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Snooker Rules
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Snooker: The objective:
to score a greater number of points than the opponent.
The rules:
Each ball has a point value. You have to sink the balls in ascending order, starting from the red balls. As long as reds are on the table they are the object ball.After sinking one red ball you can pick any colored ball to sink, you must sink that specific ball. If you made a foul on any ball, the points of the ball are added to the opponent's score. |
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Balls Used
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Set of Snooker balls: three / six / ten / fifteen unnumbered solid red object balls (called reds), six unnumbered object balls of different colors (called colors) and the cue ball (called the white ball). Each object ball has a different point value: red-1, yellow-2, green-3, brown-4, blue-5, pink-6, black-7
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Scoring
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Points are scored in two ways:
1. By legally potting reds or colors, according to the point value of the potted object ball. (see Balls Used above)
2.1. By fouls committed by the opponent (see Penalties For Fouls below).
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Opening Break
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The first player who breaks is chosen randomly. The starting player gets the cue ball in hand within the Half Circle. He must cause the cue ball to contact a red ball.(It is not necessary to send a ball to a rail or into a pocket). Failure to contact a red ball is a foul (see Penalties For Fouls), and the incoming player has a choice of :
1) accepting the table and becoming the striker.
2) requiring the opponent to become the striker.
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Turn Definition
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The striker's turn at the table continues when a ball potted legally, until he either fails to legally pot a ball or wins the frame.
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Rules of Play
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After the first red ball has been potted, the next legal object ball would be color, and so on. As long as reds remain on the table he must alternate his play between reds and colors (though within each group he may play a ball of his choice). It is not necessary to cause the cue ball or an object ball to contact a cushion or drop in a pocket after the cue ball has contacted a legal object ball. Failure to contact a legal object ball first is a foul.
Potting the red when there are still reds on the table:
The incoming striker (the player taking his first stroke of an inning) always has a red as his legal object ball.
Potting the color when there are still reds:
The striker who's legal object ball is color must:
a) designate a specific color ball as his object ball
b) cause the cue ball to make the first contact with that specific colored ball.
Failure in meeting these requirements is a foul.
While reds remain on the table, each potted color is spotted prior to the next stroke (see Spotting Balls below for spotting rules).
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Game play after all the reds are potted
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When no reds remain on the table, the striker's object ball become the colors, in ascending numerical order (2,3,4,5,6,7).
Reds illegally potted are not spotted; they remain off the table. Colors illegally potted are spotted.
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Fouls
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It is a foul when you:
Fail in contacting the red ball on the opening break shot;
Fail in first contacting a legal object ball;
Fail in contacting a red ball when your legal object ball is red;
Pot a color ball when the legal object ball is red;
Pot a red ball when the legal object ball is color;
Contact a different color ball than the designated one;
The cue ball enters a pocket;
If the striker's object ball is a color, and he pots any other ball, it is a foul.
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Shoot again
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After a foul will pop up a request:
such request cannot be withdrawn and the incoming player has a choice of :
1) accepting the table and becoming the striker.
2) requiring the opponent to become the striker.
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Penalties for Fouls
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When a player commits a foul, the opponent is awarded penalty points of minimum four points or maximum seven. The penalty point is the higher number between the point value of the legal object ball and the point value of the ball that was hit first.
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End of Game
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A frame (=game) ends when all balls have been potted, following the Rules of Play. If the game ends with both players have equal scores , the black is spotted on its original position and one of the players (who is randomly drawn) plays the black ball with the cue ball in hand within the Half Circle; the first score or foul ends the frame.
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