Cue sports
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Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers k
Interior view of a billiard hall in Toledo, Ohio, c. 1900
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
Billiard table
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A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables provide an elevated flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is
A carom table in a cafè with overhead lamps, Paris, France
Billiard Table Manufactory, J. M. Brunswick & Bro., Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865 ad
A cue ball and the 1 ball close to a WPA-style pocket. (The balls are the same size; the cue ball looks large due to foreshortening.)
Russian pyramid ball at a corner pocket. The relative size of the ball and the pocket makes the game very challenging.