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Danish billiards or ''keglebillard'', sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional

cue sport Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . There are three major subdivisions ...

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, and the game remains predominantly played in that country.Pin Billiards
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, and five (), which are considerably larger than those used in the similar and internationally standardized (originally Italian) game of

five-pin billiards Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: '; The aim of the game is to achieve a predetermined number of in as few shots as possible. The game is played with one red ball and two white balls. In an inversion of the normal play in most three-ball games such as

carom billiards Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or "counts" by ' one's o ...

and

English billiards English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two (one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team us ...

, the red ball is used as a by both players, with the white balls as the . There are two ways to score points. One is by knocking over one or more of the pins, for 2 points each, with a white object ball after hitting the white with the red cue ball (i.e. a ball-to-pin shot). The other is by "making red", that is, to have the cue ball hit both object balls, which gives 4 points. It is a foul if the cue ball topples a pin or leaves the table, whether by a pocket or over the edge. A white ball leaving the table is not a foul. The second consecutive shot where red is not made and no ball touches a cushion is a foul. The third consecutive shot where no pin falls is a foul. The only effect of a foul is that the shot counts 0, ending the player's turn at the table.

''Svensk kægle''

''Svensk kægle'' ('Swedish pin') is a variation that has more in common with Italian five-pins: the optimal shot is to knock over the "king" pin (standing in the center of the pins) without toppling any other pins.

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