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2. Eight-ball pool (British variation) - Wikipedia

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   These were introduced to make it easier for spectators to identify the two sets in early professional games held in casinos, and became known as "casino-style" sets. [2] In the years following World War II, playing eight-ball on small coin-operated pool tables became a common pub game in American bars, a pastime which spread to Britain by the ...

3. Cue sports - Wikipedia

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   Snooker balls are smaller than American-style pool balls with a diameter of 52.5 mm (2 + 1 ⁄ 16 in), and come in sets of 22 (15 reds, 6 "colours", and a cue ball). English billiard balls are the same size as snooker balls and come in sets of three balls (two cue balls and a red object ball). Other games, such as bumper pool, have custom ball ...

4. Pub game - Wikipedia

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   This form of table skittles involves 9 small skittles arranged in a 3 x 3 square, usually within a shallow open-topped wooden box sitting on a table-top. The wooden ball (about the size of a golf ball) hangs from a string or chain attached to the top of a vertical wooden post rising from one corner of the box.

5. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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   Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. [1] [2] Of the many different pool games, the most popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played discipline ...

6. Table shuffleboard - Wikipedia

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   A table with American-style score markings. Shuffleboard tables vary in length, usually within a 9–22-foot range (2.7–6.7 m), and are at least 20 inches (510 mm) wide. Tables are intended to be kept flat, but any given table may have its own slight concave or convex condition, adding an extra challenge.

7. Shuffleboard - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, a long, narrow 22 ft table is most commonly used, though tables as short as 9 ft are known. Players try to slide metal-and-plastic pucks, sometimes called weights or shuckles, to come to rest within zones at the other end of the board. Cues are not used, the pucks being propelled with the hands directly on the raised table.