, 1927, OCLC 28044190 , p. 293 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 4, 2017]).