Hahahahaha...that is a great kind of game especially with guy who want things to get kinetic! The harder you wind up and throw, the more kinetic it gets until you rip up your stupid shoulder, as I did.
I know it probably sounds sexist, but I found that guys just liked loud noises and seeing things fly apart...and it doesn’t go away completely, so that you can easily imagine a few fifty year old guys screwing around and throwing bowling balls off the top of a dam somewhere. Just to see it fly to pieces.
I went candlepin bowling one time, and I was with a guy who had that same attitude (as did I, by the way) and he put so much juice on it and let go much later than he should have, and the ball sailed all the way down and put a jagged hole in the plastic surface above the lane behind which all the pins were set up.
Gosh. That is going on 50 years ago.
About 20 years ago they tore out that candlepin bowling alley and converted the space into a Dunkin Donuts, a pet store, and a bunch of small shops.
But for the next 30 years, every time I went into that place, the first thing my eyes were draw to was that jagged, black hole above that lane!
LOL yes there is a bit of that. Points are based on how many of your team balls are closest to the little ball (cochonnet, means little pig in French). So if your team has 2 closest and the other team the 3rd closest your team gets 2 points. If all 4 of yours are closer than the other than you win all 4 points. So if you are down 3 or 4 points sometimes it pays to just smash the entire thing apart, move the little ball or knock the other players’ balls out of range. Because they are small steel balls, a tiny bit larger than hand grenades but spherical and heavy, it makes a great crashing sound! You do have to stand back lol.