Bowling Strikes Names

[Josh]

What are the rest of the names for consecutive strikes in a row? I only know these?

1 - Strike
2 - Double
3 - Turkey
4- 4-Bagger
5- Hambone
6-
7-
8-
9-
10-
11-
12-

Thanks

[MarvinRules]

Well according to Wikipedia

Two consecutive strikes are referred to as a "double." Three strikes bowled consecutively are known as a "turkey" or "triple." Any longer string of strikes is referred to by a number attached to the word "bagger," as in "four-bagger" or "five-bagger" for four or five consecutive strikes. Recently, the event of bowling four consecutive strikes has also been called a "sombrero" or "ham bone." This terminology is used most often when a bowler is "off the strikes." (i.e. has previously bowled a string of several strikes but failed to strike on his most recent ball.) When a player is "on the strikes," a string is often referenced by affixing "in a row" to the number of strikes bowled consecutively. Six strikes in a row are sometimes referred to as a "six pack."[12][13]6 strikes and 9 strikes in a row can also be referred to "Wild Turkeys" and "Golden Turkeys" respectively. Any string of strikes starting in the first frame or ending "off the sheet" (where all of a bowler's shots from a certain frame to the end of the game strike) are often referred to as the "front" or "back" strikes, respectively (e.g. the 'front nine' for strikes in frames 1-9, or the 'back six' for strikes in frames 7, 8, and 9 with a turkey in the tenth). A "Perfect Game" or 12 strikes in a row is also colloquially referred to as the "Thanksgiving Turkey."

1 - Strike
2 - Double
3 - Triple/Turkey
4 - Four Bagger
5 - Five Bagger/Sombrero/Ham Bone
6 - Six Bagger/Six Pack/Wild Turkeys/Golden Turkeys
7 - Seven Bagger
8 - Eight Bagger
9 - Nine Bagger/Wild Turkeys/Golden Turkeys
10 - Ten Bagger
11 - Eleven Bagger
12 - Perfect Game/Thanksgiving Turkey

There you go! Enjoy!

[Josh]

Thanks you so much!!

[winter weezland]

Apr 3, 2008 17:35:03 GMT -8 Josh said:

What are the rest of the names for consecutive strikes in a row? I only know these?

1 - Strike
2 - Double
3 - Turkey
4- 4-Bagger
5- Hambone
6-
7-
8-
9-
10-
11-
12-

Thanks

If you call it a hambone, then you don't need to be bowling.
That commentator and his commentating is the worst thing to happen to bowling... ever.

[The Naomi of It]

I never even knew that there was such things as those terms before now.

[Mara]

Actually... all the guys in the bowling tournaments I do call 4 in a row a hambone.

And, I believe, on one show, he called a 5-bagger "Yahtzee."



And, yes, Phil (I think?) is super annoying. He almost gets giddy if he can say hambone.

[MarvinRules]

Apr 4, 2008 16:22:52 GMT -8 Mara said:

Actually... all the guys in the bowling tournaments I do call 4 in a row a hambone.

And, I believe, on one show, he called a 5-bagger "Yahtzee."



And, yes, Phil (I think?) is super annoying. He almost gets giddy if he can say hambone.

I have no idea what the official terms are.
And I am sure that there are many local variants to the list.

[winter weezland]

Apr 4, 2008 16:22:52 GMT -8 Mara said:

Actually... all the guys in the bowling tournaments I do call 4 in a row a hambone.

And, I believe, on one show, he called a 5-bagger "Yahtzee."



And, yes, Phil (I think?) is super annoying. He almost gets giddy if he can say hambone.

I believe you'e correct on both of those... some friends of mine started doing that on their high school team and it drives me insane!!
But they've never been all that creative with their cheers. They got the idea of shouting "Spa-loosh" from a movie, The Benchwarmers, I think, and the only reason they decided to start doing that is because my team would shout "Woohah" for strikes.

But anyway, I've spent all 18 years of my life at bowling alleys, and this is how I've always seen them classified:

1 - Strike
2 - Double
3 - Turkey
4 - Four Bagger
5 - Five Bagger
6 - Six Pack
7 - Seven in a Row
8 - Eight in a Row
9 - Nine in a Row
10 - Ten in a Row
11 - Eleven in a Row
12 - 300, Perfect Game

And once you get the first six strikes, you can start saying that you have the "First Six" or "Front Six" or whatever number of strike you're on.

[z00fy]

On my High School team we made creative way to call the strikes we get

1 - Strike

2 - (Someone on Team says "Discount" Bowler says "Double Check")
3 - Turkey
/ 3 Banger
4- Mad Buns
5- Yah
tzee
6-
Cans/Six Pack
7-
Make it Rain
8-
Jugs
9-
Turkey Hunter
10-
Big 10
11-
One more
12-(No actual name)A Lot of Celebrating 

[pitmaster]

Apr 3, 2008 17:47:08 GMT -8 winter weezland said:

Apr 3, 2008 17:35:03 GMT -8 Josh said:

What are the rest of the names for consecutive strikes in a row? I only know these?

1 - Strike
2 - Double
3 - Turkey
4- 4-Bagger
5- Hambone
6-
7-
8-
9-
10-
11-
12-

Thanks

If you call it a hambone, then you don't need to be bowling.
That commentator and his commentating is the worst thing to happen to bowling... ever.

[pitmaster]

Jun 10, 2020 18:59:29 GMT -8 pitmaster said:

Apr 3, 2008 17:47:08 GMT -8 winter weezland said:

If you call it a hambone, then you don't need to be bowling.
That commentator and his commentating is the worst thing to happen to bowling... ever.

very odd Josh...hambone is thee most common reference to a 4 bagger. Me using the term will not disqualify me from the game... unfortunately for you.