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  • 09-04-2012 3:32pm
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    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭


    I saw a bit of this on TV, three balls and no pockets.
    What are the rules and how do you score points?


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    zack01
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    stoneill wrote: »
    I saw a bit of this on TV, three balls and no pockets.
    What are the rules and how do you score points?

    Caught some of it myself on Eurosport a few weeks back, it's basically the same as normal billiards, except with no pockets, so the only way to score points is through a series of cannons, it may look easy but having played billiards for a good number of years i can assure it's not.

    Billiards is still popular but the three cushion billiards ie the billiards without pockets is really big across Europe.


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    Muppet Man
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    I saw it too... it was three cushion billiards...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cushion_billiards

    Its a game of canonns, but before you score your cannon, your own cue ball has to hit off 3 cushions first. Crazy hard to do it. Its played on a 5' x 10' table, a foot smaller than a snooker table.

    Muppet Man.


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    poolcues
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    stoneill wrote: »
    I saw a bit of this on TV, three balls and no pockets.
    What are the rules and how do you score points?

    The game you are talking about is the carom billiards. In 3 - cushion billiards the players rack up in a table with no pockets having a dimension of 5 feet x 10 feet. Each player will have one colored cue ball, which could either be a white or a yellow one, depending on who goes first. A third ball colored red, will be the object ball. A player then aims to hit the other two balls with his cue ball to score a point. However, before a player’s cue ball could come in contact with the second ball, it must hit three cushions or rails.


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    cack_handed
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    Use to play a version of billiards with pockets but also with skittles, cant remember where it came or even the scoring rules but made a nice change from just snooker, snooker, snooker all the time


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    poolcues
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    3-cushion is one of the most difficult billiard games and it cannot be played without proper strategy. The first player who reaches a predetermined score wins the game.


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