''Sinuca brasileira'' (

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

for Brazilian snooker), often simply called ''sinuca'', is a

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 of ...

played on a

snooker 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 i ...

, using only one instead of

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

's fifteen, with the normal six of the standard set of

snooker ball A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball prop ...

s. Each ball carries the same basic value as in snooker. As with other

pocket billiards Pool is a classification of cue sports played on a table with six pockets along the , into which balls are deposited. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". The WPA itself uses "pool-billiard" in it ...

games, a white is used to the red and other coloured balls. The game is played almost exclusively in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and is little known outside this region.Rules of Brazilian Snooker (Sinuca Brazileira)
– Rules in English

Rules

Ball values are the same as in standard snooker (red = 1, = 2, = 3, = 4, = 5, = 6, = 7) and points are awarded to a player after the corresponding ball is legally potted. The colours are set up on their normal as in snooker, while the sole red ball is placed halfway between the pink ball and the right side . The cue ball is placed in . The opening player may move the ball anywhere within the "D" before playing. The first shot must be played so that the red ball is contacted; however, it is not permitted to either pocket the red ball or leave the opponent snookered. The opponent then has choice of shot. Taken in turns, each player has a choice to either take a free shot (shoot for the ball on the table with the lowest point value) or a penalty shot (shoot for any other ball). All shots are , that is the player must indicate which ball they wish to pot and which pocket they are aiming for. If a free shot is made, the player is awarded the ball's point value, the ball remains off the table, and the player can choose any remaining ball on the table as a second free shot; if that ball is made, the player receives its point value and the ball is respotted. A miss on a free shot incurs no penalty, but does end the player's turn. If a penalty shot is chosen, and the shot is made, the player is awarded the ball's point value and the ball is respotted. If a penalty shot is missed, it constitutes a foul and the opponent is awarded 7 points. If an (where the cue ball is accidentally potted) occurs, the incoming opponent will get the points and receive , permitting placement of the cue ball anywhere within the "D" before their next shot. All other rules are the same as in snooker, although , and other combination shots are automatically illegal because all the balls are different colours.

Sinuca brasileira plus

Similar to

snooker plus The 1959 News of the World Snooker Plus Tournament was a professional snooker tournament sponsored by the ''News of the World''. The event was played under the Snooker Plus rules, a variant of snooker with two additional (orange and purple). The ...

, the Brazilian snooker plus have extra and , which gives 8 and 10 points respectively. The rules for it are the same as before.

References

Snooker variants Sports originating in Brazil {{cue-sports-stub