How does a coin-op pool table work?

The Scratch Secret of Automated Pool Machines – Play89

If you have ever played pool on a coin-operated table, this question would sound familiar to you: how can the table know to return the cue ball after a scratch? What’s in the coin-op pool tables, as opposed to classic pool tables, that cause it to tell the white cue ball from the numbered billiard balls?


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