Quoted from undrdog:I am working on a Williams Hi-Hand. I got it just to have a project, with no intent to keep it. (The seller was within a mile of me and the price was right.) But this thread has me excited to see how good I can get on it.
Poker theme. No moving cards, no special features. Just get the balls in the right holes for a dime. No credits, no payoff chart. For Amusement Only? I guess when the player wins they call the proprietor over for a beer or payoff.
Hard to see how it could be an exciting game compared to other bingos, but one has a local tax sticker from 1975 and one from 1980 so they were in use for a long time. Someone must have been dropping dimes into them.
Basically these machines (Besides Williams High Hand, Bally had Twin Joker and Joker's Wild) were "For Amusement Only" but meant for two players to shoot five balls apiece and each get a poker hand that lights up on the backglass. High hand wins a bet between players, Beer, a dollar ($5 these days, "It's only five dollars") etc.