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 table covered in cloth, bounded by elastic bumpe
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
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
Cue sports
…There are three major subdivisions of games within cue sports: Carom billiards, played on tables without pockets, typically ten feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic…
A carom billiard table and billiard balls
The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activities
A set of modern standard carom billiard balls, comprising a red object ball, a white cue ball for the first player, and a yellow cue ball for the second player.
Louis XIV playing billiards (1694)