Ten-pin bowling 5 on their first ball and 3 on their second, the open frame would be worth 8 pins.) The maximum score in ten-pin bowling is 300. This consists of getting 12 strikes in a row in one game (one strike each in frames 1–9, plus all three possible strikes in the tenth frame), and is also known as a perfect game. In 1934, British anthropologist Sir Flinders Petrie, along with a team of archaeologists, discovered various primitive bowling balls, bowling pins and other materials in the grave of a protodynastic Egyptian boy dating to , very shortly before the reign
Ten-pin bowling many fictional works. One of the most notable recent examples is "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J. K. Rowling. Although it and its sequels establish that the magical characters featured know nothing about the non-magical (i.e., "real") world, "Philosopher's Stone" reveals that one major character, Professor Albus Dumbledore is a fan of ten-pin bowling. Since the electronic gaming industry began, ten-pin bowling has been seen in many formats on many big name gaming machines. Mattel's Intellivision game line introduced "PBA Bowling", the first fully electronic bowling game, in 1980. JAMDAT Mobile (now known as EA Mobile), made the