Bowling ball random when impacting a full rack of pins on the first delivery of a frame, and sometimes when hitting downed "dead wood" pins on subsequent deliveries—the candlepin bowling sport is the only major one that allows fallen pins, provided no part of any fallen pin extends more than 24 inches (61 cm) forward of the head-pin spot, to remain on the lane's pindeck to be used in knocking down more pins with the next ball delivery in the same round—up to three balls are delivered, much as in duckpins, in each round of candlepins for one bowler. Bowling ball A
Nine-pin bowling the United States, as well as regionally popular "small-ball" bowling sports of various types, do not have many facilities in existence for the nine-pin game in the 21st century. On the other hand, a modified version is played in the US state of Texas. This game is played by rolling a ball down an alley towards nine pins. Unlike the ten-pin ball — and like the ones used for the eastern North American "small-ball" bowling sports of five pin bowling, candlepin and duckpin — the ninepin ball mostly has no holes for the fingers, though there exist special balls with