Glossary of Cue Sports Terms
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To "aim for the profession side of the pocket" is to slightly overcut a difficult corner-pocket cut shot, to cheat the pocket, rather than undercutting, especially in nine-ball. In one-pocket, in which a set number of balls must be made in a specific pocket, upon a foul the player must return a ball to the table. In this version of croquet, there are nine wickets, two stakes, and up to six balls. Hartford I don't know about, but in western CT there is Pool Table Magic. The first four turns must be taken to play the four balls onto the lawn from one of two "baulk lines" defined as one yard into the lawn on the western half of the south boundary and the eastern half of the north boundary. 1. In snooker, any of the object balls that are not reds. However, due to the predominance of US-originating terminology in most internationally competitive pool (as opposed to snooker), US terms are also common in the pool context in other countries in which English is at least a minority language, and US (and borrowed French) terms predominate in carom billiards. Not to be confused with carom billiards.
In carom billiards games, when all the balls are kept near each other and a cushion so that with very soft shots the balls can be "nursed" down a rail, allowing multiple successful shots that effectively replicate the same ball setup so that the nurse shots can be continued almost indefinitely, unless a limit is imposed by the rules. Uses a set of striped and solid numbered balls. Uses a set of yellow and red balls. Billiards is a cue sport played on a rectangular table with pockets, where players use cue sticks to strike balls into the pockets. Also littles, little ones, little balls. Certainly, it's a sport enjoyed by people of all ages. H. G. Wells wrote The Croquet Player which uses croquet as a metaphor for the way in which people confront the very problem of their own existence. After a successful croquet stroke, the player has a single further shot, known as the "continuation". The second bonus shot ("continuation shot") is an ordinary shot played from where the striker ball came to rest.
3. the striker's ball when the striker is entitled to a lift. A player earns a single extra shot by scoring a hoop point (hitting the striker's ball through a hoop), or two extra shots by causing their ball to contact another ball - an action called a "roquet". • The player shoots in such a manner that his cue tip stays in contact with the cue ball for more than the momentary time commensurate with a stroked shot (a push shot). Also point of contact. Also score-board, score board. Not to be confused with the disk-flicking traditional board game carrom, which is sometimes played with a small cue stick. Ball-and-pocket are called for each shot, with fouls (faults) resulting in cue ball in-hand for the opponent, anywhere on the table. The two names reflect slightly variant rulesets, which differ primarily in handling of faults (fouls). In some games, three successive fouls in a row is a loss of game. See the Seven-ball main article for the game.
The term billiards is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific class of them, or to specific ones such as English billiards; this article uses the term in its most generic sense unless otherwise noted. Sometimes interchangeable with scratch, though the latter is often used only to refer to the foul of pocketing the cue ball. To get started, you'll need essential equipment like cue sticks, balls, and a billiards table. In addition, some variations of the game allow the player to pot one of the opposition's balls, on the first visit only, without the loss of a "free shot". Also bigs, big balls, What is a billiards club big ones. American Journal of Physics. Deeper in the site are also technical proofs which may be of interest to readers with a physics and engineering background. There is an especially large interest in competitive success among players in Egypt. There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then on, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players. Fast Eddie B, is described as a "world class croquet player", and two other gang members, Ihor Ihorovich and Scar Graynolt, also play the sport.