Our center runs a Strike Pot where you have to get strikes in certain designated frames.  Get all the strikes in those frames and you win the pot.  Well, there was a controversy (what else is new) so I am polling the knowledgeable members here to see which interpretation of the rules you agree with.

In one of the games the center had the form printed out looking like this for the 10th through 12th frames:



 

 
 ___________
|   | X |   |
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Now, the bowler who raised the argument with the center believed that the strike in that frame meant that you could either start with a spare and then strike in the 11th or you could double in the 10th to meet the requirements.  The center said no, the only way you can strike in the 11th is by having a strike in the 10th.  If you go 9 count, spare, then strike, that means the nine count is the 10th, the spare is the 11th and the strike would be the 12th which does not meet the requirement.  What the center is saying the bowler actually did would look like this:

 ___________
| 9 | / | X |
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So, the strike the bowler got in that game was actually the 12th, and not the 11th like he thought.  He did not meet the requirement and did not win.  After that argument, the center changed the forms so that the 10th and 11th had to be strikes ( I was wondering why they changed all of a sudden).

 How would you interpret that requirement?   I disagreed with the center and apparently, most of the bowlers around here who I spoke with.  I would have agreed with the bowler who complained if I had been there at the time it happened.
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I just want 2C was'zzub.
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I am the SGT Schultz of bowling.
"I know nothing!"

Thanks for the replies so far.  In case it was missed, the sheet that is given out when the bowler pays to enter each week originally was marked as follows for the three games:

 

 
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 Game 1  |   | X |   |
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 Game 2  | X |   |   |
          -----------
 Game 3  | X | X |   |
          -----------
 

So by the difference between games 1 and 3, it looks to me like a strike was not required for the first ball in the Game 1 tenth frame.

And yes, the bowler was required to have 13 strikes in the indicated frames during the three games but I did not include all the other frames since it was only the tenth frames that was in question.  Now, on the new sheets, the first game has both the first two balls in the first game's tenth frame marked as being strikes, so the total strikes required for the three games is now 14.
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I just want 2C was'zzub.
____________________________________

I am the SGT Schultz of bowling.
"I know nothing!"

Edited on 10/7/2004 10:13 AM

Edited on 10/7/2004 10:15 AM