If life is just a bowl of cherries, then bowling is a life of launching 12-pound cherry-flavored gumballs. Experience life's sweetest pastime with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of bowling and billiards at Kings Back Bay or $20 worth of bowling and shuffleboard at Kings Dedham. This Groupon is not valid toward food or drink.

Named Best Bowling by Boston magazine in 2010, Kings' fun centers boast a lively atmosphere for all ages. Both locations host ample bowling ($4.50–$6.50 per game) real estate—20 lanes at Dedham and 16 at Back Bay—and dozens of HDTVs. Back Bay features a full billiards room with Brunswick Gold Crown tables ($14 per hour), while Dedham provides miniature skee bowling ($5 per game) and regulation shuffleboard ($10 per hour), so shuffleboard fanatics can relive their favorite professional shuffleboard moments. With thousands of square feet of fun at each spot, recreational hustlers and mingle-minded masses alike can score bowling points, billiard touchdowns, or shuffleboard coup-fourrés.

Although today's Groupons are valid only toward their respective sports, Kings provides patrons with a bevy of refueling opportunities with a full-service Kings Restaurant and three premium, non-underwater bars at each destination. Order a few rounds and roll a few tri-holed spheres into the wee hours, as Kings is open daily till 1 a.m. or later.

Kings patrons must be 21 or older after 6 p.m. This Groupon expires after 120 days.

Reviews

Boston magazine recommends Kings, naming the bowling alley Best Bowling in 2010. While some Yelpers mention that the wait for lanes can be long at the Back Bay location, most reviewers agree that both locations are great for bowling in parties, and give an average of three stars each. Citysearchers at the Back Bay location give it an average of 4.5 stars and name it to six Best of Citysearch lists:

• Everyone thinks of it just as a bowling alley- Not the case. The food, service and activities they offer make it a cool place to hang out. – KristenMc82, Back Bay location, Citysearch
• The bowlers' settee area is spacious, inviting, and comfortable. There's plenty of lighting where it counts - over the food, drinks, and guests - and there are little tables between and behind the benches where you can put things. They even have little slots under the tables and benches where you can leave your street shoes. – Joe B., Dedham location, Yelp