Cue sports
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Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are also collectively referred to as billiards, though this term has more specific connotations in some varieties of English.
Interior view of billiard hall, Toledo, Ohio
Billiards in the 1620s was played with a port, a king pin, pockets, and maces.
The sons of Louis, Grand Dauphin, playing the 'royal game of fortifications', an early form of obstacle billiards with similarities to modern miniature golf
Illustration of a three-ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type
Game of skill
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A game of skill or game of wits is a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill, rather than chance.
Backgammon is a game of skill. Strategy can give players advantages, but there is also an element of chance.
A ball-in-a-maze puzzle requires fine motor skills.