What's your definition of a ticky?

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ktrepal85

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It mostly comes up in one pocket but I've heard various definitions.

In one case I heard it use to describe hitting a ball rail first and then caroming the cue ball into another object ball.

In another case I heard it used to describe a simple combo used to clear 2 balls from your opponent's pocket.

What is the actual definition?
 
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ktrepal85 said:
It mostly comes up in one pocket but I've heard various definitions.

In one case I heard it use to describe hitting a ball rail first and then caroming the cue ball into another object ball.

In another case I heard it used to describe a simple combo used to clear 2 balls from your opponent's pocket.

What is the actual definition?
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#1 not the second one. Grady used that label quite often, So does Danny D.
 
I remember one time I was playing a guy named Elmo and he executed that shot to win.

I had to tell him that he played that ticky good on me, Elmo. I then has to say I was a bit short to pay him off, it was a bit awkward at first but he started laughing and jumping around so we knew we were good.
 
ktrepal85 said:
It mostly comes up in one pocket but I've heard various definitions.

In one case I heard it use to describe hitting a ball rail first and then caroming the cue ball into another object ball.

In another case I heard it used to describe a simple combo used to clear 2 balls from your opponent's pocket.

What is the actual definition?
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Yeah, its when the cue ball hits a rail and then a ball (usually close to that rail), and then goes into another ball or back into the rail and then another ball. I think it is most commonly used in 3 cushion billiards.

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ktrepal85 said:
It mostly comes up in one pocket but I've heard various definitions.

In one case I heard it use to describe hitting a ball rail first and then caroming the cue ball into another object ball.

In another case I heard it used to describe a simple combo used to clear 2 balls from your opponent's pocket.

What is the actual definition?
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It is rail ball, then another 1 or 2 rails and ball again.
 
hang-the-9 said:
I remember one time I was playing a guy named Elmo and he executed that shot to win.

I had to tell him that he played that ticky good on me, Elmo. I then has to say I was a bit short to pay him off, it was a bit awkward at first but he started laughing and jumping around so we knew we were good.
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This is called a Ticky me Elmo


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BTW, I believes #1 only and from 3C Billiards
 
It is simply a carom where whitey ticks off one ball and into another to make a shot.
Whether it originated with Grady, is unknown to me. :)
 
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It's a 3C term for a particular family of shots. Visualize: Balls in the vicinity of a corner, one ball is closer to the long rail, one closer to the end rail. Cue ball goes into the long rail first, hits the first ball, caroms off the ball to hit the long rail again in the corner, then hits the end rail and the other ball for the point. So it's rail, ball, 2 rails, ball. There's a million variations.
 
I didn't realize there were so many interpretations of the word ticky. I've only used it on shots where I shoot rail first, hit the object ball then hit the same rail again with the cue ball.
 
victorl said:
I didn't realize there were so many interpretations of the word ticky. I've only used it on shots where I shoot rail first, hit the object ball then hit the same rail again with the cue ball.
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It could also describe a Motel 6
 
Azazello said:
It's a 3C term for a particular family of shots. Visualize: Balls in the vicinity of a corner, one ball is closer to the long rail, one closer to the end rail. Cue ball goes into the long rail first, hits the first ball, caroms off the ball to hit the long rail again in the corner, then hits the end rail and the other ball for the point. So it's rail, ball, 2 rails, ball. There's a million variations.
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That's how I see a ticky....not used to seeing this term in pool, though.
 
This is the One Pocket version...,

victorl said:
I didn't realize there were so many interpretations of the word ticky. I've only used it on shots where I shoot rail first, hit the object ball then hit the same rail again with the cue ball.
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If you watch any of the old One Pocket matches where Grady is commentating, he always called the Ticky a cue ball into the rail and then into a object ball and back to the same rail, just as you described and so does Danny D.
 
I was mostly wrong. Here is a definition from Billiards Forum.
Ticky: A ticky occurs when an object ball lies about a ball's width, or slightly more, off a cushion, and the cue ball goes rail first into the object ball, between the rail and the object ball, so that the cue ball almost immediately glances off the same rail a second time on it's way down along the same rail.
There you go. Clear as Mother's milk. :)
 
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