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Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface, usually a wooden or synthetic surface, either into objects called pins or to get close to a target ball.United States Bowling Conference There are many forms of bowling, with one of the most recent being ten-pin bowling and the earliest dating back to ancient Egypt.ububu.combowlingmuseum.com Other places where bowling was first seen were ancient Finland and Yemen,Official Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee and in 300 A.D. in Germany.ububu.combowlingmuseum.com

The first standardized rules were established in New York City, on September 9, 1895.Springdale USBC Site Today, bowling is enjoyed by 95 million people in more than ninety countries worldwide Fit4FunKids site and continues to grow through entertainment mediums such as video games for home consoles and hand held devices.AMF Bowling Pinbusters! for Nokia N-Gage

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Category: Image - :300ring1.jpg|thumb|right|Typical 300 ring (this one is awarded for a USBC-sanctioned 300 game).

A perfect game is the best score possible in a game of bowling, achieved by rolling a strike during every frame. In bowling games that use 10 pins, such as Ten-pin bowling, Candlepin bowling, and Duckpin bowling, the highest possible score is 300, achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a single game: one strike in each of the first nine frames, and three more in the tenth frame. Because a strike counts as ten points plus any pinfall in the next two balls, 30 points are possible in a given frame. In Five-pin bowling, the highest possible score is 450, as a strike is worth 15 points.

Historically, the perfect game was dauntingly difficult to achieve, but with the advent of new technology in ten-pin bowling, beginning in the 1970s, it has become a slightly more feasible goal even for skilled amateur and semi-professional players. Such technological changes include the use of more "active" synthetic bowling pins, more forgiving lane conditions (especially on synthetic surfaces versus wood) that allow a greater margin for error, and most importantly, bowling balls with modern "reactive" coverstocks that allow greater hooking action and consequently better strike carry on less-than-perfect hits. (See Ten-pin bowling for more information.) As a result, perfect games are somewhat commonplace, especially in professional play. For example, PBA professional ten-pin bowler Parker Bohn III has rolled 85 perfect games in PBA competition during his 24 seasons on tour.Parker Bohn III bio at www.pba.com

Ten-pin bowling (more commonly just "bowling" in the United States) is a competitive sport in which a player (the ?bowler?) rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic (polyurethane) lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.