VARIATIONS OF THE TRIPLES (BOWLS) GAME .....
I am a member of Uvongo Bolws Club in South Africa. We are adding a new competion day to our bowls diary and would like the "competition" to be a fun variation of the triples game. If someone knows of such a game I would be grateful to receive details on how it should be played. Thanks, Tony
Response Number 1 :Posted by Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 19:38:02 (EDT):
Try bowling the jack AFTER all bowls played!!
Response Number 2 :Posted by Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 07:16:36 (EDT):
Each player plays 6 ends in each spot skip to one/one to two/two up to skip.
Response Number 3 :Posted by Monday, February 09, 2009 at 16:09:56 (EST):
Tony - you could play 'Versatile Triples' which involves playing three games of e.g. 12-15 ends over the day. Each player has to play every position i.e. Lead, Second and Skip - changing over in subsequent games. It's interesting to see what happens when the Skip suddenly has to be the Lead and vice versa! Other fun things to do are to have the players try to bowl with the other hand, makes for a lot of laughs. The skip can also have to put the jack down last i.e. players bowl to an imaginary jack and the skip to bowl last, has to put down the jack too.