What is snooker?

Question

I know its kind of a u.k. pool game but besides that i don't know much.

Answer 1

Billiards, Pool and Snooker are each different.

Billiards originally involved a pocketless table with 3 balls, the object of which was to carom (bank) and strike the object ball for a score.

Billiards and pool are now used synonymously in America, and involves a table with 6 pockets, a cue ball and 15 object balls that may or may not be pocketed in order, depending on whether you're playing 8 or 9 ball pool.

Snooker is similar to pool in that the object is to pocket scoring balls. It is far more difficult to shoot snooker than "regular" American pool. The balls and pockets are smaller and the snooker table is larger than in pool.

A snooker table is 6-feet by 12-feet. What is often called a billiard table in America is usiually 5-by-10-feet. (Old European billiard tables were generally around 3-by-6-feet or even smaller.) American pool tables are either 4-by-8-feet or 5-by-10.

In all 3 games, an essential part is the "leave" or "snookering" which involves creating as difficult a shot for your opponent as possible when you try to make your shot. Billiards is the oldest of these three and is played with few balls and complex rules rules.

Snooker was devised from billiards and is a bit easier to understand. You have a quantity of red balls, and a number of coloured ones (and a white cue ball). Basically, you break the reds up and try to put them down the holes. When you pot one, it stays down. When you pot one, you can also then try to pot a coloured one (which each have a different score). If you do, it comes back up and is replaced as near to where it started as is possible. If you miss, the other player has a go. When all the reds are gone, the colours are taken in a set order. Highest score wins.

Pool has two sets of balls - solid and striped (they alternate odds and evens). You decide which you are potting by the first player to pot one going for those afterwards. When a ball is down, it stays down. The 8 ball (black) is neutral and is the last to be potted by the winner. There are other sets of rules for pool (such as 9 ball), but 8 ball is the most common.

Answer 2

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large (12 ft × 6 ft, 3.6 m x 1.8 m) baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. It is played using a cue, one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls (worth 1 point each) and 6 balls of different colours (worth 2–7 points each). A player (or team) wins by scoring more points than the opponent, using the cue ball to pot the balls in the manner described below.

Answer 3

Dont blame him for not having his name on avatar as for snooker not trying to be an A-- hole but read a book there are thousands

Answer 4

snooker is how pool is called in europe. you know like the way they call soccer football in europe. its the same thing. so now the real question is do u kno what pool is? if not search it on www.wikipedia.org

Answer 5

I do not know