Congrats on your find! It seems like the value on shuffle bowls vary widely based on condition, game play and the local market. The ones made in the 50s have the classic styling but the later games in the 60s and 70s generally have regulation scoring and other game features not found on some of the earlier games.

I think the main reason the values vary so much is same reason yours is in your garage. They take up a lot of real estate in a game room and so the pool of buyers tends to be small. I’ve been getting creative with my game room over the last few months (painters tape on the floor and all) trying to figure out how to make one work. I would love to find a nice original 50s shuffle alley.

In any case, there have been other threads where people found games like yours for free or super cheap and invested the time into them. Haven’t seen one yet who said it wasn’t worth it. Most brag on how it’s the most popular game in their lineup. If it was complete and unmolested, I would have a hard time not digging into it. Very few games in this hobby are “investment grade”.

Good luck!

Under the Pin Hood is the Pin Reset Relay. Check if that's continuously energized.
If not, running off of the Pin Reset motor cam is the run-out switch which should
open after the motor finishes its reset revolution. Make sure those set of switches
are opening when the lower switch drops into the cam's notch.
If all looks okay, the motor may be over running itself. You'll want to make sure
the motor's armature pushes in and springs back out freely. On C.C. Ball Bowlers,
the cam has a spring to prevent it's momentum to over-ride the run-out switch.
I'm pretty sure your machine should have this spring also. You'll want to check
if a spring is on the cam, and if not, check if there's (kinda like) a hook where a
spring could/would be attached..

I like my puck bowler. My basement line-up allows me to fit it in.

With that being an EM, a good clean-up should get you operational. Because of the space it takes up, it would be hard to put a value on it.

As others said shuffle bowlers don't demand high prices. Em games seem to be in the 600-1000ish range and the solid state games 1000-1800 range. Some specific games are more desirable and will get higher prices, and condition is a big factor too of course.

The shuffle bowlers are great fun, especially when you have multiple players.

You should be able to get the shuffle alley in your house as they usually come apart fairly easily. I'm not familiar with your specific model but often the head comes off after unplugging the connectors, then the pin bank comes off, and finally the alley comes apart from the base. Legs can come off or not as needed. Each section is usually mounted with 3 or 4 bolts similar to an em pinball head.

I've moved many alleys up and down stairwells with much less issue than late model pinballs or video games. No need to leave it in your garage (which won't do it any favors) unless you physically don't have any room in your basement for it.

I had to take the handrail going down into the basement off. The playfield was one long 14' section. It went from the door then down and over the steps. It is simple, fun and a good addition to my setup.

Can you set up the head so it's located between joists? Maybe cheat an extra inch of free clearance by taking of any leg levelers.

marco specialties has the schematic for chicago coin americana.

other shuffle bowlers made around 1968 are probably similar, so anyone with paperwork for those games can likely help ya out with specific problems.

the game won't reset properly if the score reels don't zero, so you want to get at least the player 1 score reels working well and manually get the other players reels to zero if necessary. Don't do multiplayer until the games work for 1 player.