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a conversation came up at the bowling alley over the weekend - what's the lowest score you could get and still knock over all of the pins in each frame? the answer seemed to be 110: each frame starts with a gutter ball, followed by a 10 to pick up the spare. that gives you 90 heading into frame 10, and after going 0/10 again for 100, you have one last ball in which to knock down all the pins giving you a final score of 110.
on the other side of the coin, what's the highest score you could get without actually getting a strike? i think it's 199, going 9/1 in each frame and then going 9/1/9 in the 10th frame.
at any rate, i bowled pretty well, although i didn't get any strikes over 2 games. i did manage 7 spares in the second game though, topping out at 145.