I am very pleased to see that the top response to “do you feel sad when a lot of the responses are ‘something else’?” is “something else”. The Dopers did not disappoint me!
I bowled a fair amount in high school, and through college; that’s what happens when you grow up in Wisconsin. I own my own bowling ball, and when I bowled regularly, I was OK, but not great; I probably averaged around 140.
I don’t bowl often anymore (and haven’t since before COVID), but in recent memory, 100 would be a good game for me now.
I did a lot of candlepin bowling when i was younger. But the scoring is different (that is, ordinary scores are different) and i don’t think I’ve ever bowled with one of those big balls with holes like Fred Flintstone had.
I didn’t usually jump into water. I either walk in, or dive in. So i don’t ordinarily hold my nose. Would i if i jumped in? I dunno, maybe?
I’m a terrible bowler. I once had a score of ten. I had a strike. The rest of my rolls were gutterballs.
My condo development does not have garages with the units. There’s underground like a parking garage. We park there, but there is no storage allowed, so it’s just parking.
My parents didn’t fight or have obvious issues, but I never saw any passion either. My dad died at 59, so I guess it’s possible their marriage could have broken up if he hadn’t, but they were Catholic and not likely to divorce even if they hated each other.
I’ve never been a good bowler but I could get over 100. I haven’t bowled since long before my stroke. I re-taught myself to write and type and shoot but never bothered to practice throwing or bowling. It would be interesting to see how I do now.
I’ve been bowling twice in my life, which is not enough to be able to make any judgement about my skill level. So I put “never been bowling”, since that seems to be about right. I was there. There was bowling. Not sure if what I did actually qualifies. 
I bowled a lot in college, and though not great, did hit 187 during a bet. A couple of years ago I bowled again for the first time in a long while and hit 130-ish, I assume that’s about where I’d land.
I didn’t re-roll for the billionaire… I’d hesitate, I’d keep thinking what if, but given that they aren’t trying to cheat you and I’m assuming you’re getting a post-tax value, I’m pretty sure I can comfortably live the rest of my life (just shy of 50) with a million to invest.
Sure, I could live better with more, and the odds are in my favor, but it’s not “fix the world” money even best case. Thankfully, my family and friends are in general sufficiently well off that I don’t have a pressure to support them, nor do I have dramatic medical conditions or other expensive tastes that would encourage taking the risk.
But oh hell yes, would I spend the rest of my life wondering “what if I had…”
The billionaire question is amusingly misphrased. All it says is that the billionaire is going to multiply your roll by $1 million. Not that she’s going to give you anything.
It’s a surprisingly difficult decision. In the poll, I said I’d re-roll; but now I’m second-guessing myself.
I happen to have a d10 nearby. So I rolled it, to see what I would get.
I rolled a 1.
I got a zero! I suppose I could argue that in games the zero counts as ten, but I get that’s not the scenario here.
I got a 7. Yay me!
I would re-roll, roll a zero, and cry myself to sleep for the next several nights.
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I’ve been bowling once, I think; and have a rather dim recollection of it, except that I didn’t astonish everybody, myself included, by doing well. However, I know a) that I’m a klutz b) that I’m less strong and agile than I used to be and c) that I’m not going to spend lots of time practicing bowling. So I chose ‘terrible’, because that’s what I’d expect.
I hesitated over the re-roll. But I’d feel so terrible if the second roll were zero, and so terrified of that while re-rolling if I did, that I’d take the one million to be sure I’d get that. One million would be a life-changing amount of money for me – and probably also for the neighbor who I could then ensure would get first chance at the farm.
My Dad was a league bowler, so of course I bowled. I was not very good, I could get 100 pretty reliably.
If the d10 means that 0 is not ten but zero, I don’t re-roll, but otherwise- why not?
I assumed it was zero. Otherwise, as you say, why not?
Why would it be 10? Did the billlionaire give you a die labelled 0-9 or one labelleled 1-10?
In D&D and similar games, if you roll a D10 (0,1-9) for damage, etc, the “0” is a ten. That’s standard.
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/73933/why-does-a-d10-count-from-0-to-9#:~:text=One%20is%20simply%20cosmetic.,roll%20two%20ten%20sided%20dice.
Why does a d10 have a 0?
One is simply cosmetic. With nine single-digit faces and only a single two-digit face, using 0 instead of 10 allows them to print all the faces at a similar large font size. The other is, as others have noted, to make the die work better for rolling “percentiles.” In this case, you roll two ten sided dice.J
Is the billionaire playing D&D or did she give you a die labelled 0-9?
A die numbered 0, 1-9 is confusing. Does the 0 mean 10 or 0? In gaming- where the d10 came from, if you roll a single d10, the 0 is counted as 10. Since the d10 is a gaming construct, assuming gaming usage is not weird.