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| ===== Bowling Ideas ===== | ===== Bowling Ideas ===== | ||
| + | This article has ideas I thought about while practicing and competing in ten-pin non-string bowling: a fortune-cookie type game depending on how well you do in each frame of a game, and a ton of silly terms for specific situations on the lane and pin results that I never heard anyone else make a name for. | ||
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| This page was originally [[bowlframename|Bowling Frame Names]] but then I came up with other bowling ideas and opted to group them together, inclusive of that page. | This page was originally [[bowlframename|Bowling Frame Names]] but then I came up with other bowling ideas and opted to group them together, inclusive of that page. | ||
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| - | Without so much as calling it a kind of divination or horoscope, I wanted to turn it into a kind of silly kids-gimmick type game, like an origami fortune-teller game. The basic idea is that each frame is broken up into 10 elements of a fictional character' | + | Without so much as calling it a kind of divination or horoscope, I wanted to turn it into a kind of silly kids-gimmick type game, like an origami fortune-teller game. The basic idea is that one frame each corresponds to one of 10 elements of a fictional character' |
| ^ SCORE ^ 1: Childhood ^ 2: School ^ 3: Friends ^ 4: First Job ^ 5: Fun ^ 6: Romance ^ 7: Career ^ 8: Success ^ 9: Retirement ^ 10: Cemetery ^ | ^ SCORE ^ 1: Childhood ^ 2: School ^ 3: Friends ^ 4: First Job ^ 5: Fun ^ 6: Romance ^ 7: Career ^ 8: Success ^ 9: Retirement ^ 10: Cemetery ^ | ||
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| | Right Oof | Leaving 2-5-7-10 standing; from above looks like a face saying " | | Right Oof | Leaving 2-5-7-10 standing; from above looks like a face saying " | ||
| | Left Oof | Leaving 3-5-7-10 standing; from above looks like a face saying " | | Left Oof | Leaving 3-5-7-10 standing; from above looks like a face saying " | ||
| - | | Sandcastle | Leaving 4 pins in a square, such as 1-2-3-5, or 2-4-5-8 | | + | | Sandcastle | Leaving 4 pins in a square, such as 1-2-3-5, or 2-4-5-8 |
| | Hole Punch | Getting the middle pin only, out of a set of 3, such as hitting the 5 from a 2-5-8, making the frame score be 7 and 1 at the top | | | Hole Punch | Getting the middle pin only, out of a set of 3, such as hitting the 5 from a 2-5-8, making the frame score be 7 and 1 at the top | | ||
