What is difference between billiards and snooker?

Question

What is difference between billiards and snooker?

Answer 1

The question has been asked and answered a couple of times already. Please "discover" it yourself. I am getting tired.

Answer 2

Snooker is much more interesting to watch

Answer 3

people know about billiards

Answer 4

I'll answer this once again. Billiards is an all-encompassing term used to describe all cue sports including pool (pocket billiards), snooker, and carom games. Carom games are played on pocketless tables. It's very common for people to use the term "billiards" to refer exclusively to carom games. Snooker is similar to pocket billiards in that it is played on tables with pockets. Snooker is usually played on very large tables (6' X 12') and has smaller balls and pockets than in pool. There are many differences beyond this, but this is a fine place to start. M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee

Answer 5

The pockets on a snooker table are smaller and the shots are harder to make.

Answer 6

Actually, that's backwards. Billiards was originally a term that ONLY described carom, but evolved into an all encompassing term because it was incorrectly used. The game of pool became known as 'pocket billiards' because it became popular in the US after 3 cushion and people would confuse the 2. So it is not incorrect to refer to carom as billiards and pocket billiards as pool.

Answer 7

Like Checkers And Chess are board games

Billiards and Snooker ared cue sports

A couple of dozen times

Bo do you like watching grass grow?? About as exciting as snooker

Answer 8

I'll answer this once again.  Billiards is an all-encompassing term used to describe all cue sports including pool (pocket billiards), snooker, and carom games.  Carom games are played on pocketless tables.  It's very common for people to use the term "billiards" to refer exclusively to carom games.  Snooker is similar to pocket billiards in that it is played on tables with pockets.  Snooker is usually played on very large tables (6' X 12') and has smaller balls and pockets than in pool.  There are many differences beyond this, but this is a fine place to start.  M.D.-BCA Instructor/Referee.

P.S.  I never said that it was incorrect to refer to carom games as "billiards" or incorrect to call pool "pocket billiards".  Note, I used the word "exclusively".  A "pool" is a collective bet and "poolrooms" were rooms set up for gambling at racing tracks.  To pass the time, they installed pocket billiard tables in the "poolrooms" and the name eventually stuck, and that's why we play "pool" today.  Furthermore, I'm talking about how the terms are used today, not 200 years ago.  If you really want a history lesson, look in the beginning of the BCA Rules & Records Book for the article written by Mike Shamos on the history of billiards.  I'm not just pulling this out of the air.  I can't help but notice that you didn't list a source.

Answer 9

Billiards is played with 3 balls  - two white and one black.One of the white balls has a spot on it to identify it ftom the other. The art of billiards is to pot as many balls as you can bouncing the balls of thr other ones. When a player fails to pot a ball it is the next players turn. Balss that are potted are returnrd to the table.

In snooker the game is played with only one white ball and a number of coloured balls. The balls have to be played in colour order and if you pot a ball you get to have another turn. Each player uses the same white ball and the black ball is the last to be potted.

This is a simplified version of how the games are played!