Billiards Billiards is a game played on a rectangular table half as wide as it is long. There are several games that can be played with a variation of three to twenty-one balls. Tables may also have either no pockets or up to six pockets. 1) The definition of billiards is any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. (http://www.…showed first 75 words of 257 total…

…showed last 75 words of 257 total…in Britain, pocket billiards in America and Japan, and the British and the Americas play snooker. (Menke 151-154) 5) The most popular game, Eight-Ball is played with 15 balls, 1 through 15 and a cue ball. One of the players has to make all of the solid balls (1-7) in the pockets while the other player has to pocket the stripes (9-15). Who ever pockets their group of balls first and then pockets the 8-ball wins the game. (Encarta)