Pin spacing for 2.25 balls.

[ThaydenNEK]

Hi guys.
I've been looking for proper pin or skittle spacing for 2.25 balls but coming up short online. Everything I find just says that to set the pins with barely enough room for a ball to pass though but I know that this is not what they do in a professional environment. Can anyone give some insight? Playing with pins in the US is not that popular and hard to find info on.
Thanks for the help.

 

[Bob Jewett]

There seems to be more than one version of "skittles" including one that doesn't use a cue stick. Can you describe the version you play? Number of balls, number and size of pins, how you score, ....

EDIT: And since the follow-ups below are about pin billiards on a table without pockets, I guess I have to ask: Are you playing a game on a table that has pockets?

 

[erriep]

from the C.E.B. & F.F.B. (french billard federation) rules :

5 pins game / 5 birilli , played on a 10' carom table with carom balls (61.5mm) :

- the pin size & shape

- tracing on the cloth / spacing of the 5 pins :

the boccette , played by hand, without cues , uses the same tracing/spacing than 5 pins.​

the goriziana aka 9 pins game uses the same tracing with 4 more pins, same 66mm spacing.​

 

[3kushn]

from the C.E.B. & F.F.B. (french billard federation) rules :

5 pins game / 5 birilli , played on a 10' carom table with carom balls (61.5mm) :

- the pin size & shape
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- tracing on the cloth / spacing of the 5 pins :
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the boccette , played by hand, without cues , uses the same tracing/spacing than 5 pins.​

the goriziana aka 9 pins game uses the same tracing with 4 more pins, same 66mm spacing.​

So spacing for when using 2-1/4" (57.15mm) balls would be simply the % reduction from 61.5mm?
Would the pins need to be smaller diameter @ the 10mm dimension noted above? Maybe by the same % diff calculated for spacing?

 

[erriep]

So spacing for when using 2-1/4" (57.15mm) balls would be simply the % reduction from 61.5mm?
Would the pins need to be smaller diameter @ the 10mm dimension noted above? Maybe by the same % for spacing?

may be the same % for spacing, i dunno , because here (france) 5 tournaments are only played on 10' carom tables.
(i've heared long time ago than 5 pins on pocket table is mostly played in argentina , but i've seen some games on a pocket table in an old bar in south italy. the pockets were verry tiny, more like pyramid pockets than pool pockets)

 

[ThaydenNEK]

There seems to be more than one version of "skittles" including one that doesn't use a cue stick. Can you describe the version you play? Number of balls, number and size of pins, how you score, ....

EDIT: And since the follow-ups below are about pin billiards on a table without pockets, I guess I have to ask: Are you playing a game on a table that has pockets?

So I am playing on a 8ft pocket table. I have 3in and 3.5 pins I ordered from a supplier in Canada. I got natural and colored pins and thought I would try some form of Danish billiards because of my table size but wouldn't mind also trying Canadian pin billiards that they use the multicolored pins for. The pins are Roughly the same size at the base even though they are different heights.