When I was little we had a simple dice game called Bowl and Score. The game comprises ten six-sided dice with a bowling printed on one face of each. The dice are treated like bowling pins: roll the ten dice, and those with the pin side up are “left” after the first ball. These are thrown a second time for the spare shot. The dice are thrown in ( Read more... )

Over the summer I heard about a really nifty retro bowling alley in town, but it’s on the west side, which makes it about as convenient and enjoyable to travel to as Dar es Salaam. I reckoned it could be years before I ever had occasion to visit that part of the city; but as it happened I recently had a board-game meetup in the library right ( Read more... )

It’s bowling season again!

Still smarting from our misadventure with the evil hippopotamuses, we made a pact during the summer that our continuing in our previous league would depend on that team’s absence. (They claimed last spring that they were leaving the league.) We showed up the first night of the new season, and-nobody else was there. ( Read more... )

Two Sundays ago I bowled against the most unpleasant people ever to set foot inside a bowling alley ( Read more... )