Billiards Balls

   The billiards balls of today are very unique. There are training balls, novalty balls, carom balls, international balls, and snooker balls. All of these balls, exept snooker balls, are used in the game of pool.

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International (Pool) Balls

Pool balls are used in many different pocket billiards games. Like eight ball, nine ball, and one pocket. These balls are mostly called billiard balls in America, and in Europe they are called kelly pool or American balls. Pool balls are used throughout the world. They are also the most commonly used balls. The balls are numbered and colored as shown(9-15 are stripes):

1. Yellow                   5. Orange                          9. Yellow & White             13. Orange & White
2. Blue                       6. Green                          10. Blue & White                 14. Green & White
3. Red                        7. Brown or Burgundy  11. Red & White                  15. Brown & White
4. Purple                   8. Black                           12. Purple & White             

(the cue ball is also included)

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Carom Balls

Carom balls are used to play straight rail, three cushion, and other pocketless billiardgames. There are 3 balls. The colored ball (typically red/maroon) is the object ball, the whiteball with a dot (sometimes yellow) is  player two's cue ball, and the final ball is the cue ball for player one. These balls are not numbered and are larger then regular pool balls.

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The Training Ball
Training billiards balls are used to help beginers get familiar with the game. The balls have targets on them to help make shots. The cue ball, is marked with rings and targets. This is so the practicing player can better decide how much spin to put on the ball. Some sets of training balls come with just a speacil cue ball and others include an object ball marked for aiming practice.


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Novelty Balls
Novalty balls are very unique. People nowadays are very interested in speacil cue balls and even entire ball sets. The balls feature sports team logos, cartoon characters, animal print, and many others. Many investors also have a variety of novelty billiard games with unique rules and balls. For example, playing card markings, others with stars and stripes, and yet others in sets of more than thirty balls in several card suits. There are some marbled looking balls from a home table, and there are even blacklight ball sets so you can play in the dark. There are also jokecues. Which are 8 balls with off center weights so that makes there paths curve and wobble. Another set is the miniature pool set. These are intended for under sized toy tables. Some egg cue ball shape has been made. Such as the bobble ball and tag ball.


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Snooker Balls

The snooker balls are very cultural. They are American and British based. There are twenty twon balls in a snooker game. There are 15 unmarked red balls, 6 colour balls, and 1 white cue ball. The balls are sometimes numbered with their point values. The numbers are:

• Yellow 2
• Green 3
• Brown 4
• Blue    5
• Pink   6
• Black 7

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