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Straight pool (a.k.a. 14.1 continuous pool): The goal is to reach a predetermined number of points (e.g. 100); a point is earned by pocketing any called ball into a designated pocket; game play is by racks of 15 balls, and the last object ball of a rack is not pocketed, but left on the table with the opponent re-racking the remaining 14 before ...
Slosh (also known as Russian billiards, Indian pool, Indian billiards, and toad-in-the-hole) is a cue sport played on a snooker table. The game features seven balls, coloured white (for the cue ball), yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black, with points being scored for pocketing or playing caroms and cannons off object balls. The game is ...
Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. [1] [2] Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline ...
Billiard balls vary from game to game, and area to area, in size, design and number. Though the dominant material in the making of quality balls was ivory until the late 1800s (with clay and wood being used for cheaper sets), there was a need to find a substitute for it, not only due to elephant endangerment, but also because of the high cost of the balls.
English billiards, [1] called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two cue balls (one white and one yellow) and a red object ball are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball.
8 Ball Pool (stylized as 8POOL) is a 2008 sports game developed and published by the Swiss company Miniclip. The game was released for browsers in 2008 and for iOS and Android in 2013. 8 Ball Pool allows players to play pool against others online in a variety of modes, including 9-ball.
Pin billiards, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of pins or "skittles" Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards; Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball; Billiard table: The bounded table on which cue sports are played
Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the ...