Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the...

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered...

overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes...

and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls)...

American pool is a term used in the United Kingdom, and sometimes more broadly outside North America, to refer to pool (pocket billiards) cue sports that...

Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played...

eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball, blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball...

pocket billiards game, played on a pool table, with a full standard set of pool balls (15 numbered object balls and a cue ball); the game cannot be played...

Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to pocket as many object balls...

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...

eight-ball, blackball, straight pool, and Russian pyramid. Along with black pool, it was one of the progenitor cue sports of snooker. Object balls were...

Pool Revolution: Cue Sports (also known in Europe as Cue Sports: Snooker vs. Billiards and in Japan as Cue Sports: Wi-Fi Taisen Billiards) is a sports...

"private number"). Kelly pool is a rotation game, which means that the lowest-numbered ball on the table must be contacted by the cue ball on every shot. No...

Around 1875, black pool was merged with pyramid pool to form the new game of snooker, today one of the most popular cue sports in the world. Pardon...

Pool (cards), the common pot for stakes or the stakes themselves in card games Pool (dominoes), the stock or boneyard in dominoes Pool (cue sports),...

Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "money ball"....

English billiards (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage) Pool (cue sports) (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general...

A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...

Rotation, sometimes called rotation pool, 15-ball rotation, or 61, is a pool game, played with a pocketed billiards table, cue ball, and triangular rack of fifteen...

banked (cue ball to object ball, then object ball to one or more cushions on the way to the pocket). Bank pool is one of the "cleanest" (no "slop") pool games...

One-pocket is a pool game. Only one pocket for each player is used in this game, unlike other games played on a pool table where any pocket can be used...

billiards and pocket billiards. Played on a standard pool table, the game uses just two object balls, a cue ball, and a 6+3⁄4 inches (170 mm)[citation needed]...

are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games. Such techniques are used on each...

cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool,...

borrows from the outdoor game of golf, which is historically related to the cue sports. It is usually played on 10-foot or 12-foot snooker tables as their size...

billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used...

Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per inning...

the winner. Around 1862, life pool spawned black pool, an ancestor of snooker, today one of the most popular cue sports in the world. Phelan, Michael...

cribbage. This is a requirement present in most pool games that a player must contact an object ball with the cue ball and after that contact, either pocket...

Cue sports, including three-cushion billiards, nine-ball (a pool discipline) and snooker, were introduced as World Games sports for men and (in the case...