Playing pool with two cueballs

[forabeer]

I still like my "the other players cueball is poison" idea.
An automatic loss of game if the other cueball is moved/touched while it is your turn. Control!

 

[hang-the-9]

I still like my "the other players cueball is poison" idea.
An automatic loss of game if the other cueball is moved/touched while it is your turn. Control!

This I don't like, unless the rule you can't hit either of the cueballs with the other, not just any other ball.

Another idea would be to play the game with points like the pyramid game where you knock sticks down and score that way also. If you hit the opponents cueball with yours, you get a point. If you hit the second cueball with your cueball and also legally pocket your ball, you get 2 points. If you pocket their ball with yours, you get 3 points.

For a twist you can make it so you need to call the hit on the second cueball and if you fail to do so you lose the point instead. So you line up for the shot, and state, call contact with second cueball. If you don't, -1, if you do, you get the points.

Or just play the game as normal with two cueballs, which makes it a normal game aside from safety play.

 

[hang-the-9]

Could be a good gambling game too.

The stronger player has 1 CB and the weaker player has 2 CB’s. Spotting someone the CB would be a lot of weight.

Interesting....how come in 35 years this never occurred to me?

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer,
Fatboy

I've been playing about as long, and only thought of using two cueballs in a normal pool game when I did the post. Really there is only ONE sharpest knife in the drawer, and it's none of us LOL

 

[PoolBoy1]

fantastic sciences worth looking into. It amazes me the lot of players not knowing even the basics of the diamond.

 

[KissedOut]

I tried that once, couldn't make a ball!

Hu

But no time wasted re-racking and arguing about the rack.