Anyone have any recommendations for games that can be played with the wife and a kid that is new to pool? We've been playing "Blind" which is a cutthroat game that uses playing cards and 3-man 8, but I would like to try to handicap the games. Any recommendations (spot them, etc) or new games we can try? Just got components for pea pool but haven't tried the game yet.
Thanks
Don't play your best, don't keep score.
You can find handicaps for any game, just think about it for a bit. You can have them shoot more than once, or have only 1/2 of your shots count, or you need to make more balls or shoot in order when they don't, or use one hand, or use behind back, or use a bridge, or have to shoot very fast with no warm up strokes, or aim the close your eyes to shoot, or ah.. 40 other things.
I liked playing pill pool with varying skill levels, you pick your ball at random, you pick the order at random. You make your ball it's a point from all the players, you make the other player ball you get a single point. Shoot in order 1-15. Since no one knows who has what ball it's not hard to win with making a single ball or few, unless you are playing with players that can just run out. Then you can add other handicaps like one handed or opposite hand playing or something. I played this one time at a tournament when we only got 4 players, went for a dollar a point and the worst player won the most money over about 4 games. Was lots of fun for everyone including her and she was by far the worst player that would have gotten killed in a normal set of 8 ball.