Billiard ball
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A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific gam
Cue balls from (left to right): Russian pyramid and kaisa—68 mm (2+11⁄16 in) Carom—61.5 mm (2+7⁄16 in) International pool—57.15 mm (2+1⁄4 in) Snooker and English billiards—52.5 mm (2+1⁄16 in) British-style pool—51 mm (2 in)
Standard modern carom balls
Pool balls in a rack
Setup for blackball
Carom billiards
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Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In it
Billiard ball
…A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular…
A carom billiard table and billiard balls
The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activities
Louis XIV playing billiards (1694)