Where did number ball originated from?

Question

I'm talking about the game played on a snooker table with pool balls and a deck of poker cards. I'm sure most Singaporeans have either seen or played this game before.

Having playing it for years, i've recently started to wonder where did this game originated.

Answer 1

Not sure if it relates but in the wid west it was played to ues (Expensive play cards) that no longer good enough to play cards with it was played more like kelly the 14 + 15 were not counted thats probley not what your talking about sorry lay down the rules i have a bunch of (cheap) cards

Answer 2

Not sure I can help you with the snooker numbered balls but the way other games evolved goes like this.

Many years ago I saw a rack of 15 balls, 7-red & 7 blue with a black ball in the middle. The game was called "Black Ball". Obviously the name was the fornrunner of "8" Ball.

When asked about why there were no numbers on the balls I was told that numbers came about as players wanted more games to play and puting numbers on them was one way to do it. At that time all 15 balls were solid colors.

Then someone decided to make two groups of 7-balls and stripes were added to 7 balls. And since the '8' ball was the middle ball it was left black. In some areas the game is still refered to as "Black Ball" rather than "8" Ball. This is the way it was explained to me.

The "Decks of Cards" - don't know.

Answer 3

15

Answer 4

Never heard of nor played this game bro. How is it played?