My highest game is 98. If i had to give an average I’d say around 40.
Needless to say I’m the worlds worst bowler (And don’t go but once or twice a year).
It’s been quite some time since I last bowled; a decade at least. I recall breaking 100 just once or twice.
Wii Bowling OTOH I’ve bowled dozens of perfect games.
Back around 1960, I bowled 206. I started the game with 6 strikes and then things went bad. I bowled in a league for a couple years and averaged about 142 I think, so I was not very good really. I haven’t bowled in nearly 50 years.
I haven’t bowled in 30 years and was bad at it even back then. I think I broke 126, but I’m not sure.
I bowled in a number of leagues from about 1976 through 1988. I improved from about a 160 average to over 190 during that time. My highest game started with 10 strikes in a row, then a 9/spare for 289.
Except for Wii bowling, I have never bowled.
In the 240’s, when I was in college.
After a 25 yr layoff, I bowled in a league two winters ago, and bowled 180 once. average was about 135.
When I was a kid, we had a duck-pin bowling alley about a mile from our summer home. Those were some fine times.
The first time I ever tried ten pin bowling I bowled a 212. It was a fluke, since then I rarely break 140 or 150.
For Candlepins, I think my high was 121
For ten-pins, 226 (at the NAS Gitmo Bowling alley)
Don’t remember for duckpins (but only tried that a couple times)
I had a 298 once. I was bowling all the time, and carried a 190-200 average for many years.
That night I had the first nine with no problem, all in the pocket and beautiful! Then I got very nervous. I threw the first two in the tenth Brooklyn, then I tried to adjust for the third shot. Ha! Right through the nose to leave the 6-10. Oh, well!
My high series ever was a 742, I think. I shot a low 700 the night of the 298.
I’ve only tried ten pin a few times; my high score was probably around 165 or so.
I used to bowl five pin regularly (Youth Bowling); I got up to 271 once, but my best average was probably only around 170 or so.
I don’t bowl often. The most was once a week over a two month span, but that never kept up. Never in a league or anything like that. Last time I bowled was three months ago.
My highest score that I still have a score sheet for was a 214, but I’m pretty sure I’ve bowled a 221. I am very consistently around 150-170, even after years of not playing. I’ve broken 200 a few times, and once I swear I would have bowled a 300 if I had a towel to wipe my ball :mad: Looking back, I should have just used my shirt after I figured out what was happening (although it was too late to salvage the 300 at that point).
The most strikes in a row I’ve ever gotten is 7. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t during my highest score, either.
When I was young (read: before the average night out involved alcohol) we’d go disco bowling. I scored a 179. Since then I can consistently get within the 100-130 range but never any higher. I rarely go bowling any more, but it’s still fun every now and again
One time I was out with my co-workers and scored a 240 in one of the games. My average is usually around 140-150.
The oil pattern on the lanes can be manipulated to make it easier to bowl a 300.
When I worked in a bowling alley, we had at least one a week. I knew several bowlers that shot their first 300, and then would shoot another within a few weeks.
Every time a 300 was shot, the lane would be shut down after the league play was finished and nobody would be allowed to bowl on it until a representative from the local bowling association came out with a test tape to run across the lane at intervals. The tape was run through a machine that showed the oil pattern on the lane. The pattern had to be within ABC’s (now USBC) specifications for the 300 to be valid and for an award to be issued.
My best game involved strikes on the first seven frames, then I left a 10-pin, which I missed and then strikes the rest of the game. Final score was 267. My average at the time was in the high 170s/low 180s.
The best I ever saw was this guy in his early 20s. He shot 30 strikes in a row…second game was a 300…I think he started in the third frame of the first game. His 3 game series was just under 800.
It must be more than thirty years since I’ve done ten pin bowling. There was a phase in the 1970s when children held their birthday parties at a ten pin blowing place. Mini-golf parties were popular too.
I don’t think I ever got more than about 30-40. We just counted the number of pins that we knocked over. Nobody understood the official scoring system.
I’ve had many more 190-199 games than over 200 games. In fact my first and only over-200 for a long time was 222. Then one or two 200-210 games over the next year before I reached all the way up to 268 once. (I’ve broken 222 maybe 1 or 2 times after that.)
These days, I have about an equal amount of 190-199 and over 200 games, but I rarely reach that high since I only bowl a couple times a year if that. But my average seems to be better now that I’m bowling less often. I bowl far more 200+ games as a percentage now that I don’t bowl very much (probably once every 3 serieses.) Then again I get far more games that barely break 100, as well 
My two best games :
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238 in a league match - my husband and the other 2 guys on the team also bowled well, so our total score for that game was something like 1014.
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227 at the USBC Nationals in Reno this year. To understand how special that is to me, you need to know that I average in the 150s and that I routinely see 220 average bowlers barely break 150 at the Nationals.
I bowled for two seasons, but other than once or twice a year, haven’t done so reagularly in many years. I bowled only because my girlfriend wanted to. My high was a 208. A couple of weeks later, a teammate asked me how I was holding the ball. I had been placing my index & middle fingers in the holes. Once I was corrected, I still bowled about the same.
They don’t do this anymore. The center is “spot-checked” periodically and the bowler is accredited immediately.