{"id":3374,"date":"2019-10-18T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/actualites\/breton-news\/decouvrez-les-regles-du-snooker\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:55:06","slug":"snooker-game-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/news-billards-breton\/snooker-game-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover snooker game rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bold\">Snooker game is played on&nbsp;pocket tables<\/span>&nbsp;with sets of 22&nbsp;balls of&nbsp;52mm&nbsp;diameter. The&nbsp;balls include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A white cue ball<\/li>\n<li>15 red balls with 1&nbsp;point value<\/li>\n<li>1 yellow ball with 2&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<li>1 green ball with 3&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<li>1 brown ball with 4&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<li>1 blue ball with 5&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<li>1 pink ball with 6&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<li>1 black ball with 7&nbsp;points value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"last\">Each player can play as&nbsp;long&nbsp;as he&nbsp;scores points. Only the&nbsp;white cue ball can&nbsp;be played directly by&nbsp;the&nbsp;player. The goal is&nbsp;to&nbsp;score as&nbsp;many points as&nbsp;possible with the&nbsp;red and&nbsp;colored balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bold\">The game consists in&nbsp;two&nbsp;phases:<\/p>\n<p>Player must first pocket a&nbsp;red ball,<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">Then he can take another shot for&nbsp;any&nbsp;other color&nbsp;ball.<\/p>\n<p>When a color is pocketed it&nbsp;is replaced on&nbsp;the playing area. Another red ball is&nbsp;then played, then a&nbsp;color ball,&nbsp;etc.<\/p>\n<p>When the last red ball and the&nbsp;next color have been played, the&nbsp;second phase&nbsp;begins. In&nbsp;this phase, all&nbsp;colors must&nbsp;be pocketed in&nbsp;the correct order (increasing points value).<\/p>\n<p>Each time a ball is&nbsp;pocketed the&nbsp;player gets as&nbsp;many points as&nbsp;the balls value.<\/p>\n<p>Points are also scored if&nbsp;the opponent makes the&nbsp;following mistakes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not touch any ball with the cue ball,<\/li>\n<li>Hitting or pocketing a wrong color ball,<\/li>\n<li>Pocketing the cue ball,<\/li>\n<li>Get a ball out of the playing area,<\/li>\n<li>Use another cue ball than the white ball,<\/li>\n<li>Push balls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"bold\">Snooker is&nbsp;the oldest pocket billiard game.<\/span>&nbsp;Popularized by&nbsp;British officers from&nbsp;XIXth century in&nbsp;India it&nbsp;has since then become a&nbsp;worldwide success with international competitions broadcasted live on&nbsp;television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"no_mobile\">All Br\u00e9ton snooker tables are&nbsp;complying with the&nbsp;specific technical features of&nbsp;snooker game: rounded entry pocket, specific rubber cushions and&nbsp;100%&nbsp;wool cloth.<\/p>\n<p>They are available in&nbsp;7&nbsp;different sizes, but we&nbsp;recommend that you&nbsp;choose at&nbsp;least a&nbsp;2m60 version to&nbsp;enjoy the game at&nbsp;its&nbsp;best.<\/p>\n<p>As on traditional snooker tables balls recovery is&nbsp;made in&nbsp;a&nbsp;rail connected to&nbsp;the pocket by&nbsp;a&nbsp;cotton thread. Should you select a&nbsp;more design snooker table, we&nbsp;can adapt a&nbsp;centralized recovery system as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;a&nbsp;dining table&nbsp;top.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snooker game is played on&nbsp;pocket tables&nbsp;with sets of 22&nbsp;balls of&nbsp;52mm&nbsp;diameter. The&nbsp;balls include: A white cue ball 15 red balls with 1&nbsp;point value 1 yellow ball with 2&nbsp;points value 1 green ball with 3&nbsp;points value 1 brown ball with 4&nbsp;points value 1 blue ball with 5&nbsp;points value 1 pink ball with 6&nbsp;points value 1 black ball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-billards-breton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18790,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/18790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billards-breton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}