Thursday, 9 February 2012

Billiards pool game



Pool (pocket billiards) games
Main category: Pool (cue sports)
Artistic pool
Bank pool (banks, nine-ball banks)
Baseball pocket billiards
Blackball and British eight-ball pool
Bottle pool
Bowlliards
Chicago
Chinese eight-ball
Cowboy pool (hybrid)
Cribbage pool
Cutthroat
Eight-ball (stripes-and-solids, highs-and-lows)
English billiards (hybrid)
Equal offense
Kaisa
Kelly pool (pill/pea pool)
Killer
Nine-ball
One-pocket
Poker pool (hybrid)
Rotation
Russian pyramid
Seven-ball
Skittle pool variants (pin pool)
Snooker (see below; popularly regarded as its own sport, not a pool variant)
Speed pool
Straight pool (also called "14.1 continuous")
Ten-ball
Three-ball
Trick shot competition
[edit]Snooker games
Main category: Snooker
Snooker
Six-red snooker
American snooker
Sinuca brasileira
Volunteer snooker
Snooker plus
Golf billiards (and its variant, around-the-world)
[edit]Obstacle and target billiards games
Main category: Obstacle billiards
Bagatelle
Bar billiards
Bumper pool
Danish pin billiards and other pin billiards games
Devil's pool and victory billiards
Bottle pool, skittle pool (pin pool), and Italian five-pin billiards are vestigially classifiable here as well
[edit]Developments without cue or balls, or both
Boccette
Hand billiards and finger pool (no cues)
Crud
Carrom (uses small disks instead of balls; some versions use miniature cues, others no cues at all)
Novuss (a variant that uses full-size cues)
Crokinole (some variants of this combination of carrom and shuffleboard use miniature cues)

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