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How it works

A modern freestanding pinsetter built on off-the-shelf industrial components, and the software that becomes possible once a machine can set any rack on command. Step through both below.

The hardware

Inside the Dux Setter

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Pin separator and distributor

This is the part no other pinsetter has. Pins arrive in a jumble and are separated, oriented and then placed one at a time into a removable basket plate — into whichever positions the software asked for. The full ten, a single sleeper, a tournament leave: the rack is built to order before it ever reaches the deck.

The software

What the platform does with it

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Open play

Classic duckpin, three balls a frame, scored automatically for every bowler on the lane. Pin-level detection means strikes, spares and splits are called for you, and the whole game lands in each bowler’s history when it ends.

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For alleysThe alley dashboard, lower maintenance, new ways lanes earn — and the questionnaire that shapes what we build.For alleys →For bowlersBuild an avatar, track every ball you throw, follow your friends — and tell us what you want on the lane.For bowlers →For investorsWhere we sit against every machine and platform on the market, and how to start a conversation.For investors →

About us

Why we are building this

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I joined my first duckpin bowling league in the Summer of 2023 at the Walkersville Bowling Center, on a Wednesday night league with my dad, brother, cousins, and father-in-law. I then signed up for a Fall League at Mt. Airy Lanes that Fall and have not stopped since. My average sits at 117 and I am chasing the 120s.

What keeps me coming back is the challenge. Nobody has ever bowled a 300, but I would like to see someone accomplish that one day. My personal best is a 181, which I then followed it up with an 88. The game teaches patience and perseverance, two traits that are not necessarily promoted in most recreational activities today.

Our leagues have bowlers ranging in ages from the teens to the nineties, men and women, from every kind of background, all playing the same game on the same lanes. It is indoors and year-round, costs roughly the price of a single meal at any fast casual restaurant, and is an opportunity to see friends and family every week. No other sport can compare to the reach duckpin bowling has to offer.

Duckpin bowling sits at a crossroads today. The Sherman pinsetters that every duckpin house depends on are more than fifty years old, nobody has built a new one since 1973, and the alleys that are left keep them running on parts scavenged from houses that have already closed. String machines exist, but any serious duckpin bowler will tell you the pin action is a different game. If nobody builds a new pinsetter, the sport runs out of machines — and then it runs out of alleys.

So we are building one. The goal is simple and personal: keep the game alive, and give it room to grow into places that have never had it. One day I want to bowl with my son the way I get to bowl with my dad today, and I would like there to be a lane for us when that day comes.

— Andrew Boller, founder