Perfect game (bowling)

For other uses, see Perfect game (disambiguation).
The number of sanctioned perfect (300) games per league bowler has increased substantially since the 1990s. Freeman and Hatfield posit that the increase in perfect games is due to factors such as the introduction of reactive resin coverstocks, asymmetric ball cores, synthetic lane surfaces, and precision lane oiling machines.

A perfect game is the highest score possible in a game of bowling, achieved by scoring a strike with every throw.[1] In bowling games that use 10 pins, such as ten-pin bowling, candlepin bowling, and duckpin bowling, the highest possible score is 300, achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a traditional single game: one strike in each of the first nine frames, and three more in the tenth frame.

In five-pin bowling, the highest possible score is 450, as a strike is worth 15 pins. It is rare to bowl or witness one. The Canadian Five Pin Bowlers Association approves from 10 to 40 perfect games per year.

  1. ^ Bowling-Tips.org (2013). "Bowling Terminology". S. Wight. Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-04-03.