How do you play billiards?

Question

How do you play billiards?

Answer 1

It would be a good idea to pick up a copy of, "Billiards: The Official Rules & Records Book" that the Billiards Congress of America prints every year.  You should be able to get one at just about any major book store.  Otherwise, visit the BCA's website "www.bca-pool.com".  It's a very useful thing to have in hand to settle disputes whether you're playing pocket billiards, caroms, or snooker games.  All rules are included.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

Answer 2

with balls and sticks i guess

Answer 3

Billiards is a family of games played on a table with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table.

All billiard games are generally regarded to have evolved into indoor games from outdoor stick and ball games.[1] The word "billiard" may have evolved from the French word billart, meaning "mace", an implement, similar to a golf club, which was the forerunner to the modern cue.

The word "pool" generally refers to pocket billiard games such as 8-ball, 9-ball, straight pool and one-pocket. The word "pool" comes from "poolrooms," where people gambled off track on horse races. They were called poolrooms as money was "pooled" to determine the odds. Because such rooms commonly provided billiard tables, pool became synonymous with billiards by association. The terms "pool" and "pocket billiards" are now interchangeable.

Answer 4

4 MONEY how else??? :P

Answer 5

Billiards is easy!  Each player gets a cue ball, one without a dot on it and one with a dot on it (so you can tell them apart).  THere is a third ball that is red.  The object is to make your cue ball strike the other two object balls with a single shot.  Doing so scores a "Carom".  Each player shoots until they do not score a carom, then the other player takes his/her turn.  FIrst player to 50 caroms wins.

Okay, the rules are easy... the game takes a lifetime to master.

Answer 6

Billiards is referred to as everything to do with a pool table, bumper table or a standard billiards table. So you can play a ton of different games.

What we call billiards in the States is a table without pockets. The rest of the world calls it Carom Ball or Carom Billiards.

Click here to see some rules, a good game to develop the movement of your Cue ball and later use the skill in Pool, 9 Ball and a variety of other US games.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~billiard/house_...

Finding a pool hall that has some billiard tables may be a bit more challenging

Answer 7

With a LONG stick and a short cue!