2006-06-25 07:41:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Snooker & Pool
Because it's the rules of the game?
2006-06-25 07:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by badgerbadger 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the game of snooker, you do not, during your turn, have to pot a colour after you pot a red, but you must select a colour as your next ball on and hit it. If you fail to contact that colour before contacting any other ball during that stroke, you will be penalized. There is no penalty if it does not get potted. That term at the table simply ends.
You asked, I answered.
2006-06-25 19:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by ½«gumwrapper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if you just pot all the reds then all the colours the game would be finished far to quick.
2006-06-25 14:53:05 · answer #3 · answered by Bob The Builder 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In snooker, that is the rule, pot a red follow up with a colour.
2006-06-29 04:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snooker Rules, see link in sources.
Unde Game Play it states:
"6. After the striker has scored a red ball initially, his next legal object is a color, and as long as reds remain on the table he must alternate his play between reds and colors (though within each group he may play a ball of his choice). When reds remain on the table and a color is his object, the striker must (a) designate prior to stroking which color ball is his object (that specific color is then his "ball on"), and (b) cause the cue ball's first contact with a ball to be with that colored ball. If the striker fails to meet these requirements, it is a foul (See Penalties For Fouls)."
2006-06-25 14:51:30 · answer #5 · answered by Mark aka jack573 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because that is the rule for snooker - if you want to pot balls in a different sequence or restrict the pockets so colours go in 1 pocket and reds in another or whatever takes your fancy then it will be a different game
2006-06-25 22:52:01 · answer #6 · answered by Ivanhoe Fats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pardon?
2006-06-25 14:44:21 · answer #7 · answered by vindaloo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just like any other game it requires rules and these rules make it a game, why do we have offside in football or time outs in basketball?
2006-06-28 08:35:15 · answer #8 · answered by john b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually Richard you can do what you want to do but doesnt mean its going to be a legal shot. you play how ever you want to play the game.
2006-06-27 09:57:56 · answer #9 · answered by mc_691 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its in the rules lol
2006-07-02 04:55:44 · answer #10 · answered by mattb77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋