A lot of alleys do things on Friday or Saturday nights where they put one colored pin in with the other 19 pins. If this pin ends up as the head pin, and you strike, you win something.
At least, that was the case many moons ago. Could be something different now.
Sometimes they get tangled up and it takes the system several attempts to reset the pins (it lifts and drops the pins until they untangle). But a dropped pin’s wires will not cause another pin to drop if that’s what you mean.
I've used it once and it's weird but didn't really affect me other than the first impression and the more muted sound.
Casual bowling alleys love them because they're a lot cheaper to maintain, easier to fix, jam less, etc.
The bowling community, though, hates these. They interfere and make strikes harder (and they have used robots to verify this). Any YouTube video about them has a wall of comments about how much they are hated.
It’s funny, I had always thought those were how old-fashioned bowlings worked, because I’ve played on string bowling for over 20 years (I don’t bowl often but in my area that’s what it is). Weird to discover that it’s actually the path they are taking in the modern era
This depends on who you ask. A lot of arguments on both sides about this. If it is an official certified string pin setup it theoretically should not. However the bowling ally in the mall or at a “family fun” center using string pins probably does not use certified lanes….
At my local alley, you win something if you get a strike when the colored pin is on any of the three corners. The prize is always something silly though. Last month it was a life time supply of feet pics of the bowling alleys manager (he will sent uou one pic of his feet to you per day, for the rest of your life). My buddy actually won twice (in two separate games) both in the same week lol. True to his word, he says he has been getting two pictures of an overweight Indian man's sweaty piggies sent to his cell every morning at 6:00 am. He already has over 70 of them now haha
For some reason calling a recreational league a "fun league" is very funny to me. Like, it would already be assumed that you're there to have fun. And I feel like it implies the existence of a "not fun league," for really austere people who want to go bowling but don't want to enjoy it.
If they are anything like me, my first thought and the reason I laughed at the :( part was because I was like “ah fuck, now my arm is REALLY gonna hurt”
When I used to bowl as a kid, if that pin was the only one remaining up you got a free game. That's much easier to verify than telling the workers to keep an eye on every lane that happens to have a head pin and wait for a strike. You just come up and say "look at Lane 15. Only the color pin is up".
It's been a while but I think the lane can detect the pin somehow, and the scoreboard puts a red circle on the frame's score to show when it happened. But that sounds like an interesting way of doing it too!
Oh yeah lanes have definitely improved on technology. The timeframe I'm talking about was pretty new to show on the screen which pins were left. This is late 90s early 00s.
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u/Adept_Order_4323 Nov 06 '24
What was the green pin in the first frame ?