Hot Tip

A photographed electro-mechanical playfield seen flat-on, with a Western horse-racing theme in hot pink, olive green, mustard yellow and cream. Across the top arc, rollover lanes carry the values 5000, 10000 and 30000 either side of a large keyhole-shaped window reading ADVANCE BONUS COLLECT VALUE, with a red SHOOT AGAIN panel at upper left and a cream panel at upper right. Below, HORSESHOE is spelled out in white-outlined red capitals on a curved banner, flanked by 10000 and 30000 scoring panels and a round white-and-red target disc reading EXTRA BALL. On the left a pink stagecoach pulled by two pink horses with a driver in a red shirt stands beside a signpost; on the right a cowboy on a rearing brown horse faces a woman in a long pink dress beside a wooden building with a painted sign. A large pink circular dome ringed with small horseshoe pegs sits at the centre. The lower playfield is a symmetrical yellow chevron carrying lit 1, 2 and 3 circles, a central line of drop targets reading 100000, and SPECIAL WHEN LIT ovals on both side lanes. A metal apron at the foot carries INSTRUCTIONS, FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY, NOT FOR RESALE and a blue Williams signature.

A horse-racing themed backglass with a cream and pale yellow sky behind a black silhouetted city skyline of blocky towers. Across the upper right runs the main title HOT TIP in large pink-and-white block capitals with a dark outline, and at top centre-left a small cursive script logo reads Williams. Five separate mechanical score reels sit in dark rectangular windows across the art: one at upper left reading 1158000, three stacked down the right side reading 0000000, and two small reels low centre reading 02 and 00. Four circular position markers labelled 1ST UP, 2ND UP, 3RD UP and 4TH UP in blue block letters on pale discs are scattered between the reels. Lower left, four racehorses thunder round a curved green-and-white rail, each with a jockey crouched low in coloured silks - pink, red, yellow and green - leaning forward with reins taut. On the right, four spectators lean over a white railing: a dark-haired woman in a green top, a blonde woman in a striped pink-and-white top with her arm raised, and two more figures beside them. A pink-and-white chequered ball and green-and-pink racing silks fill the bottom right corner. Bottom left a pale circle reads AMUSEMENT.

A wide, landscape-format backglass printed as a cartoon horse-racing scene. A dark skyline of blocky skyscrapers with dotted lit windows runs across the upper third against a cream sky, with a huge orange-red block-letter title outlined in cream and drop-shadowed in black at the top right, and a cursive script maker wordmark with a circular emblem beside it at top centre-left. Four horizontal rows of pale cream score reels, each numbered by a coloured arrow badge reading 1ST UP, 2ND UP, 3RD UP and 4TH UP, stack down the right half. The left half shows a pack of racehorses galloping rightwards on a teal-green turf: a chestnut horse with a red-clothed jockey in yellow silks, a black horse with a red-and-black jockey, a white-and-brown horse, and a brown horse whose jockey wears a red-and-white striped top. A male rider in a red cap and shirt leans forward at the far left. Behind the rails, painted spectators wave from a grandstand, and three larger women in the lower right stand lean on the rail: one with black bobbed hair in a yellow gingham top, one blonde in a red patterned dress, one with long orange-red hair in a striped red-and-yellow top raising both arms. Bottom edge carries a huge striped racing-silk or umbrella shape in red, cream, green and gold. Style is flat comic-book line art with heavy black outlines and limited-colour printing.

Brightly coloured cartoon backglass on an orange background, split into two stacked scenes. The huge title HOT TIP sits at top right in tall cream-to-yellow block capitals with a dark outline and a pale highlight, next to a small circular logo with cursive lettering. Two rows of rectangular score windows (five on the upper right, four under the title, three lower right) are bordered in pale grey-green. Two teal ovals at upper left read 1 UP and 2ND UP; matching ovals lower down read 3RD UP and 4TH UP. The top scene shows a black city skyline silhouette with green trees and hedges against orange sky, and a green fairground or park pavilion filled with small crowd figures. The lower scene is a racecourse: four galloping horses with jockeys in silks, ridden left to right past a stand where three women and a child lean over a white railing. A red-and-white striped parasol and green turf fill the bottom, with a rainbow of yellow, blue and red balls along the lower edge. Flat airbrushed cartoon art with heavy black outlines.