Anyone know of any places in this general area of North Carolina that have this kind of bowling?

11/30/2006 3:54:48 AM

omgoogle

11/30/2006 4:00:58 AM

Couldn't find anything on Google, but was makin sure no one knew of anything that just hadn't advertised on the net.

11/30/2006 4:19:48 AM

I thought this was mostly up north, but who knows

11/30/2006 8:25:37 AM

Never heard of this

11/30/2006 8:37:52 AM

it's miniature bowling basically

11/30/2006 8:40:14 AM

bttt

11/30/2006 8:44:40 PM

I've seen this once, and it was in Canada.

11/30/2006 8:51:59 PM

I prefer shotgun bowling.

11/30/2006 8:52:22 PM

is this the same thing as duck pin bowling? I remember seeing that on espn when I was a kid.

11/30/2006 10:59:56 PM

I've only heard of it being up north. Never heard of it anywhere down here....

11/30/2006 11:03:10 PM

first thing i found on wiki

Candlepin bowling is a variation of bowling that is confined to the New England states, and to the Canadian Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (with one isolated candlepin center in Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati). It was developed in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts by a local bowling alley owner, Justin White. As in other forms of bowling, the players roll balls down a wooden pathway to knock down as many pins as possible. The main differences between candlepin bowling and the predominant ten-pin bowling style are that each player uses three balls per frame (see below), the balls are much smaller and do not have holes, the fallen pins ('deadwood' or simply 'wood') are not cleared away between balls during a player's turn, and the pins are thinner, and thus harder to knock down. Because of these differences, scoring points is considerably more difficult than in ten-pin bowling, and the highest officially sanctioned score is only 245 out of a possible 300 points.

12/1/2006 1:12:10 PM

Quote :

"is this the same thing as duck pin bowling?"

no

12/1/2006 1:13:47 PM

i think there's only like 3 candlepin alleys left in the world. and they're all in one town in massachusetts

12/1/2006 1:44:07 PM

Richmond would be the closest city I can remember having duck pin bowling.

12/1/2006 1:49:57 PM

I remember folks talking about doing this up in Northern Minnesota when we were paddling the Mississippi last year. Those cats need alot to do for the 11.5 months of winter.

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12/1/2006 4:58:25 PM

candle pin sucks

that's all they had around my house when i lived in connecticut

there was like 3 candlepin lanes within 10 minutes of my house but the nearest 10 pin was 30 minutes

12/1/2006 5:00:35 PM

Duckpins also sucks. I accidentally walked into a duckpin alley and didn't realize it until I went to pick up a ball to throw... gave it a shot, but its nothing compared to good ol' ten pins...

But in NC, i think people are smart enough to leave these weird variants alone.

12/4/2006 3:43:00 PM

blasphemy! duckpin bowling is fantastic!

12/4/2006 3:46:56 PM

How would you like to be a pinmonkey at one of these joints

12/4/2006 5:28:21 PM

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"i think there's only like 3 candlepin alleys left in the world. and they're all in one town in massachusetts"

I've only seen them in Maine and New Brunswick.

12/4/2006 7:48:55 PM

They also have five pin in Canada, which is just fucking strange.

(And yes, I did see it on Degrassi.)

12/5/2006 12:56:31 AM