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When a pin on the deck is spinning next to a single pin or the pin on the deck rolls past the single pin and does not knock it down. The reason the pin did not reach the single pin is because it is a "Short pin"

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sleeper. Possible sleepers: 5-pin behind the 1-pin 7-pin behind the 2-pin 8-pin behind the 3-pin

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