The New York Times published an articlea few years back about the world of duckpin bowling.
#Bowling with tiny balls plus#
A spare earns 10 points plus the pins in the third roll and “ten” is knocking down all 10 pins in three rolls. For points, a strike earns 10 points plus the next two balls rolled for a max of 30 points. While duckpin has a 10-frame game, bowlers actually get three balls per frame in duckpin. The rules are also slightly different in a duckpin game. The game is so popular that there’s actually a National Duckpin Bowling Congress (NDBC) that hosts many tournaments, leagues and even ranks bowlers in the top 20 nationally. While the duckpins are arranged in the same way as a traditional 10-pin, the smaller pin size, the space between pins and the smaller ball make it challenging to get a strike.
The game is so challenging in fact that no one has ever recorded a perfect game in duckpin bowling, with the closest being attributed to a Connecticut man in 1992 who bowled a 279. The main reasons for this can be attributed to the smaller pins and balls. A variation on the standard 10-pin bowling experience, duckpin bowling is often considered a more challenging version of its 10-pin counterpart.
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