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

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

LAST POST ON BOWLING FOR THIS LIST!  reply to cpf0000 (sorry david)

it sounds like the same configuration as what we call 'duck pin bowling'.
ball and pins are the same, but we use 10 pins, and conventional pin values
(1).

still, 3 balls per frame, a spare only counts after 2 balls.

I can only do duck pins once and a while for fun.  I have a big hook in
conventional bowling, and I can't make the transistion to throwing a
softball sized ball and controlling the hook.  but it is fun for a change
once in a while.

rick

------original message------
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"?)