# Dutch 200

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Ten-pin bowling achievement

This is the award an American Bowling Congress member received for bowling this type of game in the 1990s.

In [ten-pin bowling](/source/Ten-pin_bowling), a **Dutch 200** is a game in which the [bowler](/source/Bowler_(ten-pin)) records a score of 200 by getting [strikes](/source/Strike_(bowling)) and [spares](/source/Spare_(bowling)) in alternation throughout the game. Strikes, when thrown in the even-numbered frames, require six spares (strike then spare in the 10th frame). For strikes in the odd-numbered frames, five spares are needed, with a strike on the last shot of the game. When bowled in certified play, the certifying body may issue a patch or other award commemorating the feat.

The term is thought to originate from the phrase "[Dutch treat](/source/Dutch_treat)" which is when two individuals share the cost of a date.[1]

Traditionally, a Dutch 200 is one of the hardest games to bowl due to the alternation of the spares and strikes which gives each frame a score of 20. Note that there are over 1.5 billion other ways to bowl an exact 200 game without using either method (which totals just 1.1 million combinations).[2]

## Related oddity

Though unawarded, if a bowler can repeat the sequence of strike, strike, nine (first ball), missed spare for a full game (there is no spare attempt in the 10th frame), the score will also be 200. For the first nine frames, the bowler will score 57 (29 + 19 + 9) every three frames, for 171, with 29 more in the 10th frame to total 200.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Bowl.com FAQ"](http://www.bowl.com/pressroom/questions.aspx). *[United States Bowling Congress](/source/United_States_Bowling_Congress)*. Retrieved 2022-06-10.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["All About Bowling Scores"](http://www.balmoralsoftware.com/bowling/bowling.htm). *Balmoral Software*. Retrieved 2022-06-10.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service))

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