We used to play a version of carom on a pool table with pockets using 2 red balls and a cue ball. You got points for hitting the reds with the cue ball, pocketing the cue bal off one or both reds. Does anyone have or a link to the rules and the pints awarded for each carom shot? I found them a while back but seem to have lost them. Can anyone help.
Carom
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English billiards maybe?
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English billiards - Wikipedia
Thank you. Much appreciated.English billiards maybe?
English billiards - Wikipedia
The pints get smaller as the score increases.
You score less as the pints increase.
Wonder at what point the brawling commences. (?)
English Billiards, mentioned before, has two cue balls and a red ball. I suppose you could use a measles and a plain cue ball, along with the three. There are lots of videos of current champions on YouTube if you want to see how the big boys play the game. I think a run (they say "break") of 500 has been shown recently. Here is a match in which they play a number of games to 100 points each:
Two other games that involve similar shots are Cowboy and Reverse Pool. I just covered Cowboy in a Billiards Digest column and it is covered by Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_pool
Another game is reverse pool. You score by cueing object balls to scratch them off the cue ball.
All of these games will teach new skills.
