Strange scoreboard in China pool hall

[iusedtoberich]

I'm in China and having a great time playing pool with the locals. Today I played straight pool with a nice player here. I'd say he was a solid B player.

We were using this scoreboard below. The way we were using it, the score was 32 to 47. I don't know if this is the way it was intended to be used. If so, why didn't they make each row a multiple of 10 instead of 11?

Has anyone seen a scoreboard like this? If so, do you know the way it was intended to be used? I was not able to communicate with speech with my opponent due to our language differences.

Thanks.

 

[ideologist]

I'm in China and having a great time playing pool with the locals. Today I played straight pool with a nice player here. I'd say he was a solid B player.

We were using this scoreboard below. The way we were using it, the score was 32 to 47. I don't know if this is the way it was intended to be used. If so, why didn't they make each row a multiple of 10 instead of 11?

Has anyone seen a scoreboard like this? If so, do you know the way it was intended to be used? I was not able to communicate with speech with my opponent due to our language differences.

Thanks.

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Game score is in the center. I would put my two markers on the opposite sides of the 11, 22, etc

Marker on 1 on the left and 2 on the right is 12, and so on

 

[buckshotshoey]

Game score is in the center. I would put my two markers on the opposite sides of the 11, 22, etc

Marker on 1 on the left and 2 on the right is 12, and so on

You just explained it and I still don't get it. It's been a long day.

 

[mrs rhodes]

Chinese, Korean, I can't tell the difference between the two.

 

[iusedtoberich]

Game score is in the center. I would put my two markers on the opposite sides of the 11, 22, etc

Marker on 1 on the left and 2 on the right is 12, and so on

You just explained it and I still don't get it. It's been a long day.

That makes two of us! ha ha. ideologist, are you guessing at this, or do you know for sure how this board works? What game is the board for?

 

[ideologist]

That makes two of us! ha ha. ideologist, are you guessing at this, or do you know for sure how this board works? What game is the board for?

Ok, you have numbers in groups

11
22
33
44
55

etc

The first number is the 10s column, the second number is the 1s

The red part in the center is to score the number of games won (in a race to 13, likely for Snooker), I've seen a very similar concept for straight pool

 

[jsp]

Okay, time to put my code-breaking skills to work...

The red section in the middle shows the number of games won. Player A puts a green ball next to his score on the left. Player B puts a yellow ball next to his score on the right. This is mainly for 8, 9, or 10-ball.

The left sections are for counting the score in straight pool. The left column is the ten's digit, the right column is the one's digit.

The blue section at the bottom is to count the hundred's digit for straight pool, or the number of sets won in 8, 9, or 10-ball.

Isn't it obvious? Lol.

EDIT: Ideologist beat me to it.

 

[Cezar Morales]

I'm in China and having a great time playing pool with the locals. Today I played straight pool with a nice player here. I'd say he was a solid B player.

We were using this scoreboard below. The way we were using it, the score was 32 to 47. I don't know if this is the way it was intended to be used. If so, why didn't they make each row a multiple of 10 instead of 11?

Has anyone seen a scoreboard like this? If so, do you know the way it was intended to be used? I was not able to communicate with speech with my opponent due to our language differences.

Thanks.

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This scoreboard originated from taiwan and was subsequently move to asian pool halls.

I lived in taiwan many yrs ago.

The yellow's are for straight pool calculation where games are usually to a hundo or 150.
The red section on thr bottom is to calculate the points deducted eaach rack from a foul or scratch in 14.1

The red in the middle are for 8, 9, 10 ball and 3 cushion where races are normally to 7 , 9 or 11 .

Hope this helps !!

 

[iusedtoberich]

Thank you all who helped answer. It makes a lot more sense now.