RE: Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP)

We'll probably get h!@# for being off topic but -

The head pin is worth 5 the next 2 worth three and the back ones worth 2 for
a total of 15. A strike is 15 and carries two. a spare carries 1. 3 "gutter"
balls in a row mean that you should probably take up snow-skiing in Canada
in July. The new math makes a perfect game worth 450. 312 is still one
helluva score. The balls are much smaller and you throw 'em harder (unless
you're Andre Morisette who threw back-handed with what we call English -
don't know what he called it - he was French Canadian). Back in the old days
they actually had kids sitting back there to re-set the pins. Sometimes they
scrambled to git the H!@# outta the way. I think my dad threw them at about
90 MPH. It's a fun Canadian game (like basketball). 

Sorry David - I'll back off now.

Gord Royle


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan [mailto:dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:31 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP)


You don't know what yer missin' dude!  

About the only thing that's the same is that the lane has the same
dimensions as 10-pin.  The ball
is slightly bigger than a softball (no finger holes), about 4 pounds (IIRC),
you get up to THREE
shots per frame (all down on 1st ball is a strike, if you do it in two balls
its a spare, and if
you need three shots it's just count).  The pin configuration --- hmmm,
think of the 1-7-10 and
put a pin between the 1 & 7 and a pin between the 1 & 10.  The pins are
shorter and, I think,
fatter.  Hans, do they have the big rubber bands around the belly?  I
forget.  Also, I think the
head pin, the middle pins, and the corner pins have different values (5, 3,
2, respectively???,
Hans?)  Scorekeeping is a little more challenging, but I suppose its all in
what you're used to.

Beer Frame?  Think Canadian beer, eh?  (You know, where the water is
colder...  or is it
"cleaner"?)

Check out http://www.cvnet.net/burnstd/tech.htm

One of the Google sites I checked claims that there are no 5-pin alleys in
the states, but I
thought I'd heard that there were a few.  No problem for me, as I'm close to
the border.  Word of
advice:  Don't bowl 5-pin just before your 10-pin bowling night.  (Think
ball weight difference.)

- Dan

--- Richard B Baird <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Five pin bowling?  new math Hans?
> 
> i've bowled nearly all of my life, and never heard of such an animal.
> 
> 10 pin standard "amerkin kegglin" for me baybee    BEER FRAME!  ;)
> 
> rick

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo
http://search.yahoo.com
_______________________________________________
This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list
To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpg400-l
or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.