Intro:
Before you begin
Step 1:
Understand the score sheet
Step 2:
Bowl and add
Step 3:
Record a spare
Step 4:
Record a strike
Step 5:
Record a tenth-frame spare or strike

2torial #0732:
Learn2 Score a Bowling Game (continued)

Bowl and add

The moment has finally arrived when you can insert your fingers into the ball, take aim, bring back your arm and roll the ball toward the pins. Your friends are cheering and laughing. The ball strikes the pins and six of them fall down, leaving four left standing. How do you mark this in the score sheet? Just slide your finger horizontally from your name to the large box for frame number one. Look at the two small squares inside that box, and write "6" in the left-hand square. Now it's time for your second ball.

This time you knock down two of the four left from your previous ball. Mark that "2" in the small square to the right. Then total the "6" and the "2" and mark an "8" in the larger box for that frame.

For frame number two, you'll follow the same procedure, except for one important factor. When you're done with both your balls for that frame, add your score from frame number one to your score from frame number two, and put the total number in the larger box for frame two.

For example, in frame number two, if you knocked down seven pins and then one pin, mark a "7" and a "1" in the two small squares for frame two. Since you scored a total of eight for frame one, and eight for frame two, you'd mark a total of "16" inside the larger box for frame two.