What '70s(or 80s) game is this?

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What game is this? I had it when I were a lad (from the 70s maybe early 80s) and I loved it, but I can't remember what is was called.

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You had ball bearings with a sort of skirt around them and you rolled them in the direction of the arrow. They then bounced round the elastic bands and down the other side. You had to get them as far down the other side as you could in oder to make points, but if they ended up in the pit, you got nothing.

(I don't know if they are the correct scores, I just made them up.)
 
i remebr the Mcdonalds version, where it was a arch shape and you used a small plastic flipper to shoot the metal ball up and try to land in the pockets.

kinda the same concept.
 
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I have a Dutch Sjoelbak board game. It's very similar to Bagatelle, (the snooker table kind), but it's more of a schuffleboard type of game than a table game.
 
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how the 🤬 do you play that?
You slide the wooden disks into the notches. Above the four notches, you see dots that are 1, 2, 3, or 4. For every disc you slide past a notch, you score those points. Get a disk into every notch, and you score twenty points. The one with the most points wins after several matches. It's basically a shuffleboard game you play with your hands. It's six feet long and you place it on a table.

So, if you get six discs into each notch, you'll have 120 points. Get six into all notches, but only one in the 4 notch, and you score only 50 points.

BTW, the score in the pic is 70 points. Three discs into each notch, plus the singles.
 
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