![]() A few games such as English billiards are hybrids, using carom balls on pocket tables, and snooker, a non-pool-based pocket game, also uses such tables.īilliards as a class of games dates back to the 15th century, and (like golf) evolved from lawn games similar to croquet. Skill at one type of billiards-family game is widely applicable to the other, but expertise usually requires at least a degree of specialization. ![]() The two types of billiards have developed into a wide array of specific games with widely divergent rules, and require equipment that differs in some key parameters. The pockets (one at each corner, and one in the center of each long rail) provide targets (or in some cases, hazards) for the balls. ![]() Pocket billiards, most commonly called "pool", is a form of billiards usually equipped with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls), played on a pool table with six pockets built into the rails, splitting the cushions. ![]() Billiards as a general class of games is played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table.Ĭarom or carambole billiards ( often simply called "billiards" in many varieties of non-British English) is a type of billiards in which the table is bounded completely by cusions, and in which (in most variants) three balls are used. Both carom billiards and pocket billiards ( pool) are cue sports. ![]()
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