Editing Duckpin bowling (section)

== Variants ==
=== Rubber band duckpins ===
[[File:19150622 Duckpin bowling pin - U.S. patent 1,144,078.png|thumb|right| This 1915 U.S. patent shows a duckpin in which "a band of rubber or other resilient material 11" (yellow tinting added to image above) is placed "in an annular peripheral groove or channel 10".<ref name=Patent_1,114,078>{{cite patent |country=U.S. |number=Patent 1,114,078 |title=Bowling Pin |pubdate= |gdate=June 22, 1915 |inventor=Stanley, Richard E. |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US1144078A }}</ref>]]
In 1905 a variant called '''rubber band duckpins''' was introduced in the [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] area by William Wuerthele,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Grasso |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bblKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR19 |title=Historical Dictionary of Bowling |last2=Hartman |first2=Eric R. |date=2014-08-07 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-8022-1 |language=en}}</ref> in which the pins are circled with hard rubber bands to increase rebound action in collisions, and therefore scoring. Wuerthele observed bowlers wasting their third ball as well as flying pins injuring pin boys, so, according to a defunct publication called ''The Ducks'', Wuerthele added the rubber band to increase scoring.

The American Duckpin Congress was formed in the 1920s to govern the game of rubber band duckpins. The organization later became the American Rubber Band Duckpin Bowling Congress in 1945 and became an affiliate of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress. The rubber band game is now almost extinct, with most of the lanes located in private clubs, though there is one alley in the U.S. still open to the public in [[Glassport, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glassport Lanes – Duckpin Bowling |url=http://glassportlanes.com/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308173543/http://glassportlanes.com/ |archive-date=March 8, 2022 |url-status=live }}</ref>

As of 2018, rubber band duckpins was mostly limited to [[Québec]], where it is called {{lang|fr-CA|petites quilles}}.<ref name=SmartSet_20180105>{{cite web |last1=Serven |first1=Neil |title=Halfway Back to Worcester / |url=https://thesmartset.com/halfway-back-to-worcester/ |website=TheSmartSet.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617140929/https://thesmartset.com/halfway-back-to-worcester/ |archive-date=June 17, 2018 |date=January 5, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

There have been perfect games bowled in rubber band duckpin, including the largest duckpin prize ever won on television, {{Currency|50000|CAD}} in 1994 (equivalent to {{Currency|{{Inflation|CA|50000|1994|r=-2}}|CAD|linked=no}} or {{Currency|{{To USD round|{{Inflation|CA|50000|1994}}|CAN|year={{Inflation/year|CA}}|sf=3}}|USD}} in {{Inflation/year|CA}}).<ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.quillesgplus.com/english.htm| title =Quilles G plus| date =2007-03-21| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070402233230/http://www.quillesgplus.com/english.htm| archive-date =2007-04-02}}</ref>{{Inflation/fn|CA}} Since it is easier to knock down pins in rubber band duckpin, its rules are identical to those of ten-pin bowling.
[[File:Duckpin bowling in Pittsburgh 03.jpg|thumb|right|A mini duckpin alley in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]

=== Mini duckpins ===
In mini duckpins, the lane is shorter than a standard duckpin lane, and the width of the lane is not standard.<ref name=WUWMcom_20180318/> While there has never been a sanctioned perfect game in regulation duckpin bowling, 300 games are said to be relatively common in mini duckpin play.<ref name=WUWMcom_20180318/>