This tips are available from Andy’s group dedicated to bowling buddy game. I just made it googleable! Post are as it is without edits. Kudos, to those who made it.

This is by Dave Dixon

Firstly pageup / down still works because i have just done it!!, and its not cheating its just ensuring your mouse isn’t moved and that the bowl goes in a straight line.
what you are doing is very similar because i just carefully position the bowl a and i then took a screen grab that was after 2 days of trial and error to find the most suitable spot for the bowl and to get the greatest of accuracy, i also tried other methods similar to yours of plotting lines to follow or running the mouse along against a ruler, but found pageup/down was the best method, so its no different from what you are doing.

It took me two days of work to achieve so i deserve the credit of achieving my aim to reach 300 and i can now achieve it by several methods including yours, but if you seem to think what i have done is cheating then i am afraid yours is also because in real bowling you cannot exactly pre-positon the bowl and use the same guidelines …unless you intend to paint lines on a real bowling alley and put a x or marker on the lanes where you last achieved a strike and then achieve the same speed every time which is not possible due to human error, so therefore what you are doing is not replicating a true representation of the game of bowling. If you wish to play the game as if you were playing real bowls then i am afraid you should not be drawing lines etc to use as a mouse guide as it too can be conceived as cheating!

Most games are designed in a mathematical way so there are always going to be ways to increase the possibility of getting a higher score etc, and as they say practice makes perfect!, luck can play a part of course, but the games are designed for fun, for me its challenge to increase my odds of winning and by working out solutions, that is the achievement not just getting to the magic 300.

Text based instructions.
Original perfect 300 post by Andy
Theresa’s Laptop tip
KC’s ball alignment screenshot.

The game on video.
The whole perfect 300 bowling game on video.

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Trick 1: Average speed of 40km/hr
Trick 2: Clown award

Bowling went virtual with Bowling Buddies. This game is developed by Playfish and featured stylish 3D graphics, easy controls, tons of achievements, customised characters and challenges against your friends.

This game allows you to toggle between 2D and 3D graphics and caters for fast or slow PC. I was not too into the game until I start winning some award, that where I start to check out the forum and look for the methods to WIN the different awards.

These are the awards available according to playfish support f.a.q. pages. I’ve copied those over for easy reference.

What do the icons mean?

Q: What do the icons in the main menu below my character and below my friends characters in the score chart mean? And how do I achieve them?

A: These are different achievements to be won in the game.

A full list of all achievements and what is required for each is listed below

Awarded for scoring more than 100 Points in one game!
Awarded for scoring more than 200 points in one game!
Awarded for scoring more than 5 strikes in one game!
Awarded for bowling faster than an average speed of 40 km/hr!
Are you a clown? Can you find out how to win this achievement?
Awarded for playing more than 50 games!
Awarded for inviting more than 30 friends!
Awarded for filling the scoreboard with strikes!
Awarded when you have won 25 challenges!
Awarded when scoring all spares in one game!

As this post is fairly long, I am breaking it into different pages depending on which trick you are working on. Self-explanatory awards will not be covered.

Bowling Buddies trick 1: How to get awarded for bowling faster than an average speed of 40km/h!

Bowling Buddies trick 2: How to get the clown award?

Bowling Buddies trick 3: How to get the perfect 300 game?

Bowling Buddies trick 4: How to get the spare saver award?