A student at Northeastern University, Reuben Jacobs is working towards bachelor’s degrees in computer science and biology. Over the years, he has balanced his schoolwork with such professional roles as full stack software engineer for LinkeDrive, Inc., and web developer for Smarter Travel Media. Outside of his career, Reuben Jacobs maintains an interest in hobbies such as duckpin bowling.
Scoring in duckpin bowling is somewhat similar to a normal tenpin game, though with a few key differences. There are a total of 10 frames in a game of duckpin bowling, and bowlers try to knock down 10 pins during each frame. In contrast to regular bowling, duckpin bowlers get a total of three balls to knock pins down in each frame. The third ball was added to the game because of the overall difficulty of duckpin bowling. In some cases, hitting pins with the third ball can be the key to winning the game.
If all the pins are knocked down with the first ball, the player earns a “strike,” worth 10 points. Players can get this score up to a maximum of 30 points per frame, depending on how many pins they knock down with the two other balls. For spares, bowlers can get a maximum of 20 points: 10 for the spare resulting from the first two balls plus the number of pins knocked over with the third ball. If the player throws neither a strike nor a spare, but needs the third ball to finish knocking down all 10 pins, then he or she can only earn a maximum of 10 points. At the end of the complete game, bowler’s scores from each frame are added together. The maximum score possible for a game of duckpin bowling in 300 points.
