ISSUE Nº 180 · 07 NOV 2026 · THE COFFEE-MAKER-IS-EMPTY EDITION

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Explain Ten-Pin Bowling Scoring in Plain English

Explain how ten-pin bowling scoring works: how a strike and a spare carry pins forward into the next frame, why the tenth frame gets extra balls, and why a perfect game is 300 rather than 100. Walk through one full ten-frame game as a worked example, showing the running total build up frame by frame, not just the final number. Keep the maths visible enough that the reader could mark their own scorecard afterwards.

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