Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP)

[Dan <dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

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