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I've played duckpins. If I remember aright, the ball is small enough to fit between two pins if very carefully misaimed.
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the ball is small enough to fit between two pinsFarbeit for me to pick nits, magister, but are you implying it can't fit between any of the other eight? 
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are you implying?
No. Are you inferring? And, if so, would you mind explaining what I wrote that would lead you to make that inference? Or is it another example of transpondial confusion?
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Parm mah inference, but ifn you said I had left a window open on my car, wouldn't it be common usage to suspect the other windows to have been properly closed - the exception being noteworthy?  
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inference
Well, if you really need it spelled out for you, it only goes between any given pair of pins at a time. The hordes of prescrips would be all over me if I were to suggest that it could go between three pins. And besides, I was talking about the ball, not the pins.
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really need it spelled out for you
Frequently - my spelling's crap :)
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... the ball is small enough to fit between two pins ...
Skipping over the logic-chopping (or syntax-chopping), you are quite correct, Faldage. It won't go between pins when all 10 are standing, but it often goes between two (or more) pins without hitting any when some have been already knocked down. Of course this is true in tenpins as well, especially if you are faced with "lighthouses" -- the 7-10 split -- but you rarely see the tenpin ball miss everything with any split less disastrous. It happens frequently in duckpins. And in duckpins, the 7-10 split is even more difficult to make.
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from my days of studying for my bowling master's, I seem to recall something known as rubber-band duckpins (or summat), which was just the same as duckpins but they had a big strip of rubber around the middle to give them a little more action. I wonder if this game is still extant.. ..barely: http://www.duckpins.com/common/info/other.html
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Perhaps I should have made it clear that I meant between two adjacent pins. E.g., if you have the seven and eight pins standing it is possible to roll the ball between them without hitting either.
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I truly like your coinage "farbeit," mav. :)
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