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

["Pete Clifford" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like what we in England call skittles or ninepins.

Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson, Duane" <djohnson=8/kGoPNjAyx43Gfn1vWHeA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.as400.rpg
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: RE: Bowling 5-pin (was Re: %TLOOKUP)


> 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=t/p/90W5L9KXzmuOJsdVMQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 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=/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > 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=L8almxsl63Uyzzc7d281tvpXobYPEAuW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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