other bottle and pea games?

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I am putting together a Billiard rule book as I got tired of BCA only recognizing 30+ games and there are hundreds of billiard games out there that are really fun. Right now it's just a printed book in a 3 ring binder, using BCA's easily read page format. Anyway...

Other then Kelly Pool, what other games can a set of peas and shaker bottle be used for? I want to find some that are really unique and fun to play.
 
blackflagsailor said:
I am putting together a Billiard rule book as I got tired of BCA only recognizing 30+ games and there are hundreds of billiard games out there that are really fun. Right now it's just a printed book in a 3 ring binder, using BCA's easily read page format. Anyway...

Other then Kelly Pool, what other games can a set of peas and shaker bottle be used for? I want to find some that are really unique and fun to play.
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Keno/Amos and Andy
 
Interesting. These I the games that use a board, so I can guess probably how it might work, but do you have more info for used with Keno/Amos & Andy?
 
blackflagsailor said:
Interesting. These I the games that use a board, so I can guess probably how it might work, but do you have more info for used with Keno/Amos & Andy?
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Everyone shakes a pill out of the jar (only numbers 5-15)

If the number of the ball and the number on the board add up to your pea, than you win!
 
In North Carolina we played a game in the 60's called pill 8. Everyone draws 3 pills. You keep two secret and throw the other one on the table. Low pill on the table breaks, next lowest shoots second, etc.

The shooter at the table can always shoot either the highest or the lowest ball on the table. For instance, if nothing goes on the break the first shooter can pocket the 1 or the 15 and keep shooting. If he pockets the 1 then the 2 and the 15 are the object balls. Always the highest or the lowest.

You win the game when the balls corresponding to your two pills have been pocketed either by you or any other shooter and when it is your turn you display your pills to show that they have been pocketed and call and make the 8-ball to win.

The 8 pill and the 16 pill are 'free' pills. For instance, if you draw the 1, 8 and 16 pill then you would throw the 1 and win the break. If you then made a ball on the break and could see the 8 ball you would declare that "I am on the 8" and call the pocket, shoot the 8 ball in and win the game.

Strategy includes the idea that if your pills are made by another shooter and you come to the table with no shot on the 8 you do not declare yourself on the 8. You keep shooting the highest or lowest ball until you get a shot on the 8 ball and then you declare, show the pills and pocket the 8 in the called pocket.

This may be Kelly pool by another name. I have never played Kelly so I do not know.
 
Click on the title below to read Brunswick's Book from 1910:

A Complete Handbook of Standard Rules...Billiards & Pool

Including :

3-Ball Carom
14" Balkline
18" Balkline
The Space Game
Progressive Carom Game
American 4-Ball Pocket
Cushion Carom Game
3-Cushion Carom Game
Bank Shot Game
English Billiards
Spanish Billiards
Continuous Pool
15 Ball
American Pyramid Pool
English Pyramids
Chicago Pool
Rotation Pool
2-Ball Pool
41 Pool
High-Low-Jack
Poker Pool
Color-Ball Pool
Skittle Pool
Kelly Pool
Bottle Pool
Pin Pool
Red White & Blue
Red White & Blue -Chicago
2-Pin Pool
The Little Corporal
Bouchon Pool
Bull-Dog Pool
Cowboy Pool
The B.B.C. Co. Pool Game (p.120)
Russian Pool
Snooker


Also Games Played on Bagatelle, Cue Roque, 'Keno' and other "parisian game tables" (examples of these various tables can be seen on the Chicago Billiard Museum website)

High Number
Parisian Pool
Monte Carlo
Pigeon Hole and Jenny Lind
Parepa
Bagatelle and English Bagatelle
Carombolette
Golf Pool
Klondike Game
Devil Among The Tailors !
 
I have also played a game - dont know the name - where you use 15 playing cards to represent each ball...

1-10 as is. Jack=11 Queen=12 King=13 Ace=14 Joker=15

The game is played basically the same as 'cut-throat'

You can shuffle and deal out the cards at random, or have each player draw them. (3 players is ideal, 5 cards each. Or 5 players with 3 each etc)

The players dont have to reveal which balls they "own", just try to sink everyones but your own..etc etc
 
Thanks for posting that Brunswick pdf Mr Bond! That is a treasure of information! This book of mine is going to be one big rule book of billiard games by the time I get it all edited and printed.
 
blackflagsailor said:
Thread title: "other bottle and pea games?"
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After reading a previous thread about Ralph Greenleaf being a "rummy," and then this thread title, the thought came to mind about a game he might've played in his homeless years, with a full bladder and an empty liquor bottle, going for the "distance record." :p

j/k,
-Sean <-- oh wait, that's a different spelling of the word "pea"...
 
blackflagsailor said:
What is 10-Ball Sting?
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Ring game for up to ten hustlers. *grin*

Rack the balls the same as you do for 10-ball. Play is just like 9-ball, and slop counts. The 10 is the main money ball, but each player also draws a pill from a bottle with the first 10 pills in it. Make your pill, everybody pays you. Someone makes your pill, you pay her/him. Game isn't over until last money ball is gone. New breaker is whoever made the 10.

Drawing the 10 is a wonderful thing--since if you make it, you get paid twice from everyone, and get to break.

I've only ever played this with strong players, but I bet it'd be fun for anybody.

Kind of combines the best of "check" and 9-ball, if there is such a thing....
 
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A game I used to play at the local hangout was just called Pill Pool. 16 numbers are used (16 is the cueball). The game is rotation.

Everyone draws a pill for shooting order first.
Each player draws the same number of pills, any remaining pills are not money balls during the game. All numbers are kept secret, until someone scratches for the cueball.

If you make your own ball, everyone pays you a dime. (high stakes)
If someone else makes your ball, you pay them a nickel.

Scratches:
If you scratch while holding #16, you pay everyone a dime.
If you scratch w/o #16, you pay the holder a dime.

The last time I played it, I was much better than the previous time (years later). I got out from the 2 and the other three players all quit.

It was a fun game when running about 6 balls was not very common among friends. The nickels and dimes just added a little more interest.
 
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