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Pinball was a game involving a ricocheting steel ball propelled by springs and rubber. The Q have a pinball machine called Galaxy. (New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: "Beyond Horizons")

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Written by
Music by	Walt Kraemer
Lyrics by
Date	1976
Source	Sesame Street
Publisher

The Pinball Number Count is a series of animated segments that debuted on Sesame Street in episode 0989 (broadcast on February 22, 1977).^[1] Each entry follows a pinball as it goes through an extravagant pinball machine, while the Pointer Sisters sing a counting song. The lyrics count up to the number twelve, with each segment focusing on a different number.

Contents 1 Animation 2 Music 3 Segments 4 Outside references and covers 5 Releases 6 Sources

Animation

Animation was made for numbers two through twelve; a segment for number one was never produced.^[2]

The “Pinball Number Count” segments contain common beginning and ending sequences showing the launch of the pinball into the machine and the exit of the pinball from play, respectively. Between these two sequences are different number-specific animated narrative showing the pinball in play. This middle segment features a scene in which a number of contraptions moved the pinball about the interior of the machine. These scenes are tied to a theme, such as an amusement park, a jungle, a forest, a European medieval area, a desert, US landmarks, international landmarks, a golf course, a circus, a baseball game, and a farm.

The segments were produced and animated by Jeff Hale's Imagination Inc. The animation was directed by Hale, who also developed the concept and design for the segments.^[2] The actual animators included Ernie Fosselius.^[3] The animation recalls contemporary psychedelic and pop art styles, typified by the ornate pinball bumpers, colorful geometrical motifs, and whimsical themes and devices inside the machine.

Music

The music for Pinball Number Count was composed by Walt Kraemer, who also served as producer, and was arranged by Ed Bogas.^[2] The vocals were provided by the Pointer Sisters. The arrangements in the eleven films reflect musical idioms commonly found in 1970s urban culture, predominantly funk and jazz, though other styles including Caribbean steel drum music are also represented. The number-specific middle sections contain one of three different improvised instrumental solos over a basic progression featuring soprano saxophone, electric guitar, and steel drum. The vocals work in similar fashion with wild lines from the Pointers shouting the various numbers from 2 to 12 at different intensities each time the pinball hit a selected target.

The 2000 Sesame Street home video Let's Make Music features a segment with Elmo and Telly sitting on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street singing the song accompanied by cast members of the musical Stomp using push brooms as instruments. This led into the 12 segment, which had pinball sound effects added.

In 2003, as part of the show's 35th anniversary, Sesame Workshop and UK- and Canada-based electronica label Ninja Tune released a 12-inch vinyl record for the DJ collectors’ and beat diggers’ market titled Solid Steel Presents Sesame Street. The maxi-single included a new remix of "Pinball Number Count" combining all 11 sketches and all three versions of the solo section into one extended track. Ninja Tune also produced a video remix for the DVD ZenTV and, for a limited time, also had a 1,280-by-1,024-sized computer wallpaper available for downloading. Strictly Kev, part of DJ Food, re-edited the song for the new mix.^[4]

This reworked and remastered DJ Food edit was featured on the Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music collection; according to producer/composer Walt Kraemer, this was because a clean master track of the original recording did not exist.^[2] The remix video was released as a bonus feature on What's the Name of That Song? and Sesame Street: Old School: Volume 2.

Segments

Picture	Segment	Description
	2	The pinball finds its way through carnival- and amusement park-themed obstacles -- riding a roller coaster, a ferris wheel, and some hanging airplanes until being dropped into a clown's mouth that enters a haunted house of ghosts and ghouls. Solo: steel drum (EKA: Episode 1056)
	3	The ball rolls through circus attractions. It is shot from a cannon, caught by clowns, and handed off by a ringmaster to a juggling monkey who tosses it to a lion tamer and his lion. The ball then lands on the nose of a seal and is launched by a hippopotamus to a pink elephant that runs it into the hole. Solo: electric guitar (EKA: Episode 1037)
	4	The ball passes golf-themed obstacles. Solo: steel drum (EKA: Episode 1709)
	5	The ball is kicked into the backseat of a car which enters a tunnel, from which emerges a bicycle with the ball in its basket. The ball is then pushed by a locomotive, then a magnet attached to a plane picks it up and drops it into a tugboat, which then sinks. After the ball is shot out of a volcano, it is caught by a blimp, which drops it into the hole. Solo: saxophone (EKA: Episode 1710)
	6	The ball encounters farm-themed obstacles. Rolling down a barn and kicked by a donkey through a heard of sheep, the ball lands in a haystack. A goat farmer tosses it to a chicken that lays it like an egg. The ball chases a pig into a barn where the farmer drops it into the hole. Solo: saxophone (EKA: Episode 2096)
	7	The ball rolls past famous world landmarks. Solo: saxophone (First: Episode 0989)
	8	The ball goes through the wilderness exploring forest-themed obstacles. Solo: electric guitar (EKA: Episode 2479)
	9	The pinball encounters mechanical baseball players and is chased under the bleachers and down a hole by a mechanical dog. Solo: steel drum (EKA: Episode 2073)
	10	The ball encounters European medieval- and fantasy-themed items. It is launched from a catapult by a knight into the mouth of a dragon that spits it to a giant that hits it toward a cannon that shoots it into a witch's cauldron. Solo: saxophone (EKA: Episode 2494)
	11	Mechanical jungle animals pass the ball around, including an elephant, a zebra, a lion, and a gorilla that flicks it into the hole. Solo: electric guitar (EKA: Episode 1933)
	12	The ball goes sightseeing through replicas of American landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, Mount Rushmore, Old Faithful, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Solo: steel drum (EKA: Episode 1576)

Outside references and covers

• A tribute song by Stephen Lynch titled "Jim Henson's Dead" was released on his 2000 album A Little Bit Special. In it, Lynch incorporates the tune and lyrics from the song into a myriad of other Henson and Muppet references.

• The Dead Hensons, a San Francisco Bay Area band, covered "Pinball Number Count" and has performed the song in concert.

• A cover of "Pinball Number Count" was released by the band Wicked Hemlocks on its debut album, Quill of the Mad. Stick in Your Spokes Records, 2007. NPR described it as "a brilliant and completely surprising cover."^[5]

• The jazz-funk-rock trio Big Organ Trio recorded an instrumental cover of “Pinball Number Count.”

• In 2004, a techno-style video-audio remix of the song, cut together with footage from the Beatles animated feature Yellow Submarine was released on the Internet by a UK group called Braces Tower.

• The 2005 Family Guy episode "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" features its own remake of the cartoon with character Stewie encased inside a plastic ball in place of the pinball.

Releases

Audio

• Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music (DJ Food Re-Edit -- Special Extension by Strictly Kev)
• Solid Steel presents Sesame Street (DJ Food Re-Edit -- Special Extension by Strictly Kev)

Video

• The Great Numbers Game -- #12 segment.
• Let's Make Music -- #12 segment.
• What's the Name of That Song? -- DJ Food remix (as a DVD bonus segment).
• Shalom Sesame: Passover -- #10 segment in Hebrew.
• Sesame English: Rock On -- #5 segment
• Old School: Volume 2 -- #2 segment included as part of episodes 1056 and 1186, and #4 segment and DJ Food remix included as season 7 classic cuts. Additionally the set includes a collectible reproduction of a Pinball Number Count animation cel.
• Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days -- #7

Online

• Sesamestreet.org -- 2 through 12 (except #5) (SS.org video playlist)
• Hulu -- #9 and #4

Although mentioned in the packaging and promotional material for Old School: Volume 1, "Pinball Number Count" is not actually included on the set.

Sources

1. ↑ Sesame Street Unpaved
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} A Letter from Walt Kraemer
3. ↑ Muppet Central post by Sally Cruikshank
4. ↑ Sesame Workshop Press Release. August 4, 2003
5. ↑ Second Stage: "Wicked Hemlocks: 'Number Count,'" NPR, 2007.

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From Lostpedia

This article is about games shown in episodes of Lost. For other uses, see: Game (disambiguation)

Several games are featured in the storyline of Lost.

Contents 1 Occurrences 1.1 Minor occurrences 2 Recurring themes 2.1 The metagame 2.2 Games as a metaphor 2.3 The Numbers 2.4 Black and white 3 Producers' commentary 4 See also

Occurrences

Game	Picture	Notes
Axis and Allies wikipedia or Risk wikipedia		Locke was seen playing a board game, during lunchbreak, with one of his colleagues. The game appeared to consist of a Risk board and generic plastic army men, but is probably meant to strongly resemble Axis and Allies. ("Walkabout") A similar game was played by Locke, Sawyer, and Hurley at the Barracks. This was the 2005 "library" edition of the game with triangular blocks rather than figurines of soldiers. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Backgammon wikipedia		Locke claimed Backgammon is a better game than Checkers, dating back 5,000 years. ("Pilot, Part 2") Locke was referring to the Mesopotamian Royal Game of Ur, which is also related to the Egyptian game of senet. Locke explained the rules of Backgammon to Walt, mentioning that "There are two players. One side is light, and one side is dark." ("Pilot, Part 2") Walt was seen beating Hurley, even though Hurley claimed he was once ranked 17th in a tournament. Hurley lost $83,000 through his Backgammon games with Walt, who doesn't know that Hurley is good for the money. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") Locke and Charlie played it on the beach, to which Locke brought up Charlies heroin addiction. ("Abandoned") Kate was playing it by herself. ("Left Behind") Locke and Sawyer played it while Locke asked if the group still had confidence in him. ("Eggtown") Even as a child, Locke liked Backgammon. ("Cabin Fever") In the non-canonical novel Endangered Species, Locke finds the backgammon set with Faith.
Baseball main article wikipedia		Christian Shephard's catchphrase was about the Boston Red Sox never winning the World Series. ("Outlaws") Ben shows the Red Sox winning the World Series on the Hydra television to Jack. ("The Glass Ballerina") Jack asks Frank Lapidus if the Red Sox won the World Series. Frank says he doesn't want to talk about it because he bleeds "Yankee blue". ("The Economist") One of Richard Alpert's objects that he uses to administer a test to John Locke is a baseball glove. ("Cabin Fever")
Chess main article wikipedia		Henrik and Mathias are seen playing chess in the listening station ("Live Together, Die Alone") Locke finds a computer that allows him to play chess against an automated opponent in the Flame Station. Mikhail claims the computer cannot be beat, but Locke manages to unlock the Flame video by winning a game. ("Enter 77") The board setup is taken from an actual game, a 1985 world championship match between Karpov and Kasparov that became known as the "Brisbane Bombshell" People in the background of Sayid's Paris cafe are playing chess. (Image) ("Enter 77") Pryce is playing chess with Luke when Ben orders him to go get the Losties ("Greatest Hits") Mikhail is playing chess with Richard Alpert. ("Through the Looking Glass") Each player in chess starts with 16 pieces. A chess board is 8 squares by 8 squares, half light, half dark. "MacCutcheon" is a name of a prominent brand of Scotch in Lost; it is also a variation of the French Defence opening in chess [1][2] [3] [4] [5]. Chess is the central theme of "King of the Castle". Ben and Jack are playing, and Ben is victorious after playing a "castle". In "The Beginning of the End", Matthew Abaddon sits in front of a chess board. While in the mental institution, Hurley plays a chess game against "Mr. Eko." ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3") In Lost: Via Domus, Elliot finds a chessboard amongst the wreckage.
Connect Four wikipedia		Connect Four was the game played by Leonard Simms at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. It appears he was playing both colors, while chanting the Numbers over and over again. ("Numbers") Hurley was playing Connect Four at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute in "The Beginning of the End". When a player places 4 pieces in a straight line vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, he wins the game. Connect Four has 42 possible positions to put pieces in.
Crossword puzzles main article wikipedia		Shannon worked on a crossword puzzle on the beach. ("Walkabout") Shannon worked on a crossword puzzle in the airport. ("Exodus, Part 1") Locke worked on a crossword puzzle in the Swan. ("Collision") Jack had a crossword puzzle in his car. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
Football wikipedia		Jack played American football with Tom during his time with the Others. ("Par Avion")
Golf wikipedia		Hurley set up a golf course. ("Solitary") Desmond borrows a golf club from Paulo, and offered some advice. Paulo enquired if Desmond played golf, to which Desmond responded 'I'm Scottish.' (the St. Andrews golf course in Scotland is considered the spiritual home of golf). ("Every Man for Himself") Jin had a psychological breakdown on the golfcourse, after which the Losties decided to quit golf for a while. ("Jin Has a Temper-Tantrum on the Golf Course") Sayid meets and kills Mr. Avellino while playing golf on a private course in the Seychelles. ("The Economist")
Horseshoes wikipedia		Hurley defeats Sawyer at a game of horseshoes at the barracks due to his superior luck. ("The Other Woman")
I Never main article wikipedia		Kate and Sawyer played I never. ("Outlaws")
Mouse Trap wikipedia		Locke demonstrated the game Mouse Trap to a child before catching a glimpse of his mother. ("Deus Ex Machina") A Mouse Trap game (box upside down) was seen in front of the window Kate was staring at in the barracks rec room. ("Left Behind") On a Mouse Trap board, every third space contains only the number 23 (really a juxtaposition of 2&3) and every third space contains the numbers 23 and 4
Ping-Pong wikipedia		A ping-pong table was shown in the Swan station. ("The Long Con") A ping-pong table was mentioned in a notebook read by Kate. ("Live Together, Die Alone") Sawyer challenged Hurley to a match to win his stash back. Hurley wins the game. ("Enter 77") A match between Sawyer and Hurley is interrupted by Nikki. ("Exposé") Sawyer plays Jack after his return from the Others' camp, joking that they have to do so every 108 minutes or the island will explode. ("Catch-22")
Poker wikipedia		Boone was wearing a shirt with four aces on it. ("Homecoming") Sawyer, Hurley, Kate and Jack all engaged in a game of Texas Hold 'Em in which Jack won the medical supplies back from Sawyer. They used the DHARMA Initiative playing cards from the Swan station. ("Lockdown")
Football (Assoc. Soccer) wikipedia		Sayid and Essam played football in the park. ("The Greater Good") Young Eko and Yemi are seen playing football before the militia crime lords came to the village. ("The 23rd Psalm") Desmond watches a football game in a pub twice (with fictional team 'Graybridge' playing), predicting the outcome both nights & getting it right once. Actually the images belong to a game between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid from Spain's La Liga. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") Ruth tells Desmond, "We dated for six years, and the closest you ever came to a religious experience was Celtic winning the cup." ("Catch-22")

Minor occurrences

• Basketball

• The patients at Santa Rosa played basketball. ("Dave")
• Kevin Callis wore a NBA Miami Heat logo T-shirt. ("I Do")
• The neighbors across the street of the Reyes in Hurley's childhood scene were playing basketball. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• Jack and Hurley play a game of HORSE, a variant of basketball, at Santa Rosa. ("The Beginning of the End")

• Pool

• Sawyer met Kilo at a pool hall. ("Confidence Man")
• Ana Lucia tracked down Jason McCormack in a bar containing a pool table. ("Collision")
• Kate was held prisoner by the Others at the Barracks in a rec room containing a pool table, foosball table, and two pinball machines ("The Man from Tallahassee")
• Efren Salonga is a possib;e reference to Efren "Bata" Reyes, a professional Filipino billiards/pool player.("Jughead")

• Foosball

• A foosball table was visible (Image) in the toy store breakroom as Frainey visits Locke ("Deus Ex Machina"), as well as the room in the Barracks where Kate is held prisoner by the Others ("The Man from Tallahassee") which also contains a pool table and pinball machines.
• A foosball table was in the rec room where Kate was held prisoner by the Others at the Barracks ("The Man from Tallahassee")

• Darts

• A dartboard is also in the Barrack's rec room when Benjamin and Sayid are being held by Locke.("The Economist") It's pattern is in Black and White.
• There is a dartboard and darts in the Swan station which become magnetically attracted towards the electro magnetic force behind the wall of the station at the end of Series 2.

• Sawyer calls the Island "Monkey Island," a possible reference to LucasArts' series of computer adventure games. ("Pilot, Part 1")
• Walt was frequently seen playing fetch with Vincent.
• A Brisbane Broncos rugby league team poster is seen in Claire and Thomas' apartment. ("Raised by Another")
• Boone is seen wearing an old jersey of the Italian national football team. ("Hearts and Minds")
• Ice hockey can be seen played as Hurley quickly surfs between television channels during a flashback. ("Numbers")
• Sayid's acquaintances, Yusef and Haddad, were playing Half-Life, when he first met them when taken to their apartment by Essam. They were playing the 2001 Playstation 2 version of the game. ("The Greater Good")
• Sanjay is apparently playing a video game when Kate arrives at the front desk of the motel. ("Born to Run")
• Walt played with a Game Boy Advance SP. ("Exodus, Part 1")
• Locke compared the removal of the dynamite to the game Operation. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• Old Scooter Man wore a gambling themed baseball cap. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• A dart board was shown in the Swan station.
• Sawyer compared the Swan computer to the video game Donkey Kong. ("The Long Con")
• While residing at Santa Rosa, Libby is seen seated at a table with a Mancala set in front of her. ("Dave")
• Sawyer boxed in prison. ("Every Man for Himself")
• Desmond is accidentally struck by a cricket bat. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
• Two pinball machines can be seen in the Barracks recreation room. One is the 1999 "Revenge From Mars", the other is the 1988 "Cyclone." When we visit the Barracks later in "LaFleur," purportedly in 1974, the "Cyclone" machine is visible, though it shouldn't even exist yet.
• Some residents of the Barracks were playing volleyball at the time of the Purge. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
• Keamy is seen on the freighter skeet shooting. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
• Sawyer and Hurley played blackjack in ("Fire + Water").

Recurring themes

The metagame

• Desmond warns Jack that Ben and Eloise are playing some kind of game, and that the survivors are just the pieces. ("The Other Woman")
• The interactions between Ben and Widmore are governed by a set of rules. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
• Jacob's conversation with his nemesis in the beginning of The Incident suggest that the two are playing by the same rules. ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2")

Games as a metaphor

“

"I like to use the baseball metaphor which is, you can go to a baseball game and if you don't know a lot about baseball, I think you can enjoy it on one level as a casual viewer and you can enjoy it on a much deeper level as a regular viewer". -- Carlton Cuse in the "Lost Survivor Guide"

”

• Operation: Locke told Jack "I'm removing the driest pieces to minimize our risk transporting it. You ever play Operation?"

  Metaphor: The removal of the dynamite was compared to the tenseness of the game of Operation.

• Mouse Trap: Locke said "One by one, you build the trap - shoe, bucket, tub - piece by piece it all comes together. And then you wait 'til your opponent lands here on the old cheese wheel. And then if you set it up just right, you spring the trap."

• Metaphor: Locke's description of Mouse Trap mirrored the con Locke's father orchestrated to steal Locke's kidney, and in a more general sense, the ongoing con of Locke by Jacob's nemesis, giving him faith in the island in order to occupy his body and kill Jacob.

• Poker: In "Lockdown", Jack pretended to have a great poker hand, but Sawyer didn't believe him. In the same episode, Ben told Locke that he typed in the Numbers into the Swan Computer.

• Metaphor: Jack's bluffing in Poker was mirrored in his successful ploy to outwit Sawyer, and in Ben's ploy to lie to Locke

• Baseball: Christian Shephard told Sawyer "You are suffering. But, don't beat yourself up about it. It's fate. Some people are just supposed to suffer. That's why the Red Sox will never win the damn series."

  Metaphor: The futility of Sawyer trying to end his own suffering was compared with the futility of the Red Sox trying to win a World Series. (see also: Irony)

The Numbers

The games have references to the Numbers:

• The objective of Connect Four is to get 4 discs in a row on a plane of 42 holes.
• Backgammon consists of two sets of 15 checkers. There are 4 sets of six playable spaces. A die has six numbers on it, the same amount of Numbers there are. The doubling cube has the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32 on it (which is 23 backwards). The most number of spaces (without being taken out of play) a piece can move if the player is not yet able to take their pieces off the board (which requires all the player's pieces to be in the last six spaces on their side is 23.
• Each player in chess starts with 16 pieces on an 8 by 8 grid.

Black and white

Several games are depicted or described as black and white:

• Locke specifically describes the pieces on a Backgammon board as "One side is light, and one side is dark". The playable spaces on the board also alternate with one being light and one being dark. The dice are white and the dots on them are black.
• The pieces on a chess board are black and white.
• The crossword puzzles are depicted as a grid of black and white squares.

Producers' commentary

• In an interview[6] with Entertainment Weekly, writer/executive producer Damon Lindelof defended writing decisions for the show using a game-based analogy:

“

I feel like we're playing a chess game. In the first six moves, we've lost our queen and two bishops, and the audience is saying 'They are the worst chess players in the world!' What they don't realize is that we're nine moves away from checkmating you. If we lose, we lose. But that's the play, and we're standing by it.

”

See also

• Counter-Strike: Source map
• The Lost Experience
• Myst
• Outside references to Lost - by the games: PvP Online's Lost Role Playing Game, Ctrl+Alt+Del's parody of Command & Conquer 3, The Impossible Quiz web game, the game "Desert Island" in The Office, Half-Life 2

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Contents 1 History 2 Paraphernalia 2.1 Equipment 3 Links 3.1 Discover and Discuss

History

History of character is unknown.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Pinball uses a rubber suit that assumes a large spherical shape. When inflated, his suit gives him enhanced durability and he moves by bouncing or rolling. He uses his suit to attempt to flatten opponents.

Links

• Appearances of Pinball (Earth-712)
• Character Gallery: Pinball (Earth-712)
• Images that feature Pinball (Earth-712)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Pinball (Earth-712)
• Quotations by Pinball (Earth-712) 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_%28comics%29
• http://members.tripod.com/kueijin_1/squadron.html

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From the RuneScape Wiki, the wiki for all things RuneScape

Pinball is a random event where the player is transported by the Mysterious Old Man to a strange room with five pillars that each have one rune on top and two trolls wielding large clubs. (Note that this random event happens frequently when teleporting.)

The object of the game is to tag each pillar that has glowing rings around it. This scores the player one point. After he or she scores ten points they are free to leave through the exit. If a pillar that doesn't have the glowing rings around it is tagged, the score is reset to zero and the player must try again. The five pillars contains five spinning huge rune-like thing of fire, water, earth, air and nature rune respectively.

If the player tries to leave before they reach ten points, the player will be teleported in front of the two trolls, Tilt and Flippa, who knock the player back onto the pillars, dealing them some damage. This has been adjusted by Jagex upon complainants such that they will no longer deal actual damage to players. If the trolls accidentally knock the player to the CORRECT pillar, the game will indicate the player hit the WRONG pillar and score is reset.

The random event has a glitch since Runescape HD and all dialogues in the random event are out of character animations. This has been fixed.

Sometimes, when you log out during this event and then log back in, for a split second you are able to view the map of this random event before it flashes away like it normally would. An image of this glitch/bug is shown below (Only the present map) This glitch has not been fixed, Although this might not be a bug, but instead a slow server response were the game client loads before the HD minimap is available to fully render in time before the full game load.

Rewards

Once players manage to complete the game they are transported back to where they were taken from and rewarded with a Random event gift. The music tune Pinball Wizard, is also unlocked (see List of music).

Reward

Random event gift

Context of Theme

This random event is themed on Pinball, an arcade game. The trolls are named after features of the machine - "tilt" is when players cheat by physically moving the machine to steer the ball (and the mechanism that detects this), and the two flippers are used to deflect the ball back into the playing field when it rolls out of play (see also Glossary of pinball terms at Wikipedia).

The tune unlocked in this random event is named after Pinball Wizard, a song by The Who.

The random event's former location can be seen using the Orb of Oculus.

v • d • e Random events
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Discontinued	Big fish • Candlelight • Dr. Ford • Drunken Dwarf • Ent • Evil Chicken • Exploding rock • Jekyll and Hyde • Lost Pirate • Poison Gas • Rick Turpentine • Rock Golem • Security Guard • Shade • Strange plant • Swarm • Tangle Vine • Tree spirit • Watchman • Whirlpool • Zombie