What is the diffrence between billiards, snooker and pool???

Question

what is the diffrence between these three games and what are the rules [major] for playing these games?

Answer 1

There are two main varieties of billiard games: carom and pocket. The main carom billiards games are straight billiards, balkline and three cushion billiards. All are played on a pocketless table with three balls; two cue balls and one object ball. In all, players shoot a cue ball so that it makes contact with the opponent's cue ball as well as the object ball.

The most popular of the large variety of pocket games are 8-ball, 9-ball, one-pocket, bank pool, snooker and, among the old guard, straight pool. In 8-ball and 9-ball the object is to sink object balls until one can legally pocket the winning eponymous ball. Well-known but waning in popularity is straight pool, in which players seek to continue sinking balls, rack after rack if they can, to reach a pre-determined winning score (typically 150). Another game is rotation, where the lowest number object ball on the table must be struck first, although any object ball may be sunk (i.e., combination shot). Each pocketed ball is worth its number, and the player with the highest score at the end of the rack is the winner. Since there are only 120 points available (1+2+3+4...+15 = 120), scoring 61 pts will make opponent unable to catch up with the score and therefore wins the game. In both one-pocket and bank pool, the players must sink a set number of balls; respectively, all in a particular pocket, or all by banking. In snooker, players score points by alternately pocketing red balls and special balls of different colours.

Answer 2

Here is an answer I wrote before:

I found a definition of billiards from Encyclopaedia Britannica,

"any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. The table and the cushioned rail bordering the table are topped with a feltlike tight-fitting cloth. Carom, or French, billiards is played with three balls on a table that has no pockets. The other principal games are played on tables that have six pockets, …" [1]

English Billiards is played with only 3 balls. 2 whites and 1 red ball.

You can find some information at the following link, look down the page for the title 'English Billiards". It also provides some information on snooker.

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Billia...

The rules of billiards can be found here:

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

Just in case you do not know what a 'cue' ball is. It is the ball you have to hit with your stick or cue.

Snooker has 1 white ball, 15 red balls, and 6 coloured balls. The 6 colours being Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, and Black.

The white ball is the 'cue' ball.

The red balls are worth 1 point.

The coloured balls are worth Yellow - 2 points., Green - 3 points, Brown - 4 points, Blue - 5 points, Pink - 6 points, Black - 7 points. [2]

The page I gave with English Billiards also has snooker information, you need to go to the title of 'Snooker' on the page:

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/games/Billia...

More snooker rules can be found here:

http://www.billiardworld.com/snooker.htm...

Pool is usually played with 1 white ball and 15 coloured and numbered balls. There are a few varities to snooker, including 8-ball, 9-ball, etc.

You can find the rules to these different varieties from the following web page. You will have to click the link on the left that says 'GAME RULES' and selct on of the items in there.

http://www.bca-pool.com/play/

8-ball is probably the most known game, and its rules, objectives, etc can be found here:

http://www.epa.org.uk/wrules.php