Calculate your final ten-pin bowling score from the pins knocked down on each throw.
The Bowling Score Calculator works out your final ten-pin bowling score from a simple list of your throws, correctly applying strike and spare bonuses.
In ten-pin bowling, a strike earns the pins from your next two throws as bonus points, and a spare earns the pins from your next one throw — this calculator applies those rules automatically across all 10 frames.
A strike scores 10 plus the pins from the next two throws. A spare scores 10 plus the pins from the next one throw. An open frame scores the pins knocked down. The final score is the sum of all 10 frames.
Throws "X 7 2 9 0 X X 8 1 X X 6 4 X X X" score a total of 189 across the 10 frames, with strikes and spares credited their bonus pins automatically.
Each frame's score adds the pins knocked down, plus bonus pins for strikes (next two rolls) and spares (next one roll), across all 10 frames.
A strike earns 10 points plus whatever you knock down on your next two rolls as a bonus, rewarding consecutive good rolls.
A perfect game is 300 points, achieved by bowling 12 consecutive strikes (10 frames plus 2 bonus rolls in the 10th frame).