Billiards

[Sarah]

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangulartable, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel hisball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) twoother balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with whichthe table sometimes is furnished.

[Sarah]

n. - testes, balls, often in conjuction with pain

[Sarah]

a game similar to [pool] in that it uses a green felt table, cues, and similar balls, but has 4 balls of different colors adn weights, and very very different rules.

[Monty]

[Billiards] is a game played on a table with [no pockets]. In korea, the tables are often 4 feet long and the game is played with [4 balls]. Across Europe the standard table is 5x10 and is played with 3 balls. Various games can be played on these tables and all are point games. a point is usually scored by making your [cue ball] bounce off one ball and then contacting another ball on the table. there may restrictions about which ball needs to be hit, or how many rails must alos be hit, or the oder in which any of these happen. The most common game played today is called 3-Cushion [billiards]. to score a point in 3 cushion you must make your cue ball contact the other two [balls on the table]. However, before the cue ball comes in contact with the second of the two balls, it must hit (in any order), the other ball and at least three rails. it is a very hard game, as such Americans have little patients for it. it is played through out Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. it should also be noted that pool is not billiards, however people often misuse the term billiards to mean pool.