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Four-ball Billiards
Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted). Each player is assigned one of the white (or yellow) balls as a . A is scored when a shooter's cue ball s on any two other balls in the same (with the opponent's cue ball serving as an , along with the reds, for the shooter). Two points are scored when the shooter caroms on each of the three object balls in a single shot. A carom on only one ball results in no points, and ends the shooter's . Asian variations A variant of four-ball is the East Asian game , or (四球, , Korean for 'four balls'). The game is played with two red object balls, one white cue ball and one yellow cue ball (or sometimes both cue balls are white, one havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four-ball Carom
Four-ball (and variant spellings four ball, fourball, 4 ball, 4-ball, etc.) may refer to: * 4 ball, the pool (pocket billiards) ball numbered "4" * 4 ball, the brown snooker ball, worth 4 points, normally referred to as "the brown" * Four-ball billiards, a carom billiards game played in variations around the world * Cowboy pool, sometimes referred to as American four-ball pool or four-ball for short * Four-ball golf Four-ball is a pairs playing format in the game of golf. It is also known as better ball and best ball, although the latter more properly describes a variation involving teams of 3 or 4 players. It is also sometimes abbreviated as 4BBB. In a stro ... (a.k.a. best ball, or better ball), a type of golf match used in match-play competitions * 4-ball (mathematics), a four-dimensional -ball in mathematics {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
