Pool/Billiards Question?

Question

When you have to spot a ball, if the cue ball is in the way of the place for it to be spotted, where does it go?

My specific question is for Snooker, placing the Pink ball when the cue ball is in the way.

Would it be placed behind the cue ball (where the rack goes), in the middle (where the blue goes) or directly infront?

And if infront, would it be touching the cue ball?

Answer 1

in front and it would be touching. yep...

Answer 2

Borrowed from the rule book:

Spotting Balls: Reds are never spotted. Colors to be spotted are placed as at the start of the game. If a color's spot is occupied (to mean that to spot it would make it touch a ball), it is placed on the spot of the highest value color that is unoccupied. If all spots are occupied, the color is spotted as close as possible to its original spot on a straight line between its spot and the nearest point on the top (foot) cushion.