Though originally devised as a hunting technique, bowling ceased to be effective when wild animals learned to stop traveling in tightly-grouped triangular formations. Celebrate bowling’s reinvention as entertainment with today’s Groupon: for $18, you get one hour of bowling (a $26 value) and shoe rental for up to eight people (up to a $24 value) at Tiger Lanes Bowling Center in Alexandria (up to a $50 total value).

Tiger Lanes Bowling Center unites loved ones and liked ones in the traditional American pastime of heaving heavy balls at wooden targets. With an hour at their disposal, pin-clobbering enthusiasts have ample time to hash lace their rental shoes and warm up their fingers before taking the bowler's mound, greasing up their three-holed spheres, and toppling pins like a corrupt government. Each lane accommodates up to eight players, allowing a single alley to be shared by a large family, small community group, or baseball team trying to ditch its obnoxious left fielder.