snooker

     

Snooker is a cue sport that is playe on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7). A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won.

Trivia about snooker

  • This form of billiards uses 15 red balls & 6 colored balls
  • Encarta calls it "The cue game most popular in Britain"
  • The first break must make contact with a red ball in this game
  • In this billiards game, players have 15 red balls to shoot as well as 6 balls of other colors
  • In January 2002 Ronnie O'Sullivan was the top-ranked player in this game that involves 15 red balls
  • To dupe, or a variety of billiards
  • To deceive or cheat, possibly at this variety of pool