Russian Pyramids

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Cameron Smith

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As I mentioned briefly in another thread, I played Russian Pyramids yesterday. But Im not sure if I played it right. Can some one explain to me the rules and if the game is played on a larger table like a snooker table or something.

I checked around online but it just seems so easy. I have seen a couple variations of the rules thus far.

The first is that you can shoot at any ball, and every ball is worth its number in points (15 ball is worth 15 points).

The other variation I saw was that any ball can be used as a cue ball at any time (with the exception of the break), and any ball pocketed is worth one point. The first to eight points wins.

I played the first variation last night and I ran 8 racks. In fact anybody with straight pool experiance would have little trouble running multiple racks, and Im sure players much better than me would have an easy time running into the 20's and beyond. I can't even begin to imagine how much of a cakewalk the second variation would be.

So can someone help me out please.
 
Well your second version is the correct version. Just like straight pool but any ball can be used as the cue ball. First to eight wins.

The table they play on looks like a 12' snooker table with 2.75" pockets using larger than normal white carom balls and one black ball. I'm not sure what the black ball is for. So the ball just barely goes in the hole. This is what makes the game much tougher.

For some reason they like to use carom shots a lot and fire the balls into the hole hard. Maybe to compress the pocket so the ball goes in.
 
mnShooter said:
Well your second version is the correct version. Just like straight pool but any ball can be used as the cue ball. First to eight wins.

The table they play on looks like a 12' snooker table with 2.75" pockets using larger than normal white carom balls and one black ball. I'm not sure what the black ball is for. So the ball just barely goes in the hole. This is what makes the game much tougher.

For some reason they like to use carom shots a lot and fire the balls into the hole hard. Maybe to compress the pocket so the ball goes in.
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Ahh ok. Then what was the first game i played?

The fact that they are playing on large tables with small pockets im sure keeps them from breaking up the pack. At the games room at my university, very early in the morning when there was no one there, and no one even thinking of playing pool, i would collect all of the massive bar box cue balls (10 of them) and place them on the snooker table. I used practice my shot making by using those. I guess in that way I played a similar version of the game.
 
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