8 ball billiards rules?

Question

you're shooting the balls in and you accidentally hit the 8 ball in with your cue out of turn. What happens next, would this be an automatic win for your opponent or would the 8 ball be spotted? Remember, you did not hit the 8 ball with another ball, you hit it with your cue. Please help me with this.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

you loose

Answer 3

you would lose

Answer 4

Your opponent wins if you hit the eightball in before pocketing all your balls.

Answer 5

8 ball in pocket=you lose

Scratch on on having ONLY the 8 ball left=you lose

Answer 6

This would depend on whether or not a referee was presiding over the game.  I'm going to cut and paste the appropriate rule from the BCA (Billiard Congress of America) website.  This is under the General Rules of Pocket Billiards section.

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1.16.1  CUE BALL FOULS ONLY

When a referee is presiding over a match, it is a foul for a player to touch any ball (cue ball or object ball) with the cue, clothing, body, mechanical bridge or chalk, before, during or after a shot. However, when a referee is not presiding over a game, it is not a foul to accidentally touch stationary balls located between the cue ball and the shooter while in the act of shooting. If such an accident occurs, the player should allow the Tournament Director to restore the object balls to their correct positions. If the player does not allow such a restoration, and a ball set in motion as a normal part of the shot touches such an unrestored ball, or passes partly into a region originally occupied by a disturbed ball, the shot is a foul. In short, if the accident has any effect on the outcome of the shot, it is a foul. In any case, the Tournament Director must be called upon to restore the positions of the disturbed balls as soon as possible, but not during the shot. It is a foul to play another shot before the Tournament Director has restored any accidentally moved balls. At the non-shooting player’s option, the disturbed balls will be left in their new positions. In this case, the balls are considered restored, and subsequent contact on them is not a foul. It is still a foul to make any contact with the cue ball whatsoever while it is in play, except for the normal tip-to-ball contact during a shot.

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Now, this may sound a little confusing.  This rule only applies to tournament matches.  It doesn't directly address "casual" games.  Therefore, if it's just you and a friend playing, I would play as though you were both referees for the game.  Since your opponent saw you commit a foul and pocket the 8-ball out of turn (being a "referee") it would consitute a loss of game.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

Answer 7

You lose.