Name a machine traditionally operated by inserting coins.

Why these answers count

Almost two hundred entries were accepted, so the point spread measures inventiveness far more than correctness. The lone 100-point entry was a named novelty device made on the spot at a single attraction, so particular that virtually nobody else could have landed on the same wording. The wide 85-point band sits in the productive middle: utility variants, timed appliances, devices releasing very specific goods, coin-activated services attached to odd venues. Each describes something verifiable and unmistakable, yet few enough players thought of it that duplication stayed rare. The 60-point group rewards the answers that arrive first — the famous entertainments and the widely known service machines that hundreds of people type within the same minute. Nothing about those is wrong; they are simply common, and popularity is exactly what the scoring penalises. The practical lesson is that specificity and mild strangeness beat fame: a retired, regional or oddly narrow device separates you from the crowd, while the household-name example only confirms what everyone already wrote.