"Billiard" come from French, but why "pool"?
2007-07-08 04:16:30 · 9 answers · asked by Miss T 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Hello dear!
Well, they are different games and tables.
Billiards are the tables without holes and played with 3 or four balls.
Pool, has holes (pools) in the four corners and in the middle of each of the longer sides. They are played with a white ball and a bunch of other!
2007-07-08 10:42:35 · answer #1 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Billiards used only involve 3 balls: According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica:
"billiards:
Any of various games played on a cloth-topped, cushion-railed rectangular table by driving small, hard balls against one another or into pockets with a long stick called a cue. Carom, or French billiards, is played with three balls, two white and one red, on a table without pockets. The object is to stroke the white cue ball so that it hits the two object balls in succession, scoring a carom (one point). English billiards is also played with three balls but on a pocketed table; it is scored in various ways. Snooker is another popular British billiards game. The principal billiards game in North America is pocket billiards, or pool. The Billiard Congress of America controls U.S. tournament play, including the U.S. Open Pockets Billiard Championship, regarded as the world championship."
For more information on billiards, visit Britannica.com.
So, pocket billiards became pool, which I'm glad about, since ...3 balls? Too boring.
2007-07-08 11:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well Miss T it is a type of pool to witch there are many kinds but all played on a pool table but they do call it Billiards but it is on a pool table so we call it pool and then sub category's sort of like us P&S look where we are under music hope this helps u out
2007-07-08 11:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by marsh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billiards is a type of pool game. It has all red balls and bumpers on the table. Pool has numbered balls.
2007-07-08 11:19:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're two different games.
Billiards only uses 3 balls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_billiards
2007-07-08 11:19:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_billiards
2007-07-08 11:20:01 · answer #6 · answered by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know and don't really care
2007-07-09 00:15:29 · answer #7 · answered by NoLongerHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thought they were different games....
2007-07-08 11:19:16 · answer #8 · answered by ~LOZ~ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
dunno, ain't they got different rules
2007-07-08 11:19:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋