Ten-pin bowling Effectively, there are three kinds of marks given in a score; a strike (all ten down in the first ball), a spare (all ten down by the second ball), and an open (one or more pins still standing after the second ball). A strike earns ten pins plus the pins for the next two balls thrown. (For example, if a player got a strike then followed with a 7 and 2 in the next frame, the value for the strike frame would be 10+7+2, or 19; if the player got a strike followed by another strike the next frame and
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? about how many could perch at the same time on the head of a pin"". Dorothy L. Sayers argued that the question was "simply a debating exercise" and that the answer "usually adjudged correct" was stated as, "Angels are pure intelligences, not material, but limited, so that they have location in space, but not extension." Sayers compares the question to that of how many people's thoughts can be concentrated upon a particular pin at the same time. She concludes that infinitely many angels can be located on the head of a pin, since they do not occupy any space there: