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How to keep Score in Bowling

Scoring is the most confusing thing to beginner bowlers.  Even with electronic scoring, bowlers often wonder how the scores are generated.  The highest score a bowler can recieve is 300. This is a perfect score with strikes in all frames. You have two bowling attempts in each frame to knock down the pins.  Here we will show you some examples on how to score each frame, a spare, or a strike.

Basic Score Card

Bowling Scorecard

Listed above is a basic score card used by bowlers.  You will notice that there are ten frames and a final score.  Also you will notice that the frames has two smaller boxes within.  These boxes are used to notate the bowlers score for each bowl. Remember, a bowler gets to throw twice during one frame.

Basic Score

Bowling Score

Above you will see that Mr. Bowling in frame 1 scored 8 pins.  The score was gathered by adding the 5 and the 3 in the smaller boxes within the frame.  On Mr. Bowlings first bowl, he knocked down 5 pins.  On his second bowl, he knocked down 3 pins.  The math 5 + 3 = 8.

Scoring a Spare

How to score a spare

A spare is when all of the bowling pins are knocked down in the two allowed throws in one frame.  A spare is indicated by a / as you can see in frame 2.  To score a spare, you must wait until the bowler bowls his or her first throw of the next frame.  The number of pins knocked down in the first throw after the spare is added to 10 (which is the score of the spare) In the example above an 8 was scored in frame 1.  Then in frame 2 a spare was scored following a 6 in frame 3.  So how did the player get 28 points?  First thing you do is take the score of 8.  You then add 10 points for the spare.  You then would add the first score listed in frame 3.  In this example Mr. Bowling knocked down 4 pins in frame 3 giving him 4 points.  The math 8 + 10 + 4 = 22

Scoring a Strike

How to Score a Strike

A strike is when all of the bowling pins are knocked down in the first throw.  A strike X as you can see in frame 2.  To score a strike, you must wait until the bowler bowls the next frame.  The number of pins knocked down in the frame after the strike is added to 10 (which is the score of the strike) In the example above an 8 was scored in frame 1.  Then in frame 2 a strike was scored following a 6 in frame 3.  So how did the player get 30 points? First thing you do is take the score of 8.  You then add 10 points for the strike.  You then would add the score from frame 3.  In this example Mr. Bowling knocked down a total of 6 pins in frame 3 giving him 6 points.  The math 8 + 10 + 6 = 24.