What is the diff b/w Snooker,Pool and Billiards??

Question

What is the diff b/w Snooker,Pool and Billiards??

Answer 1

Snooker: Giant table, little pockets and little numbered balls.  You alternate b/t numbered balls and red "cherries"

Billiards: No pockets, its about banking the cueball off 3 rails and making contact

Pool: you know how it goes, stripes/solids or nine ball

Answer 2

snooker is usually palyed on a 6x12' table. Using 15 reds and the colors:yelow,green,brown,blue,pink,black... 1 point for reds and the colors are 2,3,4,5,6,7 points respectively. You must pot a red followed by a color. The color balls get re-spotted. Lots more to it but thats a quick run down.

Pool is the name generally used for the pocket billiards game of 8-ball. This is the gmae where you pot either the 1-7 or the 9-15 and then the 8 ball for the win. Usually played on a 4 1/2x9' table.

Billiards encompasses all games but is often used to describe the carom games, such as three cushion and balkline. These tables have no pockets. Three cushion for example uses a 5x10'table and three balls.The object is to strick your "cue ball" and hit at least three cushions before contacting the other two. You may contact one ball first and then hit the cushions before hitting the second.

Answer 3

SNOOKER  is played on larger tables with smaller pockets that have rounded pocket edges that dont catch balls but deflect them out if the shot is slightly off, these balls are smaller than standard pool balls.it is played with 6 numbered balls and a rack of 15 red balls...you must first pocket a red ball, then a number ball, re-spot the number ball, then shoot another red and so on until there are just the numbered balls left, then those must be shot in order and stay down...the reds count as one point and the numbered balls count as their number worth of points...winner is high number of points...BILLIARDS (name commonly referred to for all games played on pool tables, either with pockets or not) but the game billiards itself played on a standard size table with no pockets, one white cue ball and two object (red) balls, the object is to hit one object ball then hit the other object ball after with the same shot, variations of the game include how many rails (either before or after contact) until you hit the second object ball (example...if the game is three cushion then you can hit three cushions then one ball then the other, two cushions then the first object ball, another rail then the second object ball, one cushion then the first object ball two cushions then the second object ball, and so on) POOL games have many variations, rotation (both players shoot at lowest numbered ball 1-15), straight pool (where you call each shot then the last ball left is used to break the next 14 ball rack,also known as 15-1), 8 ball, where you clear solids or stripes first (one or the other) then the 8 ball is the game ball, 9 ball where all players shoot the balls in order and the 9 is the game ball, one pocket, where each player has an object pocket and must make balls in that pocket only to score, 6 ball, like 9 but the sixth ball whatever number used is the game ball, there is a game called golf played on the snooker table, a game called payball using big pool balls on the smaller pocketed snooker table...many variations of games to be played on 'pool' tables...and many ways to play the various games...it took me a long time to learn the best players dont always shoot the toughest shots, but leave you the toughest shots...that playing safety correctly was as big a part of the game as pocketing balls...