GC1PW3J FRAME 2 - TCs Bowling for Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Trove Chasers @ | Hide Date: 12/04/2009 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 50.274 W97° 04.878 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
         

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Five-pin Bowling is a bowling variant which is played only in Canada where most bowling alleys offer it.

In 1908, Thomas F. Ryan, a Canadian, wanted a bowling game that was quicker to play and more genteel. He felt the balls were too big and heavy, and there were too many pins making the game too long. Ryan, developed a smaller ball and used only 5 pins in his version of the game.

The balls in five-pin are small enough to fit in the hand and therefore have no finger holes. The ball used in 5-pin weighs about 3 pounds. They are about the size of a softball. There are no holes in the ball.

At the end of the lane there are five pins arranged in a V. In size they are midway between duckpins and ten-pins, and they have a heavy rubber band around their middles to make them move farther when struck. At first, bowling pins used in five-pin were made of plastic-coated maple. Today's pins are made of a hard plastic and often feature UV-glow capability for black light glow bowling operations. The neck stripes on plastic pins are actually a red plastic tape that wears off with use. There are only 5 pins to knock down as well. Each pin is assigned a points value. The headpin is worth 5 points, the next two pins on each side are worth 3 points, and the outside pins are valued at 2 points each, for a total of 15 points. Each bowler gets 3 balls per frame. Knocking all the pins down on your first ball is a strike, worth 15 points plus the value of your next 2 balls. If you knock all the pins down with your second shot it is called a spare and is worth 15 points plus the value of your next ball. Using your third shot to knock down final pins is worth only 15 points. A perfect game in 5-pin bowling is worth 450 points.

Bowling is a fun game that just about anybody can play. It's a great way for the family to get together and enjoy an afternoon. It's not difficult to learn and today most bowling centers have machines that handle all the scoring for you. All you have to do is throw the ball.

This cache is Frame 2 in our BOWLING FOR CACHE series, located in the Royalwood area in a park overlooking a fountain in the lake.. Each frame is an individual cache, in which you will find a log book, pencil and one die.Throw the die 3 times and log the color for each throw in your "Found Log" on geocaching .com. All scores will be kept track of on a score sheet and for each 25 cachers that complete all ten frames a 1st and 2nd prize, for highest BOWLING score, of an unactivated geocoin will be awarded.

*****THE GAME IS OVER....THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT BOWLED*****

****CONGRATULATIONS*****
AS OF AUGUST 13 THE 1ST 25 CACHERS TO COMPLETE ALL 10 FRAMES IN ORDER OF HIGHEST SCORE ARE:
Chewys
Sol3
Glacier Ice
Pabloo
Peter and Gloria
Memomydog
jbrandt36
Bergmanfamily
MHZ
Old Billygoat
OHMIC
ertyu
3T's&aG
Team Kare-a-cache
TracyAndrew
Curtis R
Geo-Indy
Markzsalmon
MuStash
Hikhik
jleecollins
Da Bowz
tracama
Ztirnats & Zad
Thirdbase
PRIZES OF A GEO COIN WILL BE SENT OUT SHORTLY TO Chewys and Sol3

****CONGRATULATIONS*****
IT TOOK ANOTHER YEAR FOR 15 ADDITIONAL CACHERS TO COMPLETE ALL 10 FRAMES. IN ORDER OF HIGHEST SCORE THEY ARE:
swylie
GeoPahkers
Tromelin
Jean Deniche
ernie&bert&elmo&grover
dani carriere
stingy bandits
Wally K
1queen4jokers
junglehai
happymole
JollyJones
burchil
dtex
persta
PRIZES OF A GEO COIN WILL BE SENT OUT SHORTLY TO Swylie and GeoPakers

10/05/2009 By Kabutroid
Last cache of the day for me, and find 5 of 5. It's been a beautiful day out (which is in massive contrast to the snow we had yesterday ), and I had spent the day with my sister and Mom in Carman, MB. On the trip back, I managed to hit up a few caches, and decided to end the day with this Bowling cache that has been plaguing my mind ever since it's been posted. It's SO close to home, and on the way home from work, all it would take is a minor, 5-minute deviation from my regular path to visit the cache. However... I'm usually shot after work, and typically don't bring my GPS with me.

Today however... I had time (somewhat... it was slowly getting darker out by this point), I had my GPS, and it was nice out to boot. Sounds like a good opportunity to tackle this cache if I've ever seen one! Looping around a bit, I took the aformentioned 5-minute deviation and found myself near the coordinates. The first time around, I accidentally drove past entirely and had to turn around, and then turn around in one of the driveways AGAIN so that I could park. And random note... I pity you people living here, because the curb you have to drive up to get into your driveways is VICIOUS! Seriously, if I lived there, whether it's allowed or not, I'd get some cement of my own and make the slope about half the angle that it currently is. Basically just stretch that slope another 4 or so inches onto the road to make it a lot easier to drive up.

But I digress. After almost bottoming out turning around on a driveway and parking, I got out and headed to the coordinates. Thankfully, quite near the posted coordinates, there was a little sitting spot. Quite relaxing there too. Walking around was a man with his dog, and some other random wandering bystander (whether he was looking for the cache too or not, I have no idea... but he wandered off soon enough). Once all of the bystanders were out of sight, I could begin my hunt more thoroughly. After I had sat down and was waiting for the dog-walker, I had prodded my fingers around nearby to see if I would hit anything... no luck. Looks like a more thorough search is needed.

However, I didn't even need to get up before the corner of my eye caught the sight of the cache. The light (what little there was) managed to reflect off of a tiny portion of the surface of the cache. Yay luck! At least that meant that I was able to very easily and quickly grab the cache and return to my seat. Opening it up, I lobbed in a chainmail ball and poked around the contents. I had to be somewhat discreet about this, since there were other bystanders passing by... so for the most part the cache sat behind me. After I signed the logbook (which appears to be VERY securely protected from dampness... given it has 3 layers of protection on!), I quickly replaced the cache and returned it from whence it came. I'm not sure where all of the bystanders went at this point, but there was nobody in sight when I left.

On a random note... what happened to that poor sundial? Sundials in general are cool, but it looks like some brat decided to pull off the dial thing .

Getting back to the car, I realized something... I was apparently parked RIGHT beside a fire hydrant! Whoops... probably good that some ticketting officer didn't happen to go by while I was waiting around signing the cache . That mighta kinda killed my mood for the day.

But... all was good, and it was glad to return to the area. My sister used to live around here, so I biked around this area quite often. Definitely a nice relaxing cache to end the day with .

Took: The dice-roll colours Red-White-Black
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball