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Boccette is a billiards-type game played in

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. A variation of the game of

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billiard table A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that ...

with nine balls (typically four white, four red, and one blue).

Cue stick A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered stick ...

s are not used; the balls are manipulated with the hands directly. Finger billiards {{Italy-sport-stub