Billiard Game: "Makkerpot or Skomar" Have Anyone Pay This Game???

Sorry, I can't help you with the rules. I did find another version of it played on a billiard table though. They call it Italian Billiards. Here's the link.... http://www.billard-passion.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=145

I played the Italian 5-pin and goriziana (9-pin) in Florence and Rome several years ago, but unfortunately I wasn't in Denmark long enough to find a place to play Keglebillard with the locals. They all seem to share the notion of points for caroms and/or combinations of knocking pins down by a non-cueball (your opponent's ball in Italian variations, and either object ball in the shared-cueball Danish version.) An interesting difference between them is you only get one shot per turn in the Italian pin games (kind of like chess on a billiard table).
I did buy a book about Keglebillard while I was in Copenhagen, though. Bookstores are one of my first stops when I hit a new foreign city, especially the billiard section It's in Danish and it's by Carsten Hansen. I see the Danish wikipedia entry for Keglebillard references it. Although I can't read it without an online translator and an inordinate amount of free time, I did notice that it's one of the few billiard books I've seen that specifically diagrams how sidespin affects the 2nd cushion rebound for shallow double-the-rail type angles (something that isn't addressed in many english works on billiards.)
I actually bought a second book as well by Carl Bach that had pins on the cover, but the actual content of the book seemed to be just about straight rail gather shots with no pins in sight (except for one page near the front).

Robert

billiardshot said:

I wonder if this game could be play on a regular pool table?

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I think the pockets would be too big (easier to earn penalties), but maybe not. That reminds me I used to play a pin game with a doctor from Cuba several years ago. It was called viuda (widow) and had rules similar to Italian 5-pin, but had the larger pins like you see in Keglebillard. We played on a 9' pool table with his carom ball set even though there were larger carom tables available. He said that was common in Cuba and it was better if we had the pockets.

Robert

billiardshot said:

I have a request Raiford, Is there any chance you could post a photo/picture of Carsten Hansen's Book. I did a search and came up empty handed!!!! Same with the Cuba game Viuda [ unless your a spider].

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I've attached scans of the Carsten book's front and back cover.

Sorry, I don't have anything about Viuda beyond what that doctor told me about playing in Cuba. I didn't find anything online, but you're more persistent than me It might help to search along with these Spanish words: billar (billiards), carambola (caroms), palos/palitos (sticks/pins).

Robert

Looks challenging...