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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 balls). The object balls include ...
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 ...
Balls 8 was originally an RB-52B [2] that was first flown on June 11, 1955, and entered service with NASA on June 8, 1959. It was modified at North American Aviation's Palmdale facility to enable it to carry the X-15. As on its NB-52A predecessor, a pylon was installed beneath the right wing between the fuselage and the inboard engines with a 6 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
8-ball, a variety of zucchini; 8-ball, an eight-dimensional n-ball in mathematics; 8-Ball, a ring name used by Ronald Harris of the Harris Brothers; The nickname of NASA Astronaut Group 21; Eight-Ball, a 1977 pinball machine by Bally and the second best-selling pinball machine of all time. 8-ball, a notable symbol used in the modern fashion ...