Candlepin Bowling.

That's right.

Looking for something delicious to do on a rainy day? Ever heard of Candlepin?


According to Wikipedia, "Candlepin bowling was developed in 1880 in Worcester (Woo-stah), Massachusetts by a local bowling center owner, Justin White. The main differences between candlepin bowling and the predominant ten-pin bowling style are that each player uses three balls per frame, the balls are much smaller (11.43 cm, or 4.5" diameter) and do not have holes, the downed pins (known as 'wood') are not cleared away between balls during a player's turn, and the pins are thinner, and thus harder to knock down. Because of these differences, scoring points is considerably more difficult than in ten-pin bowling, and the highest officially sanctioned score ever recorded is 245 out of a possible 300 points."

Good, now you know about it. So go do it.


Orleans, a few towns south of Truro (about a 20-25 minute drive) offers this activity at the Orleans Bowling Center (A stunning 2-star Yelp review lets you know it's good. That's mostly for a lack of booze, but have we heard of flasks? We're modern people, for heaven's sake). We know all our Brooklyn friends will be excited fanboys about this news, and anyone else that enjoys a night of moderately competitive "sports" should get down on this. For real. We did it a few years back and had a blast. And that would have been the case with or without the multiple pitchers of beer we indulged* in. But hey, it's bowling. Stop it with the judging.

*Drowned.