Category: Entertainment
Created by: a.protic
Number of Blossarys: 5
Possibly the most popular of all billiard games, eight ball is played on a pool table with six pockets. It is played with 16 balls: white, or the cue ball, seven striped and seven solid-colored ...
Nine-ball is a type of a pocket billiards played on a table with six pockets and with ten balls - a cue ball, and nine object balls numbered from 1 to 9. The objective is to pocket the 9 ball, ...
Russian pyramid, also known as pyramid or Russian billiards, is a type of pool game played on a table with six pockets. There are 15 white object balls and a red cue ball. It is similar to the ...
Carom, or carambole billiards, is a type of billiard game played on a pocketless table. The objective of the game is to score points by "caroming" one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball ...
Billiard chalk is a powdered substance placed on the tip of a cue stick to increase the friction between the tip of the cue and the cue ball. Cue "chalk" is not actually chalk (calcium carbonate) at ...
Also cue-ball, cueball, is the ball that a player strikes with a cue stick. It exists in nearly any cue sport, and it is typically white in color, hence often referred to as the "white ball". It can ...
Cue stick, or simply cue, is a stick which is used to propel balls in billiard games. It is usually around 55-60" in length with a tip made of a material such as leather on the end and sometimes with ...