| Bowling is a game of scoring points by | | | | succession. The game employs smaller |
| knocking down pins with balls. | | | | balls without fingerholes, making it |
| Fundamentally, a player rolls a heavy | | | | difficult to attain a perfect score |
| bowling ball into a flat surface to | | | | since splits are more frequent. |
| knock down arranged pins of nine or ten, | | | | The outdoor type usually utilizes a |
| depending on the game you play. There | | | | lawn, or a patch of gravel. The examples |
| are several forms of bowling; some are | | | | of which are Lawn Bowling, Bocce, and |
| played indoors which usually uses a lane | | | | Petanque. Petanque is widely played in |
| or a long flat polished wood surface | | | | especially in France. |
| with gutters along the length of the | | | | Tracing up bowling's history, it is |
| lane. Primary examples of these indoor | | | | widely believed that the German culture |
| types are the feather bowling, duckpin | | | | was the cradle of this sport. Though |
| bowling, candlepin bowling, ninepin | | | | there have been substantial evidences of |
| skittles, five pin bowling and the most | | | | bowling-like games in ancient Egypt, |
| popular form of bowling which is the | | | | history clearly points that bowling |
| Ten-pin. | | | | really did occur in Germany since its |
| Ten-pin bowling is very similar to the | | | | dark ages. In those days, heathens and |
| other forms, except the game obviously | | | | heretics abound the land and the usual |
| uses ten pins which the player should | | | | practice for the German clergy was a |
| attempt to knock down as many pins | | | | simple test of knocking down clubs |
| possible to score points. The game has | | | | called Kegel by rolling a stone or a |
| ten frames with each frame consisting | | | | wooden ball. If the individual succeeds |
| two rolls for each competing player. | | | | in knocking the club down, he is |
| Another popular bowling variant is the | | | | considered free of sin. This practice |
| Five-pin bowling which is often played | | | | eventually made its way from the secular |
| in Canada. It is a recent modification | | | | world to the common people and along the |
| of Ten-pin bowling but instead of two | | | | way got more refined until ultimately |
| attempts, Five-pin has three attempts, | | | | became an interesting sport that |
| and each attempt can be thrown in quick | | | | survived till this day. |