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Cutthroat (pool) Cutthroat or cut-throat, also sometimes referred to as three-man-screw, is a typically three-player or team pocket billiards game, played on a pool table, with a full standard set of pool balls (15 numbered object ball s and a cue ball ); the game cannot be played with three or more players with an unnumbered reds-and-yellows ...
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. It is played on a billiards table with the same ...
Rotation (pool) The appropriate rack for rotation from the racker's point of view; the 1 ball is at the apex of the rack and is on the , the 2 is in the corner to the racker's right, the 3 ball is in the left corner, and the 15 is in the center, with all other balls placed randomly, and all balls touching. Rotation, sometimes called rotation ...
Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) 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 ball s). The object balls include ...
Three-ball. 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.
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 ...
The English-originating version of 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 and fifteen usually unnumbered object balls) on a small pool table with six pockets. It originated in the United Kingdom and is played in the Commonwealth ...
Rules. "Chicago" often refers to a variation of rotation pool in which the balls are initially placed in positions against the rails of the table. [ 2][ 3] Another variation of Chicago is played in a similar fashion to nine-ball and rotation, where balls must be played in order starting with the 1 ball. In Chicago, all fifteen balls are used.