RE: Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP) -- RPG400-L

Yes, except that candle pin bowling used 9 pins, in a diamond formation, (1,
2, 3, 2, 1 IIRC) and the pins were tall and slim.  The ball size sounds
about right.  
  (did a little candle pin bowling when I was stationed in Massachusetts
years and years (and years and years) ago)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: York, Albert [SMTP:albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 12:12 PM
> To:   'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject:      RE: Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP)
> 
> It sounds very similar to candlepin bowling, except for the shape of the
> pins.
> 
> I used to candlepin bowl when I was a kid growing up in Northern Maine,
> very
> close to the Canadian border.
> 
> 
> Albert York                          
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Dan [SMTP:dbcerpg@xxxxxxxxx]
>       Sent:   Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:31 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
> 
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