The three holes on a bowling ball represent the three phases of bowling: wind-up, release, and genuflection. Send a ball properly on its way with today's Groupon: for $19, you get a bowling outing for four at Fairlanes Bowling's Halifax location (up to a $48 total value). The outing includes:

• Two hours of bowling for four players (up to a $40 value)
• Four shoe rentals (up to a $2 value each)

Fairlanes Bowling unfurls a fleet of shining, polished lanes before players of all ages and abilities to lure them into games of bowling backed by energetic tunes. After slipping on rented footwear, quartets of pin pummellers engage in two hours of gutter-evasion in an alley that stays open until midnight six nights per week. Overhead projectors broadcast scores onto the wall, allowing teams to tally points without the hassles of sharpening pencils or the injustice of computers’ biased calculations. Guests lob orbs at unevenly numbered wooden armies during a round of five-pin bowling or opt to bombard cylindrical soldiers with miniature cannon balls in heated candlepin matches. At Cosmic Bowling on Friday and Saturday nights, neon lights cast a glow across the lanes and create an aura in which players can show off their disco-inspired backswings while simultaneously identifying counterfeit bills.

Fairlanes Bowling offers discounted shoe rental rates for seniors and children, and bowling rates vary depending on the time of play.