Five-pin bowling

He cut five tenpins down to about 75% of their size, and used hand-sized hard rubber balls, thus inventing the original version of five-pin bowling.

[3] As in ten-pin, if either of these happen in the last frame, the player gets to take one or two shots at a re-racked set of pins immediately.

A perfect score is 450, requiring 12 consecutive strikes bowled in the same game without fouling.

Five-pin bowling allows for more strategy in its play than the ten-pin variant,[citation needed] because of the differing point values for each pin.

In five-pin bowling on the other hand, if a player misses a strike, he or she has to make a strategic decision as to which set of remaining pins they should attempt to knock down (beyond simply trying for them all), which allows players a means to minimize their losses after a mistake, by aiming for the higher-scoring group of pins, or for the lower but perhaps more easily struck group.

Five-pin bowlers use a number of terms to denote the results of a throw:[6] There are four groups overseeing the major tournaments in five pin bowling.