[Pirate]

better than the 10 pin that 10 pin thuresday night cost me a really nice start first 3 frames dead in teh pocket and left 10 pin each one oh well 259 is still good

and at least it wasnt a pocket 5-7-10

[Goto]

Lol, you guys are a loooot better than me.

I only play occasionally, usually about two or three times a year. My highest was about 160, but that was pretty flukish.

[Phieta]

Whoa, nice My best is... not that good... somewhere 'round 160 I think?

*Realizes you never explained what that chart meant*
*Waits for someone to ask*

[Neraphym]

*Plays instructional music and 50's black&white footage of bowling*

How to Score Bowling:

Bowling is a rather simple game to score, if you are proficient in calculus (j/k). Basically, every frame you get the number of pins you get down. At the end, they are all totaled and thats the score you get. There are also things called "marks" which help get scores above the maximum number of pins that can be knocked down in one game, 120. A mark adds whatever number of pins you knock down from the next ball you throw onto the score of the frame you just threw. To get a mark, simply make your spare. A strike will give you a double mark, meaning it takes the next two balls and adds to that frame. So...

If you throw a 9 and then miss, you recieve no mark.

If you throw a 9 and make your spare, you get a mark. The next ball you throw is a 7. Your score on the fram in which you got the 9 and the spare would be 17. Had you thrown an 8 instead of a 7, the score would have been 18.

9/ | 7 -
17 24

The top row is what you threw the first frame and second frame ( / is a spare, meaning you knocked all te pins left down). The bottom is the cumulitive score to that point (assuming the 4th ball you threw missed, represented by a - )

Now, a strike will count for the next 2 balls, so if you throw three strikes in a row, the first strike's frame is worth 30.

X | X | X | - -
30 50 60

In this case, the first strike was proceded by 2 more stikes, making it worth 30 points. The second stike was followed by another strike, but then a miss. That makes it worth 20 points, which is added onto the 30. Because the last stike was followed by 2 misses, it is only worth the 10 pins you got for making it. Added onto the 30 and 20, it makes a total of 60.

I hope this helped.

[Neraphym]

better than the 10 pin   that 10 pin thuresday night cost me a really nice start first 3 frames dead in teh pocket and left 10 pin each one oh well 259 is still good

and at least it wasnt a pocket 5-7-10    

I never had one of those, but I've made my fair share of 5-7's and 5-10's. That reminds me, I got a 4,6,7,9,10 split the previous game. It was a decent shot, too. I left the 4 up (idk if that is even skillfully possible to spare that). I hit the 6,9,10 cluster so that the 9 slid over and hit the 7. Maybe if I hit it a bit to the right, the 9 would have hit off the seven then into the 4, but I didn't make it.

BTW, I haven't double posted in a while, but they are both long enough so that no one can yell at me.

[Mrb1]

We should bowl eachother sometime. My highest is like 265 - 270. I've been doing really crappy latly, but I'm steadily getting better.

[Pirate]

better than the 10 pin   that 10 pin thuresday night cost me a really nice start first 3 frames dead in teh pocket and left 10 pin each one oh well 259 is still good

and at least it wasnt a pocket 5-7-10    

I never had one of those, but I've made my fair share of 5-7's and 5-10's. That reminds me, I got a 4,6,7,9,10 split the previous game. It was a decent shot, too. I left the 4 up (idk if that is even skillfully possible to spare that). I hit the 6,9,10 cluster so that the 9 slid over and hit the 7. Maybe if I hit it a bit to the right, the 9 would have hit off the seven then into the 4, but I didn't make it.

BTW, I haven't double posted in a while, but they are both long enough so that no one can yell at me.

a guy on our team left the 4-6-7-9-10 and almost got it too left the 4 pin too and the team we were bowling against one of their ppl left the 5-7-10 wobbly 5 pin in teh pocket and solid 7-10 i usually leave the 8-10 dead in teh pocket too and in case nobody knows i think i rememebr correctly but the 4-6-7-9-10 is called the grrk church if i remember correctly 4-6-9-10 is the big 4 5-7 i picked up before too and i picked up the 4-5 by sliding the 5 pin straight over into the 4


welll thats enough rambling for now

[Dragonman]

Sweet Alpha!

Bowling one of those things I either stink at or do pretty good at. I remember back in elementary they would roll out carpets for lanes and set up very dentable plastic bowling pins. I think we used those foam balls you use for dodgeball when it's coed.

[Neraphym]

I've slid the 4 into the 5 before, but never when the 7 was there. I still have yet to see anyone make a 7-10. This is only my second year bowling, btw.

[©allum]

My Dad got a 7-10 split once, he hit the 10, which bounced off the wall at the back of the alley, then it hit the 7.

Nice scores, My highest is about 186 I think.

[Pirate]

last year a guy picked up teh 7-10 i didnt know until his award came