![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Five_pin_bowling_boy.jpg/640px-Five_pin_bowling_boy.jpg&w=640&q=50)
Five-pin bowling
Form of bowling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about 5-pin bowling?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played in Canada, where many bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that the ten-pin game was too strenuous. He cut five tenpins down to about 75% of their size, and used hand-sized hard rubber balls, thus inventing the original version of five-pin bowling.[1]
![Thumb image](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Five_pin_bowling_boy.jpg/640px-Five_pin_bowling_boy.jpg)