Do you have a weekly social activity?
Like Tuesday night drinks with the girls, or Thursday karaoke night etc?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Coralmist Skittles (plural)
An ancient game most often found in English pubs, and then much more in Southern England than the North. It is usually played by teams in local leagues.
Also called Ninepins, it is the progenitor of the American game, Ten-pin Bowling, but without all the razzmatazz, machinery, formal designs, electronic scoring, etc.
The skittles themselves are the wooden pins, nine arranged in a diamond formation marked on the alley, and spaced so a badly-aimed ball can pass between their columns, or between the outermost pin and the side-board of the alley, without knocking any pins over.
It's even possible to miss completely with all three balls in one "hand" (turn) so score 0 points in that hand... which is embarrassing :-).
The hardwood ball is a large hand-size, smaller than the Ten-pin one, and without finger-holes.
The fallen skittles are cleared from the alley between each throw, the formation rebuilt and the three balls returned for the next hand, entirely manually, by players or helpers.
There are a few subtleties that can vary from area to area, but there are few rules on the alley size, as it often has to fit the room rather than the room made to fit some "standard" length. So some alleys can be very long, though I recall one so short even our best players took two or three "hands" to judge it correctly.
An ancient game most often found in English pubs, and then much more in Southern England than the North. It is usually played by teams in local leagues.
Also called Ninepins, it is the progenitor of the American game, Ten-pin Bowling, but without all the razzmatazz, machinery, formal designs, electronic scoring, etc.
The skittles themselves are the wooden pins, nine arranged in a diamond formation marked on the alley, and spaced so a badly-aimed ball can pass between their columns, or between the outermost pin and the side-board of the alley, without knocking any pins over.
It's even possible to miss completely with all three balls in one "hand" (turn) so score 0 points in that hand... which is embarrassing :-).
The hardwood ball is a large hand-size, smaller than the Ten-pin one, and without finger-holes.
The fallen skittles are cleared from the alley between each throw, the formation rebuilt and the three balls returned for the next hand, entirely manually, by players or helpers.
There are a few subtleties that can vary from area to area, but there are few rules on the alley size, as it often has to fit the room rather than the room made to fit some "standard" length. So some alleys can be very long, though I recall one so short even our best players took two or three "hands" to judge it correctly.
