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Billiards Billiards is a game played on a rectangular table half as wide as it is long. There are several games that can be played with a variation of three to twenty-one balls. Tables may also have either no pockets or up to six pockets. 1) The definition of billiards is any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. (http://www.…

…in Britain, pocket billiards in America and Japan, and the British and the Americas play snooker. (Menke 151-154) 5) The most popular game, Eight-Ball is played with 15 balls, 1 through 15 and a cue ball. One of the players has to make all of the solid balls (1-7) in the pockets while the other player has to pocket the stripes (9-15). Who ever pockets their group of balls first and then pockets the 8-ball wins the game. (Encarta)