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 use. With the two-handed release, the dominant hand's middle and ring fingers are inserted into the ball and the non-dominant hand (left for right handers, right for left handers) is kept on top of the ball and helps to support the ball until release. Examples of success with these styles include no-thumber Eric Copping, who has bowled over one hundred perfect games and holds the Vermont state record for average in a season with 246, and two-handed PBA members Jason Belmonte, Osku Palermaa and Jesper Svensson. There is an optimal bowling ball speed at which the player maximizes the chance