duckpins

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Tenpin bowling may get all the attention, but fans of duckpins — smaller pins, cantaloupe-size ball, three rolls per frame instead of two — insist it’s the more challenging sport.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2022

Around him, strewn like duckpins, lay 29 of the best golfers on earth, so far behind him they might as well not have bothered to play.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2018

To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls.

From Time Magazine Archive