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  2. Eight-ball - Wikipedia

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    Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes, [1] big ones and little ones, [2] or rarely highs and lows [3]) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object ball s). The object balls include ...

  3. List of world eight-ball champions - Wikipedia

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    This section lists world champions in British-style eight-ball, which exists in a few slight-variant versions (usually referred to as blackball and eightball pool) with different governing bodies. This version is played at the amateur and semi-professional levels in Commonwealth countries and a few continental European nations.

  4. Magic 8 Ball - Wikipedia

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    The Magic 8 Ball is a hollow plastic sphere resembling a black-and-white 8 ball. Its standard size is larger than an ordinary pool ball, but it has been made in different sizes. Inside the ball, a cylindrical reservoir contains a white plastic 20-sided regular icosahedron die floating in approximately 100 ml (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 US fl oz) of alcohol ...

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

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    American-style eight-ball arose around 1900, derived from basic pyramid pool. [1] In 1925, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company began offering ball sets specifically for the game using unnumbered yellow and red balls (in contrast to the numbered solids and stripes found in most pool ball sets), a black eight ball, and the white cue ball.

  6. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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    The first player to pocket the majority of the balls (8) into their pocket wins the game. The game requires far more defensive strategy than offensive strategy, much unlike eight-ball, nine-ball, or straight pool. Most times, accomplished players choose to position balls near their pocket instead of trying to actually pocket them.

  7. 8 Ball Pool - Wikipedia

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    8 Ball Pool (stylized as 8POOL) is a 2008 sports game developed and published by the Swiss company Miniclip. The game was released for browsers in 2008 and for iOS and Android in 2013. 8 Ball Pool allows players to play pool against others online in a variety of modes, including 9-ball.

  8. Chinese Eight-ball World Championship - Wikipedia

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    The World Chinese Eight-ball Championship (now known as the WPA World Heyball Championship) is a pool tournament in the discipline of Chinese eight-ball. The event has been held annually since 2015, first taking place in Yushan, Jiangxi in China. The tournament is one of the highest-paid pool tournaments in the world.

  9. Eightball pool - Wikipedia

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    Eightball pool can refer to two related but different games in the pool family of games: . Eight-ball, the version originating in the United States, and globally standardized by the World Pool-Billiard Association; uses striped and solid-colored sets of numbered balls