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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 ...
The players lag to decide who will be the first shooter; the player who wins the lag begins the game. [5]: 0:01–0:46 The object balls are positioned at their spots, and the cue ball of the winner of the lag is placed behind the head string, while the lag-loser's cue ball is placed somewhere between the foot (top) string and center string, [5]: 0:01–0:40 but cannot obstruct the first player ...
Full-size snooker tables are 12 feet (3.7 m) long. Carom billiards tables are typically 10 feet (3.0 m). Regulation pool tables are 9-foot (2.7 m), though pubs and other establishments catering to casual play will typically use 7-foot (2.1 m) tables which are often coin-operated, nicknamed bar boxes. Formerly, ten-foot pool tables were common ...
The international standard for carom billiard tables is a playing surface (measured from rail cushion to rail cushion) of 2.84 by 1.42 m (112 by 56 in, or 9.32 by 4.66 ft), +/- 5 mm, though many (especially American) tables for amateur use are 10 x 5 ft (3 by 1.5 m). The slate beds of profession-grade carom tables are usually heated to stave ...
Racking a game of three-ball with the standard fifteen-ball triangle rack. Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool object ball s and cue ball. The game is frequently gambled upon. The goal is to pocket (pot) the three object balls in as few shots as possible.
Four-ball billiards. Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs four balls, the cue ball and three others, numbered one, three, and five. A game of Cowboy pool is contested as a race to 101 points, with those points ...
2 points per pin toppled; 2 points for pocketing a white ball. 2 points for knocking a white ball off the table (this is a foul in tournaments). 4 points for "making red" 4 points for "making pale", which means to hit an object ball with the other object ball. It is not possible to score points for making red and making pale in the same shot.