tenpin

Getting a strike or a spare means something, rather than tenpin where knocking down all the pins on most frames is basically expected.

Candlepin has a world record single string score that is far from 300, whereas in tenpin perfect games are common.

As a demo, i made a tenpin bowling simulator that is discoverable on the interwebs.

I still 30 years later get surprised when the tenpin lanes clear the pins between rolls.

Nowadays, bowling alleys in the area probably skew two-thirds tenpin, one-third candlepin.

This was my thoughts on why tenpin has taken over.

These days when I end up bowling it's usually at one of those newer hip bowling+drinks type places, which are generally tenpin.

These days I just assume any new bowling alley is tenpin & not candlepin.

When we moved to Ohio and we went bowling (tenpin) I was soooo confused.

While there was a tenpin lane, I also never went until post-college.

Didn’t see a tenpin lane until after college.

As a New England native, I'm ashamed to admit that outside of television and movies, I had never seen tenpin until I went to college.

Western mass here, still can't understand the appeal of "classic" tenpin bowling.

And even now that both types are available (often in the same bowling alley), we still call regular tenpin bowling "big ball" bowling.

While "splits" do happen in tenpin, they're nowhere near as varied as candlepin with its "wood" and ability for pins to move but not fall down.