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 $16, you get a one-hour bowling package for four at Oil Bowl Lanes in Longview (up to a $46.25 total value). The package includes:

• An hour of bowling for four (up to a $27.99 value)
• Shoe rental for four (a $3.19 value each)
• One pitcher of soda (a $5.50 value)
  
  

Oil Bowl Lanes opens its 32 lanes of rolling glory to pin pushers every day of the week. A one-hour lane rental pits quartets of players against one another to see who can garner the highest score based on pins felled and the secret 11th frame, which is judged on the overall style of post-strike moonwalks. Eight rental shoes lend their aid to earthbound extremities, and a full pitcher of soda bubbles with between-frame refreshment or postgame head-dunk opportunities. Spheres rumble down Oil Bowl’s alleys between retro-futuristic murals and cheery checkered floors.

Though Oil Bowl Lanes sometimes features a discounted price online, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.