Stoßpudel

Stoßpudel is an historical, south German and Austrian pinball game in which a ball is projected onto an inclined wooden playing board and falls into hollows or rolls into demarcated slots.

An 1834 Bavarian dictionary describes a Stoßpudel as a "portable bowling alley, roughly like a type of billiard table, onto which an ivory ball is struck with a stick.".

[1] Stoßpudel equipment consists of an inclined and framed wooden board, in which - similar to a pinball machine - a small steel or glass ball is inserted at the bottom right and fired by means of a spring plunger.

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 its bell.

If the ball rolls back into the launch channel due to insufficient traction, the player may repeat the shot.