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Ten-Pin Bowling

 
Description: Sports: Bowling / Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport and recreation in which a player (the bowler) rolls a bowling ... more
Ten-Pin Bowling ... ball down a wooden or synthetic (polyurethane) lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible. The 41.5 inch (105 cm) wide, 60 foot (18 m) lane is bordered along its length by gutters - semicircular channels designed to collect errant balls which also pose an obstacle to advanced bowlers, because a straight ball cannot be rolled on a regulation lane at the angle required to consistently carry (knock down) all ten pins for a strike. Most skilful bowlers will roll a more difficult-to-control hook ball to overcome this. There is a foul line at the end of the lane nearest to the bowler: if any part of a bowler's body touches the lane side of this line after the ball is delivered (rolled), it is called a foul and no pins knocked over by that delivery are scored (The bowler is allowed a shot at a new rack of ten pins if he fouled on the first roll of a frame.). Behind the foul line is an approach approximately 15 feet (5 m) long used to gain speed and leverage on the ball before delivering it. 60 inches (152 cm) from the foul line, where the lane terminates, it is joined to a roughly 24 foot (7 m), 41.5 inch (105 cm) wide surface of durable and impact-resistant material called the pin deck where each rack of pins is set.

Newest Review: ... a waste especially for the the price. As I recall it was £10.50 per child and a minimum of 10 children require, so not a cheap party by any means. They provide very basic burger and chips, nuggets and chips sausage and chips meals within this price and provide you with jugs of squash. Children's parties are help ad specific times if you want the strobe lights on the alleys too. It's easy ... more

 ... to set the computer up for the game just type in the names of up to 6 players for each lane. You have the choice of having the side bumpers up or not (this stops the ball from going in the gully and gives the children a fair chance). Al the alleys se...more

cher_2004
Premium Review Ten-Pin Bowling: Bowling Parties didn't bowl me over (416 words)
by - written on 31/10/09 (Very useful, 24 readings)
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Tenpin Bowling, we have one in Exeter near my house. Its a place where kids often ask to go to and they enjoy having birthday parties there. I have been quite a few times over the years for children's parties etc, I have to say that the experience seems to be pretty much the same every time in the way that you have 2 purchase to games for a party and kids get bored and lose interest during the second game and I do feel that the second games is a bit of a waste especially for the the price. As I recall it was £10.50 per child and a minimum of 10 children require, so not a cheap party by any means. They provide very basic burger and chips, nuggets ...  Read the complete review

aksram
Premium Review Hollywood bowling- 1p during term holidays (465 words)
by - written on 31/05/09 (Very useful, 32 readings)
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I love bowling although I don't follow some of the rules and pointing system. All isee is the end results and who scored the highest- I'm not any kind of professional- I'm in it just for fun. Since it has been quite sunny from a couple of weeks, I have been looking at the web contancntly to see for some entertainment for my kid. I just bumped into the Hollywood bowling website which had bowling for just 1p during term holidays- what a bargain! What do you get for a penny these days? So I thought I'll take my son to it the next morning. Terms and conditions for 1p bowling- * This promotional rate is available for online bookings starting ...  Read the complete review

Mildew82
Crowned Review Ten-Pin Bowling: Knocked over by Bowling (1212 words)
by - written on 30/04/09 (Very useful, 191 readings)
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It always surprises me when I hear someone say they've never been ten pin bowling - to me it seems like one of those cheap options for a leisure activity to enjoy with your friends just like the cinema, but hey I suppose I've never tried skiing! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Rules ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The rules are fairly straightforward - a game is divided into 10 frames. Each player will get two goes per frame to lob a bowling ball down an alley in an attempt to knock ten pins over. There is a line from which the ball must be bowled behind and if you step over this ...  Read the complete review

Cammij
Premium Review My new obsession (1241 words)
by - written on 21/05/02 (Very useful, 198 readings)
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I am like the biggest bowler on Earth right now. And it just ain't from watching that movie kingpin. But I feel it is the best family recreation available, it is fun, easy to learn to play badly, exciting, and it is one of the few sports where you can hire all your equipment and certainly the only sport that has ashtrays and beer bottle holders properly fitted to the tables. How did I become a big time bowler in the past month? Actually it is a pretty far fetched tale. It started when I switched from the Engineers labour union to the Conductors/Shunters labour union (the BLE to the UTU) in ordere to save a few bob each month. But since the BLE had given ...  Read the complete review

quentin
Premium Review Ten-Pin Bowling: keep bowling bowling bowling bowling what  (325 words)
by - written on 07/12/01 (Useful, 136 readings)
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This mornign me and my friend went to a ten pin bowling alley and it was the first time that I had ever been to play bowling My friend has been lots before but my mum would never let me go before in case I was to lose my shoes The rules of the game is to use the ball to knock over the pins and then you get points onto the computer I thought that they were called skittles but my friend said quentin you sticky little man they are called pins and where you throw the ball that is called a lane and it is very slippy and that is why you have to wear a special kind of shoe that is red and blue When you walk in you wear your own shoes and then you pay 4£ to hire a lane ...  Read the complete review

 
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