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I picked up a 7-10 in birthday party bowling once, it's more or less blind luck, you need a carom out of the pit that happens to bounce the pin into the opposit

• wrs 6y ago
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• Groxx 6y ago
  Yeah, I've done it once each from both outside the 7 (spin made it bounce in the gutter, managed to jump out just enough to bump the 7, which scooted over to fall onto the 10 and tip it) and inside (like this clip has, bouncing off the wall). I average about 130 per game. Mine were definitely not due to skill, just number of games - I grew up close enough to a $1/game-on-Thursdays alley, and my family went to it a lot for a few years. I'm kinda boggled that this isn't on camera more often tbh. Maybe 7/10s are just a lot less likely for professionals? My rate of them has seemed to go down as I started throwing faster.
  • fatnoah 6y ago
    Same story here. Mostly 140s bowler as a kid, though I did hit 190+ a couple times. My one and only "make" of the 7-10 happened when I kissed the outside side of the (whatever pin is on the right) as my ball fell into the gutter. The pin slid to the left and fell into the other pin, knocking it over.
• kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 6y ago
  At a friend's birthday party in the early 90s (10th or 11th birthday, I believe), he picked up a 7-10 split after his dad bet him $50 he couldn't do it. Fortunately dad was smart enough to be ready with the camera to catch the reaction, just in case.