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.

The player can regulate the force himself by pulling the spring plunger back a certain distance and thus setting the tension of the mainspring.

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