2.9 Snooker
Description
This article is from the Pool & Billiards FAQ, by Bob Jewett with numerous contributions by others.
2.9 Snooker
This game uses 21 object balls and a cue ball. Fifteen object balls are
red and worth one point. The other six object balls are Yellow, Green,
Brown, Blue, Pink, and Black. Highest score wins, and the game ends
when all balls are pocketed (or when a foul is made on the final black).
You alternate hitting reds and colors, and each time a color goes in it
is respotted, until all the reds are off the table.
The balls are placed as in the fig:
(red on spot in American snooker, pink on spot otherwise)
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| | |
| | r | Reds: 1 point each
| . (3) r | Yellow: 2 points
| . | r r | Green: 3 -"-
| . | r r | Brown: 4 -"-
| . (4) (5) (6)r r r (7)| Blue: 5 -"-
| . | r r | Pink: 6 -"-
| . | r r | Black: 7 -"-
| . (2) r |
| | r |
| | |
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The ball on for the first shot of each inning is a red if any are left.
After all reds are gone, the colors become on in ascending order of
value. After a cue ball scratch, it becomes in-hand from the D (you may
shoot at any ball on). The penalty for all fouls is the value of the
ball on (but at least four points). Penalties are added to opponent's
score. The striker must attempt to hit the ball on, no deliberate
misses are allowed.
The International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) publishes the
official snooker rules used in amateur competitions worldwide. The rules
were rewritten for clarity late in 1994 and approved by the World
Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) in 1994 and the
IBSF in 1995. The new rule booklet can be ordered from your national
Snooker association, if it is a member of the IBSF, or directly from the
EASB at
EASB
Freya Broad
27 Oakfield Road
Clifton
Bristol BS8 2AT
UK
for 5 pounds and P&P. The BCA book has the IBSF rules too, but the 1995
book has the old version before the major rewrite with some minor
differences, notably the new foul-and-a-miss rule. The rules are
available on-line (as of October 2001) at
http://worldsnooker.com/snooker_and_billiards_rules/snookercont.asp
There is a Snooker referees' test paper from 1987 at:
http://apeli.tky.hut.fi/~sbo/pub/English_documents/Rules/Refs_test.txt
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