Bowling a perfect 300?

Question

How does one score a "perfect 300?" I mean I do not understand how the math or the rules work. I thought a strike is worth 10 points, but 10 pins times 10 fames is only 100. Even with the 3 chances on the 10th frame can get you to 130.

Please explain to this bowling amatuer. Thanks!

Answer 1

When you bowl a strike, you add 10 pins to the next two frames. You have three chances in the tenth frame, so if you have 12 strikes in a row, (10 frames plus 2 extra in the tenth) the first will be 10 pins (points), the second will be 20, the third will be 30, 4=60, 5=90, 6=120, 7=150, 8=180, 9=210, 10=240, 11=270, 12=300

Answer 2

It's due to how bowling is scored. If you bowl a strike in a frame, the score is not counted until you've bowled two more times, and those scores are added to the frame score. So, if you bowl a strike, then bowl two more strikes, the first strike is worth 30 points. If a person bowls strikes all the way through the first 2 rolls in the 10th frame, they'll have 270 points. If they bowl a 3rd strike in the 10th frame, that frame is also worth 30 points (10 for each strike).

Answer 3

A strike gives you 10 points plus the sum of your next 2 balls thrown. The first ball of the tenth frame, if you roll a strike, gives you two more rolls.

Frame 1 is worth 30 if you roll strikes in 1 2 and 3, Frame 2 is worth 30 if you roll strikes in 2 3 and 4, etc.

Frame 9 is worth 30 if you roll strikes in the first and second rolls of Frame 10. A third strike in Frame 10 makes Frame 10 worth 30.

Basically you're rolling 12 consecutive strikes to get a 300.

Answer 4

Perfect Game In Bowling

Answer 5

The way bowling scoring works is, in one frame you can get a maximum of 30 points, so 30 points x 10 frames = 300.

When you bowl a strike that frame's score will be made up from your next 2 bowls. If you bowl a spare, that frame will be made up of the next bowl.....


If you get a spare in the first frame and then the next bowl you bowl a 7. Your first frame score is 17. (10 for the spare + the next bowl).

Answer 6

A strike entitles you to add in the next two balls you throw to the score for that frame. So if you throw nothing but strikes (which you must do to score 300), your first frame score will be 30, your second will be 60, your third will be 90, and so on. In the tenth (last) frame, if you throw a strike, you are entitled to two extra balls, to "fill" that strike. That's how you get to 300. Go BOWLING, it's a lot of fun.
Here's what a perfect game scoresheet looks like:

http://www.ois.se/ois_bowling_data/news/images/resized_PerfectGameScore.gif

Answer 7

For a strike, you get 10 + the score on the next two balls. If you roll strikes in frames 1 - 2 - 3, you'd get 30 pts in frame 1. In frame 2, you'd get 20 + whatever your first ball was in frame 4.

For frame 10, you get two extra balls after a strike (or 1 after a spare) and add those in, but only once. SO

SO every strike followed by 2 strikes gives you 30pts. 30x10 = 300 pts.

Answer 8

Frame
There are ten frames in one game. You have two chances to knock down the ten pins in each frame (see the explanations for strike and spare). Note that the tenth frame rewards you with a final bonus ball if you convert your spare (or make two strikes). You can thus throw nine strikes in the first nine frames and, if you get another two in the tenth, the bonus ball means the most strikes you can have in one game is twelve. This is called a perfect game..
Spare
Getting all ten pins down with one ball is not as easy as it seems! So, if you leave one or more pins standing after your first delivery, you get a second chance to knock all the pins down, this is your "spare" shot. If you knock all remaining pins down on the second shot you have made your spare. A spare is marked on the scoresheet with a "/". It takes skill to consistently make spares and the scoring system rewards you by adding in the pins from the next ball into the current frame. See also split.
Strike
When the bowler knocks down all ten pins with the first delivery of the ball it is called a strike. Clearly your score goes up by ten, but like a spare, you get a bonus - your next two deliveries are added to the score. Stringing strikes together will raise your score dramatically (See turkey). Marked on the scoresheet with an "X".

Answer 9

A strike is worth 10 then you add the next two balls so if you get another strike you add 10 and so on it really does add up to 300 if you get all strikes

Answer 10

i've got bowled 17 sanctioned "3 hundred's" in league and in experience play ever considering the fact that i began bowling in the eighty's. in the ABC days, you had a selection of a ring or an eye fixed and "catalog products" (wood plaques, wood pencil holders, table contraptions, and so on.....) plus the honorary patch, image to circulate on the bowling center "wall of attractiveness" and money prize from the bowling center as quickly as your score is registered and authorized. i've got bowled in user-friendly terms one sanctioned USBC "3 hundred" game in the process league and earned a white gold ring for it, plus a patch and money prize from the bowling center. in the PBA, I bowled 2 "3 hundred's" in tournaments and gained money from the two the PBA and bowling center plus a ring and watch from the ABC. prepare video games do no longer count quantity to acquire any prizes, yet is an success whether, whether that is on a house situation, yet human beings have been time-commemorated to take photos of the score and ask the table team for the printout.