I know there are several different ways in which teams donate to their "Kitty".  I was just wondering what some are, and how if it helps your team perform.

I was actually thinking of a "positive" approach to this.  Something like if you throw a turkey, the rest of the team puts in a quarter - then they pay a dime for each one after until the string ends.  Maybe at the end of the game whoever does not make their average puts in another quarter.  I've played in some where you are penalized a nickel or dime for every miss, but that just seems to irritate you even more when missing a spare.  So, I thought the mental game would improve if you could make your teammates pay when you do well... Any thoughts?

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9 is back with a Vengeance!

I think our team has the most complex kitty out of all the teams that I have ever seen.  Just some examples:  if only one person stikes in a certain frame everyone else owes $1 to the kitty; if everyone strikes in one frame the people that don't strike in the following frame owe $1 and it keeps increasing so if everyone has a turkey then you don't strike you owe $3.  This is only a couple examples.  Roughly the average is about $13 a night per person that goes into the kitty.  Just this year our 6 man team got back $280 each.  If anyone would want more examples let me know.

Steve

We put up $1 per person for high game and $1 per person for cards.  High game is pretty easy.  High game, scratch, gets the money.  For our card game, you get a card for every strike and spare.  Cover a split and that gets you 2 cards.  Get a double, also draw 2 cards.  If you open or get hung, it costs you a quarter and that goes into the card pot.  Something we did this season is buy a different deck of naked lady cards.  Nobody was allowed to look at them until it was your turn to draw.  That gave us some motivation!
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Evolutionary.  Revolutionary.

Our team plays the poker game, each mark earns a card.

We also have Pass Five.  Each bowler puts in $1 and the leadoff man gets to hold onto the $5 until he opens, then he has to pass it on to the next man in the lineup.  At the end of the night, the bowler holding onto it keeps the $5.  Note, for tenth frames, a mark in the 10th counts so you hold onto it even if you open on your 11th frame.  And if the anchor man opens in the 10th frame of the 3rd game, it goes to the leadoff man or some teams will defer it (add it to) the next week's pot but we have a rotating team so we dont do that.

We used to do the kitty, pay a nickel on opens, earn a dime on a converted split, etc.
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I just want 2C was'zzub.
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I am the SGT Schultz of bowling.
"I know nothing!"

One of my teams has a kitty.  The guy with the lowest first ball count each frame pays a dime.  If you miss a single pin spare, it costs you a quarter.  If everyone but one strikes, it is $1.00 for the guy who doesn't.  If everyone strikes, the house gives us $5, which we put in our kitty.  In the frame after everyone strikes, it costs each guy who doesn't strike fifty cents.

Another of my teams has a $2 per man poker game in which a mark gets you a card, and every strike beyond two in a row gets you two cards.  This a four man team, so we usually don't have a problem with running out of cards.

My other team has nothing - no kitty, no card game, no beer frames.
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RW (THB)

Our miss money (kitty) is all based on dimes (and one quarter).

If everyone marks, everyone pays a dime (for a star frame).
If four of five mark, the open frame bowler pays a dime.
If all five strike, everyone pays a quarter.
If four of five strike and the fifth either spares or opens, the four that struck pay a dime and the fifth pays a quarter.

We probably get back about $20 per person for the season.
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White Dot
Making life miserable for 10 pins everywhere
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