low production game. cant say not popular with route guys. weren't enough made to be all over like taf.
also was coming towards the end of the good days of operating pins. AFM and MM etc and all others in that time era or after for the next few years till Williams went "by by" had more units made.
could also say the same for cactus canyon "not being popular with the route guys". bcuz low production there as well. price pends condition as with any game and its not as easily seen as a normal price since few of them sell over the past years. look at pricing of games like tftc, wh20 or congo NOW compared to 2 years ago. way more than prices 2 years ago or prior.

Its a decent game. Super popular with none pin people that come over and end up playing some of my machines. Popular with pinheads for novelty and rarity but that fades away.

Ive still never gone through and closed every case. I couldnt even tell you if there was a wizard mode or not haha.

Slots and roulette are cool features. The chase hurry up is fun to start case multiball. Neat easter eggs like midnight madness.

Downfall comes in repetition of how it plays. The elevator takes up a bunch of real estate on the shot map. So its like flippers, ramp, flippers, ramp, unless you purposely shoot for ramp and orbit.

Overall its a fun game. It was my first and its never left. But, my collection has gotten a bit bigger. In a one pin collection it could get old fast, every game can get stale as a single collection though.

If you find one and its not stupidly priced I would give it a shot. You should be able to sell it again off rarity alone if it ends up not being your cup of tea.

It's actually quite fun, but also extremely unbalanced and not suited for competition play. There's one on route in my area. My feeling is that it doesn't have a ton of staying power. Extra balls are pretty easy and you can effectively play forever if you just go for those. Definitely unique, I really dig the mechanical slot machine reels as well as the elevator inverted scoop thing in the middle, the "solve the mystery" ruleset is also really unique but isn't implemented that well. Not a lot of flow unless you're in one of the elevator modes that let you slam the center ramp and return to the flippers. Not really anything in the way of combos. If you've played it a bit in on the pinball arcade then you probably have a decent feel for the ruleset, it doesn't get much more complicated than figuring out which floor does what.

They also played it recently on the PAPA live broadcast and they discuss it a bit there.

Ive had no reel issues. But, I bought the game without the issues and they, knock on wood, have never popped up.

Cant really help with pricing as I bought mine so long ago and prices were way different back then. My guess would probably be in around 1800 low end and lower 2000s for a nicer one. But, im in California and all prices are a bit higher here. Thats just a thrown out range too based on a couple recent W?Ds and what they were posted for and appreciation from when I bought mine.

Agree slots are no issue ,there are inexpensive replacement motors for slots but ramps are not available . I think price depends on area and condition the1800 to low 2s seems average $. There are some issues with paint chipping around inserts . Like most games from era game dfficulty can be changed through settings. Great game thats underrated once you play enough games it's fun to progress to catching killer also midnight madness is great feature

I would pay into the mid 2's for one of these. Anyone have one in the west let me know.

Owned it for 6 months lack of wizard mode kills it for me. Yeah u can set it up harder, but in a game where it's catch the killer and solve the case I want to do that and get rewarded when I solve all the cases. This isn't going to happen. Best bet solve two or three cases and start hitting the roulette wheel. Was my first DMD and again no wizard mode kills the game.

I love Who Dunnit when it's in my local route rotation. I agree with a lot of the above, especially that games can get long and the scoring isn't very balanced (roulette 100% makes or breaks your game if you play). One thing to note about the TPA version is that the elevator ramp rejects shots a lot more than the real game, at least the one I play. It's also a bit harder to aim for left/center/right in TPA. On the machine, you can nail the elevator ramp all day if you wanted to.