What is the difference between billiards, pool and snooker?

Baloo55th

A quick answer: Billiards is the oldest of them - very few balls and to me incomprehensible rules. Snooker came from it, devised by people that fancied something a bit easier to understand. You have a quantity of red balls, and a number of coloured ones (and a white cue ball). Basically, you break the reds up and try to put them down the holes. When you pot one, it stays down. When you pot one, you can also then try to pot a coloured one (hwich have different scores on them). If you do, it comes back up and is replaced as near to where it started as is possible. If you miss, the other player has a go. When all the reds are gone, the colours are taken in a set order. Highest score wins. Pool has two sets of balls - plain and striped (or some other such thing. You decide which you are potting by the first player to pot one going for those afterwards. When a ball is down, it stays down. The 8 ball (black) is the last to be potted. There are other sets of rules for pool, but 8 ball is thee commonest. Sep 09 04, 3:00 PM

robboy

My understanding is that billiards originally involved a pocketless table with 3 balls, the object of which was to carom (bank) and strike the object ball for a score. Billiards and pool became synonymous somewhere in America, and involves a table with 6 pockets, a cue ball and 15 object balls that may or may not be pocketed in order, depending on whether you're playing 8 or 9 ball pool. Snooker is similar to pool in that the object is to pocket scoring balls, but the balls are smaller, the table larger, the pockets smaller than in pool. In all 3 games, an essential part is the 'leave', or snookering, which involves creating as difficult a shot for your opponent as possible when it's his turn. Sep 09 04, 8:50 PM

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