If life is just a bowl of cherries, then bowling is a life of launching 12-pound cherry-flavored gum balls. Experience life's sweetest pastime with today's Groupon: for $20, you and up to four guests get a two-hour lane rental package, five medium soft drinks, and five shoe rentals (a $42.90 total value) at Franklin Bowling Lanes, located on Franklin Street.

The boulder-rolling family at Franklin Bowling Lanes has been fighting smug pins for almost seven decades. Its fully renovated thunder factory accommodates pin snipers with an arsenal of bowling balls to fire down the 20 new Brunswick Pro Lanes, which glow, like pregnant fireflies, under the black lights of cosmic bowl on Friday and Saturday nights. Accompanied by this Groupon, up to five gutter grazers may enjoy two hours of pin-crushing calamity, five medium soft drinks, and five bowling-shoe rentals for stylishly strutting down runways with the grace of an intimidating swan.

Customers should call ahead to reserve a lane during open bowl hours. In addition to bowling, the expanded concourse at Franklin Bowling Lanes features an attached restaurant to quell cravings brought on by dominating adversaries and high-fiving yourself after every strike.

Though Franklin Bowling Lanes sometimes features discounted package prices online, today’s Groupon still offers the best available deal.