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A slash, a cross and a carry.
Also known as: Tenpin scoring symbols, Bowling score sheet
The notation recording a game of tenpin bowling, in which a mark's value depends on later throws.
Records a game of tenpin bowling frame by frame with a running total.
Contexts: Public information
A strike's value cannot be written when it is scored, because it depends on the next two throws — so the notation deliberately leaves a total blank and fills it in retrospectively, which is why the running total lags the play.
Contexts: Public information
A row of ten frames, each with small boxes for the throws, marked with a cross for a strike, a diagonal stroke for a spare and numerals otherwise, with a running total beneath.