Skittle-Bowl
BGG rank
BGG #20,157
BGG rating
6.1

Skittle-Bowl

1967

Rules assistance for Skittle-Bowl

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  • 1–8 players
  • 30 min
  • Complexity 1.2/5

Rules assistant for Skittle-Bowl

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Skittle-Bowl is a board game released in 1967 for 1–8 players and 30 minutes per game. It was designed by Derek A. Brand.

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About the game

Skittle-Bowl is a transformation of the public domain game known as, among other things, Table Skittles or Bar Skittles. That earlier game used a nine-pin bowling set-up familiar across Europe, whereas Skittle-Bowl adopted the set-up, gameplay, and scoring of the ten-pin bowling game popular in the United States. All-time PBA Bowling champion Dick Weber endorsed the game as "the next best thing to having a bowling alley in your living room".

Publishers

  • Pressman Toy Corp.
  • Coleco Industries, Inc.
  • Playtoy Industries
  • L'Arbre a Jouer
  • Aurora

Questions and answers

Skittle-Bowl supports 1–8 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.