Every player on the World Snooker Tour is assigned a position on the WPBSA's official world ranking list, which is used to determine the seedings and the level of qualification each player requires for the tournaments on the professional circuit. Players including 2005 world champion Shaun Murphy have claimed that a 128-player professional tour is financially unsustainable. Chalk in small cubes is applied uniformly to the cue tip permitting the players to strike the cue ball off centre on purpose in order to impart a spinning motion, called "side" in Great Britain and "English" in the United States. The other principal games are played on tables that have six pockets, one at each corner and one in each of the long sides; these games include English billiards, played with three balls; snooker, played with 21 balls and a cue ball; and pocket billiards, or pool, played with 15 balls and a cue ball. There are three ways of scoring: (1) the losing hazard, or loser, is a stroke in which the striker’s cue ball is pocketed after contact with another ball; (2) the winning hazard, or pot, is a stroke in which a ball other than the striker’s cue ball is pocketed after contact with another ball; (3) the cannon, or carom, is a scoring sequence in which the striker’s cue ball contacts the two other balls successively or simultaneously.

You can also get two points if you hit the red and the other cue ball at the same time. Maybe the Sun is going Red Giant and you miss the days when lead didn't melt in direct sunlight. Certainly, no single impact is going to do all the course changing you'll be wanting to pull off. Sorry the screenies aren't in-game, and I'm even one of those people who's never had the downtown-lag, but I'm still not going there just to decorate. The number of balls used in pool range from one to fifteen depending on the game type. The goal of pool is to use the cue ball to hit the other balls and pocket them in specific groups or in a specific order. The yellow or white ball can be used as strikers or cue balls. The game of English billiards is played on a relatively large table, usually 6 feet 1.5 inches by 12 feet (1.9 by 3.7 m); it is played with three balls as in carom-a plain white, a white with a spot, and a red. The billiards ball is around 61.5 mm in diameter. The small end of the cue, with which the ball is struck, is fitted with a plastic, fibre, or ivory reinforcement to which is cemented a leather cue tip.

The game is played with 22 balls, made up of one white ball (the cue ball), 15 red balls, and six numbered coloured balls including one yellow 2, one green 3, one brown 4, one blue 5, one pink 6, and one black (valued at 7 points). We have mentioned that you will need nine to 15 pool balls, along with the white cue ball. During play, when a player cannot hit the ball that the rules require him to hit (because of obstruction by another ball or balls), he is said to be snookered and loses his turn; this situation gives the game its name. Billiards is a reference name given to a bunch of three games; pocket billiards, snooker carom billiards. The cues used in billiards are also shorter and thicker in appearance. Tacky. Gladiators are much better. Rather than simply bouncing off, the object destroyed much of both itself and Earth, causing a VAST spray of matter to be hurled off from the impact point; this matter coagulated into what is now the Moon. Direct matter propulsion. Same method as above, just using gigantic mass drivers/railguns to fire huge quantities of matter away from Earth, instead of a rocket exhaust.

Direct rocket propulsion. Build gigantic, possibly nuclear upward-pointing rocket furnaces, maybe one, maybe four, maybe a million, whatever you can budget for. Pool can be played with eight balls, which consist of 15 balls. The sticks used in pool and long, slender and lean. Quedos makes beautiful, what is billiards high-quality pool tables where you can enjoy all types of pool games. Submissions can be mailed to Billiards Digest, 122 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 1506, Chicago IL 60603, or emailed to the editor by clicking here. Billiards emerged in the 15th century. The earliest references to the game in Europe occur in the 15th century. From, this the game was then linked to poolrooms and gamblers. The zip below was a Beta butler that would hang out at the door and greet people, shaking their hands and allowing them to enter - but it was buggy for some folks, and I'm too lazy to hack at it anymore, but if you want to try your hand at something technically challenging circa 1st Quarter 2003, then download the "source," so to speak.