How do you play Snooker?

Question

Hi, I'm from the United States of America and I know next to nothing about Snooker, other than it's popular in Europe, and that it's played with pool balls.

Answer 1

Snooker is nothing like pool, the main differences are the balls are smaller, the table bigger 12' x 6' and the balls are not numbered.

Basically there are fifteen red balls, worth one point each, there are six coloured balls. The yellow-two points

, the green-three points, the brown-four points, the blue-five points, the pink-six points and the black-seven points.

The game is played and scored like this, using the white ball (cue ball) the object is to pot a red ball, then any coloured ball, if you can you carry on like this alternately red then colour, adding the points up as you go.

When you miss any ball then it's your oponents turn and he carries on in the same manner.

When all the red balls have been potted, then the coloured balls are potted in the order of their score, from yellow to black.

The winner of the game, is the person who has scored most points, if the scores are tied, then the black ball is replaced, and whoever pots it wins.

There are many rules to the game but that is the basic idea, one of the beauties of the game is that the rules are the same the world over, not like pool.

The dimensions of the table and balls are also the same worldwide, also the shape of the pockets.

The first World champion was Joe Davies and he won every year, with an intermission for the war, and retired after beating his brother Fred in 1946 37 games to 36.

Answer 2

Practice.

It's played on a larger table than pool 6ft x 12ft for a full size table.

15 red balls (1 point) plus colours, yellow (2pts), green (3pts), brown(4pts), blue(5pts), pink(6pts) and black (7pts)

You hit the white with the Q and attempt to pot a red. If you manage then you can try for a colour. You keep this up until no colours are left or you miss a pot.

Max break is 147 (15 reds followed by 15 blacks then all colours in order)

A foul give the other player 4 points.

Highest score wins.

Answer 3

A stick - commonly known as a cue, some various coloured balls and a table covered in green cloth. Doubt you would be able to get the hang of it though, as the balls have no numbers on them - Many nations of the world play snooker, but the USA is not one of them - Could the lack of numbering be the reason??

Answer 4

snooker table lot  bigger than pool table 15 reds and6 colours

Answer 5

badly lol

Answer 6

You have these balls and a stick, some people refer to it as a cue. You have to pot as many balls as you can, that's what John Virgo said on BBC tv's Big Break and he knows about these things!

Answer 7

Not very well but there are lots of sites with complete inst & rules

Answer 8

Its played with snooker balls not pool balls.

It would take forever to explain the rules on how to play.

Check out the World Snooker web site.

Its a great game, i hope you enjoy it.